Monday's Joyful Shout (Gen. 29:4-12; 1 Corinth. 10:23-24)

For this week's theme of A Joyful Shout,look at one word that has a double meaning throughout every passage, you'll find it. In one meaning, the word is a useful object. In another, a state of being. I hope you'll play. First one to guess the theme wins a prize. Comment here or at makinwaves64@yahoo.com Or follow A Joyful Shout @bobmakin on Twitter or in the Joyful Shout group on Facebook.

⁴ And Jacob said to them, “My brethren, where are you from?”
And they said, “We are from Haran.”
⁵ Then he said to them, “Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?”
And they said, “We know him.”
⁶ So he said to them, “Is he well?”
And they said, “He is well. And look, his daughter Rachel is coming with the sheep.”
⁷ Then he said, “Look, it is still high day; it is not time for the cattle to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”
⁸ But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.”
⁹ Now while he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. ¹⁰ And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother. ¹¹ Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept. ¹² And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative and that he was Rebekah’s son. So she ran and told her father.
(Genesis 29:4-12, New King James Version)

   
²³ All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify. ²⁴ Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being.
(1 Corinthians 10:23-24, New King James Version)



TEACHING
Jacob Comes To the Well," Matthew Henry
"The Glory of God, the Well Being of Others," Matthew Henry

PRAYER
Storm and flood victims: May the Lord bring sunshine back to the Northeast in the sky and our hearts
Daniel & Zina Docto: For a visa to remain missionaries in Thailand and praise that they now can stay through May

Blessings,
B :)