SCRIPTURE READING GENESIS 12 1 3 GENESIS 12

SCRIPTURE READING GENESIS 12: 1 -3

GENESIS 12: 1 -3 12 THE LORD HAD SAID TO ABRAM, “GO FROM YOUR COUNTRY, YOUR PEOPLE AND YOUR FATHER’S HOUSEHOLD TO THE LANDI WILL SHOW YOU. 2 “I WILL MAKE YOU INTO A GREAT NATION, AND I WILL BLESS YOU; I WILL MAKE YOUR NAME GREAT, AND YOU WILL BE A BLESSING. 3 I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU, AND WHOEVER CURSES YOU I WILL CURSE; AND ALL PEOPLES ON EARTH WILL BE BLESSED THROUGH YOU. ”

WHO GOD IS: PROMISE KEEPER!

PSALMS 145: 13 13 YOUR KINGDOM IS AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM, AND YOUR DOMINION ENDURES THROUGH ALL GENERATIONS. THE LORD IS TRUSTWORTHY IN ALL HE PROMISES AND FAITHFUL IN ALL HE DOES.

AN IMPORTANT QUESTION: DO WE BELIEVE THE GOD WE BELIEVE IN?

GENESIS 12: 1 -3 12 THE LORD HAD SAID TO ABRAM, “GO FROM YOUR COUNTRY, YOUR PEOPLE AND YOUR FATHER’S HOUSEHOLD TO THE LANDI WILL SHOW YOU. 2 “I WILL MAKE YOU INTO A GREAT NATION, AND I WILL BLESS YOU; I WILL MAKE YOUR NAME GREAT, AND YOU WILL BE A BLESSING. 3 I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU, AND WHOEVER CURSES YOU I WILL CURSE; AND ALL PEOPLES ON EARTH WILL BE BLESSED THROUGH YOU. ”

GENESIS 15: 6 6 ABRAM BELIEVED THE LORD, AND HE CREDITED IT TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.

LESSONS TO LEARN: 1. A PROMISE KEEPING GOD MOTIVATES OBEDIENCE.

HEBREWS 11: 8 -9 8 BY FAITH ABRAHAM, WHEN CALLED TO GO TO A PLACE HE WOULD LATER RECEIVE AS HIS INHERITANCE, OBEYED AND WENT, EVEN THOUGH HE DID NOT KNOW WHERE HE WAS GOING. 9 BY FAITH HE MADE HIS HOME IN THE PROMISED LAND LIKE A STRANGER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY; HE LIVED IN TENTS, AS DID ISAAC AND JACOB, WHO WERE HEIRS WITH HIM OF THE SAME PROMISE.

JOHN 4: 50 50 “GO, ” JESUS REPLIED, “YOUR SON WILL LIVE. ” THE MAN TOOK JESUS AT HIS WORD AND DEPARTED.

LESSONS TO LEARN: 2. A PROMISE KEEPING GOD STRENGTHENS RESILIENCE.

HEBREWS 11: 11 11 AND BY FAITH EVEN SARAH, WHO WAS PAST CHILDBEARING AGE, WAS ENABLED TO BEAR CHILDREN BECAUSE SHE CONSIDERED HIM FAITHFUL WHO HAD MADE THE PROMISE.

2 I PSALMS 91: 2 -4 WILL SAY OF THELORD, “HE IS MY REFUGE AND MY FORTRESS, MY GOD, IN WHOM I TRUST. ” 3 SURELY HE WILL SAVE YOU FROM THE FOWLER’S SNARE AND FROM THE DEADLY PESTILENCE. 4 HE WILL COVER YOU WITH HIS FEATHERS, AND UNDER HIS WINGS YOU WILL FIND REFUGE; HIS FAITHFULNESS WILL BE YOUR SHIELD AND RAMPART.

PSALMS 145: 13 -14 13 YOUR KINGDOM IS AN EVERLASTING, AND YOUR DOMINION ENDURES THROUGH ALL GENERATIONS. THE LORD IS TRUSTWORTHY IN ALL HE PROMISES AND FAITHFUL IN ALL HE DOES. 14 THE LORD UPHOLDS ALL WHO FALL AND LIFTS UP ALL WHO ARE BOWED DOWN.

LAMENTATION 3: 2124 21 YET THIS I CALL TO MIND AND THEREFOREI HAVE HOPE: 22 BECAUSE OF THE LORD’S GREAT LOVE WE ARE NOT CONSUMED, FOR HIS COMPASSIONS NEVER FAIL. 23 THEY ARE NEW EVERY MORNING; GREAT IS YOUR FAITHFULNESS. 24 I SAY TO MYSELF, “THE LORD IS MY PORTION; THEREFOREI WILL WAIT FOR HIM. ”

II THESSALONIANS 3: 3 3 BUT THE LORD IS FAITHFUL, AND HE WILL STRENGTHEN YOU AND PROTECT YOU FROM THE EVIL ONE.

LESSONS TO LEARN: 3. A PROMISE KEEPING GOD INSPIRES CONFIDENCE.

HEBREWS 11: 10 10 FOR HE WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE CITY WITH FOUNDATIONS, WHOSE ARCHITECT AND BUILDER IS GOD.

HEBREWS 11: 17 -19 17 BY FAITH ABRAHAM, WHEN GOD TESTED HIM, OFFERED ISAAC AS A SACRIFICE. HE WHO HAD EMBRACED THE PROMISES WAS ABOUT TO SACRIFICE HIS ONE AND ONLY SON, 18 EVEN THOUGH GOD HAD SAID TO HIM, “IT IS THROUGH ISAAC THAT YOUR OFFSPRING WILL BE RECKONED. ” 19 ABRAHAM REASONED THAT GOD COULD EVEN RAISE THE DEAD, AND SO IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING HE DID RECEIVEISAAC BACK FROM DEATH.

WHO GOD IS: PROMISE KEEPER!