After 400 years of silence from God, he sends the angel Gabriel to visit Mary to give her the most climactic news of all time: Jesus is coming. King Jesus is coming to rescue his people out of the world of loneliness, hopelessness and sin and to bring them into his kingdom of relationship, freedom and holiness. Rejoice!

Is there anything wrong with living comfortably? This is an important question in our context as the economy grows and many are advancing in their careers, which results in promotions and salary increases. Is there any danger in living comfortably? The story of the rescue of Lot tells us that it isn’t easy to live righteously among the wicked, but God is able to rescue his people.

Abram has chosen personal security over following God’s promises and so failed in what God called him to do. Genesis 13 presents us with two very important trials: the trial of failure and the trial of success. We learn about ourselves: t is really easy to let our circumstances take our eyes off of trusting in God’s promises. We learn about God: a relationship with him is greater than anything else in this world.

God’s generosity must lead to generous worship. Genesis 12 teaches us that we have a remarkably generous God who provided far more than Abraham could imagine. It also points us forward to God’s generous provision of his only Son, Jesus Christ whose sacrificial death becomes the ultimate demonstration of generosity. How then, must we respond? In generous worship.

Since faith is the antidote to fear, we must believe in Jesus.

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It’s easy to allow our fears to control the decisions that we make. Fears come in all shapes and sizes: relational or professional; internal or external. And the Devil desires to use those fears to cause us to lose faith in God. But God has defeated the Devil and has secured us through his faithfulness. Nehemiah 6 shows us how.