When you come face-to-face with God, who is True Love, every lie and every dead melts away.
This year has been a powerful year of breakthrough and victory. I canât believe today is only January 11th! I feel like a completely free and new person!
The Lord was speaking to me yesterday about what it looks like to walk in freedom, power, success, and favor. He showed me through the story of Abraham, Noah, Jacob, and Joseph what it looks like to have the favor of the Lord. We are so much like them. So many of us have dreams, life callings, promises we have heard from the Lord, and yet when we look at the circumstances of our lives, it doesnât seem to line up. Take Abraham, a man who heard from the Lord at the age of 75, to take his family and leave his country for another, and that the Lord would bless him with land, with offspring, and that his family line would become a blessing for the nations. At the age of 75! He had zero children at the time. Would you have followed where the Lord was leading even though He didnât show you how he would bless you with the land, the offspring, the blessing?
Abraham went! But soon after, he started to try and control the situation. He lied to leaders of different nations to protect himself. He slept with his wifeâs servant to produce a child because they grew impatient. He messed up. A lot. And yet the favor on the Lord was upon him, and the Lord covered every single mistake again and again by renewing his covenant again and again with Abraham.
Then, finally, Isaac was born! The promised child! The one in which all the promises hinged on! His descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky and bless nations! And the Lord decided to test Abraham at this point. Wow! What a cruel God! Many would think. How could God be the reason for destroying the promises and the hopes He initiated in the first place? How cruel! But Abraham follows Godâs instructions, because he knew Godâs character-- God wouldnât break His promises. God isnât cruel. God wouldnât make a covenant and not come through completely. God would provide a way out. God would provide a ram for the sacrifice. God would do what He said he would do!Â
At the last minute, when Isaac was already all tied up and Abraham was about to sacrifice him, an angel of the Lord appears and a ram also appears, and Abraham names the mountain where this happens âThe Lord will Provideâ.Â
Do we trust that our God is a faithful God, who is the promise maker and the promise fulfiller? Or do we think, itâs up to us, we need to make things happen? If God asked you to let go of a promise He has made you, do you trust that He would still provide? Do you believe He is Jehovah-Jireh, your Provider?