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Day 22, 22 Jan 2021







Gen 30-31



GENESIS 30

1 When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous

of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I will die."

2 Jacob became angry with Rachel and said,

" Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb? "

3 Then she said, "Here is my maid Bilhah. Have relations with her so that she may bear a child on my knees, so that I may also have children through her."

4 So she gave him Bilhah her maidservant as a wife, and Jacob had relations

with her. 5 Bilhah conceived and gave Jacob a son. 6 Rachel said, "God has

vindicated me, and He has also heard my voice and has given me a son."

Therefore she called his name Dan.

7 Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again and gave Jacob a second son.

8 Then Rachel said, "With great wrestling have I wrestled with my sister,

and I have prevailed." So she called his name Naphtali.

9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children,

she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

10 Zilpah, Leah’s maid, gave Jacob a son. 11 Then Leah said,

"How fortunate!" So she called his name Gad.

12 Zilpah, Leah’s maid, gave Jacob a second son.

13 Then Leah said, "Happy am I, for women will call me happy."

So she called his name Asher.

14 At the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben went and found mandrakes

in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah,

"Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes."

15 Leah said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken my husband?

Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?"

So Rachel said, "All right, he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your

son's mandrakes."

16 When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him

and said, "You must sleep with me, because I have paid for you

with my son's mandrakes."

And he slept with her that night.

17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived and gave Jacob a fifth son.

18 Leah said, "God has given me my reward because I have given my maid to

my husband." So she called his name Issachar.

19 Leah conceived again and gave Jacob a sixth son.

20 Leah said, "God has given me a good gift.

Now my husband will dwell with me, because I have given him six sons."

So she called his name Zebulun.

21 Afterwards she gave birth to a daughter and called her name Dinah.

22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.

23 She conceived and gave birth to a son and said, "God has taken away my

reproach."

24 And she called his name Joseph, saying, "The Lord will add to me another

son."



Jacob’s Agreement With Laban



25 When Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,

"Send me away, so that I may go to my own place, to my country.

26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you,

and let me go. For you know the service that I have given you."

27 Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay.

For I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me

on account of you." 28 He said, "Name me your wages, and I will give it."

29 Jacob said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock

have fared with me. 30 For you had little before I came,

and it is now increased to a multitude. The Lord has blessed you since I came,

and now when may I also provide for my own house?"

31 Laban said, "What may I give you?"

And Jacob said, "You may not give me anything, but if you will do

this one thing for me, I will continue to feed and keep your flock.

32 I will pass through all your flock today,

removing from it all the speckled and spotted sheep,

and every brown sheep from among the lambs,

and the spotted and speckled among the goats.

These shall be my wages.

33 So my integrity will answer for me in time to come.

When you come to examine my wages,

every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats,

and brown among the sheep that are with me will be considered stolen."

34 Laban said, "Agreed. Let it be according to your word."

35 He removed that day the male goats that were striped

and spotted and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted,

every one that had some white in it,

and all the brown ones among the sheep,

and gave them into the care of his sons.

36 He put three days' journey between himself and Jacob,

and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

37 Then Jacob took rods of fresh-cut poplar, almond, and plane trees,

and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white which was in the rods.

38 He set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the troughs,

that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink, so that they

would mate when they came to drink. 39 The flocks mated before the rods

and gave birth to young that were striped, speckled, and spotted.

40 Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face toward the striped

and all the brown in the flock of Laban. He put his own flocks by themselves

and did not put them with Laban’s sheep. 41 Whenever the stronger sheep

mated, Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the troughs,

so that they might mate among the rods. 42 But when the livestock

were feeble, he did not put them in. So the weaker were Laban's

and the stronger Jacob's. 43 The man became exceedingly prosperous

and had many sheep and female servants and male servants

and camels and donkeys.



GENESIS 31



Jacob Flees From Laban



1 Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away

all that was our father’s, and he has gotten all his wealth from what was our

father's." 2 Jacob saw the look of Laban and saw he was not congenial toward

him as before.

3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers,

to your family, and I will be with you."

4 So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flock was,

5 and said to them, "I see your father’s demeanor, that it is not congenial

toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me. 6 You know

that with all my strength I have served your father. 7 Your father has

deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to

hurt me. 8 If he said, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock

produced speckled. If he said, 'The striped will be your pay,'

then all the flock produced striped. 9 In this way God has taken away

your father's flock and given them to me.

10 "When the livestock conceived, I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream

that the male goats mating with the flock were striped, speckled,

and spotted. 11 The angel of God spoke to me in a dream, saying,

'Jacob.' And I said, 'Here I am.' 12 He said, 'Now lift up your eyes

and see all the male goats which mate with the flock are striped,

speckled, and spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.

13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, where you

vowed a vow to Me. Now arise, and get out of this land,

and return to the land of your family.' "

14 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there any portion or inheritance

left for us in our father's house? 15 Are we not seen by him as foreigners?

For he has sold us and has completely spent our money also.

16 For all the riches which God has taken from our father are ours

and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do it."

17 Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and his wives on camels.

18 Then he carried away all his livestock and all his goods which he had

obtained, his acquired livestock which he had gotten in Paddan Aram, in order

to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

19 When Laban went to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols

that were her father's. 20 Jacob also deceived Laban the Syrian by not

telling him that he was fleeing. 21 So Jacob fled with all that he had,

and he rose up and passed over the river and headed toward

the mountains of Gilead.



Laban Pursues Jacob



22 Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled. 23 He took his kinsmen

with him and pursued him for seven days until he caught up with him in the

mountains of Gilead. 24 But God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night

and said to him, "Take care that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad."

25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent on the mountain,

and Laban with his kinsmen pitched in the mountains of Gilead. 26 Laban said

to Jacob, "What have you done that you have stolen away without my knowing

and carried away my daughters like captives taken with the sword? 27 Why did

you flee away secretly and sneak away from me and not tell me? I would have

sent you away with joy and with songs, with the tambourine and harp. 28 And

why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? You have

acted foolishly in so doing. 29 It is in my power to do you harm, but the God

of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take care that you not speak

to Jacob either good or bad.' 30 Now you surely have gone away because

you longed desperately after your father's house,

yet why have you stolen my gods?"

31 Then Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid,

for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

32 But anyone with whom you find your gods, let him not live.

In the presence of our kinsmen, point out what I have that is yours

and take it." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

33 So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent

and into the two female servants' tents, but he did not find them.

Then he went out of Leah's tent and entered into Rachel's tent.

34 Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel's

saddle and sat on them. Laban searched the entire tent,

but could not find them.

35 She said to her father, "Let not my lord be displeased that I cannot rise

before you, for the manner of women is on me." So he searched, but he did

not find the household idols.

36 Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. And Jacob asked Laban,

“What is my offense? What is my sin that you have so hotly pursued after me?

37 You have searched all my things, and yet what have you found of all

your household things? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen,

so that they may judge between us both.

38 "This twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats

have not miscarried their young, and the male goats of your flock

I have not eaten. 39 That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you.

I bore the loss of it. You required it from my hand whether it was stolen

by day or stolen by night. 40 It was like this with me: In the day the heat

consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

41 I have been twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years

for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have changed

my wages ten times. 42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham

and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely you would have sent me

away empty now. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands

and rebuked you last night."



Laban’s Covenant With Jacob



43 Laban answered and said to Jacob, "These daughters are my daughters,

and these children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks,

and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to my daughters

or to their children whom they have borne? 44 Now therefore come, let us

make a covenant, you and I, and let it be as a witness between you and me."

45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up for a pillar. 46 Jacob said to his kinsmen,

"Gather stones." So they took stones and made a pile, and they ate there

on the pile. 47 And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

48 Laban said, "This pile is a witness between me and you this day."

Therefore its name was called Galeed, 49 and Mizpah, for he said,

"May the Lord watch between you and me, when we are apart from one another.

50 If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take other wives

beside my daughters, although no one else is with us, remember that God

is witness between you and me."

51 Then Laban said to Jacob, "See this pile and see this pillar which

I have thrown between you and me. 52 This heap is a witness,

and this pillar is a witness, so that I will not cross over this pile

to you and so that you will not pass over this pile and this pillar

to me for harm. 53 The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor,

and the God of their father, judge between us."

Then Jacob vowed by the Fear of his father Isaac. 54 Then Jacob offered

a sacrifice on the mountain and called his kinsmen to eat bread.

And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain.

55 Early in the morning Laban rose up, kissed his grandchildren

and his daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban departed

and returned to his place.



2) Our Daily Bread for 20 Jan 2021

https://odb.org/CA/2021/01/22/running-to-tell entitled Running to Tell



Matthew 28:1-10



MATTHEW 28



The Resurrection



Mk 16:1–8; Lk 24:1–12; Jn 20:1–10



1 At the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week,

Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.

2 And then there was a great earthquake. For the angel of the Lord descended

from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat on it.

3 His countenance was like lightning, and his garments white as snow.

4 The soldiers shook for fear of him and became like dead men.

5 The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid. For I know that you are

looking for Jesus who was crucified. 6 He is not here. For He has risen,

as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. 7 Then go quickly

and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead, and indeed,

He is going before you to Galilee. There you will see Him. Listen,

I have told you."

8 So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy,

and ran to bring His disciples word. 9 As they went to tell His disciples,

suddenly Jesus met them, saying, "Greetings!" They came and took hold

of His feet and worshipped Him. 10 Then Jesus said to them,

"Do not be afraid. Go tell My brothers to go to Galilee,

and there they will see Me."



The modern-day marathon is based on the story of a Greek messenger,

Pheidippides. According to legend, in 490 bc he ran approximately

twenty-five miles (forty kilometers) from Marathon to Athens to announce

the Greeks' victory against their formidable foe, the invading Persians.

Today, people run marathons for the personal satisfaction of an athletic

achievement, but Pheidippides had a greater purpose behind his effort:

each of his steps was run for the sheer joy of delivering good news

to his kinsmen!



Some five hundred years later, two women also ran to deliver good news

- the most pivotal news in all of history. When Mary and Mary Magdalene

arrived at the tomb where Jesus had been placed after His crucifixion,

they found it empty. An angel told them that Jesus had "risen from the dead"

and to "go quickly and tell his disciples" (Matthew 28:7).

The women, "afraid yet filled with joy," ran to tell the disciples

what they’d discovered (v. .



May we have the same joyful exuberance at the resurrection of Jesus,

and may it invigorate us to share the good news with others. We may not even

need to "run" farther than next door to find someone who needs to know about

our Savior. He won the battle against death so we might live victoriously with

Him forever!



By: Kirsten Holmberg



Reflect & Pray



Who shared the good news of Christ’s resurrection with you?

How will you share it with others today?



God, I rejoice because of Your victory over death.

Thank You for allowing me the privilege of sharing this good news

with those You've put in my life.



To learn more about the resurrection of Jesus, visit

https://www.ChristianUniversity.org/CA206.



3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation



Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools







Week 6 Showing Grace to Others - Day 6 Reconciliation



2 Cor 5:18-19



18 All this is from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ

and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was

in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their sins

against them, and has entrusted to us the message of reconciliation.



When Paul writes in 2 Cor 5:17 that we become a "new creation" in Christ

Jesus, the story does not end there. The verses following give us direction

for tht new life in Christ. "All This", Paul says, referring tothe miracle of

new life in Christ, "is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ

and gave us the ministry of reconciliation."

Reconciliation means to bring back together what was ince separated. Man was

separated from God by sin, and God took the initiative to reconcile man to

himself. Our "ministry of reconciliation" as Christians is twofold: to draw

others to the Lord and to work for reconciliation between indiviuals.

Reconciliation is the ultimate gaol of forgiveness. God, through his grace ,

extends forgiveness to us when we are still sinners, unrepentant,

undeserving. When we respond, we come into reconciliation with him

and are brought back into oneness. Likewise, when we extend the grace

of frogiveness to another, we are set free by the act of forgiving, but we

hopt that the ultimate outcone will be reconciliation.

God shows us the pattern: he is the wronged party, yet he does not wait for

the offender to coem to him, hat in hand. He takes a bold initiative, offering

forgiveness freely with out regard to merit. The pattern applies to us;

as the new life in Christ takes hold of us, we must reach out, and reach,

and keep on reaching, breaking down the barrirers, taking the risk of

rejeciton so that we may come to reconciliation.





Application



a) What barriers stand between me and reconciliation with another person?



b) How can I take a risk and reach out to offer forgiveness and

reconciliation to them?



c) What kind of attitude do I need to be a "minister of reconciliation"?



4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland



Luke 6:38



38 "Give, and it will be given to you: Good measure, pressed down,

shaken together, and running over will men give unto you.

For with the measure you use, it will be measured unto you.”



5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:





When you are Burdened by Doubt



Proverbs 30:5



5 Every word of God is pure;

He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.





6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)







2015 Population - 4631302 Muslims about 136493







British Columbia - British Columbia's Muslim Population is growing constantly.



Every week there are immigrants ad refugees coming to the Greater Vancouver



and surrounding areas. There are also significant Muslim student populations



in our colleges and universities. Some have even suggested that there are



between 4000 and 5000 Saudi Arabian students alone, without counting all



other nationalities.







Greater Vancouver has an estimated 180000 Muslims, and there are significant



and growing communities in the Fraser Valley such as in Langley, Abbotsford,



Chilliwack, etc. Including these communities the total population for this



region is about 200000.



Of these, there are an estimated 100000 Iranians, 35000 Arabs, 15000 Ismailis,



more than 20000 Afghanis, 10000 South Asian Muslims, 3000 Turks, and small



numbers from other countries such as Sudan, Somalia, Albania, etc.



We are seeing some Muslims coming to Christ and we rejoice in that.



A few people also have some ongoing ministry to Muslims in the area,



for which we also rejoice. Let us agree in that







- the church will catch a vision to pray,



and a burden to train outreach to Muslims



- the church will press in to participate in effective



discipleship of these new Muslim background believers.







Adding further







30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020







Under the Keep Praying page







When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month



and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days



of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that



usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,



of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be



decorated and festivals will be held.







For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the



distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of



Islam.







You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",



which means Blessed Eid!"







Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you



know, and Muslims around the world:







- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions



in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about



unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such



movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three



decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim



relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.



Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,



"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;



your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,



your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.



18 Even on My menservants and maidservants



I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.



19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:



blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,



and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.



21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]







Footnotes



Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.



- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective



discipleship movements among Muslim people.



- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for



Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.



Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a



hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under



a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the



house."







Ideas for prayer







- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you



- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving



Christ among Muslim people -



Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."



- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims



throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!







My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further



call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity



(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .







7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada



http://www.ehc.ca



22 Day of the Month



a) Pray for the Province of Quebec



I) Pray for the leaders of Quebec,

that God's Spirit would influence

then to act justly,

serve with integrity

and honour high moral standards. ( 1 Tim 2:1 - 4



1 Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications,

prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,

2 (Ezr 6:10) for kings and for all who are in authority,

that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,

3(1Ti 1:1; Lk 1:47) for this is good

and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

4 (Eze 18:23; 18:32)who desires all men to be saved

and to come to the knowledge of the truth.



II) Pray for the churches of the province,

that they would be lighthouses

beaming forth the illuminating truth of God's Word.



III) Pray that the Lord would use

the Finding the Hope Campaign

and booklet to turn many hearts to Jesus



b) Pray that the influence of the Holy Spirit would dissolve

every argument and pretension exalted against the knowledge

of God.

(

2 Cor 10: 3 - 5



3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God

to the pulling down of strongholds, 5 casting down imaginations and every

high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every

thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,



)



8 ) This month Calvarycommunity.ca is doing 21 days of Fasting

and prayer available at https://calvarycommunity.ca/prayandfast/



https://calvarycommunity.ca/prayandfast/Day19



Day 19: Make it a Part of Your Life

Verse of the Day: Acts 2:42

42 They continued steadfastly in the apostles'

teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and in the prayers.



We want to encourage you to be just as intentional about the next

twenty‐one days and the next twenty‐one days after that and so on.



The principles you have practiced in these twenty‐one days are very

easy to sustain long‐term. Prayer, fasting, and personal devotion are

all quite simple to incorporate into your everyday life. You have created

space for God to fill, don't allow it to close up! Protect that

time and space with God and make it your priority each day.







Reflection:



Remember, this is not a legalistic thing.

This is an "I get to experience God" thing.



Prayer:



Dear God, as I have fasted and prayed these last 19 days, Lord,

you revealed areas in my life that were influencing me, even controlling me.

I pray that I have the courage to confess and renounce

those things that are no good for me.



Lord, I pray that I can let go and be released from any food

or spending habits that have become addictive. I pray that any use of

technology that has been to escape or avoid that any unhealthy behaviours

be revealed and healed. I pray that you continue to draw me closer to you

through this fast and for the days to come. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen.



Scripture reflection:



Joshua 1:8-9,



8 "This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth.

Meditate on it day and night so that you may act carefully

according to all that is written in it. For then you will

make your way successful, and you will be wise.

9 Have not I commanded you? Be strong and courageous.

Do not be afraid or dismayed, for the Lord your God

is with you wherever you go."



Matthew 6:33,



33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,

and all these things shall be given to you.



Isaiah 28:23,



23 Give ear and hear my voice;

listen and hear my speech.





Daniel 10:3



3 I ate no tasty food, no meat or wine entered my mouth,

nor did I anoint myself at all until three whole weeks were fulfilled.



Conclusion:



Pray to seek the Lord's wisdom even in Time of threat.



Pray to see that your activities please the Lord.



Pray that you be a minister of reconciliation.









Pray for forgiveness of sins and repentance.



Pray to accept Jesus in your life