Do You Have An Illusion of Control?
Will Anyone Miss Me? If you have ever felt like that, then you can relate to Hagar’s heartbreak. After Hagar is used by Abraham and Sarah to conceive a son, it doesnât take long before conflict arises. Hagar is disrespectful toward Sarah; Sarah bullies Hagar,...
Adoption: Plan âBâ or God’s Plan?
Adoption. What a beautiful concept. And it was God’s idea! It is how God chose to create a family for Himself to be the object of His eternal love and affection (Ephesians 1:5; Romans 8:15). In fact, all throughout history, God has woven adoption into His divine...
Your Days Are Written in God’s Book
Jesus could have chosen anyone to be a part of His human ancestry. For reasons known only in the mind of God, He chose Tamar to bear the son who would carry on the royal line of Judah. God wove their son Perez into the lineage of Christ until the kingship finally...
Surrender Takes Courage (Tamar’s Story)
About three months later Judah was told, âTamar your daughter-in-law has been immoral. Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality.â And Judah said, âBring her out, and let her be burned. (Gen. 38:24) Imagine that we are watching these events unfold in a movie. This would...
Abandoned by Man, but Not by God
When we last read of Tamar, we discovered that Judah has no intention of giving her his third son in marriage. Though she is innocent of any wrongdoing, Tamar seems abandoned to a life as a childless widowâa tragedy in that societyâbut does this mean that God has...
Where Do You Need God to Step In?
âAnd Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. . .â (Genesis 38:7) Tamar was the daughter-in-law of Judah. She lived in a society where girls were married young and expected to begin producing children shortly thereafter. As if that were not...
Are You Heading in the Wrong Direction?
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (Psalm 119:105) There is a reason why Godâs Word is described as a light to our path. The farther we travel in the wrong directionâaway from God and His Wordâthe darker it gets. Once we take that first wrong turn,...
Tamar Bible Study “Sneak Peek” (Week One)
“The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar . . .”...
Are Generational Curses Biblical, and Do They Exist Today?
The concept of generational curses originates in a handful of passages in the Old Testament. With one exception, these were written during the time of Moses and are specific to the nation of Israel. The passages often accompanied Godâs warnings of âblessingsâ for...About Shadia
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