March 21, 2021​

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Escape from spiritual failure

• A rich relationship with God begins with being saved.

• The ticket to salvation is belief. Who, why, what do you believe?

• We can say all sorts of things in our words and our actions, but do we believe it? What you believe is step one to a rich relationship with God.

• Do not be afraid. How many times has fear kept you from doing what you know the Lord wants you to do?

• When God answers us, if we are in His will, it will be immediately. If it is not immediate or if it is not the answer we want, we have to ask ourselves if we are staying within His will.

• Abram believed the Lord and trusted Him. Those who trust God regardless of the storm they are in, carry themselves differently, the shine with salvation.

• God sent His Son as the ultimate sacrifice, who rose again on the 3rd day. If you believe and trust in this, you are saved, you are in. If you are not sure you fit in this group, talk to someone who shines with salvation. Seek the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

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Today's Scripture

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Genesis 15:1-21

 After these events, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:

Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield;

your reward will be very great.

2 But Abram said, “Lord God, what can you give me, since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” [a] 3 Abram continued, “Look, you have given me no offspring, so a slave born in[b] my house will be my heir.”

4 Now the word of the Lord came to him: “This one will not be your heir; instead, one who comes from your own body[c] will be your heir.” 5 He took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “Your offspring will be that numerous.”

6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

7 He also said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

8 But he said, “Lord God, how can I know that I will possess it?”

9 He said to him, “Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

10 So he brought all these to him, cut them in half, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut the birds in half. 11 Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. 12 As the sun was setting, a deep sleep came over Abram, and suddenly great terror and darkness descended on him.

13 Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be resident aliens for four hundred years in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.[d] 14 However, I will judge the nation they serve, and afterward they will go out with many possessions. 15 But you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”[e]

17 When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals. 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring, from the Brook of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River: 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hethites, Perizzites, Rephaim, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

 

 

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