The God Who Calls Things That Are Not | Cozy Afternoon Walk: Romans (S1), Ep.12

Welcome to Cozy Afternoon Walk — a short pause in your day to sit with Scripture, one verse at a time.Today's passage: Romans 4:17"As it is written: 'I have made you a father of many nations.' He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not." (NIV)Before Isaac was ever born, before there was a single shred of evidence, God called Abraham "a father of many nations" — speaking the promise into being before it had happened. We tend to trust only what's already confirmed, but God's order runs the other way: He speaks first, and reality follows. Think of an architect's blueprint — not one brick laid, yet the whole building is already real to the one who drew it. Wherever something in our lives still looks like "nothing" today, this verse asks a quiet question: do we trust only what we can see, or the One who speaks?This episode is part of our season through Romans. New devotionals added regularly.This content was carefully selected and prepared by M.Div. students and faculty. To ensure accurate information delivery, an AI voice (ElevenLabs) was used for the video's narration.