{"id":16219,"date":"2017-08-01T06:55:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T10:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/?p=16219"},"modified":"2021-10-13T13:30:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:30:32","slug":"the-blessing-of-abraham-is-your-blessing-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/the-blessing-of-abraham-is-your-blessing-too\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blessing of Abraham is Your Blessing Too!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Living the Blessed Life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The most pivotal person in the Bible other than Jesus Christ was Abraham.\u00a0 Through Abraham a God-way of living was established.\u00a0 Abraham illustrated the kind of life God expects all His people to live.\u00a0 God made a promise to Abraham (Abram) and Abraham responded to Him by faith.<\/p>\n

Go out from your land, your relatives and your father\u2019s house\u00a0<\/em>to a land that I will show you.\u00a0<\/em>I will make you into a great nation,\u00a0<\/em>I will bless you,\u00a0<\/em>I will make your name great,\u00a0<\/em>and you will be a blessing.\u00a0<\/em>I will bless those who bless you. \u00a0<\/em>I will curse those who treat you with contempt, <\/em>and all the peoples of the earth\u00a0<\/em>will be blessed through you. ~<\/em>Genesis 12:1-3<\/p>\n

Abraham responded to an amazing promise made to him by God. \u00a0He believed God and left all that was familiar to him behind.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Abraham was reward-minded and the reward was worth the risk to follow God\u2019s Word.<\/p>\n

What is faith?\u00a0 According to Romans 4:21, faith is being fully convinced that what God promises He will do.\u00a0 Hebrews 11:1 says that faith is evidence or proof of things unseen.\u00a0 Faith is seeing the invisible as though it is visible.\u00a0 It energizes one to take action based on what he or she sees in their heart.\u00a0 Faith appears to be unreasonable and illogical.\u00a0 Faith does not operate by our five senses, but is guided only by God\u2019s promises.<\/p>\n

Through Abraham, God has shown us how we are to live. \u00a0When we live by faith we will experience and enjoy the blessing of Abraham.\u00a0 Whatever God promised Abraham is ours today, by faith.<\/p>\n

The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham\u00a0<\/em>would come to the Gentiles by Christ Jesus, <\/em>so that we could receive the promised\u00a0<\/em>Spirit by faith. \u00a0~<\/em>Galatians 3:14<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>And if you belong to Christ, <\/em>then you are Abraham\u2019s seed, <\/em>heirs according to promise. \u00a0~<\/em>Galatians 3:29<\/em><\/p>\n

The blessing of Abraham is awesome!\u00a0 It includes making us and our name great.\u00a0 It includes all God\u2019s blessings and protection from those who treat us wrongly.\u00a0 Some of God\u2019s promised blessings are found in Deuteronomy chapters 8, 28, 29 and 30.\u00a0 This is what the blessing could look like in our lives today:<\/p>\n

We increase, enter into and take possession of our promised land (possessions).\u00a0 This land is vast and filled with riches.\u00a0 We live in beautiful homes; our businesses increase along with our gold and silver and God causes us to prosper.<\/p>\n

The blessings come and overtake us.\u00a0 We are blessed wherever we are and wherever we go. Our descendants are blessed and everything we have is blessed.\u00a0 Our bank accounts are blessed and the Lord establishes us as His holy people.\u00a0\u00a0 When people see us, they will know we are called by God and stand in awe of us!<\/p>\n

All the work of our hands is blessed.\u00a0 We lend to others and never have to borrow.\u00a0 The Lord makes us the head and not the tale.\u00a0 We only move upward and never downward.\u00a0 We succeed in everything we do.\u00a0 The Lord delights in our prosperity.\u00a0 I challenge you to read these chapters of the Bible and see for yourself what God has promised.<\/p>\n

Abraham faced impossible situations, but he learned to trust God and His Word with no other visible proof. \u00a0\u00a0God took Abraham on a journey to build up his faith to the place that the impossible became possible. He was a man who believed God with no doubt in His heart.<\/p>\n

How does the impossible become possible?\u00a0 We must take the Word of God and be fully persuaded in our heart that God will do exactly what He promised.\u00a0 God then responds to our faith by manifesting that promise in our life.<\/p>\n

Jesus Christ made it possible for us to live a blessed life. Based on God\u2019s Word you don\u2019t have to be sick and broke.\u00a0 By faith we can enjoy the blessing of Abraham and live in perfect health and abundance.<\/p>\n

I encourage you to become a \u201cWord Person.\u201d\u00a0 A Word Person is a person that ponders and meditates on God\u2019s Word DAILY.\u00a0 When faced with a problem, get immediately into the Word to find out what God has to say about it.\u00a0 \u00a0Then you take that word and stand on it by faith.\u00a0 \u00a0You will not give up until it becomes a reality in your life. \u00a0Do what Abraham did\u2014live by every Word that proceeds out from the mouth of God.<\/p>\n

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How do all these blessings come to us?\u00a0 Through the Spirit by faith!\u00a0 The Spirit dispenses the blessings to us when we exercise our faith in God\u2019s Word, just as Abraham did.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[494,1,202],"tags":[597,462,467,220,314,598,502,600,463,599],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}