Everyday words
Prosper
Start with Genesis 24:40, where the Bible uses the word prosper in a real sentence: “He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 24:40
“He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.”
2. Genesis 24:42
“I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—”
3. Genesis 39:3
“His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.”
4. Genesis 39:23
“The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.”
5. Numbers 14:41
“Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?”
6. Deuteronomy 28:29
“You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.”
7. Deuteronomy 29:9
“Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.”
8. 1 Kings 22:12
“All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 24:40
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Hesaidtome,‘Yahweh,beforeIwalk,willsendhisangelwithyou,andprosperyourway.Youshallawifeformysonfrommyandofmyfather’shouse.