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– Rhon<\/span><\/address>\n<\/p>\n
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\u00a0<\/address>\nPASTOR JOEL OSTEEN<\/span>\u00a0<\/address>\n<\/p>\n
When you say I am blessed\u00a0<\/span>declare\u00a0it from your\u00a0 mouth !<\/span><\/address>\nNothing happens till you\u00a0 speak, then God’s favor surrounds you!<\/span><\/address>\nOne more step declares\u00a0 \u00a0what you believe !\u00a0 Say 2013 is my year- and for the Angels to go\u00a0 to\u00a0work!\u00a0 <\/span><\/address>\nSAY…God you are bigger\u00a0 than any obstacles I encounter.<\/span><\/address>\n\u00a0<\/address>\nAre you declaring victory\u00a0 over your life???? <\/span>Important to declare what\u00a0 you believe !<\/span><\/address>\n<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/address>\nExample\u00a0 :<\/span><\/address>\nGo in front of a mirror-\u00a0 get comfortable ,<\/span>think\u00a0 positive or negative !<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Genesis appears to be structured around the recurring phrase elleh\u00a0 toledot<\/i>, meaning “these are the generations,” with the first use of the\u00a0 phrase referring to the “generations of heaven and earth” and the remainder\u00a0 marking individuals\u2014Noah, the “sons of Noah”, Shem, etc., down to Jacob.[6]<\/a><\/sup> It is not clear, however, what this meant to the original authors, and most\u00a0 modern commentators divide it into two parts based on subject matter, a\u00a0 “primeval history” (chapters 1\u201311) and a “patriarchal history” (chapters\u00a0 12\u201350).[7]<\/a><\/sup> While the first is far shorter than the second, it sets out the basic themes and\u00a0 provides an interpretive key for understanding the entire book.[8]<\/a><\/sup> The “primeval history” has a symmetrical structure hinged around chapter 6\u20139,\u00a0 the flood story, with the events before the flood mirrored by the events\u00a0 after.[9]<\/a><\/sup> The “patriarchal history” recounts the events of the major patriarchs Abraham,\u00a0 Isaac and Jacob, to whom God reveals himself and to whom the promise of\u00a0 descendants and land is made, while the story of Joseph serves to take the\u00a0 Israelites into Egypt in preparation for the next book, Exodus<\/a>.<\/p>\n God<\/a> creates the world in\u00a0 six days and consecrates the seventh after giving mankind his first commandment:\u00a0 “be fruitful and multiply”. God pronounces the world “very good”, but it becomes\u00a0 corrupted by the sin of man and God sends a deluge<\/a> (a\u00a0 great flood) to destroy it, saving only the righteous (Noah<\/a>) and his family, from whose\u00a0 seed the world is repopulated. Man sins again, but God has promised that he will\u00a0 not destroy the world a second time with water. *******<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n May the two GODLY\u00a0Men Below INSPIRE YOUR WALK WITH GOD – Rhon \u00a0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\u00a0 “WHEN YOU SAY I AM\u00a0 BLESSED” \u00a0 PASTOR JOEL OSTEEN\u00a0 When you say I am blessed\u00a0declare\u00a0it from your\u00a0 mouth ! Nothing happens till you\u00a0 speak, then God’s favor surrounds you! One more step declares\u00a0 \u00a0what you believe !\u00a0 Say 2013 is my year- and for the Angels to go\u00a0 to\u00a0work!\u00a0 SAY…God you are bigger\u00a0 than any obstacles I encounter. \u00a0 Are you declaring victory\u00a0 over your life???? Important to<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n <\/p>\n\u00a0ARE YOU GIVING LIFE TO YOUR FAITH?<\/span><\/address>\n
\nThe Book of Genesis<\/b> <\/span>
\nThe basic narrative<\/a> expresses the\u00a0 central theme: God creates<\/a> the world and appoints man as his regent, but man proves disobedient and God\u00a0 destroys his world through the Flood. The new post-Flood world is equally\u00a0 corrupt, but God does not destroy it, instead calling one man, Abraham, to be\u00a0 the seed of its salvation. At God’s command Abraham descends from his home into\u00a0 the land of Canaan, given to him by God, where he dwells as a sojourner, as does\u00a0 his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob. Jacob’s name is changed to Israel, and\u00a0 through the agency of his son Joseph, the children of Israel<\/a> descend into Egypt, 70 people in all with their households, and God promises\u00a0 them a future of greatness. Genesis ends with Israel in Egypt, ready for the\u00a0 coming of Moses<\/a> and\u00a0 the\u00a0 Exodus<\/a>. The narrative is punctuated by a series of covenants with God,\u00a0 successively narrowing in scope from all mankind (the covenant with Noah) to a\u00a0 special relationship with one people alone (Abraham and his descendants through\u00a0 Isaac and Jacob).[2]<\/a><\/sup>
\nThe book’s author or authors appear to have structured it around ten “toledot<\/a>” sections\u00a0 (the “these are the generations of…” phrases), but modern commentators see it\u00a0 in terms of a “primeval history” (chapters 1\u201311) followed by the cycle of\u00a0 Patriarchal stories (chapters 12\u201350).[3]<\/a><\/sup> For Jews<\/a> and Christians<\/a> alike, the\u00a0 theological importance of Genesis centers on the covenants<\/a> linking God<\/a> to his Chosen People<\/a> and the\u00a0 people to the Promised Land<\/a>.\u00a0 Christianity has interpreted Genesis as the prefiguration of certain cardinal\u00a0 Christian beliefs, primarily the need for salvation<\/a> (the\u00a0 hope or assurance<\/a> of all\u00a0 Christians) and the redemptive act<\/a> of Christ<\/a> on the\u00a0 Cross as the fulfillment<\/a> of covenant\u00a0 promises as the Son of God<\/a>. Tradition credits\u00a0 Moses<\/a> as the author\u00a0 of Genesis, Exodus<\/a>, Leviticus<\/a>, Numbers<\/a> and most of Deuteronomy<\/a>, but modern\u00a0 scholars increasingly see it as a product of the 6th and 5th centuries BC.[4]<\/a><\/sup>[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
Summary<\/h2>\n
\nGod instructs Abram (the future Abraham<\/a>) to travel from his home\u00a0 in Mesopotamia<\/a> (modern Iraq<\/a>) to the land of Canaan<\/a>. There God\u00a0 makes a covenant with Abram promising that his descendants shall be as numerous\u00a0 as the stars in the heavens, but that they shall suffer oppression in a foreign\u00a0 land for four hundred years, after which they shall inherit the land “from the\u00a0 river of Egypt<\/a> to the\u00a0 great river, the river Euphrates<\/a>.” Abram’s name is\u00a0 changed to Abraham and that of his wife Sarai to Sarah, and circumcision<\/a> of all males\u00a0 is instituted as the sign of the covenant.
\nSarah is barren, and tells Abraham to take her Egyptian handmaiden, Hagar<\/a>, as a concubine.\u00a0 Through Hagar, Abraham becomes the father of Ishmael<\/a>. Abraham asks God that\u00a0 Ishmael “might live in Thy sight,” (that is, be favored), but God replies that\u00a0 Sarah will bear a son, who will be named Isaac<\/a>, through whom the covenant\u00a0 will be established. At Sarah’s insistence Ishmael and his mother Hagar are\u00a0 driven out into the wilderness, but God saves them and promises to make Ishmael\u00a0 a great nation.
\nGod resolves to destroy the city of Sodom<\/a> for the sins of\u00a0 its people. Abraham protests that it is not just “to slay the righteous with the\u00a0 wicked,” and asks if the whole city can be spared if even ten righteous men are\u00a0 found there. God replies: “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.” Abraham’s\u00a0 nephew Lot<\/a> is saved from the\u00a0 destruction of Sodom, and through incest with his daughters becomes the ancestor\u00a0 of the Moabites<\/a> and Ammonites<\/a>.
\nGod tests Abraham by demanding that he sacrifice Isaac<\/a>. As\u00a0 Abraham is about to lay the knife upon his son, God restrains him, promising him\u00a0 numberless descendants. On the death of Sarah, Abraham purchases Machpelah<\/a> (modern Hebron<\/a>) for a family\u00a0 tomb and sends his servant to Mesopotamia to find among his relations a wife for\u00a0 Isaac, and Rebekah is chosen. Other children are born to Abraham by another\u00a0 wife, Keturah, among whose descendants are the Midianites, and he dies in a\u00a0 prosperous old age and is buried in his tomb at Hebron<\/a>.
\nIsaac’s wife Rebekah<\/a> is barren, but Isaac\u00a0 prays to God and she gives birth to the twins Esau<\/a>, father of the Edomites<\/a>, and Jacob<\/a>. Through deception, Jacob\u00a0 becomes the heir instead of Esau and gains his father’s blessing. He flees to\u00a0 his uncle where he prospers and earns his two wives. Jacob’s name is changed to\u00a0 Israel, and by his wives Rachel<\/a> and Leah<\/a> and their handmaidens he has\u00a0 twelve sons, the ancestors of the twelve tribes of the Children of Israel, and a\u00a0 daughter, Dinah<\/a>.
\nJoseph, Jacob’s favourite son, is sold into slavery in Egypt by his jealous\u00a0 brothers. But Joseph prospers, and when famine comes he brings his father and\u00a0 his brothers and their households, seventy persons in all, to Egypt, where\u00a0 Pharaoh assigns to them the land of Goshen<\/a>. Jacob\u00a0 calls his sons to his bedside and reveals their future to them before he dies\u00a0 and is interred in the family tomb at Machpelah. Joseph lives to see his\u00a0 great-grandchildren, and on his death-bed he exhorts his brethren, if God should\u00a0 remember them and lead them out of the country, to take his bones with them. The\u00a0 book ends with Joseph’s remains being “put in a coffin in Egypt.”
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