Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave it all behind — your native land, your people, your father’s household, and go to the land that I will show you.
Genesis 12:1 TPT
The Instruction before the Blessing —
“GET OUT ! “
God told Abram to 'get out'
Out of ...
- Your Country
- Your Family/Kindred
- Your Father’s house
- Your Inheritance
- Your assumed Future
- Your Mentors & Mentees
- Your Network (is your networth)
- Your Influence & Influencers
- Your Culture & Comfort
‘Leave it all behind to a place I would show you.’
Abram was Terah’s first son, the one most likely to get the inheritance. His path was set or so it seemed...
Until God called him into the new.
- A new place, a new people, a new culture.
A place where he had no status, no connections, no influence, no name.
His only name and status was stranger. God stripped him of every human dependency.
In this place Abram knew no man and no man knew Abram, all that was familiar was God - the voice that called him out.
How well & how quick do you adapt to a place and people where you’ve not been before?
Psalms 32:8-9 TPT
[8-9] I hear the Lord saying, “I will stay close to you, instructing and guiding you along the pathway for your life. I will advise you along the way and lead you forth with my eyes as your guide.
So don’t make it difficult; don’t be stubborn when I take you where you’ve not been before. Don’t make me tug you and pull you along. Just come with me!”
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How quickly can you let go of your life crutches, your influence, your connections, your claims to fame?
God will not make a Man that men have already made. He doesn’t join things, He starts things.
How quickly can God start you?
Do you forge on to the new place that God is showing you... with all the uncertainties and unclarity?
Or do we stay with the Familiar and with Family, content with what God has already done but not bold enough to step into what He is doing.
We all desire the Blessings of Abraham, but how fast are we to GET OUT?
Out of all we know, all we dreamed and hoped for ...
Into a place and people whose language we have to learn.
Into a place where we have no name, no status, no title except ‘stranger’.
Into a place where we have to start again..
But this time. It’s God who starts us, not we starting ourselves.
This is not a Refresh, it’s a Restart, a complete Reboot. God calls us to shut down all we know and have trusted. He asks us to let go of the very things that define who we are.
LEAVE IT ALL
LET GO
TRUST ME
Sometimes God calls us to places and situations where all we know and all we have is God.
Like Bishop Oyedepo says ‘ When God is all you have, you find that God is enough.’
When (not if) God calls you to something new, how quickly can you GET OUT?
