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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Genesis 2:24 One flesh
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 2:24 Click to listen 24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and remain united with his wife, and they will be one flesh.” In Matthew 19:4-5, Jesus quotes from this passage to explain marriage. He says, “Haven’t you read that the Creator from the beginning […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 2:23 Here she is at last!
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 2:23 Click to listen 23 Then the man said: “Here she is at last!Bone of my bones,and flesh of my flesh.She shall be called Woman,because she was taken out of Man.” We would love to know what Eve thought in this first hour of her life, which was also her wedding […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 2:22 God built a woman
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 2:22 Click to listen 22 Then the LORD God built a woman from the rib he had taken from the man, and he brought her to the man. Moses has been using various words to describe the way God brought about the world and the things in it: created, formed, made. […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 2:21 Adam’s rib
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 2:21 Click to listen 21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he was sleeping, he took one of his ribs and closed up the place where it had been with flesh. After all the activity of the sixth day of creation, the […]
God’s Word for You – Proverbs 10:1 Wise and foolish sons
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPROVERBS 10:1 Click to listen From time to time I have stepped away from continuous devotions on a book of the Bible so that we can meditate on other parts of the Scriptures. Today, we begin a look at some Proverbs. 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. The first nine chapters of Proverbs […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 2:20 No helper was found
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 2:20 Click to listen 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky and to all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no helper who was a suitable partner for him was found. In the first chapter of Genesis, God said, “Let us […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 2:19 Names
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 2:19 Click to listen 19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground every beast of the field and every bird of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 2:18 A suitable partner
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 2:18 Click to listen 18 The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is a suitable partner for him.” God plans for the woman to be a “helper” (ezer, see also Genesis 18:4 ), and “a suitable partner for […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 2:17 The negative command
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 2:17 Click to listen 17 But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day that you eat from it, you will surely die.” There was only one command that said “no” to the man: Do not eat from this one, and […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 2:16 The positive command
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 2:16 Click to listen 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From every tree in the garden you may eat freely. Here God gives the man a commandment. It begins with a positive, permissive command: “Eat whatever you want from every tree here in this garden.” As soon as […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 2:15 to work it and take care of it
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 2:15 Click to listen 15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to take care of it. Now at last God places the man he made into the garden. This raises a question right away: Did God make the man […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 2:10-14 The Rivers of Eden
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 2:10-14 Click to listen 10 A river watering the garden flowed out of Eden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there was gold. 12 And the gold of that land was […]
