Genesis 17

Genesis 17 verses 1 - 27

Abraham was sensitive to the voice of God.  It came in the quietness.  Jeremiah was in the prison house when God spoke to him  God is not confined to a certain place.

Abraham`s submission to the call.  God tells Abraham to hear his word and know it.  Remember the day when Jesus told Peter to launch out into the deep and let down his nets.  Peter had been fishing all night and caught nothing but he told the Lord he would do as instructed.  When he did as Jesus instructed he caught a great many fish.  Sometimes the Lord teaches us something very special in barren times.  Remember Hannah when God heard her praying for a son.  God answered her prayer and Hannah decided to give her son back to the Lord.  Are we expecting blessing but we are holding something back?  Abraham was told by God to sacrifice his son Isaac.  He was to prove how much he loved God.  Abraham surrendered to God and as he lifted the knife to kill his son God showed him the ram in the thicket to be offered instead of Isaac.

Abraham was separated by the call.  The call was to summon him to the work he wanted him to do.  All Abraham had to do was obey.  2 Timothy 1 verse 9.  Isaiah 51 verse 2 "Look unto Abraham your father and unto Sarah that bare you; for I called him alone and blessed him and increased him."  Are we in the place where we are separated to the word of God and the will of God?