Come See A Land I Will Show You

​Is there something God wants to show you that you are causing to be delayed or hindered from seeing it because you are so tied and committed to your church’s commitments or dedicated to what your leaders want you to do for them or too loyal and devoted to what your family and or friends believe is right for you? And yet, we all often pray the following requests to God.

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• I need You
• I want to see You move in my life
• I want to have an encounter with You as I have never seen before
• I want to kill my flesh, my wants, and desires and to do Your will for Your kingdom to which You have called me

​BUT! Shortly thereafter, we slam the door to our promises because truly, we don’t want what God has or wants for us. We really don’t. We just want whatever pain or hardship we are experiencing to stop. We just want to live a comfortable lifestyle where we can do as we will with no accountability. Therefore, the above pray that many of us recite to God is really just superficial. Just a temporary method to stop the bleeding, and the pain, and to display a pretense to others that God is in what you are doing and experiencing. What hypocrisy! The prayers we cite are so fake because our motives are in the wrong place. For they are not about truly doing things God’s way, but our way.

​hard to be obedient

So, what gives? Why do we as servants of God so often fake it? Why is it so hard to do what God says – that is to be obedient? Look, if I try to answer these questions, I’ll be here all day and you still won’t receive a word I say. So, let me not focus on that. Instead, let me draw your attention to something God said to Abraham while he was living in his native country of Chaldea with his family. 

Abraham trusted god implicitly

Abraham is a significant figure throughout the Bible and plays an important role in mankind’s tradition and the history of religion. But to truly understand the role Abraham played in human history, we must know some basic background information concerning him.
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Abraham was a native of the county of Chaldea to which he was born in the city of Ur. At some point, Abraham had an encounter with God. To which God said the following to Abraham. 

​“Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. (Genesis 12:1)

​God wanted to release something to Abraham. But Abraham had to be a willing vessel and obey what God was requiring him to do. So, let’s explore what God wanted to release to Abraham and how Abraham responded to God’s requirements. 
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The promise to abrahaM

God made two significant promises to Abraham after telling him to leave his hometown and family and head in the direction God will show him. Now, we need to be mindful here that God did not reveal to Abraham where exactly God was sending him. All God told Abraham at this point was two things. (1) Leave your father’s house and (2) go. That was it.
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If Abraham was willing to follow these instructions, God made two promises to Abraham. (Also, see Genesis 12:2-3).
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1. Promise #1

• God would make Abraham a great nation
• God would bless him
• God would make Abraham’s name great
• God would make Abraham a blessing
• God would bless those who blessed Abraham
• God would curse those who cursed Abraham

2. Promise #2

• Through Abraham, all families would be blessed

​So, we see here, God formed a partnership or an agreement or covenant with Abraham and they each had a part to fulfilled in this relationship. God will do all the things that are listed in promises 1 and 2, but IF and only IF Abraham fulfills his part FIRST. I don’t want you to miss this point. In their relationship,
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1. Abraham had a part. Something or things he must do to meet the obligation of his contract with God.

​2. Pending on whether Abraham did his part first, God would THEN and only THEN do His part; which included two commitments on God’s part as we see in promises 1 and 2 above. 
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​We have to be mindful of this. Many of God’s promises and or blessings are conditional. Meaning, that God will not fulfill the promises He has made, bless His servants, or answer many of our prayers UNTIL we fulfill our part FIRST. 

​So, when God instructed Abraham to move from his family, he obeyed although he did not know where God was sending him. (Compare Hebrews 11:8). Abraham trusted God implicitly to guide and direct him. As a result, for several years, Abraham migrated from place to place and lived in tents as he followed the leading of God to the place God was going to eventually show him. 

Come See A Land I Will Show YoU

​In the New Testament, God’s instruction to Abraham is repeated at Acts chapter 7, in verse 1, where it says
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‘Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.’
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This is a good point to apply Abraham's encounter with God and the promised He made to Abraham to ourselves by asking. What is it that God wants to show you? Have you followed His instructions to see it? If you have not, you must ask yourself why? This is important to ask because remember the opening prayer I mentioned that many of us often recite.
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Oh God, please move in my life; give me an encounter with You. I want to do Your will.
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These are things we often say to God to gain something WE WANT. So, often these prayers are about and for us and not about God. We want something from God. In other words, we want God to do His part. But we do not want to commit to doing our part – whatever God requires of us.

And still, yet, we want God to bless us, to answer our prayers, to fulfill His promises He has made to us. And then we are shocked and often get upset with God when He fails to bless us, answer our prayers, or fulfill His promises.
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We still want God to show us the promise, or the land that He speaks of regardless if we are willing or do our part or not. What hypocrisy!