Learn the art of choosing a title.
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Learn the art of choice.
What is God's will?
There are three blessings that God promised to Abraham.
1. I will make you into a great nation.
2. I will make your name great.
3. People will be blessed because of you.
Genesis 12:5 And he brought his nephew Lot, his servants, and all that he had,
to the land of Canaan.
12:8-10 The famine is severe in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 12:10-20 Rebuked by Pharaoh in Egypt.
Lessons from pain and suffering
1. My problem is not someone else's problem.
2. It is a spiritual problem, not an environmental problem.
3. The important thing is that I change.
Genesis 13:1-7 They went up to Bethel
He called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 13:2 - Abraham gave cattle, silver and gold.
it was plentiful
Genesis 13:6-7 Abraham and Lot's servants quarrel.
The stripe of abundance is far scarier than poverty.
Abraham decides with his nephew Lot...
1> I chose the path of Shalom.
He chose the path of peace rather than stripe.
Genesis 13:9 - If you are left, I am right.
If you are right, I will be left.
2> Make decisions according to God's Word.
I thought God would lead me.
I believed in God's first promise.
(Spiritual restoration was with Abram.)
3> We must choose spiritual things over material things.
Lot chose Sodom and Gomorrah.
Genesis 13:10 Sodom and Gomorrah are like the garden of the LORD...
Sodom and Gomorrah are places where you lose everything.
Abraham was blessed both himself and his descendants.
Take the path that benefits you spiritually.
Take the path closer to the Word of God.