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Saturday, November 21, 2020

Responding to God's Rich Life Blessings Genesis 21: 1-8

Read the passage Genesis 1

v.1 1. Rejoice in God's fulfillment of long awaited promises.
(And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as He had spoken.)
Rejoice in the work of the Lord in your life.
Parents, consider the birth of your children as God's visitation to your lives.

v.1 2. Rejoice in the faithfulness of God's word.
(as He had spoken.)
Faith equates to trusting in truth which has fulfillment in/through Christ.

v.1. 3. Rejoice in the season of fulfillment.
   2 (…at the set time of which God had spoken to him.)

v.2 4. Rejoice in God's accomplishment of the impossible and in God's using you.
(For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age,)

v.3 5. Give direct associated meaning to those significant events of God's blessing to
  continually prompt your heart in rejoicing.
(And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him,whom Sarah bare 
to him, Isaac.)

v.4 6. Honor God's word with the fruit of His provision in dedication and loyalty.
(And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded 
                him.)
circumcision- the honor of covenant. Fathers, dedicate your child to the Lord; 
acknowledge God's new testament covenant and pray for/ yea, commit to your child's 
salvation.

v.5 7. Rejoice in the extension of God's abundant goodness beyond life limitations.
(And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.)
  Particularly, rejoice in the children of your youth. 

v.6   8. Rejoice in God's giving of rewarding pleasure to your life. Presently through your
                children.
(And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.) 

v.7 9. As a blessing for old age.
(And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given
  children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.)

v.8 10. Rejoice in the heritage given of Christ and in the life to come of continued blessing
  as God's plan is unfolded and extended through your children.
(And the child grew, and was weaned: …)
Abraham-Isaac-Jacob-12 sons-Israel-…Christ-spiritual seed
Psalms 127: 3 Rejoice that the pattern and plan is in God's sovereign hand.


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