16/01/2025
*THURSDAY, 16 JANUARY*
*TEXT: GENESIS 12:1-9*
*TOPIC: THE JOURNEY OF FAITH*
*GENESIS 12:1-9 NIV*
1:The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2:“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3:I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
4:So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
5:He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
6:Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
7:The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8:From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
9:Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.
*THE JOURNEY OF FAITH*
The call of Abraham at the age of seventy-five years was one of the most difficult adventures anyone could have embarked on. Moving to an unknown terrain at that age did not at all seem lika wise and promising move. But Abraham decided to obey God and he moved by faith.
The secret of Abraham's faithful obedience is easily noticed from the many altars he built as he traveled through the land - Abraham was a great worshiper of God.
If we want to be able to live and move in faithful obedience to God, we must, like Abraham, spend much time in fellowshipping and worshipping the Lord.
*QUESTION:* Do you spend enough time in fellowship with and worship of God?
*PRAYER:* Oh Lord, help me to spend adequate time in fellowship with You and worshipping You, in Jesus' name. Amen.
*Food for the Day - 2025*