The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country,
your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
“I will make you into a great nation, and 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 blessed through you.”
Genesis 12:1-3 New International Version (NIV)
Terah (Abram’s father)
Abram
Lot (Abram’s nephew)
Sarai (Abram’s wife)
“The challenge to people of faith is to learn how to follow.
Central to that task is giving up the expectation of knowing where we are going.”
When God Interrupts: Finding New Life Through Unwanted Change (p. 53).
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord,
“plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
Covenant – a divine promise that establishes or modifies God’s relationship
to humanity or to a particular group.
The New Covenant
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Matthew 26:28
Hebrews 9:15
So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him.
Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had
accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran,
and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
Genesis 12:4-5 (NIV)