Abraham walks into
Now the Lord had said to Abram:
“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
My question to you is :
God could have blessed Abraham in the same place, in the same country, and in the same house.
so why did God asked Abraham to Get out of .
your family,
your fathers house
your country
Whatever is Abrams, God wants to come out of that.
old wineskin, new wine.
You cannot use windows 95 and expect the video editing software to work in your machine.
Updated in your thoughts, update inside.
You want latest features of phone, but if you don't install latest updates, you will still see the old features and you will think why i dont have latest and others have latest.
The world teaches many things.
Phone gets updated, your kitchen gets rennovated, you security camers gets updated, your car gets updated, but inside of you there is
Even enemy is getting updated and upgraded, but believers are not getting updated.
Jesus is saying he came here to do something new. to give a new way of life, to live a life of freedom and that will not be understandable by old mindsets.
That is why a common man picked up the way of Jesus easily, but a religious scholars struggled.
Peter and all disciples were like that. they quickly followed Jesus.
Abraham - if you stay in the same country, same people, you cannot see what God has purposed for your future.
country,
family,
father's house
These all impact your mind.
country will say you have to drive left,
but Gods promised land will say something different.
country will say, everybody watch cricket.
but promised land say watch the angels of God kicking the demons out.
relatives will say why are you not visiting us, you forgotten us.
Gods promise says do not go back to the things that were holding you.
your fathers house , our family has these traditions, we got to follow this
but Heavenly Fathers house, says cancel all the traditions and follow Love.
In Mespotomia, in Ur of chaldeans, God has no business for Abraham.
Abraham can see what God has prepared for him only if he walks out of his former things.
That is why the promise says
To a land that I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Abraham did not see any miracles before he started his journey.
Hearing Gods Word is miracle for Abraham.
Abraham just heard the promise, and he started his journey into the future.
he started walking into his future.
so many people dont walk into their future because they dont come out of their old stuff.
what is that something old that is still blocking you to walk in this new life.
was it your old associations, was it your old friends, was it your old way of following things,
Many people can't leave old things because they don't believe in their future.
Why did you leave India and come here, because you believed that there is good future in America.
Why did you leave your old house and living in current house, because you believed that life in this new house is better.
Old defeats, old guilt, old relationships, old software.
Depart is key for walking into your future.
Hebrews 11:8
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
Abraham has departed from old, and he did not know where he was going.
but he knows there is inheritance in the new place.
Abraham knows how to walk into future.
He valued inheritance more than his relatives, his families, his friends, his country, his traditions, his job.
A man who values his inheritance can walk into his future.
Jacob valued the inheritance.
Dont worry if you did not get inheritance from your mother, your father, somebody cheated you,
You are a blessing.
I will make you a blessing.
That blessing is always an ing form.
God has
I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
If anyone wants to Gods blessing they should bless you. but if anyone wants to have curse then they should curse you.
You can become the channel of Gods ordinances upon the nation.
Once we start getting these things -- you know the value, then you will start walking into your future.
Limitations:
Some people put many limitations themselves before they walk into future.
my conditions are not good pastor, became old, dont have a good job, children are not listening.
Fill your mind with promise more than the problem.
Every time there is a problem, every time there is a giant, David filled his mind with invisible things.
1 Samuel 17:45
45 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
Some times problems come to elevate our position.
you know goliath was the main reason David got elevated.
Some people say i am old.
people in the world come with somethings. goliath came with spear and javelin.
but our battles are in the Name of Jesus.
We should be violent believers.
some people say am already 50.
tell me one thing, you are doing recruitment , would you prefer a 21 year old or 80 year old.
Moses was recruited at 80.
Don't limit God with our words and thoughts.
Hebrews 11:11
11 By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.
Sarah, at the age of 90, when she past age,
can you imagine at the age of 90, what would be going on Sarahs womb.
Power of thought
The Power of thought and commitment is so much that God accepts it as done.
The Lamb was slain before the foundations of the world.
Abraham when he committed , decided to sacrifice Isaac, thats it ...the sacrifice is done.
When Zacchaeus said, i will give one half of my possessions , for God it is done deal.
Your thoughts are so precious and commitment is so precious.
What is deposited in you
What is deposited inside you is more important than what you have outside.
Many people might see or say - do you have a house, do you have a car. do you have a good job. but people wont ask what you have inside of you.
Only God , and only the anointed of the Lord can see what is inside of you.
Today my question, what is burning inside of you?
what is deposited inside of you?
What is inside of you stirs your direction to your future.
Smith Wigglesworth. said
am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe.” -
Storm eye - the strength is inside. when it is strong inside the impact that it creates is big, but when inside weakesn, it cools down.
What man can do in his spirit is big and limitless
Thoughts are precious.
His word - becomes our word - and when our word is spoken out,, what is in heaven comes down - and is manifested in flesh.
God has already prepared things for you and me.
1 Corinthians 2:9
9 But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
God has already prepared
God says I have given.
My testimony of Job in 2015.
Joshua 1:3
3 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses
Your future is Gods past tense.
What God has set for each one of us is mind boggling.
Preparation
Go to the ant, you sluggard!
Consider her ways and be wise,
Some people are so slumber.
Pray for your promise.
How many of you remember your promise.
Isaiah 40:31
Consider your future as very precious
FiIl your heart with the promise.
Follow God wholeheartedly
Deuteronomy 1:34-36
34 When the Lord heard what you said, he was angry and solemnly swore: 35 “No one from this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your ancestors, 36 except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land he set his feet on, because he followed the Lord wholeheartedly.”
Fight with promises
1 Timothy 1:18
18 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,
