{"id":7702,"date":"2018-09-19T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T12:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2018-09-19T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T12:56:27","slug":"abrahams-kind-of-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=7702","title":{"rendered":"ABRAHAM\u2019S KIND OF BLESSING"},"content":{"rendered":"

FAITH CAPSULE: <\/strong>Abraham engaged sacrifice with responsible steadfastness all his journey in life.<\/p>\n

Genesis 22 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Claiming God\u2019s promise demands responsibility that is rooted in steadfastness. Without doubt, sacrifice before God is to be responsibly steadfast. Sacrifice is to surrender something of value as a means of gaining something more desirable. Sacrifice can be inconvenient when giving self to God\u2019s promise which is certain to perform perfection. Sacrifice before God is to claim in the promise of God.
\nGod promised Abraham in Genesis 12:2-3, \u201cI will make you a great nation;<\/em><\/strong> I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Behind the promise of God for Abraham, the sacrificial condition was enormous and painful to engage when God commanded him, \u201cGet out of your country,<\/em><\/strong> from your family and from your father\u2019s house.\u201d (Genesis 12:1)<\/em><\/strong> Often, believers claim Abraham\u2019s blessing, but many believers are unable to engage Abraham\u2019s kind of sacrifice to claim or receive Abraham\u2019s kind of blessings. Abraham continued in the journey to God\u2019s blessing for his life because he engaged sacrifice with responsible steadfastness. Abraham\u2019s journey started when he was commanded by God through all his life. Abraham was sacrificially steadfast.
\nMoses, as a vessel of God, spoke the promise of God to the Israelites, \u201cTherefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess.\u201d (Deuteronomy 11:8)<\/em><\/strong> God promised but the Israelites could not possess because they could not invest a required responsible steadfastness as their sacrifice. If they had kept the commandments of God, it would have given them the strength needed to possess their possessions.
\nDavid stated God\u2019s message to Solomon, \u201c<\/em><\/strong>Now He said to me, \u2018It is your son Solomon who shall build My house and My courts; for I have chosen him to be My son, and I will be his Father.\u00a0<\/sup>Moreover, I will establish his kingdom forever, if he is steadfast to observe My commandments and My judgments, as it is this day.\u201d (1Chronicles 28:6-7) <\/em><\/strong>This is a beautiful and blessed promise of God but for Solomon to receive this promise from God, He had to continually be steadfast in following God\u2019s commands. Any sacrificial engagement that lacks steadfastness will cut short the blessing promised by God.
\nIn life, there is no possession without sacrifice. In other words, behind every gained possession, there is a reasonable sacrifice to be given. Sacrifice might happen in different ways, but it is necessary to receive your rightful possession. Sacrifice before God can be painful but with responsible steadfastness it is certain to be gainful. Sacrifice is certain to be costly and can be in different forms. Obeying God\u2019s word is a sacrifice because it takes man out of self\/world\u2019s plan and places man into Gods plans.<\/p>\n

Prayer for today:<\/strong> Ask for the grace to be responsible steadfastly in sacrificing before God.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FAITH CAPSULE: Abraham engaged sacrifice with responsible steadfastness all his journey in life. Genesis 22 Claiming God\u2019s promise demands responsibility that is rooted in steadfastness. Without doubt, sacrifice before God is to be responsibly steadfast. Sacrifice is to surrender something of value as a means of gaining something more desirable. Sacrifice can be inconvenient when … Continue reading ABRAHAM\u2019S KIND OF BLESSING<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7705,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions\/7705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}