Quote
I challenge you to make your life a
masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what
they teach, who walk their talk. Tony
Robbins
Bible
Verse
Abram leaves his homeland Genesis
12:1-9
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. Genesis 12:2
Inspiration
The Voice translation and notes
12 One day, the Eternal
One called out to Abram.
Eternal One: Abram, get
up and go! Leave your country. Leave your relatives and your father’s home, and
travel to the land I will show you.[a] Don’t
worry—I will guide you there. 2 I have plans to make
a great people from your descendants. And I am going to put a special
blessing on you and cause your reputation to grow so that you will become a
blessing and example to others. 3 I will also bless
those who bless you and further you in your journey, and I’ll trip up
those who try to trip you along the way. Through your descendants,
all of the families of the earth will find their blessing in you.[b]
[Out of all the
descendants of Noah, God chooses Abram to have a special relationship with Him.
He calls Abram to enter into a particular kind of relationship that changes the
course of his life and the lives of his people forever. God has a plan to
rescue the world from sin and destruction, and that plan begins with one man.
He promises to make Abram a great nation, to bless and protect him, and
ultimately to bring true and lasting blessing to the world through his
children. To enter into that promise, Abram must do something daring; he must
leave everything he knows and put his trust in God.]
4-5 Without
any hesitation, Abram went. He did exactly as the Eternal
One asked him to do. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran. He took with
him his wife Sarai, his brother’s son Lot, all of their possessions, and all of
the persons they had acquired for their household while in Haran; and
they all set off toward the land of Canaan. When they reached Canaan, 6 Abram
kept going through it to a sacred place called Shechem where the oak of
Moreh stood. (At this time, the Canaanite people were living on this land, so
Abram could not take it as his own.) 7 There the Eternal
appeared to Abram.
Eternal One: I am going to give
this land to your future generations.[c]
So, out of honor and respect, there
Abram built an altar table to the Eternal One, who had appeared to him and
spoken these words of promise. 8 After that, Abram traveled
on to the hill country east of Bethel, and there he pitched a tent and made
a home for himself and his family between Bethel in the west and Ai in the east.
Here Abram built another altar table for the Eternal One, where he called upon
the name of the Eternal frequently. 9 Then Abram
journeyed south toward the Negev region.
Journaling
Abram was obedient to God’s instruction and stepped
out in faith to go somewhere new. You
may not have left your homeland but in what situations have you stepped out in
faith?
Technique
Challenge
Today’s technique is using watercolour
paint and salt. You can use table salt,
rock salt or dish washer salt. You don’t
need the clingfilm today so you don’t need to watch the second half of the
video. We’re going to do that technique
later in the month.
Today's PDF can be downloaded here.
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