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Testimony

Capturing the word so it isn't lost on the wind.

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Ishmael Means God Hears: The Well of the One Who Sees (Genesis 16)
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Ishmael Means God Hears: The Well of the One Who Sees (Genesis 16)

Day twenty-eight of a walk through the whole Bible to know the God who speaks, opened up. Genesis 16:7-16 in the original words: the first appearance of the angel of the LORD, the verb shama that names both Abram's failure and God's faithfulness in one chapter, why a foreign slave woman naming God turned the ancient world's order upside down, and how El Roi, the God who sees me, meets the outcast at a spring the way Jesus later meets the woman at the well. What it means to know the God who sees first and hears the cry you never spoke.

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Hagar: The Runaway Slave Who Named God (Genesis 16)
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Hagar: The Runaway Slave Who Named God (Genesis 16)

Day twenty-eight of a walk through the whole Bible to know the God who speaks. A pregnant Egyptian slave runs into the desert with no plan except away, and the God nobody thought to involve finds her at a spring, calls her by name, hears the tears she never turned into words, and gives her a promise shaped like Abram's. Why Hagar becomes the first person in Scripture to name God, what the name the God who sees me meant to a woman everyone else had overlooked, and how being seen before you go looking is where knowing God begins.

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