When we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we become instant heirs of the promise of Abraham. What was this promise? God told Abram in Genesis 12:2-3, “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. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” God promised Abram that He would make his name great. He said He would pour out a blessing that there wouldn’t be enough room to receive. Now look at Genesis 13:1-2. Did God keep His promise? It says, “So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.” Read Genesis chapters 12 & 13 at the link below:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis%2012,13&version=NIV
Clearly God had a plan for Abraham to make him wealthy. God spoke over his life when he was 75 years old and told him He would make Abram a “father to many nations”. God kept this promise even though Abram tried to hurry the process along. Since his wife, Sarai, was barren and wanted to fulfill God’s promise she had him sleep with Hagar, his wife’s servant, to give birth to his heir. Out of this union came Ishmael, but he wasn’t the heir God promised. Sometime around Abraham’s 100th birthday God opened up Sarai’s womb (whom He now gave the name, Sarah) and she gave birth to a son and they named him Isaac. This was the child that was truly the heir through which God would fulfill His covenant to Abraham.
I believe what the Lord is saying here is that we have to cling tightly to the things that the Lord promised us during our times of prayer and communion with God. He is outside of time so when we ask according to His will we immediately receive that thing that we’ve asked for. So just like Abraham (who was named Abram before his established covenant with God) had to leave his people, his family and the things he knew in order to receive his blessing, sometimes God will require us to make a move to get to the place where the blessing is in order to receive it. That may mean leaving a church we’ve been with for years or leaving our parents’ home, even when it feels uncomfortable. God wants to get us to a point where 2 things are happening. First, we trust Him only, which increases our faith; and also because He wants to remove the distractions the devil is trying to put in front of us through our loving family members.
So trust God and believe He has already delivered the promises He spoke over your life. God answers prayers. And He wants you to operate in the purpose He has intended for your life. But in order to get the promises of God, we have to stretch ourselves by putting ourselves in a position where we have to depend on God and not man. It is then that we will meet the blessings of God in the place where He designed for us to have them. Glory to God!
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