Growing Confidence
If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who talk with me. Judges 6:17. Gideon desired some token that the One now addressing him was the same that spoke to Moses in the burning bush. The angel had veiled the divine glory of His presence, […]
The Call of Gideon
So Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. Judges 6:6. Alas, that in the history of God’s chosen people the sorrowful story of apostasy and its punishment must be so oft repeated! … Because of their sins, the protecting hand of God was withdrawn […]
Interpreter of Dreams
I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that you can understand a dream, to interpret it. Genesis 41:15. When Joseph interpreted the dreams of the butler and the cupbearer, he begged to be remembered when the chief butler should be […]
Victorious Over Temptation
How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? Genesis 39:9. When trial came, when the arts of woman were exercised to draw him into iniquity, Joseph preserved his integrity. Fair words and guileful entreaties did not cause him to swerve one hair from the right. All fell on ears that heard […]
Joseph, God’s Unwavering Witness
The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. Genesis 39:2. It was God’s design that through Joseph, Bible religion should be introduced among the Egyptians. This faithful witness was to represent Christ in the court of kings. Through dreams God communicated […]
Timothy
Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12. The Word of God was the rule which guided Timothy…. His home instructors cooperated with God in educating this young man to bear the burdens that were […]
