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Welcome to Women Of The Bible speak. Im Shannon Bream. Loyalty to god does not ensure a life of happiness. In fact, loyalty can often lead to bigger challenges. Television icon Kathie Lee Gifford exemplifies the hardships and blessings that come from a life of steadfast faith, loyalty to god means putting him first. Every morning i wake up before i have any other thought. I pray. Thank you, lord, for your faithfulness to watch over me during the night, and i thank him for a new day. If i have a ...

welcome to women of the bible speak. im shannon bream. loyalty to god does not ensure a life of happiness. in fact, loyalty can often lead to bigger challenges. television icon kathie lee gifford exemplifies the hardships and blessings that come from a life of steadfast faith, loyalty to god means putting him first. every morning i wake up before i have any other thought. i pray. thank you, lord, for your faithfulness to watch over me during the night, and i thank him for a new day. if...

From the blog of Michael Carasik at The Times of Israel

 

But then to be seeing the woman that you share your husband with your own sister, very fertile, having child after child after child that had to just throw enormous salt in the wound for rachel. rachel said to leah, please give me some of your son to manage. right. but leah said to her, wasnt it enough that you took away my husband? will you take away my sons mandrax to the mandrake plant was thought to increase fertility, but it wasnt until years after rachel got her hands on it that her prayer...

And asked his uncle for her hand in marriage. jacob said, ill work for you for seven years in return for your youngest daughter. rachel laban agreed to the terms and the deal was struck. jacob served seven years to get rachel, and i love this next line, but they seem like only a few days to him because of his love for her. after the seven years of labor were completed, jacob became impatient. he says, give me my wife, my time is completed and i want to lie with her. laban complied, and the weddi...

As the lord and creator, as he instilled it in each and every one of us. i think in my life ive related to these women. ive felt inadequate. ive felt like i wasnt good enough the more i grew in my faith. i realized, yes, i am good enough. in the book of genesis, a man named jacob fled his home after a quarrel with his brother over their inheritance. he ran to his uncle laban, a few towns away, where he met lavins two daughters, rachel and leah. the bible talks about how leah, the older sister, h...

And asked his uncle for her hand in marriage. jacob said, ill work for you for seven years jacob served seven years to get rachel, and i love this next line, but they seem like only a few days to him because of his love for her. after the seven years of labor were completed, jacob became impatient. he says, give me my wife, my time is completed and i want to lie with her. laban complied, and the wedding celebrations began. unfortunately for rachel and jacob, it was not going to be the fairytale ...

Rachel has to feel devastated that her older sister is now married to this man. leah, you have to wonder how she felt knowing that she was being snuck in. she wasnt his chosen love, and yet she was sent in to him and he feels very deceived. so he goes in anger of the girls father and says, what have you done? laban, unapologetic, proposed a new deal to jacob. the deal is now you can marry rachel, but you can have to work another seven years for her. jacob accepted these terms in order to marry t...

As the lord and creator, as he instilled it in each and every one of us. i think in my life ive related to these women. ive felt inadequate. ive felt like i wasnt good enough the more i grew in my faith. i realized, yes, i am good enough. in the book of genesis, a man named jacob fled his home after a quarrel with his brother over their inheritance. he ran to his uncle laban, a few towns away, where he met lavins two daughters, rachel and leah. the bible talks about how leah, the older sister, h...