ALLOW GOD TO LEAD YOUR LIFE
•Introduction: Genesis chapter 12 gives an account of the call of Abram to depart from his own country to where God was leading him.
•His departure would result in drastic change in his entire life. The call required him to abandon his relatives, his friend, his land with different experience.
•Change is a very difficult thing to accept especially when things appear to be going on well. Sometimes change can be scary, can generate stress and it can be threatening.
•1. GOD WILL TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE (Gen. 12:1)
TRANSFORMATION – a complete change in appearance or character of something or someone.
a) Allowing God in your life will transform your spiritual life – you cannot remain the same
•Abraham was completely changed – from the community of idol worship to a friend of God
Isaiah 41:8 “But you, Oh Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen,
you descendants of Abraham my friend.”
b) Faith in God caused Abram to obey the call to where He was leading him.
•He had to leave everything, his people, his relatives and friends, to obey the call of God to go where he did not know.
Genesis 12:1 “The Lord said to Abram, Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.”
•Abram was called out at the age of 75 – My father quit
•Where he was going
•What he would experience
•How long his journey would take
•What life would be when he arrives where God was leading him.
•He had nothing but the promises!
•Abram believed in the Lord, and that faith gave him confidence to say yes to the call.
As Christians we can learn from the faith of Abraham
•Hear God’s call and allow him to lead you, regardless of your age and your background, he is able to transform you into what he wants you to be.
•He will lead you where he wants you to be.
•God has a plan for your life, just as significant as the plan he had for Abram.
‘God has a plan for you’
Jeremiah 29: 11 “For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
2. GOD WILL BLESS YOU (Gen. 12:1; 13:2)
Abram believed God and his promises. Genesis 12:1
•I will make you into a great nation
•I will bless you
•I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing
•I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be bless
Genesis 13: 2 shows how God started to bless Abram
Genesis 13: 2 “And Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.”
Genesis 13: 5 -6 “Now Lot who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. 6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together”
•When you allow God to lead your path, you will receive all the blessings He intends to give you.
•Abram did not fight for green pastures, the green pastures followed him
Gen.13: 8 – 11 So Abram said to Lot, let us not have any quarreling between you and me or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers. Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the right, I will go to the left…
•Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of Jordan was well watered like the garden of the Lord…so Lot chose for himself the whole plain of Jordan…”
•As a believer who is under the leading of God, do not fight with your brothers for blessings. Follow God and obey His leading, the blessings will look for you.
Deuteronomy 28: 1- 14 “ If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. And all these blessings will come upon you and accompany you…”
3. GOD WILL MAKE YOU A BLESSING
Allow God to use you and you will become a blessing to others
•When Abram allowed God to lead his life, he became a blessing to others
Genesis 12:2 “You will be a blessing.”
First of all Abram became a blessing to Lot and those around him
Secondly, all people on earth are blessed through Abraham Genesis 22:18
•The world received Christ through Abraham’s offspring, Israel
•God used Abraham’s descendants to bring Jesus Christ as a Savior of the World
•All nations are blessed through Israel, the offspring of Abraham
•CONCLUSION:
•Allow God into your life and you will experience total transformation despite your history and background.
•Do you need spiritual transformation? God is willing to change you spiritual life.
•Pray that God may bless you and make you a blessing to your family, your community, and to the society at large.
