The Spoken Word

Impacting lives for eternity through the teaching of God's word that His people might be established to express and advance His kingdom in the earth.

Impacting lives for eternity through the teaching of God's word that His people might be established to express and advance His kingdom in the earth.

Impacting lives for eternity through the teaching of God's word that His people might be established to express and advance His kingdom in the earth.

We have to learn to trust in God’s promises, we need to be able to recognize moments, times, seasons, places and spaces in life that are sacred and hold them in proper esteem. We have to commit to our faith walk and learn to embrace the transformative power of these encounters.

God has made a choice to us the man Abraham to bless mankind. He promised him a seed, despite Abram’s ability to reproduce. God is working in creation to eventually redeem us from the power of sin. Despite all external opposition, despite our own flaws and failures God’s faithfulness remains steadfast. God can and will fulfill all His promises and we can rest in the assurance of His unwavering faithfulness.

We learn from Genesis 27 that despite our efforts as human beings God’s purposes will prevail. God, before the birth of Isaac and Rebekah’s children predetermined that the blessing should go to Jacob. Isaac desired for Esau to be the recipient of the blessing and Rebekah thought she needed to help God fulfill what He had purposed. Jacob’s eventual blessing aligned with what God had purposed, but the way it was achieved was the cause of friction in the family dynamics. As Christians we put on Christ, but we make no room for the flesh. God favors the righteous, but He offers salvation to all, because loves us all equally and Christ’s offering is open, perfect, and gracious.

There is a way that seems to right to us, it seems right but it’s not and it leads to destruction. We need to learn God’s will and give Him opportunity to bring His purposes to completion. We have to take the word God sends and mix it with faith, wait on Him and be of good courage. God doesn’t need our help; He needs our obedience and submission to His plans. He is both willing and able to bring to pass what He has purposed, He will in fact complete the work He starts in our lives.

The Bible shows us that our need of help is normal, it's by design of God, as aspect of human life and not failure. God is our ultimate helper and our asking for His help is a show of humility. Also, by design of God we can co-labor with God, but God does not need our help, in the way we need His, to bring to pass the things He desires, He is not like us, yet we are like Him. Whenever we determine to help God bring about what He has already purposed we get in the flesh and trouble follows.

God Himself is holy and He calls us to be holy. God is faithful and He calls us to likewise be faithful. We are to walk in the light as He is in the light, then we can have fellowship with Him and other saints. He calls us to this manner of living even when we are without strength to perform it, why; because He gives us grace, divine enablement. God is sovereign, His is a covenant keeper, and by His providence He establishes for us a pattern of faith and patience, even in a challenging environment that He expects us to follow by the power He makes available by His Spirit.

No matter where we are, what we’re up against, God is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all we can conceive; but it is according to His power that works in us. The power of God that works in believers is the immeasurable, active energy of Holy Spirit. It’s not any human effort, but rather divine power which enables us to desire and to act according to God’s purpose and to live out our faith, overcoming all obstacles and walk in victory. Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart all the good things God has in store for those who believe, trust, and obey Him.

When we are willing and obedient God is able to make all grace abound toward us and He can even make our enemies live a peace with us. But, we must commit our way to Him, trust in Him and live a life totally committed to Him. Others will be observing, make the choice to walk upright, let your words be seasoned with grace and guard your testimony by speaking truth. God will watch over you to insure what He has purposed for you comes to fruition.

God works sovereignly in all things for our good, according to His purposes. God prepares us, He prepares our place, and He prepares people to be receptive of us; but He does it all for His glory and the fulfillment of His purposes so that His will can be accomplished. He pulls one down and sets up another as He moves in time to complete the work He has started, all the while we are navigating our lives. Therefore, it is important that we lean not to our own understanding but rather, trust in Him with our whole heart and acknowledge Him in all our ways and then allow Him to direct us along the path He has ordained.

The only thing I need I already have. The fullness of His mercy in my hand (4Him). Let me explain it to you, hopefully in words you will be able to understand.

We learned earlier that God has spoken and yet speaks to mankind, He is persistent is His efforts to guide His people. He has used prophets, visions, similes, allegories, metaphors, hypo catastasis, types and analogies (see Hos. 12:10). In Job Elihu said that He speaks once, twice and men do not perceive, Peter said that some of us are willingly ignorant. The truth is we can be rebellious and disobedient, not due to ignorance, but through willful defiance. But God remains committed to revealing truth through the diverse methods and He seeks to prompt repentance, while warning that ignoring the warnings will lead to accountability. Today’s lesson seeks to reveal truth given in a type.

Grief is a natural part of life, but as Christians we are not to grieve as if we don’t have a future hope. Likewise, death is a natural part of life, but if we die in Christ our future is secure. While we live we are to operate in integrity, be honest and just in our transactions, make plans to leave an inheritance for those who come after us, but the greatest legacy we can leave is a godly hope; knowing that God will fulfill every promise made and those we leave behind will lay hold to it if they walk worthy of their call in Christ Jesus.

Impacting lives for eternity through the teaching of God's Word that His people might be established to express and advance His Kingdom.

The Bible calls for us to examine ourselves to test whether we are truly living in faith and if Jesus' Spirit abides in us. This evaluation ensures that our trust is in Christ rather than our own works and can lead to repentance or assurance. In today's lesson God calls Abraham to such an examination, which results in him being found faithful and leading to God showing us how He will provide the necessary sacrifice for our sin in the future.

Trusting and obeying God in seasons of transition will lead to establish of the promise and new beginnings; it will also secure your standing, validate your authority, and the divine blessing. God remembers every word He has spoken, He sees and hears you regardless of your location or position in society or ministry and He has made provision, even for outcasts. Trust God, walk in integrity and know that your future is secure.

I believe that before we enter into a wilderness, a desert, trials or tribulations, God seeing ahead, will give us a word to encourage us, to fill us with hope, to help us recognize His hand in our lives when it comes to past. We have to remember and cast away our confidence despite any opposition we may encounter. Trust in the Lord, seek Him daily, be receptive to godly counsel and be doers of the word and not hearers only and we can lay hold to the promise, by faith

Take heed how you interact with others. Walk in the light as God is in the light in order that you might represent Him well before others. Avoid being deceitful and encouraging others to be deceitful. Let every action and every response be born of righteousness and a desire to maintain justice, through a clear conscience and a commitment to doing what is right in the eyes of God, that He might be glorified before all men.

The Bible admonishes us to be watchful and to examine ourselves to make sure that we are operating in faith. That means, hearing God, trusting Him, and obeying His commands. We have to take care to put to death all the deeds of the flesh because it is easy to resort back to our old ways and that could be catastrophic, not only for ourselves but for others as well. Fear, which has torment, can lead to distrusting God and our attempting to resolve our issues through the flesh. Abraham resorts to his old ways, putting Sarah, Abimelech, his nation and God’s plan in jeopardy; but God demonstrates His grace and faithfulness in upholding His covenant with Abraham.

Learn to walk in love, to be hospitable, to take advantage of opportunities to present and receive the love of God. Avoid sinning because it has serious consequences and be prayerful and willing to be available to make intercession for others. Listen, to hear from God and immediately obey what He commands, don’t look back longingly for yesterday when God offers you a bright future or you just might miss it. Live in hope, let God’s great and precious be the basis of that hope and keep your eyes open, remain vigilant and aware of the moral and spiritual realities around us.

In today's message we see the angels sent to destroy Sodom, Gomorrah and the plains, because of their wickedness, but they cannot perform their assignment until Lot, and his family are delivered out of harm's way. This is one of the testimonies that lead us to believe that God will deliver the Church out of the wrath to come upon the world. God always makes a way of escape, and He makes it known to His people, but we must hear and respond in the day of His salvation and not turn back to the world. Only those who persevere to the end will be saved!

The stage is set, the curtain goes up, the scene is one of depravity, perversion, and wickedness. The hearts and motives of all of Sodom is laid bare and God’s agents are going to respond accordingly. How can we escape the wrath of God? We can escape solely through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, Who God has sent to us, even as He has sent the angels, for Abraham’s sake to save Lot. What then is required of us? Today we begin to look into the key aspects to escape the wrath which is to come: 1) Repentance, 2) Faith in Jesus Christ, 3) Acceptance of grace, 4) Following Christ’s teaching, and 5) Urgency.

God is intentional and purposeful in all that He does. He visits us and there is an appropriate way to receive and respond to it in order that we might get from Him what He intends. Take care to be sensitive, to recognize His voice, to follow His instruction so that we can fulfill His plan and purpose. Make sure that you pass on to others what He reveals to you because His plans and purpose go beyond just you, He wants to impact generations and nations.

Have you ever experienced the presence of God, how were afterwards? People talk about changes in their lives from near death experiences, but when God manifests Himself to you that is real occasion for change. We should remember the things He declares, trust in what was spoken or shown and should be driven to prayer for the will He has made known to come, to manifest and fulfill what He has decreed. But we must always be willing to do our part too.

The Bible teaches us that as representatives of the Kingdom we should be loving, compassionate, hospitable and not prone to argue. We are admonished in these things for good reason, we represent an ever present and watchful God, Who invites us to His kingdom and Who has made great and precious promises and our hearts should always be right to be able to enter into His presence on behalf our others and our own needs.

God’s choice of us, like His choice of Abram, was intentional. He says that He trusted Abraham to teach his children and descendants to follow the way of the Lord. He has chosen us to teach our children, training them up in the way they should go, to teach others, making disciples and teaching them to obey all that He teaches us. From the beginning He has wanted a people set apart unto Himself; in Christ He is reconciled all things to Himself and He started that good work in Abram.

God draws us to Himself to not just reveal Himself but also to reveal His purposes. As God reveal Himself, He gives us power to produce and be effective in that which He calls us to however, we must take the revealed word and mix it with faith, we much worship Him, give thanks in all things and respond, our faith requires obedient action in order to lay hold to what is promised.

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God will be faithful to every covenant and promise He establishes with humanity, but He will fulfill them in His timing not ours, and nothing can prevent it, not even old age. But, we are required to walk faithfully with Him, be totally obedient to what He commands, and His receive with meekness His engrafted word which through its transformative power redefines our identity.

As we close out our study in Genesis 16, let us remember that we have a sure future, based on certain promises, and trust in Him Who not only sees and hears us, but also is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all we can hope and believe and wait on Him (actively) and be of good courage.

Learn to trust in the promises of God, stand on them, wait on Him, rehearse them in your own hearing. God's timing is perfect, even when you think the promise is in delay. Don't try to help God but follow His instructions. Don't run out on the fight, stand, persevere, and see His salvation.

Sometimes we get impatient waiting on God to fulfill His promises to us, this can lead to doubt or us attempting to take matters into our own hands rather than waiting on His timing. Without faith we cannot please God, faith requires waiting on and trusting in God. Trust helps us know that God sees us and that He will not overlook us nor withhold no good thing from us. When we don’t trust this shows a lack of faith in His power and may end up in our violating spiritual principles meant to protect us. Sometimes in our fear, doubt, or unbelief we run away from God, which also is not the correct solution. Running away from problems does not solve them. In spite or our failings and even our unfaithfulness, God remains faithfulness, to His name, to His word and to His compassionate nature. He will continue to fulfill His covenant and His purposes.

God is not slow or negligent in fulfilling His promises; there is a specific, predetermined time for every season under heaven. God has a purpose for every activity and event in life. When God determines something then, it will occur, and in the time appointed for it, not prematurely nor late. We then, must learn to wait on the Lord’s timing trusting that He will do the thing that He has purposed. God see us, He hears us, He knows our anxious thoughts but these will not persuade Him to move before the appointed time. We have to believe, not try to make events occur out of season, for to do so can result in grave consequences. Trusting in God also means learning to stay put in hard places, knowing that His grace is sufficient.

We have been shown how trusting God leads to our being made right with Him. In God’s word we have great and precious promises by which we become partakers of His very nature and in how God deals with Abram we see the certainty of God’s promises and how God meets us in our doubt, assuring us of God’s faithfulness and the seriousness of His promises. This trusting in God’s “great and precious promises” leads to our transformation. God’s quiets our fears as we see God as our shield, our protector and rewarder and encourages us to trust in His provision and care.

We have been shown how trusting God leads to our being made right with Him. In God’s word we have great and precious promises by which we become partakers of His very nature and in how God deals with Abram we see the certainty of God’s promises and how God meets us in our doubt, assuring us of God’s faithfulness and the seriousness of His promises. This trusting in God’s “great and precious promises” leads to our transformation. God’s quiets our fears as we see God as our shield, our protector and rewarder and encourages us to trust in His provision and care.

The Spoken Word February 25, 2026 - Impacting lives for eternity through the teaching of God's Word that His people might be established to express and advance His Kingdom.

In this chapter we five core doctrines that underpin our faith, reminding us of its importance, the necessity of leadership, as well as God’s role in guiding and protecting those who trust in Him through all of life’s challenges and obstacles through Abram’s battle, his rescue of Lot, his refusal to depend on the ungodly instead of God, and his encounter with Melchizedek, the priest/king.

We are engaged in spiritual warfare, not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. We have been given weaponry which are not carnal (fleshly or worldly) but are mighty through God for pulling down strongholds, casting down imaginations, and bringing every though into captivity to the obedience of Christ. In Genesis 14 there are lessons we can learn about faith and divine sovereignty, courageous leadership and decisive actions, preparedness and strategic thinking and how to recognize and lay hold to God’s blessings so we can war strategically, effectively, and intelligently; that we might live victoriously.

Looking at Abram’s life and his walk with God and how God is establishing him as the father of those who live by faith there are lessons to be learned, doctrines that is established and examples we, as heirs of the same promises, that we can be partakers of if we will follow faithful Abram. Can changed his name and his character, which points to how He will change us and our nature to make us profitable to His plans and purposes and to reclaim liberty and dominion in the earth through the blessing and the blessing we become.

As Christians we are called to follow those who by faith have laid hold to the promises. Abram believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness. We can look at his walk, how he grows as he continues to follow God's righteous commands and we can learn how to deal with conflict resolution, generosity, faith and the consequences of our choices.

Abram is called by God and God initiates His covenant with Abram. With the call God desires Abram to come out from among his idolatrous people and go to a place. As Abram journeys he encounters difficulty and flees to Egypt, in this decision he is leaning to his own understanding rather than trusting God and he is taught a crucial lesson about the God of the covenant.

How far are you willing to go for God? Make your calling and election sure, then purpose in your heart to go all the way. Relationships are important, especially covenant relationships but they must be prioritized in rank. Our number one priority in life is to the kingdom and the King of that kingdom. In fact, Scripture says “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” Our lives must be centered on God’s will rather than personal gain, worry, or worldly pursuits. God knows the things we have need of and He will provide them. We must prioritize God’s rule, righteousness, and purposes above everything else, even family. Set your focus on heaven and let nothing deter you, God will take care of everything else and you will be able to do everything else out of the overflow of grace in your life

We see in this chapter lessons about faith, obedience, and God’s promises. God does not expect perfection from us but He looks for obedience. Abram trusted God’s call and willingly leaves his homeland and family. God promises to bless him, He assures him of divine protection, and promises that his obedience will have a far-reaching impact and the simple act of Abram’s moving forward marks the beginning of God’s covenant with him. We who are in Christ are beneficiaries of that covenantal blessing and like Abram we journey toward a place, making mistakes and learning as we embrace faith, trust in God’s promises, and recognize the broad impact of our obedience on the world around us.

God is moving through Genesis toward our redemption. He is setting the stage of choosing a man through whom He can bring forth a seed that will be a blessing to all of humanity. In Genesis 11 we see the genealogy of Shem leading to that of Terah from who will come Abram the friend of God through whom we, if we are Christ's then we are his seed and heir of the same promises God made to him.

Just as God had humanity in mind while He created all that He created; He also has our good in mind when He gives us His commandments. All God’s commandments are for our good because He has a good plan for us; He wants us to lay hold to an inheritance and a hope that will ultimately be consummated in Christ Jesus. But we have a propensity to resist God’s good plan for plans we ourselves conceive, but our plans, many as they may be, lead only to our destruction. God sent His word to heal us from the destruction of our choosing to rebel, which leads to death and His word leads to life and that more abundantly. But we have to submit ourselves and commit our way to Him and trust and patiently wait for Him to bring His good plan to pass in our lives.

Before departing back to heaven Jesus prayed for His disciples, what He prayed is what the Father has always desired for humanity; He says that He had manifested God's name to them given to Him out of the world. He said they have kept Your word; they have believed that the Father sent Him. He asked the Father to sanctify them by His truth, and He prayed that they would be one. The Father wants us to be united according to His purpose, which is made known by His word. But what happens when we are united in efforts contrary to the Word of God, which is the will of God. We can get some insight in that from Genesis 11.

What is the source of human diversity, history and the true origin of the nations? The Bible tells us and outlines it for us tracing it back to the genealogy of Noah’s descendants after the flood. Luke tells us in Acts 17:26 “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the tines before appointed, and bounds of their habitation.” Genesis 10 puts emphasis on our common origin and God’s sovereign control of history to fulfill His purpose.

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