God Makes A Promise (2)

Outline:

Introduction

Theodore Geisel - 27 rejections - “And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street”

Michael Jordan - cut from team 10th grade year

Albert Einstein - was thought to be dumb at 9, denied entrance to college - nobel prize

Ordinary people doing extraordinary things

Work hard enough

Not designed that way, not dependent on ourselves -

Frame It

Several generations. Final 38 chapters revolve around a single family, 4 generations

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Abrahamic Covenant

Normal man, almighty God = grace

Three Commands - Leave land, relatives, and father’s house

Three Commands - Leave land, relatives, and father’s house

Sign me up!

Reality - leaving everything

Are there things that God has called you to leave behind?

Three Promises - New Land, Great Nation, Bless Him

Word repeated 8 times - WILL --- I will

Unilateral - God was doing it all. His project. Not dependent on Abram

GRACE (God is same)

He was inviting Abram to leave: the sure for unsure, the known for unknown

How’d you respond?

Abram responded by following God through difficult moments, sure. Was it hard? you bet

How can God’s future promises help you walk faithfully through current difficulties?

Horse Blinders

Lack of Trust by Abram in Egypt - focused on his own plans, his own hard work, his own endeavor

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God says trust me!

Abram responds with doubt - all rooted in his own understanding and his own effort

Have you ever tried to help God out? How’d that go for you?

Kearneysville house

All guilty of this - trying to write our own stories

Trevan devotion | Mistake God’s inactivity for his inability

Lead to rejection or anxiety

Ever been there? Which one best describes you, anxiety or rejection? Do you see how both responses result from a failure to trust God?

True Faith

Verse 6

From doubting to trusting, from questioning to believing, from just kinda tracking along to WHAM, all in

Where are you?