by David Keesling | Aug 21, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Genesis 8:1a “But God remembered Noah…” Observation: Preceding verses have described the effects of the flood: every living thing on the earth perished, along with all mankind. “Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died (Gen. 7:22) Then...
by David Keesling | Aug 20, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Genesis 14:23 “I will accept nothing belonging to you.” Observation: Abram had just returned from defeating a group of allied kings who had earlier routed the king of Sodom. In the original battle, the allied kings had taken captive Abram’s nephew Lot along with his...
by David Keesling | Aug 19, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Genesis 15:12 “As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness fell over him.” Observation: Earlier in the day the Lord had told Abram in a vision that He would be Abram’s “shield and very great reward.” (v. 1) Then God assured...
by David Keesling | Aug 18, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Genesis 7:11b, 12 “…all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.” Observation: Noah and his sons had worked faithfully on the ark for decades, doing “all that the...
by David Keesling | Aug 17, 2025 | Daily Devotional
Genesis 6:14 “So make yourself an ark of cypress wood, make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.” Observation: Moments earlier God had revealed His heart’s anguish by saying, “The Lord was grieved that He had made man on the earth, and His heart was...
