GOD WILL PROVIDE

EVEN WHEN TIMES ARE /APPEAR DESPERATE

Have you ever been challenged by something that you were asked to do. It sounded like alot. Maybe more than normal. Sometimes stepping out in faith is not as bad as we think it is going to be. My wife and I stepped out in Faith coming here 5 years ago and God has blessed us in every way imaginable since. 5 months ago I took another leap of faith stopped working and went back to school full time not knowing how we were going to replace that loss of a full time income. However when we hear from the Lord and act in obedience he will always make a way for us.

Genesis 22:1–13 NASB95

Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance. Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there; and we will worship and return to you.” Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together. Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” And he said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” Abraham said, “God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together. Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son.

Abram was some where around the age of about 85 when the word of the Lord came to him. Sarai was about 70’s and had never borne any children for Abram.

Sarai decides to intervene on Gods behalf and now wait on Gods plan for her and Abram’s life. She agree’s for Hagar an eqyptian maid to become a wife to Abram, and bear him a child. Well she does and his name is Ishmael.

Now after this God come to Abram with a Covenant!

Abram agrees with God on this new Covenant and it is set into place between God and Abram become Abraham at age 99. God also promises Abraham that nations would come from him in Chapter 17 with the covenant. God tells Abraham to change Sarai’s name to Sarah and he promisses Abraham a son thru Sarah. Chapter 18

Abraham 99 Sarah about 90.

Miracle worker God does what he says. Isaac is born

Chapter 19

Chapter 21 Birth of Isaac

Chapter 22 Test of Abrahams faith and Love for God

Here I am God the Father

Here I am Son to his own son

Here I am to the angel of the Lord