Genesis 12

Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation.

I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed."

So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoke to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the sould who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.

Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land. Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

He left there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.

Abram traveled, going on still toward the South. There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.

It happened, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look on. It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive. Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken ito Pharaoh's house.

He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and female donkeys, and camels. Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife? Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

Pharoah gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.

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God asked Abram to leave his hometown... Abram followed what He said... Hometown is always the one that majority hard to let go... yet Abram is so obey to God... although God didn't tell him where to go... faith on God is strongly needed... however, once He had talked to you, He will definitely pick up the responsibility on you from now onward...

God then promised to give him a great nation and also his name... and he will be a source of blessing but also curses if someone cursed him due to God's protection to Abram... God is really take good care of Abram... even Abram's enemy will become His...

God take care of Abram... prepare the best for him, and then lead Abram to Canaan... a land of bless and beuty... every step will be lead by God, the next step will only shown after you did the first... just behold and follow...

Later on, Lot became Abram's problem... this is because Abram didn't listen to God 100%... He had told Abram to get out from his relative but Abram bring Lot along with him...

But Abram lost his confident when there is a famine... a blessed person shouldn't be facing this kind of problem... but that's not the point... the faith of Abram for God had lost!!... Suffering in this world is actually to draw us closer to God... as we seek for His help, totally depend on Him...

No one is fail suddenly... they always forward to failure slowly... just like Abram... he wasn't fail when he reach Egypt but from he traveled southward onward... when physically needs couldn't be fulfill, tests started...

Abram went to Egypt without asking God and just simply leaved the land given by God... although this won't affect the inheritance of the land... Abram ask Sarai tell lie to let him get alive due to people may kill him before have his beautiful wife as their own wife...

:( ... our 'father of faith' - Abram once leave the land given by God, can't even protect himself but need wife for protection... and also his wife's loyalty is not in his mind too... ( T.T so sad to become his wife...) Always remember that, having crime is the "result", leaving God is the "reason"...

Pharoah later on being plagued because of will to get marry with Sarai as it is from God...

Abram didn't fight back to Pharoah because he do knows himself hid part of the truth... Sometimes people may think of telling a lie once in a while to save himself from the circumstance, but they do not that Satan will keep holding this and wave it in front of them in the future...

Beside, he failed to control himself from getting the not 'cleaned' stuffs from Pharoah... and this may block bless from God to Abram...

Faith on God always being tested by either God Himself of Satan... no matter who are they, we should always take care of our own mind and keep a good relationship with God... and make sure whenever anything happen, just stay calm and ask help from God... I am sure He will lend His hand's' out for you on the spot... everything will be in His control... once He had started His "project", He will handle it, until it had done, and end perfectly...

Being blessed is because Jesus Christ keep holding us hardly... keep touching us, and call us...

May God bless each and everyone of us like he blessed Abram last time...

* Christian can be rich... but the point is what kind of mind of you for it?... for those who have wife, have to be like without wife... for those who have something have to be like without something...

* Bethel = God's house
Ai = flesh
Altar = from heaven to earth
Tent = place God meet with people

Abram first had an altar after God appeared to him... to make sure the relationship with God... then he had a tent between Ai and Bethel... for a correct behave in life... next he had another altar again... to lead him "in" the correct path... Abram place the tent in the middle is to face the flesh and keep the connection with God through altar and Bethel in order to enjoy the fullness from God...