FOUNDATION (Romans 4)
So convinced that the obstacles of Sarah’s barrenness and his own advanced aged could not hinder God from keeping His promises, Abraham believed God and lived to see the promise of a son fulfilled.
So convinced that the obstacles of Sarah’s barrenness and his own advanced aged could not hinder God from keeping His promises, Abraham believed God and lived to see the promise of a son fulfilled.
For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD . . .
Traveling from Haran to Shechem, their journey was an act of obedience based on Abram’s faith in God’s promise to give him the land of Canaan as a possession, a posterity to inhabit the land and a name of great renown.
“Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; and let them say among the nations, ‘The Lord reigns.’”
God is not only intensely aware of the broad scope of history as it unfolds on the earth, He is also attentive to what is happening in the lives of individuals.
Walk about Zion; go around her; number her towers; consider well her ramparts; go through her citadels; that you may tell the next generation that this is God—our God forever and ever.
Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you who love her.
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