RUSSELL SANDERS

10-3-2025

A FIXED HEART

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Psalm 57:7 says, “My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed [steadfast]; I will sing and give praise.”

Psalm 108:1 also says, “O God, my heart is fixed. I will sing and give praise…”

Fixed means to be prepared, set up, established and immovable. Notice that the one whose heart [spirit] is set upon the Lord is the one who sings His praise and gives Him all the glory.

Psalm 112:7 furthermore says, “He shall not be afraid of evil tidings [news or situations] [because] his heart is fixed [steadfast], trusting in the LORD.” 

As we fix our hearts, and trust upon the LORD, our praise to him destroys all that may come against us. As it is written in Psalm 149:6-9 which says, “Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand to execute vengeance…and punishments…to bind kings [rulers]…to execute upon them the judgment written…”

Our praise destroys the yoke of the evil one. When our hearts are steadfastly fixed upon Jehovah, nothing shall in any way bring us eternal harm. Our victory, safety, and security rest upon Jehovah [Father, Son, Holy Spirit] through our fixed spirit of faith; our fixed heart which does not waver or waffle.

HELEN SANDERS

10-3-2025

THE SEED PART 5

JACOB AND ESAU

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Abraham was told in Genesis 15:13 that his seed would be strangers in a land that was not theirs. They would be slaves there for four hundred years.

Abram’s son Isaac married Rebekah, and she gave birth to twins. Jacob and Esau. They were totally opposites. One was a farmer that raised crops and the other tended to the sheep and animals. God had spoken to Rebekah about the twins in her womb in Genesis 25:23, “And the LORD said unto her, ‘two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.’”

Jacob was the younger of the twins, and through deception stole his brother’s birthright. His father wanted the elder son Esau to have it, but God had other plans. Thinking that his brother would kill him, Jacob fled to his mother’s brother’s place a great distance off. 

It was there that he met the love of his life, Rachel and her sister Leah. He loved Rachel and worked for seven years to become her husband. Laban, Rebekah’s brother and the father of Rachel and Leah, deceived Jacob into marrying Leah first. He then married Rachel also.

God blessed Jacob with twelve sons from Rachel, Leah, and their two handmaids. The promised seed would come later from Judah, but his son Joseph would play a very important role in saving the promised seed.

Joseph was Rachel’s first son, and then she gave birth to Benjamin but died in childbirth. Jacob loved Joseph more than the other sons, which caused hatred in the family. The brothers devised a plan to get rid of Joseph, but unknowingly, their plan to destroy would bring deliverance.

Tomorrow we will see how Joseph saved his family, and how Abraham’s seed became like the sand of the seed like God promised. But with that fulfillment came those that wanted to destroy the seed after being in Egypt for 400 years.