Shadia Hrichi

“Would I bring to the point of birth and not deliver?”

These are the words God pressed on my heart yesterday. I was in my living room during my morning quiet time. But my mind and spirit were anything but quiet. My journal was open as I furiously penned thoughts and frustrations, prayers and praises …dreams and disappointments. Page after page after page.

Hurricanes on the east coast, wildfires on the west, and COVID racing around the globe. So much chaos swirling all around us. Yet at the same time, here we are simultaneously trapped in our homes. Work from home. School at home. Church at home … What a paradox!Proverbs 27:1warns us,

“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.”

Isn’t that the truth?

Truth be told, there are quite a number of Bible verses that remind us not to…

Duration: 365 days

ONE BIG FAMILY IN CHRIST

The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.Isaiah 57:1-2

I was reading this scripture on January 19th, 1994, the day Bishop Haik Hovsepian-Mehr mysteriously disappeared en route to the airport in the capital of Iran. He had spoken out courageously against the persecution of Iranian Christians and the closure of the Iranian Bible Society as well as the closing of a number of churches across Iran. He had campaigned vigorously for the release of Rev. Mehdi Dibaj from prison and had acted as substitute father for Mehdi’s four children during his imprisonment in addition to his own four children. Days later his dead body…

This reading plan is provided by Brian Hardin from Daily Audio Bible.

New International Version (NIV)Genesis 39:1-41:16

Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife

39Now Josephhad been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard,bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

²TheLordwas with Josephso that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.³When his master saw that theLordwas with himand that theLordgave him success in everything he did,⁴Joseph found favor in his eyesand became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household,and he entrusted to his care everything he owned.⁵From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, theLordblessed the householdof the Egyptian because of Joseph.The blessing of theLordwas on everything Potiphar had, both in the house…