The Bible calls for us to examine ourselves to test whether we are truly living in faith and if Jesus' Spirit abides in us. This evaluation ensures that our trust is in Christ rather than our own works and can lead to repentance or assurance. In today's lesson God calls Abraham to such an examination, which results in him being found faithful and leading to God showing us how He will provide the necessary sacrifice for our sin in the future.

Trusting and obeying God in seasons of transition will lead to establish of the promise and new beginnings; it will also secure your standing, validate your authority, and the divine blessing. God remembers every word He has spoken, He sees and hears you regardless of your location or position in society or ministry and He has made provision, even for outcasts. Trust God, walk in integrity and know that your future is secure.

I believe that before we enter into a wilderness, a desert, trials or tribulations, God seeing ahead, will give us a word to encourage us, to fill us with hope, to help us recognize His hand in our lives when it comes to past. We have to remember and cast away our confidence despite any opposition we may encounter. Trust in the Lord, seek Him daily, be receptive to godly counsel and be doers of the word and not hearers only and we can lay hold to the promise, by faith

Take heed how you interact with others. Walk in the light as God is in the light in order that you might represent Him well before others. Avoid being deceitful and encouraging others to be deceitful. Let every action and every response be born of righteousness and a desire to maintain justice, through a clear conscience and a commitment to doing what is right in the eyes of God, that He might be glorified before all men.

The Bible admonishes us to be watchful and to examine ourselves to make sure that we are operating in faith. That means, hearing God, trusting Him, and obeying His commands. We have to take care to put to death all the deeds of the flesh because it is easy to resort back to our old ways and that could be catastrophic, not only for ourselves but for others as well. Fear, which has torment, can lead to distrusting God and our attempting to resolve our issues through the flesh. Abraham resorts to his old ways, putting Sarah, Abimelech, his nation and God’s plan in jeopardy; but God demonstrates His grace and faithfulness in upholding His covenant with Abraham.

Learn to walk in love, to be hospitable, to take advantage of opportunities to present and receive the love of God. Avoid sinning because it has serious consequences and be prayerful and willing to be available to make intercession for others. Listen, to hear from God and immediately obey what He commands, don’t look back longingly for yesterday when God offers you a bright future or you just might miss it. Live in hope, let God’s great and precious be the basis of that hope and keep your eyes open, remain vigilant and aware of the moral and spiritual realities around us.

In today's message we see the angels sent to destroy Sodom, Gomorrah and the plains, because of their wickedness, but they cannot perform their assignment until Lot, and his family are delivered out of harm's way. This is one of the testimonies that lead us to believe that God will deliver the Church out of the wrath to come upon the world. God always makes a way of escape, and He makes it known to His people, but we must hear and respond in the day of His salvation and not turn back to the world. Only those who persevere to the end will be saved!

The stage is set, the curtain goes up, the scene is one of depravity, perversion, and wickedness. The hearts and motives of all of Sodom is laid bare and God’s agents are going to respond accordingly. How can we escape the wrath of God? We can escape solely through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, Who God has sent to us, even as He has sent the angels, for Abraham’s sake to save Lot. What then is required of us? Today we begin to look into the key aspects to escape the wrath which is to come: 1) Repentance, 2) Faith in Jesus Christ, 3) Acceptance of grace, 4) Following Christ’s teaching, and 5) Urgency.

God is intentional and purposeful in all that He does. He visits us and there is an appropriate way to receive and respond to it in order that we might get from Him what He intends. Take care to be sensitive, to recognize His voice, to follow His instruction so that we can fulfill His plan and purpose. Make sure that you pass on to others what He reveals to you because His plans and purpose go beyond just you, He wants to impact generations and nations.

Have you ever experienced the presence of God, how were afterwards? People talk about changes in their lives from near death experiences, but when God manifests Himself to you that is real occasion for change. We should remember the things He declares, trust in what was spoken or shown and should be driven to prayer for the will He has made known to come, to manifest and fulfill what He has decreed. But we must always be willing to do our part too.