RAISED BY EL ROI “Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.” (Genesis 16: 1) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. Our Focal Scripture introduces Hagar. Hagar was a handmaid. She was a slave. She was a woman of low estate. She was not one to be considered seriously. She was a vulnerable young woman living with Abram and wife. After she encountered El Roi, her destiny did not remain small.

“And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?” (Genesis 16: 13) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. Hagar had despised her mistress before she was forced to flee into the wilderness. What she did wrong, caused her mistress to go hard on her until she had no choice but to flee to the wilderness where the Lord saw her. She deserved judgement, but El Roi saw

“And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?” (Genesis 16: 13) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. Prior to our Focal Scripture, Hagar had despised her mistress because she had a son and her mistress had none. She eventually fled Abraham’s home because her mistress dealt hardly with her. When it seemed that she had been pushed way by the hard treatment of

“Hagar thought, "Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?" So from then on she called him, "The God Who Sees Me."” (Genesis 16: 13 CEV) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. In our Focal Scripture, Hagar described God as the God who sees her. Hagar had journeyed into the wilderness all by herself. She got into error by herself; she complicated her error by going to the wilderness by herself; she made choices that were not in her favour; but

“And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.” (Matthew 2: 12) That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today. When the wise men were warned by God against their earlier plan to go back to Herod, they went back to their country through another way. They got a divine revelation regarding their interactions with Herod, and they had to find another way to go back without tipping off Her