God will show YOU where to go. God will give YOU “land.”
God will bless YOU.
God will give YOU a new name.
But, YOU gotta be willing to get out of your comfort zone & feel some pain.
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To start a new journey YOU not only have to recognize that YOU don’t want to stay where YOU are, YOU have to reflect, to see, to feel what YOU are missing.
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What is YOUR famine?
What do YOU need?
What is YOUR desire?
What do YOU believe?
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These chapters cover a 25 year period. (Genesis 12-17) They share a very complicated journey, w/complex people & problems.
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These people pray to God, but sometimes they don’t understand & depend on their own reasoning rather than waiting & relying on God.
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Abram, Sarai & Lot desired change. They were willing to get out of their comfort zone to have a better life & receive greater blessings from God.
They are learning as they struggled in real time. I couldn’t help think of me/you/us on a journey; learning.
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I think when we make a mess, we receive a message in the things we can’t undo, developing faith that God will look out for me & you.
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As WE seek for truth & righteousness. WE will go through some challenges & battles BUT, WE are never alone & shouldn’t feel lonely; God sent Their one & only Begotten Son; The Lord, Jesus Christ.
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The Lord will guide & give instructions; the Lord will intervene.
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Pray for strength.
The road ahead won’t be easy.
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The Lord will ask you for a sacrifice & He will sacrifice too.
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Sacrifices & trust will need to be made in order to conquer & change.
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Abram was asked to lie in order to survive.
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Sarai was asked to submit.
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Lot turned his tent towards Sodom, was lost & enslaved.
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Sarai took things into her own hands & gave Abram her slave.
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Hagar wanted to leave.
Everything was messy & the Lord intervened & still gave blessings.
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The Lord told Abram much; his seeds would be blessed, numberless.
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Abram asked the Lord what he should do. The Lord would required another sacrifice from him & his wife.
The Lord commanded them to walk before Him perfectly, yet He knows they are imperfect, and so are we.
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Through the Lord’s atoning sacrifice, WE are saved. Through our covenants, He gives us a new name.
❤️🌟
M