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07.31.11 Better than Your Wildest Dreams

Really?  Better Than Your Wildest Dreams?

Genesis 12:1-9

“God’s plans for you are far better than the wildest dreams you have for yourself.” Dr. Dennis Kinlaw

 

 

Then the Lord told Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. 2 I will cause you to become the father of a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and I will make you a blessing to others. 3 I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

4 So Abram departed as the Lord had instructed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. 5 He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his wealth—his livestock and all the people who had joined his household at Haran—and finally arrived in Canaan. 6 Traveling through Canaan, they came to a place near Shechem and set up camp beside the oak at Moreh. At that time, the area was inhabited by Canaanites.

7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I am going to give this land to your offspring.” And Abram built an altar there to commemorate the Lord’s visit. 8 After that, Abram traveled southward and set up camp in the hill country between Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar and worshiped the Lord. 9 Then Abram traveled south by stages toward the Negev.

Genesis 12:1-9 NLT

 

 

The purpose behind God’s call is two-fold:

 

1.                  That we might know God.

2.                  That through us, the rest of the world will come to know God.

 

God wants to become the central fact of our lives.

 

 

  • God wants us to gain our identity from our attachment to Him.

 

  • God wants us to find our security in Him

 

  • God wants us to find our joy in Him and not in His gifts.

 

We can measure our attachment to God by our detachment elsewhere in our relationships.

 

  • God wants us to detach ourselves from place.

 

  • God calls us to detach ourselves from things.

 

  • God wants us to detach ourselves from loves.

 

 

 

“The man who has everything plus God is not a bit richer than the man who only has God.” C.S. Lewis

 

 

 

The great tragedy is that God’s gifts are good enough that they can almost satisfy us.

 

 

God’s call is clear. “Detach yourself from all that hinders and follow Me.”