God and Our Lives

READ: Genesis 18:1 CHALLENGE:  Meet God in the Ordinary Details of Life This scene of God showing up in the form of a man is extraordinary!  However, many aspects of this scene are super ordinary.  God shows up in the ordinary aspects of life.  V1 – The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he […]

We Need God

READ: Genesis 17:15 CHALLENGE: Be Encouraged by the Blessing of God God blesses and he incredibly blesses obedience.  Let’s go ahead and track the blessings in this passage.  To bless means to “endue with power for success, prosperity, longevity, etc”.  It’s definitely includes happiness.  Let’s not look for luck or blind fate or happenstance to […]

Your Decision

READ: Genesis 17:9 CHALLENGE: MAKE A COMMITTED DECISION TO TRUST GOD Vv9-14 – Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. 10 This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among […]

Is He Your God?

READ: Genesis 17:1 CHALLENGE: Walk Before Me V1 – When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.  13 years have passed between chapter 16 and 17.  That’s a long time.  God now reaffirms the covenant – His solemn promise to Abraham to build him into a nation and […]

Parenting Through Problems

Parent God’s Way The synopsis of this story is that Sarah cannot have children and wants to have a child through her servant from Egypt.  Her name was Hagar and they wanted her to be a surrogate for Sarai.  Abraham marries her and she gets pregnant and then she gets haughty!  Sarah reacts by treating […]

CERTAINTY

READ: Genesis 15:7 CHALLENGE: Fully Trust in God Vv7-8 – He also said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.” 8 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?” Many times in this passage, “certainty” is discussed.  The question is […]