Day 5

Genesis 15-17:27

What’s it like to wait on God? Have you ever prayed and prayed for God to do something? Maybe God has shown you something that he is going to do in your life and yet you haven’t seen the result yet. Can you imagine being 90 years old and God telling you will have a child, 10 years later you are still waiting, 15 years still waiting, how about 20 years and still waiting? God works on his own time! 

Like the example Abram and Sari are waiting for a blessing from the Lord that he has promised them. Sari realizes that she doesn’t trust that the Lord is going to do what he has promised, she takes matters into her own hands and tells Abram to have a child with her servant. Man, just like Adam and Eve in the Garden Adam succumbs to Eve and listens to her, Abram succumbs to Sari and he gets freaky with Sari’s servant Hagar and has a son. 

Sounds normal right, we ask God for something expecting the result right away but God puts the brakes on and we end up in a stall pattern. Waiting and waiting and sometimes waiting a bit longer. It’s natural for us to want to control everything. The hardest part in our walk with the Lord is trusting that he has everything in our life under control. Thus makes it really hard for us to give him everything and every aspect of our lives. 

Well through the birth of a son through Hagar and the birth of a son through Sari, Abram is set up with a covenant from the Lord,

 “Then the Lord said to him, “Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have.” Gen 15:5

“When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty;  walk before me, and be blameless, 2 that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.” 3 Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, 4 “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.” Gen 17:1-6

I love when God says, “if you can” It’s almost as if God is saying, Look here you feeble minded, untrusting, faithless man, I am going to do what I have promised regardless if you can count them or not, you can not even begin to imagine what I am going to do with you!

Bombs are dropping in Genesis 17! Massive BOMB’S, Do you see it?