Genesis 46-48: Romans 15:13-33

Happy MLK Day! Truth Seekers we are almost through Genesis and Romans and I pray that you have been blessed by the Word of God. Genesis 46-48: Jacob goes to Egypt. I am encouraged by 46:3 in the Lord finishing what he started with Jacob. He continues to assure him that even though he is aging that he will be a great nation. More so, that Joseph is alive and well. I truly believe the number of Jacob's family, not counting wives and daughters was to magnify the multiplication that will happen under God's blessing of Jacob. Don't forget that Jacob was very wealthy with livestock from when he was with Laban. So they all settled in Goshen in the best of the land. It is good to know that God keeps his promises. If God provides for Jacob he will do it for you and I. Can you look around today and count your blessings? The land was desolate but God kept taking care of his people. Today thank God for what he has provided and what he has prevented in your life. We often time overlook what God has done looking ahead of what we wish he would do. Again in 48 God bypasses the tradition of the oldest getting the blessing. Jacob blesses Ephraim over Manasseh. Jacob did not like it, but he was the younger who was chosen by God to rule over his brother.

Romans 15:14-333 Paul declares and embraces his calling to evangelize the gentiles. As an evangelist he continued to go after those who had not heard the gospel. This is the call and mandate on our lives in Christ. Not just to live in the blessing but to share in the responsibility of reaching others. We see that in 15:27 if we share in the blessing we owe the sharing of our blessedness. Paul is asking for prayer for his work and I have just realized that prayer is key to reaching the un-churched and unsaved. I invite you to pray that God will direct each of us to a lost person or persons to share the gospel. Then pray for each other as we minister. Paul realized that it is only through the power of God through his Spirit that are used to reach others.