God Writings: There is More than Average

Why live the “average Christian life” when there is so much more?  Who can rightly be content where they are, with not searching out the presence of God?  God has so much more planned for us when we become his children.  What father doesn’t want the best for his children?  And God is so much more our Father!  Even our highest dreams and aspirations can’t compare to what he has for us!  His love is so great…His love is ACTION.  And if we let him, he will take over and transform our lives with his glory!  We have the power, through him, to do all that Christ did when he walked this earth!  What would the world be like if we acted with the authority we have through Jesus Christ? Why isn’t it that way?

The Hands of God

The same hands that shaped this earth

Are the ones that formed me.

These hands held mine when I feared

And held me above the overwhelming flood.

These hands beckoned me to open arms

And clasped me tightly.

These  hands guided me when I was blind

And kept me on the path of righteousness.

These hands held us together

When we were falling apart.

These hands have touched

Do touch, and will always touch my life.

What hands are they?

They are the hands of God.

God Writings: Heavenly Musings

You breathed the stars

And yet you made me.

Your purpose for my life is still elusive, like sand slipping from my fingers.

But I look at the sky and the grass and the stars and the clouds and every beautiful thing you created, and I realize…

You will make your purpose known.  You love me with a love greater than the sky, than the sea, than all the particles of sand, than all of the universe…

That you breathed and spoke into being. 

God-Given Opportunities: Sharing the Gospel with the Dalai Lama

I heard this amazing story from a co-worker about one of her friends –we’ll call her Liz. 

Liz was going over to India as a missionary, and she was on the same plane as the “Pope” of Buddhism: the Dalai Lama.   It was opened up to the others on the plane to come and talk to the Dalai Lama (who was in his own little enclosed area).  Liz felt the Spirit prompting her to go up and talk to him, so she went.  She started to share the Gospel, basically preaching to the Dalai Lama!  He told her, “I think you should leave now,” but none of the flight attendants were opening the curtain around them, so she preached to him a little while longer before going back to her seat.  Some people in the back of the plane asked her what the commotion was all about, and she told them.  It turned out they were also missionaries, and they headed up to talk to the Dalai Lama.  He really heard the Gospel that day!

Genesis

*Greek for origin

Genesis 1:1 – In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth – and too many people no longer believe this!

Genesis 1:2-5 – the first day of creation

Genesis 1:6-8 – day 2

Genesis 1:9-13 – day 3

Genesis 1:14-19 – day 4…and GOD CREATED THE STARS!  Sorry, folks, no big bang created anything.  But GOD did.  :-)

Genesis 1:19-23 – day 5

Genesis 1:24-31 – day 6

Genesis 1:27 – God created man in his own image, both male and female

Genesis 1:28 – God told them to be fruitful and multiple and have dominion over every living thing

Genesis 1:31 – all the things God made were very good.

Genesis 2:2-3 – on the seventh day God rested and he blessed and sanctified the 7^th day

Genesis 2:6 – instead of rain, God sent up a mist from the earth to water everything

Genesis 2:7-8 – God created man from dust and the Garden of Eden, and put the man (Adam) there

Genesis 2:13-14 – the garden was near Ethiopia and the river Euphrates

Genesis 2:16-17 – the man could eat from anything but the tree of knowledge

Genesis 2:18 – it’s not good for man to be alone

Genesis 2:20 – Adam named all the creatures

Genesis 2:21-25 – God created woman from Adam’s rib – the uniting of man and woman

Genesis 3:1-5 – uh-oh…the serpent tempted Eve

Genesis 3:6-8 – both ate from the tree and became aware that they were naked.  Then they heard the Lord God…

Genesis 3:12 – ah ha, blame the woman!

Genesis 3:13 – ah ha, blame the serpent!  See, as soon as sin entered, there was blame….

Genesis 3:14-15 – the serpent’s punishment

Genesis 3:16 – childbearing was made painful and women were put under the control of men

Genesis 3:18 – thorns and thistles

Genesis 3:20 – the woman named Eve – the mother of all living

Genesis 3:21 – Clothes make of ANIMAL SKIN (see, it’s ok)

Genesis 3:23 – Adam and Eve kicked out of Eden

Genesis 3:24 – angel with a flaming sword guarding the tree of life

Genesis 4:1-2 – Cain and Abel

Genesis 4:3-5 – fruits and firstlings…firstlings win

Genesis 4:8 – the very first murder

Genesis 4:9 – Am I my brother’s keeper?  Yes!

Genesis 4:10-12 – naughty Cain!

Genesis 4:13 – “my punishment is greater than I can bear.”  Maybe he should’ve through of that before he killed his brother, huh?

Genesis 4:17 – Cain’s son Enoch

Genesis 4:19-22 – Adah, Zillah, Jabal and Jubal and Naamah

Genesis 4:25 – Adam and Eve’s third son, Seth

Genesis 4:26 – Seth’s son Enos…then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

Genesis 5:5 – Adam lived 930 years

Genesis 5:8 – Seth lived 912 years

Genesis 5:11 – Enos lived 905 years

Genesis 5:14 – Cainan lived 910 years

Genesis 5:17 – Mahalaleel lived 895 years

Genesis 5:20 – Jared lived 962 years

Genesis 5:22-24 – Enoch walked with God, at age 365 God took him – he didn’t die, but was taken

Genesis 5:27 – Methuselah lived 969 years

Genesis 5:29 – Lamech’s son was named Noah

Genesis 5:31 – Lamech lived 777 years

Genesis 5:32 – At 500 years Noah begat Shem, Ham and Japheth

Genesis 6:4 – giants

Genesis 6:7 – God saw how evil everyone was and was sorry so he decided to destroy everything

Genesis 6:8-9 – Well, except for Noah, because he was a just man and walked with God

Genesis 6:14 – make an ark!

Genesis 6:17-19 – God planned to send a flood to destroy everything except Noah’s family and male and female of every creature

Genesis 6:22 – Noah did as God commanded

Genesis 7:6 – Noah was 600 years old at the time of the flood…so his kids were around 100

Genesis 7:12 – 40 days and 40 nights

Genesis 7:16 – when they went into the ark, God shut them in

Genesis 7:24 – the waters prevailed 150 days, destroying everything

Genesis 8:4 – the ark ended up on Mt. Ararat

Genesis 8:7 – the raven

Genesis 8:8-9 – the dove first time – still waters

Genesis 8:11 – the dove second time – olive leaf

Genesis 8:12 – the dove third time – returned no more

Genesis 8:20-22 – off of the ark

Genesis 9:13-15 – the rainbow – God’s covenant

Genesis 9:29 – Noah lived 950 years

Genesis 10:10-11 – Nineveh, Rehoboth, Babel

Genesis 10:23 – Uz, Mash

Genesis 11:1 – the world was of one language

Genesis 11:4 – they planned to build a tower up to heaven

Genesis 11:7-9 – God confused their languages and scattered them – hence “Babel”

Genesis 11:29-30 – Abram and Sarai

Genesis 12:1-4 – God told Abram Go!  And he went with great faith

Genesis 12:11-20 – Abram deceived – told them Sarai was his sister instead of his wife

Genesis 13:5-12 – Abram and Lot separate

Genesis 14:13 – first mention of Hebrew

Genesis 15:1 – the Lord is our shield and our exceeding great reward

Genesis 16:1-16 – Abram and Hagar and Ishmael

Genesis 17:1-27 – God’s covenant with Abraham [name change – also Sarah]

Genesis 19:1-3, 9-11 – the angels that dwelled in Lot’s house

Genesis 19:24-26 – God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot’s wife turned into a pillar of salt

Genesis 19:31-36 – Lot’s daughters get pregnant by him

Genesis 19:37 – Moab (Moabites)

Genesis 19:39 – Benammi (Children of Ammon)

Genesis 20:1-18 – Abraham does it again, this time to Abimelech – told him Sarah was his sister
Genesis 20:12

Genesis 21:1-3 – The birth of Issac

Genesis 21:5 – Abraham was 100 years old

Genesis 21:10-21 – Hagar and Ishmael sent away, taken care of by God

Genesis 22:1-14 – Abraham is tested by God, but he would not even withhold his son from God

Genesis 22:15-18 – Abraham’s blessing

Genesis 22:21 – Huz and Buz :)

Genesis 23:1-2 – Sarah dies at 127

Genesis 24:1 – Abraham was blessed

Genesis 24:15-16 – Rebekah

Genesis 24:60

Genesis 24:67 – Isaac and Rebekah

Genesis 25:1 – Abraham’s second wife Keturah

Genesis 25:7-8 – Abraham died full of years

Genesis 25:23 – two nations in thy womb, and the elder shall serve the younger

Genesis 25:25-28 – Jacob and Esau

Genesis 25:29-34 – Esau gives Jacob his birthright for a bowl of stew

Genesis 26:7-11 – Isaac did the same thing his father did

Genesis 26:34-35 – Esau married Judith, a Hittite, and Bashemath, a Hittite, “which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah”

Genesis 27:1-46 – At Rebekah’s bidding, Jacob deceives Isaac into giving him the blessing instead of Esau, and then leaves to that Esau doesn’t kill him

Genesis 28:12-22 – “Jacob’s Ladder” Jacob’s dream

Genesis 29:11-35 – Jacob, Laben, Leah and Rachel

Genesis 30:1-21 – Jacob’s many kids

Genesis 30:22-24 – the birth of Joseph

Genesis 32:24-32 – Jacob wrestled with [an angel of God? God?]

Genesis 33:2 – you can tell which of Jacob’s kids he loved most?

Genesis 33:4-5, 9-11 – Esau accepted Jacob

Genesis 34:1-31 – Dinah defiled and all that occurred

Genesis 35:10-11 – God spoke to Jacob, AKA Israel

Genesis 35:18-29 – Family and the deaths of Rachel and Isaac and the birth of Benjamin

Genesis 36:23 – Alvan or Alian

Genesis 36:28 – Aran

Genesis 37:2 – Joseph was 17 when he was sold to Egypt

Genesis 37:3-11 – Joseph’s father loved him the most, the coat of many colors, Joseph’s dreams, the hatred of his brethren

Genesis 37:20-36 – The plot to sell Joseph – Reuben’s my favorite of his brothers

Genesis 38:7,10 – Two of Judah’s sons were slain by God because they were wicked

Genesis 38:27-30 – Pharez and Zarah and the scarlet thread

Genesis 39:2, 21, 23 – the Lord was with Joseph

Genesis 29:1-23 – Joseph in Egypt – the thing with Potiphar’s wife, going to prison, etc.

Genesis 40:1-23 – Joseph interprets the dreams of the butler and baker

Genesis 41:16 – Joseph made sure Pharaoh knows that it was God telling him what the dream meant

Genesis 41-43 – Joseph made ruler of Egypt

Genesis 41:45-46 – Joseph was given a wife, a new name, and he was 30 years old

Genesis 41:51-52 – births of Manasseh and Ephraim

Genesis 42:3-4 – Joseph’s brothers except Benjamin went to Egypt for food

Genesis 42:6 – they bowed before Joseph

Genesis 42:8 – Joseph knew them but they didn’t know him

Genesis 42:22-24 – Reuben – “I told you so!” – Joseph understands without them knowing, and weeps

Genesis 42:37-39 – Reuben told Jacob he could kill his two sons if Benjamin didn’t return safely, Jacob still refused

Genesis 43:30-31 – When Joseph’s brothers were all there, including Benjamin, he had to go away and weep before composing himself

Genesis 43:32 – hmm.  Didn’t know that

Genesis 43:33-34 – Benjamin was his favorite. 

Genesis 45:1-5 – Joseph wept and made himself known to his brothers

Genesis 45:13-15 – Joseph told them to get his father and come live there

Genesis 45:26-28 – Jacob heard Joseph is alive

Genesis 46:2-4 – God spoke to Jacob

Genesis 46:29-30 – Jacob saw Joseph again

Genesis 49:33 – Jacob dies

Genesis 50:1-2 – Israel dead and mourned

Genesis 50:15-21 – Joseph’s brothers were afraid, but comforted

Genesis 50:22-23 – Joseph lived in Egypt and saw many generations

Genesis 50:26 – Joseph died at age 110