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“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah”
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 1. Both Husband & Wife Living for God IS(!) the Foundation for a Great Marriage and Life
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” Genesis 11: 27 Now these are the generations of Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. 28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 29 And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 2. Even Godly Husbands and Wives Mess Up and Get Ahead of God (Genesis 11: 31; 12: 1 -3, 10 -20;
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 11: 31 Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” Gen. 12: 1 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there,
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, 12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife. ’ Then they will kill me, but they will let
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake. ” 14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 17 But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai,
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 18 So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister, ’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 20 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” Gen. 16: 1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 2 And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. ” And Abram
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 3 So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 3. They Both Doubted God (and Laughed!) (‘Isaac’ means “he laughs”)
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” Gen. 17: 15 And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 16 I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her. ”
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 18 And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 19 God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and your offspring after you: Every male among you
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 12 He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 13 both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 14 Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 4. Despite Their Failures, God Blesses Them - Just as He Longs to Do with Godly Couples! (Genesis 17: 1 -7, 15 -16)
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” Gen. 17: 1 When Abram was ninety- nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, 2 that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 3 Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, 4 “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 15 And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name
“THE POWER OF LOVE #1: Abraham & Sarah” 16 I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her. ”
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