by Dana Sereg | May 6, 2019 | VITAL Life Devotions
Genesis 27:33 New International Version (NIV) 33 Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!” In these ancient times, a person’s word...
by Dana Sereg | May 3, 2019 | VITAL Life Devotions
Genesis 27:24 New International Version (NIV) 24 “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked. “I am,” he replied. Jacob got the blessing he wanted. He deceived his father, and it cost him. He never saw his mother again. His brother wanted to kill him. He got deceived by...
by Dana Sereg | May 2, 2019 | VITAL Life Devotions
Genesis 27:11-12 New International Version (NIV) 11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin. 12 What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a...
by Dana Sereg | May 1, 2019 | VITAL Life Devotions
Genesis 26:34-35 New International Version (NIV) Jacob Takes Esau’s Blessing 34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35 They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah. Esau...
by Dana Sereg | Apr 30, 2019 | VITAL Life Devotions
Genesis 26:17-22 New International Version (NIV) 17 So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled. 18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after...