thank you Father you may be seated i know that he is pleased with us today you know if we’re going to see the fullness of God’s promises in our life we’re going to have to develop the ability to see beyond where we are right now you see God is always taking us to new levels to greater places he’s always wanting us to stretch and grow he’s wanting to increase our faith he’s wanting to deepen our strength and he’s wanting us to see new victories in our life so today I want you to know where you are right now is not your final destination god’s got amazing things
in store for you i think about the hero of faith Abraham he’s the father of our faith and you can find his story in Genesis and when you read his story there’s amazing things about his life but there’s something I want to point out today and many of you know the story of Abraham and how he left his father’s home to follow God to go to a place that God would show him and he declared over Abraham’s life that he would be a blessing that he would uh uh bless people all over this world that he would be a great nation that God would do amazing things in his life so as he was
traveling with God he had his nephew Lot with him i know you know the story so he and Lot took off to follow God scripture tells us that there was a point in time where he and Lot became too numerous they had too much livestock between the two of them their families grew their herds grew and it became too much to support two families like this on one piece of land there was some quarreling going on between their employees the herdsmen and there was some strife that was taking place because there just wasn’t enough land to sustain the wealth and the possessions that they
had acquired through the blessings of God so Abraham said “Lot you know let’s don’t ruin our relationship for sake of a good relationship let’s make a decision that we’re just going to part ways right now.” And Lot you take you take the first choice where do you want to go Lot if you go to the right I’ll go to the left if you go to the left I’ll go to the right he said “Whatever you want Lot you have first choice.
” So Lot looked around and the Bible describes this one place eastward like a beautiful garden just lush i can only picture it looking like Hawaii or something they called it the well-watered garden of the Jordan well Lot saw that and it looked great to him so he said,”Abraham I’m heading eastward.” So Abraham turned the other direction and he went on his way now Abraham he didn’t walk into a lush garden the Bible says he walked into a lot of dirt and a lot of dust and listen to what God said to Abraham when he was standing in the middle of this plane that looked like a bunch of dirt and dust he said,”Abraham I want you to
lift up your eyes from where you are right now i want you to look beyond where you are right now.” You see God was saying,”Abraham don’t get a picture of this dirt and dust because it’s not your destination.” He said “Abraham I want you to look past the dirt and the dust and I want you to start meditating on what I have spoken over your life you will be a great nation people will be blessed all over the earth because of you Abraham.
