{"id":19574,"date":"2014-05-09T00:25:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T04:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=19574"},"modified":"2014-05-09T00:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T04:00:48","slug":"god-will-provide-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/09\/god-will-provide-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"God Will Provide the Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"

And Isaac said to Abraham, My father! And he said, Here I am, my son. <\/span><\/strong>
\n[Isaac] said, See, here are the fire and the wood, <\/span><\/strong>
\nbut where is the lamb for the burnt sacrifice?<\/span><\/strong>
\nAbraham said, My son, God Himself will provide a lamb for the burnt offering. <\/span><\/strong>
\nSo the two went on together. <\/span><\/strong>
\nGenesis 22:7-8<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We all know the story. \u00a0Abraham is asked to give the ultimate sacrifice. \u00a0He obeys and, at the last minute, as Abraham is about to kill his son…God stops him. \u00a0He hears a word from the Lord. \u00a0It was a test to see if Abraham was willing to be obedient, and he was.<\/p>\n

It’s almost beyond our comprehension, right? \u00a0That we would take our child by the hand and lead them to a place where we knew we would take his life. \u00a0Abraham truly loved God and trusted Him above all else. \u00a0He knew that if God made a covenant with him that He would follow through. \u00a0Remember, Isaac was the promise that Abraham would be the father to many nations. \u00a0But how would that happen if God was telling Abraham to kill Isaac? \u00a0Abraham believed that God would provide. \u00a0As the two walked up the mountain, Abraham trusted His Creator. \u00a0Abraham built the altar…still no word from God. \u00a0He laid Isaac on the altar…God still had not provided. \u00a0 Abraham took the knife to sacrifice his son…and still no provision. \u00a0Then a word from God came, saying the sweetest words that Abraham had ever heard, telling him not to lay a hand on Isaac.<\/p>\n

But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said,
\nAbraham, Abraham! He answered, Here I am.
\nAnd He said, Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him;
\nfor now I know that you fear and revere God,
\nsince you have not held back from Me
\nor begrudged giving Me your son, your only son.
\nVerses 11 and 12<\/p>\n

Abraham then saw a ram and offered it up to God. He even called the very place, “The Eternal One Will Provide.”<\/p>\n

In verse 8, Abraham states, “…God will Himself provide the lamb….” \u00a0What is it that God is asking you to do today? \u00a0Is it something you are putting before God that He’s asking you to sacrifice? \u00a0Maybe it is your time. I know today He asked me to step out of myself and do flood relief cleanup. \u00a0Oh yes, it was a beautiful day on the beach, the last pretty day for a while and I would’ve loved to relax but I knew my time was better spent helping clean houses that were still saturated.<\/p>\n

Friend, if this is you and you don’t know what God is asking or telling you He wants you to give up, I encourage you to spend some time at His feet, praying and seeking His will for your life. \u00a0Prepare your heart to hear and then be obedient. \u00a0It may be a test—like Abraham’s—or it may be for your own good. But this we know for sure…it will be for His glory!<\/p>\n

\u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0*<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us pray<\/strong><\/span>: \u00a0Dear Lord, thank You for always providing a lamb. \u00a0We are in awe of Your love for us and Your sovereignty. \u00a0Thank You for guiding us and asking us to do Your will. \u00a0And that we can have faith that no matter what…You have our best interest at heart. \u00a0Your will is perfect and I hope that I would lay down my life to serve You. \u00a0Help us to listen, and prepare our hearts to be willing to serve You. \u00a0We love You so much! \u00a0In Your Son’s name we pray, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And Isaac said to Abraham, My father! And he said, Here I am, my son. [Isaac] said, See, here are the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt sacrifice? Abraham said, My son, God Himself will provide a lamb for the burnt offering. So the two went on together. Genesis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6228],"tags":[6271,338,1287,6274,6273,425,589,791,5493,4683,938,6272,5245],"class_list":["post-19574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encouragement-2","tag-abraham-and-isaac","tag-encouragement","tag-gch","tag-genesis-2211-12","tag-genesis-227-8","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-kim-spring","tag-prayer","tag-provision","tag-sacrifice","tag-scripture","tag-testing-of-faith","tag-walking-with-god","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-55I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19579,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19574\/revisions\/19579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}