God does not want us to put anything in place of Him. So to see if Abraham would do that, God gives him the instructions to sacrifice his son Isaac.

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God finally fulfilled His promise. And He did it all in His timing. We can trust that God is faithful and keeps His promises today because despite waiting 25 years, God delivered on His promise to Abraham.

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Stories like these are in the Bible to show that there is only one man who walked the Earth and did not sin. If these stories of other people sinning are not in the Bible, then other people would be mistaken as the Messiah.

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In this chapter we see God keep a promise He made with Abraham one chapter earlier by protecting Lot. Because God kept that promise in His timing, why wouldn't He keep other promises He has made like giving Abraham a son also in His own timing? Why wouldn't God keep promises He has made with you in His own timing?

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The Lord physically came to visit Abraham and Sarah. In doing so, He once again promises to keep His covenant and tells both Abraham, and us, that He will protect the righteous.

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God makes the impossible possible. What is something impossible in your life that you need to trust God to make possible?

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Abram and Sarai tried to take God's plan into their own hands and it did not work out the way that they expected. Unexpected things will happen in our lives when we stop trusting God and try to control our situation.

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Abram, like any human, has a time where he struggles with waiting for God's timing. God, however is perfect and will always meet us where we are at. As long as you stay faithful to Him, His promises for your life will come to pass.

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This chapter is split into halves. The first half is what I've jokes about "The Adventures of Abram" but in reality it shows how God separating people can be for good reason. The second half is interesting, potentially showing an Old Testament appearance of Jesus.

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Sometimes the people you are traveling with to live out God's calling in your life are not the people you are supposed to. Sometimes you will have to separate from the people you care about in order to do what God calls you to do.

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