You have a Promise from God but something is hanging you up?

The Mountain in The Land Where We Are to Sacrifice Our Promises

Read this study slowly or you will skip key parts where He wants to show us we are not really trusting Him or to be more impowered to receive the promises we are given.

Genesis 22: 1-19 (New King James Version)
Abraham’s Faith Confirmed

1 Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”
And he said, “Here I Am.”
2 Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall show you."



The word Moriah means God teaches or God is my teacher. It is also the name of the Land and the Mountain where Soloman built the Temple. You need to open yourself up to be like a land that is teachable and find that PLACE With GOD and OF GOD where HE wants to Teach you Personally, not your conjectures, about THE PROMISES HE HAS GIVEN YOU. Where He has the resources to fulfill them. A lot of Us walk with God but we try to fulfill the faith when God needs us to be Meek = teachable so we can let Him fulfill the promises in our life as we walk with HIM.
WHAT GIFT, WHAT PROMISE HAS GOD GIVEN YOU THAT YOU KNOW IS RIGHTFULLY YOURS, BUT YOU CAN'T SEEM TO SEE IT FULLFILLED EVEN THOUGH YOU KNOW HE WILL KEEP HIS WORD? YOU NEED TO GET TO THAT MOUNTAIN WHERE THE LORD WILL LOVE HIS WORD THAT HE IS TO FULFILL IN YOUR LIFE - NOT YOU FULFILL. SOMETIMES WE NEED TO SEE OUR FLESH DESTROYED MORE THAN WHAT WE THINK SO WE CAN ENJOY THE PROMISES THAT GOD IS GOING TO FULFILL IN HIS WORD. ARE YOU WILLING TO TRUST GOD IN HIS HOUSE WITH HIS WORD, NOT YOURS IN YOUR LIFE? YOU NEED TO FIND OUT WHERE AND HOW GOD WANTS YOU TO TRUST HIS WORD. RECEIVE AND WALK WITH HIS SPIRIT TO SEE HIM KEEP HIS WORD IN YOUR LIFE, NOT YOU KEEP HIS WORD BUT HE KEEP IT SO YOU CAN NOT JUST BELIEVE BUT REALLY BE ABLE TO RECEIVE AND TRUST HIM.


3 "So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. 5 And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad[a] and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”
6 So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together. 7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!”
And he said, “Here I am, my son.”
Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
8 And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.
9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. 10 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
So he said, “Here I am.”


Doesn't it feel like we will lose our promises if we have to give them to the Lord? But actually we will receive them because it purifies our faith.


12 "And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided.”

That place where YOU NEED TO OBEY GOD and SEE HIM how HE PROVIDES TO KEEP HIS WORD IS WHERE YOU NEED TO BE WITH HIM. Abraham didn't know about the ram being on the mountain and the ram was probably moving up the other side of the mountain as Abraham and Isaac were coming up the mountain. If Abraham would have doubted God he would have never been able to see GOD PROVIDE FOR THE PROMISE HE GAVE ABRAHAM. Can we trust God to provide for our promises that we have from Him or are we going to mix secular wisdom and not really get close to God to find out what or how He wants to work out our promises?


15 "Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, 16 and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son— 17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba."


After obeying there is real reward with God. Are we trying to get or Obey? To know God and His ways or just His acts? Didn't God already say this stuff to Abraham before all this. God has to get us in a real Faith Place with Him, not a comfort give me place of whatever I want. And His promises become more substance in producing because we are becoming more like Him and learning to love Him not just all this stuff.



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