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Introduction

We are living in a day and time that we have to be ever so careful concerning Gods Instructions to us.

Gods instructions are the most important thing that we have the benefit of receiving.

It is a blessing to receive instructions from the Lord.

If you can receive instructions that suggest that you can still hear.

One thing that we as believers have to pay close attention to is your actions after you have received your instructions.

Whatever you do to add to or take away from Gods instructions is disobedience.

God does not need us to add to or take away from his instructions to us. the only requirement is to do exactly what he said.

As a culture we sometimes have real struggles doing what God said.

The Obstacle

One thing that I would like to tell you is being broke is not a prerequisite of Faith.

Most of us think that faith becomes necessary when we don’t have money to accomplish on our own what God is doing in our lives.

Sometimes that is the furtherest thing from the truth.

The truth is we sometimes waste the provision that he supplied to accomplish what he was about to do in your life and now we want to play the faith card.

if its to big for me it is not to big for God! Well if we would have been responsible with our resources the thing in question may not have been to big for you.

Abram and Lot run into problems not because they didn’t have enough, but because they had to much!

They weren’t arguing over who had took the last doughnut, or who drunk the last cup of Soda.

The land couldn’t hold them because they had to mush stuff!!!

The Orders

The main point that needs to be understood is Abrams ability to stay focused on Gods instructions to him in adversity.

Note that Abram is not ambitious in this misunderstanding he doesn’t choose land for himself in his departing from lot but he tells Lot to “seperate thyself” the most obvious reason that abram doesn’t pick the beauty of Sodom and Gommorah is , The instructions were clear that God was going to sow him the land; not that he was to pick the land himself.

8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be †brethren.

How many times have we let a moment of misunderstanding cause us to mishandle Gods instructions to us.

The overflow

After he passes this test God immediately responds by giving Abram know that he was at his destination and Sodom looked inviting but because he followed the instructions to the letter; we can see that God doesn’t tell him to walk another step.

Noe the instructions have changed .

God said Im going to give you what you see.

Some of you have been obedient to God and still stood on Gods Word even in controversy and God has shifted you from searching to seeing.

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