Abraham is the father of all who believe – Romans 4:16 (NLT)
After These Things:
God speaks to Abram in a in the (v.1)
God says for the
…casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. – 1 Peter 5:7 (NASU)
Receives the promise of
I am a shield to you (v.1)
Receives a promise of “Very Great”
Your reward shall be very great (v.1)
And let them say continually, “The Lord be magnified, Who delights in the prosperity of His servant.
– Psalms 35:27 (NASU)
Abraham thinks his situation is (vv.2-3)
The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him – Genesis 12:7 (NIV)
Like Abraham, we all will come to a place where we have to decide: Will I when all I have to go on is ???
First mention of and (v.6)
And he hath believed (Aman) in Jehovah (ba-Yahweh), and He reckoneth it to him — righteousness.
– Genesis 15:6
(YLT, NASU, NKJV, CJV, KJV, ASV, BBE, NWB, WEB) (Romans 4:3, Galatians 3:6, James 2:23)
The Key to Faith is saying what God
(Jesus) the One who sent me is true; so I say in the world only what I have heard from him.
– John 8:26 (CJB)
Remember the (v.7)
There they shall recount the righteous deeds of the Lord, – Judges 5:11 (NASU)
God worked through (vv.9-10)
The men who have violated my covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces
– Jeremiah 34:18 (NIV) (Leviticus 1:17)
God speaks to Abram in a at (v.12)
(vv.13-16)
Abram receives of the
God Makes a Covenant on Abram’s Behalf: (vv.17-18)
…and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It will come about in the last days that I shall bring you against My land, in order that the nations may know Me
– Ezekiel 38:16 (NASB)