You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people. Genesis 50:20
(Life Application Study Bible)
Jesus Tells Us; If you learn to trust Me-really trust Me, with all your heart and soul, then nothing can separate you from My Peace. I can use all your problems, even huge ones, to train you in trusting Me. This is how you defeat the evil one. You let Me use the problems he throws your way to make you stronger. Remember Joseph? His jealous brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt. But he never stopped trusting Me. So I was able to use that terrible thing to save not only Joseph and his family, but a whole nation of people. Don’t be afraid of what this day, or any day might bring. Put your energy into trusting Me.
Jesus Concludes…Remind yourself that I am in complete control, and I can bring good out of any situation.
Genesis 50:20; Psalm 23:4 Study Notes
Footnotes Genesis 50:50, God brought good from the brothers’ evil deed, Potiphar’s wife’s false accusation, the cupbearer’s neglect, and seven years of famine. The experiences in Joseph’s life taught him that God brings good from evil for those who trust him. Do you trust God enough to wait patiently for him to bring good out of bad situations? You can trust him because, as Joseph learned, God can overrule people’s evil intentions to bring about his intended results.
Passage Psalm 23:4, Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Footnotes Psalm 23:4, Death casts a frightening shadow over us, because we are entirely helpless in its presence. We can struggle with other enemies, pain, depression, disease, and injury, but our strength and courage cannot overcome death. In terms of this life, death has the final word. Only one person can walk with us through death’s dark valley and bring us safely to the other side, the God of life, our Shepherd. Because life is uncertain, we should follow this Shepherd, who offers us eternal comfort and light in the darkness.
Jesus Tells Us is from the Jesus Calling 365 devotions for kids.
THE WORLD…we see history
Rev. Abiel Leonard
LENIN IDEAS THAT TOOK ROOT IN 20TH CENTURY PROPAGATING
A WORLDWIDE BATTLE AGAINST CAPITALISM EVERYWHERE
Lenin addresses a crowd of factory workers
During the October Revolution of 1917.
Someone needs to be sourced in these pages with introducing the world to the communist philosophy of Karl Marx, ideas that took root in the 20th century and continue in many permutations to exert a vast influence today. That someone is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known under the cognomen Lenin. The son of a school official, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, was a smart and philosophically engaged young man. He gave up a legal career to devote himself to the study of Marxism, and then turned to revolutionary activities in czarist Russia. Lenin was twice exiled to Siberia and left his homeland in 1900. Working from London in 1903, he effected a split in the Russian Social Democratic Labor party into the Bolshevik and Menshevik movements. He returned to Russia and from 1905-1907 worked with the Bolsheviks, then during World War I, operating in Switzerland, he denounced imperialism as the end stage of capitalism and urged his followers in the proletariat to oppose what he was as an imperialist war, propagating a worldwide battle against capitalism everywhere.
The WORD…we see Jesus, His Story!
The uprising came back home in the form of the Russian Revolution in 1917, and the Germans, rightly assuming that Lenin’s presence in Russia would disrupt that country’s efforts in World War I, assisted in his return. Lenin was on the winning side of the civil war of 1918-1921, and when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was founded in 1922, he reigned as the leader of the Communist party. Leninism (as a practical philosophy separate from Marxism) was anti-imperialist, thoroughly atheistic, opportunistic and dedicated to the principle that a strong Communist party was needed to lead the proletariat. As for Lenin himself, he ruled unquestioned as a dictator until his death, then was succeeded by the despotic Josef Stalin. In the years that followed, the USSR drifted every further from the tenets laid down in Marx and Engels’s Communist Manifesto.
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