[EP 488] GOD HAD A SECRET? 10/23/2024

A daily bible study to draw us closer in our relationship with GOD through our Savior Jesus Christ in prayer and reading the word of GOD.
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Power of Prayer verse:
1 JOHN 3:1 KJV
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of GOD. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
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1 JOHN 3:1 NIV
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him
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Life Lessons from EPHESIANS Lesson #5
GOD HAD A SECRET? / EP #488
EPHESIANS 3: 1-13
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To Complete the book of EPHESIANS during this twelve-part study, read EPHESIANS 3:13.
More Bible passages on God’s provision through Christ: John 3:16; 15:12; ROMANS 5:8 and 8:35-37; and 1 John 3:1.
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PRAYING THE NAMES OF GOD:
Week #2: EL ROI
THE GOD WHO SEES ME
Understanding the Name:
In the ancient world it was not uncommon for an infertile wife to arrange for a slave girl to sleep with her husband so that the family could have an heir. In fact, Ishmael, the son born to Abraham and Hagar, would have been considered Sara’s legal offspring. Hagar and Ishmael might have fared better had Hagar not forgotten her place the moment she learned of her pregnancy. Still, Sarah’s treatment of her seems inexcusable and harsh.

In the midst of her difficulties, Hagar learned that EL Roi (EL raw-EE) was watching over her and that he had a plan to bless her and her son. One of Abraham’s grandsons, Esau, married Ishmael’s daughter, and it was the Ishmaelite traders (also referred to as Midianite merchants in Genesis 37:26-28), themselves descended from an Egyptian slave, who transported his great-grandson Joseph into slavery in Egypt.