Every morning before I get out of bed I either read a daily devotion and/or pray. Today's devotion was on toxic relationships. The relationships we have the people can either be spiritual assets or toxic waste. This devotion made me analyze the relationships that I have in my life. Are the people spiritual assets or toxic waste? A lot of times it's more than toxic people, it's toxic things. Well, whatever "it" is that is toxic God wants us to cut the relationship off. Those toxic things or people take our attention away from Him.When we become born, God wants us to cut ties with anything or anyone that will take our attention away from Him. God wants our undivided attention. The toxic people or things in our lives that have our attention are like little gods that we put before our (only) God. God despises that! He said is His word that He is a jealous God (Exodus 20:5) & one of His commandments is that we shall have no other Gods before Him (Exodus 20:3). …show more content…
God told him to leave them and o go to t a new place which He would tell him in due time. Well Abraham didn't completely follow God's instructions. In Genesis 12:14 the scripture tells us that Abraham has some company other than his wife, his nephew Lot was with him. Abraham has some extra baggage. From Genesis 12 to Genesis 19 you will see all that happened to Abraham because he decided to bring Lot. Some of us are like Abraham. God will tell us to leave (cut off) certain people or things, but we do the opposite. I know I did. We want our cake & to eat it too. Well we can't serve two masters (Matthew 6:24). I think Abraham might have it a little easier is he fully obeyed God & left
Abraham did end up taking his son to a mountain to sacrifice him, but at the last minute God told Abraham to stop and sacrifice a lamb instead. This event showed that God would come through for Abraham in the end because Abraham’s faith in Him was so great.... ... middle of paper ... ...
...n or ever see his son. If he couldn't ever get back then there would have been no reason to ever leave. All of his heroic deed would have been in vain and no one would have even remembered him. He could
One day God spoke to Abraham with an intention of making a covenant with man whom he chose as his partner. Abraham was told by God to leave his home to a different land since the people of Ur worshipped idols of wood and stone. The covenant made between them had a lot of promises. Abraham left with his wife Sarai, Lot his nephew,
Abraham is deemed the founder and one of three patriarchs of the Jewish faith. In Fundamental Theology, by Heinrich Fries, a detailed description of Abraham’s journey and faith is given. A summary of Fries explanation is that Abraham’s name was originally Abram. He was considered a “nomadic chief” from Mesopotamia. God spoke to Abraham and told him to leave his home and country. This was one of many tests Abraham faced. In the words of the Bible, Abraham was t...
Abraham would start to gather small groups around him who believed as he did. One day, Abram had a vision. In the vision, God tells Abram to leave his father’s house, which is today’s Iraq, and travel to a place that God will show him. God said that if Abram who becomes Abraham obeyed this command, his descendants would become a great nation, and that he would bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee: and in thee shall all the families of earth be blessed”.... ...
As Genesis 15: continues, in 13 – 16 God foreshadows what is yet to come. God tells Abram his descendants will not be on this the land Abram has been promised for another four-hundred years because they will be enslaved and treated poorly in another country. These events occurred throughout the rest of Genesis and Exodus when Abram’s descendants went to Egypt, where they were enslaved and treated poorly (Exodus 1). After 430 years, Moses led Abram’s descendants out of Egypt and back to the Land of Canaan (Exodus 13 -14), fulfilling God’s covenant.
When they become too much, an annoyance or are no longer useful to the Gods, they have no problem discarding them, meaning humans must act a certain way and not step outside that figurative box, just to be able to keep their lives. This show just how indifferent the Gods are to the beings they created- there’s no emotional attachment to
In real life we don't really hear gods talking to us in the ocean telling us that we have angered them. We have husbands/wives, boyfriends/girlfriends, to tell us that we have gotten on their nerves or just done something completely wrong! Relationship now and days aren't the same as they used to be.
God promises Abraham that He will “make your [Abraham’s] offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore” (Genesis 22:17). Abraham is married to Sarah who “was barren; she had no children” (11: 30). Ch...
word here is obey, we need to keep our side of the covenant and follow
Therefore one has to properly check himself to know if God be for him. Some are anxiously waiting for God to lowered His requirements by downgrading the Ten Commandments to suit their ungodly behaviors. In conclusion: God will not kidnap or force anyone to obedience, it is out of ones free will.
Because it takes practice. And you 're not always going to win by doing this using your own mindfulness and will power. But the main thing in consistently being obedient to God and not focusing on negative thoughts and not letting your feelings rule you, is to meditate and speak the Word of God a lot more often.
Abraham had demonstrated his remarkable faith and obedience in leaving Ur. In Genesis 15, God made a covenant with Abraham in relation to his heir and Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness. Abraham was obedient and God came in for him, saved his son and provided another sacrifice.
Abraham’s Obedience to God. The life and history of Abraham, a man who is faithful and obedient to God, demonstrates how to live a purpose-filled life with paths that are totally directed by the Messiah. After that, I sensed this hypothesis that life is void until the will and purpose for being is fulfilled by acknowledging God and allowing him to direct life’s path. In earlier times, Abram and Sarai were without any children.