Truths to Live By #2

               God’s Promise – Claim it

Rom 8:28   And we KNOW that ALL things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. KJV

Rom 8:28  And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.(NIV)

Rom 4:21  And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Read  Rom 8:28-32

God's Great Promise    Four Facts.

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Jacob’s Great Problem

            Read  Genesis 32:22-31

Gen 35:9-10 37:28-36

Genesis 42:3-6, 19, 24  29-38

Gen 43:1-2 11-14 45:4-11 50:20

His Old Self

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His God

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Lessons.

R A torrey     soft pillow for a tired heart.

John MacArthur

For Christians, this verse contains perhaps the most glorious promise in Scripture. It is breathtaking in its magnitude, encompassing absolutely everything that pertains to a believer’s life. This magnificent promise consists of four elements that continue Paul’s teaching about the believer’s security in the Holy Spirit: its certainty, its extent, its recipients, and its source

All afternoon a little boy tried to put together his birthday gift from his father, a picture puzzle. Some of the pieces were bright, some dark; some seemed to go together, others seemed to fit nowhere. Finally, frustrated and exhausted and with nothing to show for his efforts, the boy gathered the pieces, put them in the box, and gave it to his dad. “I can’t do it,” he explained. “You try it.”

To his amazement, his father assembled the entire puzzle in a few minutes. “You see,” he said, “I knew what the picture was like all the time. I saw the picture in the puzzle, but you saw only the pieces.”