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Passage Read: Exodus 7-10 Meditation Verse: 8:19 Up until this point, the magicians could replicate God's miracles. God did this on purpose, so that Pharaoh would have confidence to resist the Lord, to harden his heart against fearing the Lord. But now Pharaoh had sufficient…

Passage Read: Exodus 3-6 Meditation Verse: 5:17 How often do faith and trust in the Lord result in harder times rather than blessing? For the Israelites, this should have been a time of joy and celebration because the Lord had come to free them! And…

Passage Read: Genesis 49 - Exodus 2 Meditation Verse: Exodus 1:22 Pharaoh wanted the male babies of the Israelites killed, but the Hebrew midwives wouldn't do it. So he ordered all the Egyptians, that if they discovered a male child, they were to throw him…

Passage Read: Genesis 44-48 Meditation Verses: 45:5-8 Joseph had already pieced together that he had been sent ahead of his family to Egypt for their preservation, so he wasn't bitter at all, despite more than twelve years of servitude and imprisonment. Most people today would…

Passage Read: Genesis 41-44 Meditation Verse: 42:16 How have I never seen this? Joseph remembers his dreams as a youth and realizes how close he is to fulfilling the first dream, only Benjamin is missing. So this whole ruse is to see that first dream…