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Commented by Cindy Tutsch:
"Ellen White's empowerment of youth for evangelism and service in this chapter thrills my soul! I have been in youth ministry for all of my career, serving in various capacities such as conference youth director, developing strategies and resources to help youth understand the value of Ellen White's messages, directing student literature evangelism programs, teaching religion classes and serivng as youth pastor. In these ministries, I have discovered that many times our youth are overentertained and underchallenged. This chapter helps us understand the sacred responsibilities God would have us give to youth today. However, to succeed in spiritual leadership, our youth need careful training, mentoring, and discipling. We must provide opportunities for youth to serve, invite them individually to accept leadership challenges, affirm them in their abilities, and then carefully, patiently teach them how to carry out responsibilties. This calls for time, effort, patience, tenacity, and love on the part of parents, teachers, and church leaders. Youth and young adults today are distracted by a world headed for perdition and a devil eager to offer them glittering temptations. It is imperative that we show a much greater interest in the youth of our churches than we have in the past. The Lord will grant us the strength, compassion, and skill to work with the youth in response to our earnest prayers of faith." Cindy Tutsch
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Commentary by Kathlyn Mayer:
"While Abram doubted God’s promise, God continued reminding him of His covenant. God changed Abram’s name to Abraham to reflect how God saw he would become—“a father of many nations.” Sarai’s name was changed to Sarah, reflecting her future as well. God wanted their names, their very identity, to be wrapped up in His miraculous promise. God sees us as who we will become even when we cannot see it ourselves. It is in this intimate moment of reassurance that God gives Abraham instructions for fulfilling his side of the covenant. Through the physically altering commitment of circumcision, each male descendant and household member would bear the mark of the promise. Abraham didn’t question this command. Instead, he expressed doubt Sarah would conceive. Abraham couldn’t fathom the fulfillment of God’s promise, and presented his own offering, asking for that to be enough. While God graciously blessed Ishmael, He made it very clear the covenant was meant for Sarah’s future son, Isaac. God maintained that he could do the impossible. We too often struggle to accept God’s far-reaching promises, and while God will bring something out of our mistakes, He never forgets the original promise He made." ❤️ Jump to Daily Bible Reading https://www.revivalandreformation.org/bhp/en/bible/gen/17 Our accounts in other social networks:
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Commentary by Kathlyn Mayer:
"It’s easy for us, the readers, to inwardly chastise Sarai and Abram for being impatient. After all, we know that in five chapters Isaac will be born and then the couple gets their long awaited happy ending. However when it comes to our own lives, we often struggle with the same basic challenge of the Christian walk—waiting. Waiting to see God’s promises come to fruition can feel like one of the hardest periods in our life. From our viewpoint the wait appears long, and we justify fulfilling the promise in our own way. We think maybe God wants us to do something to make things happen. When we don’t trust God’s timing, we hurt ourselves and we inevitably also affect the lives of those around us. Yet we serve a God who doesn’t abandon us to our hasty choices.
God didn’t sugarcoat to Hagar what Ishmael’s future relationships were going to become as a result of his parents’ decisions and his own. At the same time God chose to bless the child, as Abram’s son, with many descendants. God hears our cries of misery, whether they are of our own or others’ making. He doesn’t turn a deaf ear." ❤️ Jump to Daily Bible Reading https://www.revivalandreformation.org/bhp/en/bible/gen/16 Our accounts in other social networks:
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Commentary by Kathlyn Mayer:
"Abram is just like us. When we read the Bible promises we too wonder how we can know they will be fulfilled. In examining God’s response to Abram’s questions, we see God’s patience. God humbled Himself, reaching out to Abram on his level. When God asked for the specific animals, Abram understood what God was doing. God was following the cultural traditions of a contract between two entities of Abram’s day. He was making a blood pact. The flame of God passing between the animals was God’s promise He would come through for Abram. When Abram was sleeping, God revealed to him the future of his descendants. God told him it would take centuries before the promise would be realized. God chose to bring Abram into His circle of knowledge, as a friend. The same God of Abram is our God today. Through Jesus’ death on the cross we have our own blood pact with God. His resurrection is our assurance that God is alive and has redeemed us. Through the scriptures God laid out the future of the human race. This culminates in the promise that He will come back to take us home to heaven. ❤️ Jump to Daily Bible Reading https://www.revivalandreformation.org/bhp/en/bible/gen/14 Our accounts in other social networks:
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Commentary by Mark Finley:
"Lot’s choice to settle near the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah placed him in serious danger. When Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, united with his heathen allies and attacked Sodom, Lot was taken captive. Hearing the tragic news, Abraham marshaled his forces to deliver Lot. It is remarkable that Abraham did not lay blame on Lot for the choice he made to settle near Sodom. Neither did he exhibit an attitude of superiority and let Lot suffer the consequences of his poor choices. There are times that love acts recklessly. Love pursues, seeks, and wins back those who make poor choices. Certainly there are times for people to face the result of their choices but there are also times for love to act in spite of the choices others make. It is well to note that when Abraham returned from the battle, he gave a tithe of the spoils to Melchizedek, the “priest of God the Most High”. In faithfully returning tithe, Abraham acknowledged the blessings of God upon his life. There is one other remarkable act of Abraham in this chapter we must not miss. Abraham refused to take even “a sandal strap” of the spoils for himself. He gave everything his men captured to the King of Sodom. Unselfish hearts and giving spirits open the channels of heaven’s storehouse of blessings to flow to us." ❤️ Jump to Daily Bible Reading https://www.revivalandreformation.org/bhp/en/bible/gen/14 Our accounts in other social networks:
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