Thursday April 10, 2025 “A Sensitive Heart”

Genesis 44:29 But if you take this one also from me, and calamity befalls him, you shall bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.’ Judah had a sensitive heart and he understood the things of life – like what would happen to his elderly father if anything happened to Benjamin his youngest son. Pray … Continue reading

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 “History is so Important”

Genesis 44:27-28 “27 Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons; 28 and the one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn to pieces”; and I have not seen him since.” Judah reminds his sons that there is some history involved in the reason he did not … Continue reading

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 “Respect and Honor”

Genesis 44:26 “26 But we said, ‘We cannot go down; if our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we may not see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’” In the previous verse, Judah, Joseph’s brother, told Joseph that their father (Judah, not knowing who Joseph was,) sent the brothers … Continue reading

Monday, April 7, 2025 “Proper Response”

Genesis 24-25 “24 “So it was, when we went up to your servant my father, that we told him the words of my lord. 25 And our father said, ‘Go back and buy us a little food. The sons of Jacob brought the words of Joseph to their father Jacob and Jacob acted as though he didn’t hear the words. Pray … Continue reading

Sunday, April 6, 2025 “Value Accuracy”

Genesis 44:21-23 “21 Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ 22 And we said to my lord, ‘The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ 23 But you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face … Continue reading

Saturday, April 5, 2025 “Spirit of Truth”

Genesis 44:20 “20 And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, who is young; his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’” Joseph already knows what is truth and he wants his estranged brothers to admit truth. Pray that there will be … Continue reading

Friday, April 4, 2025 “My Lord Asked”

Genesis 44:19 “19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father or a brother?’ This is Joseph who had been estranged from his family for a long time speaking. He knew the answer but Joseph wanted to bring this whole issue to a conclusion. Pray that people will not ask frivolous questions that only … Continue reading

Thursday, April 3, 2025 “Let Me Speak a Word”

Genesis 44:17-18 “17 But he said, “Far be it from me that I should do so; the man in whose hand the cup was found, he shall be my slave. And as for you, go up in peace to your father.18 Then Judah came near to him and said: “O my lord, please let your servant speak a … Continue reading

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 “Guilty By Association?”

Genesis 44:17 “17 But he said, “Far be it from me that I should do so; the man in whose hand the cup was found, he shall be my slave. And as for you, go up in peace to your father.”” There are many times that because someone is friends with another or business associates, etc. that … Continue reading

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 “God Knows Our Iniquity”

Genesis 44:16 “16 Then Judah said, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; here we are, my lord’s slaves, both we and he also with whom the cup was found.” Let us pray today that as Joseph’s brothers did to him … Continue reading