Genesis 49: 1-28 Our text passage shows us Israel praying over his twelve sons and telling them what was to befall them in the years ahead of them. It's a very insightful passage we can draw many life lessons and spiritual lessons from. The power of a fathers prayer over his children, especially a godly father is very powerful. Jacob who became Israel is one of the father's of faith. He is the grandson of Abraham and the son of Isaac. Jacob was a man of great destiny. He was a man of God, he was prophetic and he had encounters with God., great encounters of God. One of the places where we see the prophetic dimension at work the most in Jacob/Israel's life is in his fatherly/patriarchal blessing to each of his twelve sons. Through Jacob/Israel's prayer for his sons we see the power of a father's prayer for his children. The words of Jacob/Israel during his prophetic prayers for his twelve sons show us not only what had happened in the lives of his sons up till the ...
Exodus 15:22-26 Our text passage shows us bitter water turning to sweet water. This happened through God's intervention through His prophet. God can make your life sweet. The application of the cross, the wisdom of God to our bitter situation converts that which is bitter to sweetness. The tree or branch thrown into the bitter water represents the cross of Jesus Christ and the wisdom of God. God specializes in making the bitter sweet. It was what the ministry of Jesus Christ was all about.- turning the life and destiny of people from that which is bitter to that which is sweet. Isaiah 61:1-7 We see similar experiences in other passages of the scripture where bitter scenarios as a result of unpleasant experiences were converted to sweet experiences. The blind receiving their sight is sweetness to the blind. The lame walking is sweetness to the lame. The demon possessed getting delivered is sweetness to the oppressed. Those burdened and yoke laden being set free is sweetness to their...