Honor your father and mother, and your days will be blessed. Jacob contemplates his long history filled with selfishness, dishonor, and greed and chooses to see the abundance of God by honoring Pharaoh with a blessing.
QUESTIONS FOR THE WEEK: Generosity - Honored Blessing
How is honoring different from loving?
Read Genesis 47:1-12. How does Jacob describe his life?
At the end of his life, how and why does he honor Pharoah? What is surprising about that?
In what ways are parents God’s earthly representatives? Living in the abundance of God, how can we be free to honor our parents and leaders around us?
What Had happened at Grace this week.
Stewardship can be something that we overcomplicate. Keep it Simple; Jesus has saved you.
Let’s rediscover the beauty of God's uncomplicated gift of salvation and how it frees us to joyfully participate in His work.
We often get in our own way, making salvation, giving, and all the ways God is involved in our lives more complicated than they need to be. Keep it simple; Jesus has saved you.
The Almighty God who created us placed us in families.
God commands us to honor our parents and others in authority by our words and deeds.