ABRAHAM

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ABRAHAM

• Facing The Unknown

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When God Is Quiet
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Abraham is learning that the faith walk is not a
success only journey. Along the way he is
learning that obedience requires sustained trust
and active patience.
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Genesis 151-61. After this, the word of the
LORD came to Abram in a vision "Do not be
afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great
reward."  
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2. But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, what can
you give me since I remain childless and the one
who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of
Damascus?"
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3 And Abram said, "You have given me no children
so a servant in my household will be my heir."
 4 Then the word of the LORD came to him "This
man will not be your heir, but a son coming from
your own body will be your heir."
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5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the
heavens and count the stars - if indeed you can
count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your
offspring be."  6 Abram believed the LORD, and
he credited it to him as righteousness.
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Genesis 161- 41. Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had
borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian
maidservant named Hagar 2. so she said to Abram,
"The LORD has kept me from having children.
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Go, sleep with my maidservant perhaps I can
build a family through her." Abram agreed to
what Sarai said.
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3. So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten
years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian
maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to
be his wife.
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4. He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When
she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise
her mistress.
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Genesis 1615-1615. So Hagar bore Abram a son,
and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she
had borne. 16. Abram was eighty-six years old
when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
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Gen 171-81. When Abram was ninety-nine years
old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God
Almighty walk before me and be blameless. 2. I
will confirm my covenant between me and you and
will greatly increase your numbers."  
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3. Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, 4.
"As for me, this is my covenant with you You
will be the father of many nations. 5. No longer
will you be called Abram your name will be
Abraham, for I have made you a father of many
nations.
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6. I will make you very fruitful I will make
nations of you, and kings will come from you. 7.
I will establish my covenant as an everlasting
covenant between me and you and your descendants
after you
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for the generations to come, to be your God and
the God of your descendants after you. 8. The
whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien,

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I will give as an everlasting possession to you
and your descendants after you and I will be
their God.
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Genesis 1715-2215. God also said to Abraham,
"As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to
call her Sarai her name will be Sarah. 16. I
will bless her and will surely give you a son by
her.
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I will bless her so that she will be the mother
of nations kings of peoples will come from her."
 17. Abraham fell facedown he laughed and said
to himself, "Will a son be born to a man a
hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the
age of ninety?"
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18. And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael
might live under your blessing!" 19. Then God
said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a
son, and you will call him Isaac.
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I will establish my covenant with him as an
everlasting covenant for his descendants after
him. 20. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you I
will surely bless him I will make him fruitful
and will greatly increase his numbers.
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He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I
will make him into a great nation. 21. But my
covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah
will bear to you by this time next year." 22.
When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God
went up from him.
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Genesis 189-159. "Where is your wife Sarah?"
they asked him. "There, in the tent," he said.
10. Then the LORD said, "I will surely return to
you about this time next year, and Sarah your
wife will have a son."       
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Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the
tent, which was behind him. 11. Abraham and Sarah
were already old and well advanced in years, and
Sarah was past the age of childbearing.
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12. So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought,
"After I am worn out and my master is old, will I
now have this pleasure?"  13. Then the LORD said
to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Will I
really have a child, now that I am old?'
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14. Is anything too hard for the LORD ? I will
return to you at the appointed time next year and
Sarah will have a son." 15. Sarah was afraid, so
she lied and said, "I did not laugh." But he
said, "Yes, you did laugh."
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Genesis 211-71. Now the LORD was gracious to
Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah
what he had promised. 2. Sarah became pregnant
and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the
very time God had promised him.
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3 Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah
bore him. 4 When his son Isaac was eight days
old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded
him. 5. Abraham was a hundred years old when his
son Isaac was born to him. (25 years after
original promise)
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6. Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter, and
everyone who hears about this will laugh with
me." 7. And she added, "Who would have said to
Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I
have borne him a son in his old age."
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Gods Timing
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Its up to you to make a way where there is no
other way.
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Genesis 1814 Is anything too hard for the LORD
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Jeremiah 3217-2017 "Ah, Sovereign LORD, you
have made the heavens and the earth by your great
power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard
for you.
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18 You show love to thousands but bring the
punishment for the fathers' sins into the laps of
their children after them. O great and powerful
God, whose name is the LORD Almighty, 19 great
are your
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purposes and mighty are your deeds. Your eyes are
open to all the ways of men you reward everyone
according to his conduct and as his deeds
deserve. 20 You performed miraculous signs and
wonders in Egypt and have
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continued them to this day, both in Israel and
among all mankind, and have gained the renown
that is still yours.
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WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE?
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Cultural success is finishing what you planned
to do.It has to do with accomplishments,
achievementsperformance.
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There is a Success that is SOAKED with Emotion,
Powered by Passion, Driven by Destiny, and Forged
with the Fire of the Heart. I call it Biblical
Success.
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There is no more powerful Success than the
Success that the heart is welded to it by the
Fire of faith and passion.IT IS CALLED
OBEDIENCE
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We can be at our very best, when things are at
their very worst.
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Are you facing the unknown ?
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OBEDIENCETRUSTPATIENCE
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Proverbs 35-8Trust in the LORD with all your
heart and lean not on your own understanding in
all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make
your paths straight
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Do not be wise in your own eyesfear the LORD
and shun evil. This will bring health to your
body and nourishment to your bones.