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The Elder's Faith Filled Blessing: Isaac

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  By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future Hebrews 11:20 The Value of The Elder T here comes a moment in every generation when Godly Elders of a family arrive at a place where they must speak —they must speak to the future. They should not do this from preference, not from emotion, but from faith. Isaac did this. And when he opened his mouth, God opened the future. It is important for our following generations, to realize that God cares for the Elder. The Elders in your life matter. Their words matter. Their faith matters. Their God given blessing may have an surprisingly important impact on things to come. The Elder’s words just might affect you more than you realize, if you will listen. Elders Have Important Role Before Isaac, gave his blessing, blessings came only from God. As a matter of fact, Isaac becomes the first elder to speak a covenant blessing forward. His words become the bridge between Abraham’s promise, that God gave him, and Israel’s future...
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Abraham's Faith: Faith Where You Give To God What You Love The Most.

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  (17)Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promise, was in the act of offering up his only son. (18) of whom it was said, "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named." (19) He considered that God was able to even raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking he did receive him back. Hebrews 11:17-19 There are moments in life when life is challenging, and it seems like God asks us to trust Him in ways that stretch us beyond anything we imagined. Abraham knew that feeling. Isaac wasn’t just his son — he was the promise, the future, the joy of his old age. And yet God asked Abraham to place Isaac on the altar. Wherever you are living today,  the test feels the same. God seems to ask for something precious. Something personal. Something that feels  really difficult, if not impossible to surrender. And in that moment, faith becomes more than a belief — it becomes a God given Supernatural choice. The Supernatural Test of Faith...
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Faith That Believes Even Though It Doesn't Receive

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  Hebrews 11:13-16 All these people were living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting they were foreigners and strangers on the earth. V.14. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. V.15. If they had been thinking of the country, they left, they would have opportunity to return.  V.16. Instead, they were longing for a better country --a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. Faith That Believes Even Though It Doesn’t Receive Consider This Some of the deepest faith in Scripture is found in people who never saw the full answer to God’s promises during their lifetime. Hebrews 11:13–16 pulls back the curtain on Abraham, Sarah, and their descendants, showing us a faith that kept believing even when the visible results were small. Their lives teach us that real faith isn’t measured by w...
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Sarah: The Delighted Reproductive Faith

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  Hebrews 11:11-13 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. Therefore, from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the sea shore.   Coming Attraction: When we consider this special woman, Sarah, we are about to see something each and everyone of us would like to experience. I know I would want to have this as part of my life.  Please, check out what Hebrews 11:11-13, faith makes possible for our journeys: God's timing overturning our human impossibility. The laughter of faith, not cynicism, that fills us with delight. God's generational promises that multiply exponentially long after you or I have departed planet Earth. God's  shift from barrenness to blessing. God's Timing God's timing is not our timing. It is "much more better."  Think about Sarah. She had lived 90 years...
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Abraham's Faith: A Calling-A Home-A Leap of Faith

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Hebrews 11: 8-10 8. By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him in the same. 10.  For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. ==================== Abraham's Faith : A Calling As we look at Abraham, it is very clear God, indeed, was calling him. The call, simply put, was from God where the LORD told him, "I want you to go to a place which you will receive at a later date."  Abraham was called to understand this as a call to receive this place as a his very own inheritance.  Little did he know just how great this inheritance would become; nevertheless, he started stepping one day at a time into the future. He did not even know where he was going, but he had faith i...
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Noah's Visionary Faith

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  By faith, Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith, he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith. Hebrews 11:7 Today, let us consider the visionary faith of Noah. And let us emulate it: Noah's Faith Caused Him To See The Unseen & Act On It God warned Noah about things “not yet seen.” No clouds. No storm. No precedent. In fact, if you read the whole Noah story in the Old Testament, you will see it had not ever rained on the earth up to this time. But because God said it, Noah had no doubt a flood was coming. Indeed, Noah saw, with the eyes of faith, what human eyes could not detect. And he acted. He built an ark, that God revealed to him how it would be built, and he built it on dry ground. Why? because God said judgment was coming. God given Faith moves before sight. God given Faith moves us to action when the world laughs. God given Faith acts when the evidence is in...
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Heroes of Faith: Pleasing God Or Not

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  Without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to God, must believe HE exists and HE rewards those who earnestly seek HIM. Perhaps one of the most interesting questions that a Christ Follower can pose is, "How can we please God?" After all, it would be insane to live a life where we displease God. Right?  Is this pleasing God even possible?  Consider this: It is clear that the Heroes of faith pleased God some multiple millennia ago, but can it be accomplished  in the 21st century? Let's think about this. It's Impossible If we consider Hebrews 11:6a, we discover a sure fire way to make it impossible to please God. "Without faith it is impossible to please God..." period. You can work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and you can do so until you have worn yourself out, but without holding tightly to God, by faith, embracing HIS promises as if they are already fulfilled, and living as if they are already fulfilled, though none of the...
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