Unsung Stories of Jubilation and Sorrows

By Dan Fereira

While I was struggling with the title of the stories in this book, God came to visit me.

I had been having great difficulty with my foot arch in my right foot; it felt like it wanted to detach from my heel.

In the evening, before I was going to submit the manuscript, God healed my right foot. And in the early morning when God woke me up, He gave me the title of the book: Unsung Stories of Jubilation and Sorrows.

The stories in this book must be blessed if God took interest in me and the title.

The only way this world will change is if God is seen through His people. So get up and choose to be a light in a dark place. Let God’s light show through you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638444046

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God’s Promise to Abraham

If you look closely at the Bible text in Genesis, you will find a plan God was designing to reveal Himself to the world.

God picked a person that He wanted to bless with His direction and protection to bring forth a new kingdom and establish new people in the world with His power and glory.

God came to Abram and promised that if he would leave the country and the people of his father’s household and then go where he was directed by God, God would make him a great nation and make his name great. But there was a twofold blessing in what God was blessing Abram with—for faith and obedience to God. This would affect the people of God after the crucifixion of God’s son, Jesus Christ.

God would cause favor to fall on Abram through those that would come in peace and fellowship to bless Abram. God, in turn, would bless those that came to bless Abram.

Likewise, those that would come to curse Abram, for whatever reason, God cursed them.

It’s better not to have been born to be cursed by God.

God’s promise to Abram is an oath/affirmation and does not continue on to anyone else after his death.

God’s Covenant with Abraham

God came to Abram in a vision, and God told Abram that He was his shield, and his reward will be very great (In other words, Abram was God’s treasure among men).

God said to Abram that He would give his heirs a vast land that belonged to other kingdoms but not till his descendants were enslaved and mistreated many years. The nation that does this, God will punish, and when your descendants come out of that nation, they will leave with great possessions of their land.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, God confirmed His covenant with Abram by adding circumcision of all the males in his control and to continue this practice to all males that are eight days old afterward.

God said to Abram that he would become very fruitful with nations and kings that would come from him. This was an everlasting covenant for generations to come—that Abram’s God would be their God to the end of their dispensation (that ended in AD 70).

God changed Abram’s name to Abraham, and his wife Sarai’s name was changed to Sarah. Then God said they would have a child, and his name was to be Isaac. God would make a covenant with him that would cause two kingdoms to come forth.

Now when we read the Bible text, we get to Jacob, and when he wrestled with God face-to-face, God blessed him with a name change—from Jacob to Israel, the father of the twelve tribes that make up Israel and Judah. Asher, Dan, Ephraim, Gad, Issachar, Manasseh, Naphtali, Reuben, Simeon, and Zebulun—these tribes form the independent kingdom of Israel in the north, then Judah and Benjamin form the kingdom of Judah in the south.

Now up to the time of Moses and the deliverance of Israel from Egypt’s cruel grip on God’s people, the people wanted God, and not just around but part of themselves.

Now after their deliverance from the Egyptians all the way to the mountain of God, the people complained about one thing or another, leaving their faith in God behind in Egypt.

When they got to the mountain of God, they allowed themselves