“Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.” (1 Kings 3: 27) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. As we close our meditations on the contention between the two women who came to Solomon, one thing is noteworthy: by the judgement of Solomon, the woman who was the true owner of the living child was eventually given back her child. The one who had the dead child was not able to deceive

“And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.” (1 Kings 3: 21) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. In our Focal Scripture, after the woman who truly owned the living child reconsidered the dead baby in the morning, she discovered that the dead baby was not her son. She gave a closer look at the dead baby that was by her side as sh

“And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.” (1 Kings 3: 21) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. Our Focal Scripture speaks of that moment when the woman who still had a living child arose to feed her child in the morning. She had just had a new baby, and she prioritized feeding the baby. She had an infant baby that could not fe

“And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.” (1 Kings 3: 20) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. Our Focal Scripture tells the tale of how one woman whose child was alive, was given a dead child and her living child was taken from her. Both women had their babies three days apart. Children usually look very similar in their first few days, and

“And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.” (1 Kings 3: 20) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. In our Focal Scripture, one of the women that came to King Solomon for judgement made mention of how her house mate arose at midnight and exchanged her living child with a dead child. These two women both had children within a few days of each othe