Pastor Stephanie
GENESIS 21:33-34 CEB
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and he worshipped there in the name of the LORD, EL OLAM. Abraham lived as an IMMIGRANT in the Philistines’ land for a LONG TIME.
Worship involves planting and giving.
GENESIS 22:2 CEB
God said, “Take your son, your only son whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him up as an entirely burned offering there on one of the MOUNTAINS that I will show you.”
GENESIS 22:8 CEB
Abraham said, “The LAMB for the entirely BURNED OFFERING? GOD WILL SEE TO IT, my son.” The two of them walked on together.
Today, from Heaven means the Word of God.
Jesus come to show us the Kingdom of Heaven.
God doesn't want our money and sacrifice.
He wants to give to us.
Always looking up, never look down.
GENESIS 22:14 CEB
Abraham named that PLACE “THE LORD SEES.”
That is the reason people today say, “On this mountain THE LORD is SEEN.”
GENESIS 22:14 KJV
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day,
In the MOUNT of the LORD it shall be SEEN.
H3070 Jehovahjireh
Original: יהוה יראה
Transliteration: yehôvâh yir'eh
BDB Definition:
Jehovah-jireh = "Jehovah sees"
symbolic name given by Abraham to Mount Moriah in commemoration of the interposition of the angel of Jehovah who prevented the sacrifice of Isaac and provided a substitute
Strong's Definition: From H3068 and H7200;
Jehovah will see (to it); Jehovah-Jireh, a symbolical name for Mt. Moriah:- Jehovah-jireh.
God will see to it.
The "IT" here refers to the provision of the burnt offering.
GENESIS 22:15-16 CEB
The LORD’s messenger called out to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, “I GIVE MY WORD as the LORD that BECAUSE you DID this and DIDN’T hold back your son, your only son,
GENESIS 22:17-18 CEB
I will BLESS you RICHLY and I will GIVE you COUNTLESS descendants, as MANY as the STARS in the sky and as the GRAINS of SAND on the seashore. They will conquer their enemies’ cities. All the nations of the earth will be blessed BECAUSE of your descendants, BECAUSE you OBEYED ME.”
Tithing is giving back to God what belongs to Him.
GENESIS 25:11 KJV
And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the WELL LAHAI-ROI.
In the Bible, water speaks of life, Holy Spirit.
Do not live out of the well. No more living Word.
Always having water which is the well.
GENESIS 16:13-14 AMPC
So she called the name of the Lord Who spoke to her, You are a God of SEEING, for she said, Have I [not] even here [in the wilderness] looked upon HIM WHO SEES ME [and lived]? Or have I here also seen [the future purposes or designs of] HIM WHO SEES ME? Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi [A well to the Living One Who SEES ME]; it is between Kadesh and Bered.
God sees Hagai in her suffering yet still gracious to her.
H883 Beer-lahai-roi
Original: בּאר לחי ראי
Transliteration: be'êr lachay rô'ı̂y
Phonetic: be-ayr' lakh-ah'ee ro-ee'
Beer-lahai-roi = "WELL of the LIVING ONE seeing ME"
WELL of a LIVING (ONE) my SEER;
Beer-lachai-roi, a place in the DESERT:- Beer-lahai-roi.
DIFFERENCE between Abraham's naming of the place, "Jehovahjireh יראה " and Hagar's calling the Lord, "EL Roi ראי ”.
First Difference :-
Jehovahjireh - יהוה יראה
EL Roi - אל ראי
Origin - râ'âh ראה - - see
YAHWEH will SEE to IT (the lamb sacrifice), or
YAHWEH will be SEEN here
EL ROI - You are the God who SEES (Hagar's case - SEES HER)
Second Difference -
ABRAHAM was in a MOUNTAIN
GENESIS 22:2 KJV
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him THERE for a burnt offering upon one of the MOUNTAINS which I will tell thee of.
HAGAR was in the WILDERNESS - DESERT
GENESIS 16:7 KJV
And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the WILDERNESS, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
SHUR = "wall", a region of the Desert:
Third Difference :-
GOD was testing Abraham's FAITH - initiated by God
Whereas HAGAR was running away from Sarah because she could not take the harsh treatment. - initiated by her flesh but God was merciful and gracious to her.
One is of FAITH.
The other is of GRACE.
GENESIS 21:1 CEB
The LORD was attentive to Sarah just as he had said, and the LORD CARRIED OUT just what HE HAD PROMISED HER.
JESUS didn't build a Casino
He built a Church.
Casino - you go there to try your luck.
CHURCH - you are the Church, a group of BELIEVERS - SAINTS who LIVE by FAITH NOT by luck.
Who live their ordinary lives on earth as EXTRAORDINARY SONS and DAUGHTERS of JEHOVAHJIREH BY FAITH through JESUS CHRIST!
HE WILL SEE TO IT THAT IF WE BELIEVE HIS PROMISES AND ACT UPON THEM IN FAITH, HE WILL DO ACCORDINGLY.
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