Breakfast With God

Reading Genesis 5, from start to finish, you'll find the chapter talks a lot about Adam's family line. This person lived 905 years and had XYZ children; this person died after 830 years and had so-so amount of sons. The story (recorded) was pretty much the same for all them - Adam, Seth, Mahalalel, etc. - until you get to Enoch. For the first time in the entire chapter, something other  than just how old they were when they died, and how many kids they had was documented about someone!  Of course, each of the men in Genesis 5 weren't 100% identical, with the exact same experiences, relationships with God, attributes and talents, but only Enoch got the chance to have a more significant part of his story told - and centuries and centuries after, people are still reading/talking about him. When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.   After he became the father of Methuselah,  Enoch walked faithfully  with God  300 years and had ot...

I'm constantly amazed by how much of what God has done for me, and the access he's given me to wonderful things that I actually have no clue about. And that's simply for the reason that I didn't go searching for it in the Bible. The awesome promises of God for all of us who believe in Him are right there in His Word; a lot of the time we just don't know because we don't go looking. Do you know there are some difficulties you don't have to endure, for the simple fact that you're a Christian? A lot of the time, all we really need to do is put pressure on the Word of God to work for us! God's great promises to you are right there in the Bible, but they won't work in your life unless you do! You are a child of God; a co-heir with Jesus Christ (God's Word says so); you are higher than the angels (as grand as they seem), for Heaven's sake!  "For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son; I have become your Fath...