Delayed on Purpose_Yetunde Arise ebook 2021

you unconditionally. Seek God again he will grant
you deliverance and total restoration.
For the fact that he is the father of faith doesn’t
mean he was flawless he has his pains too as we
could see in this story. Acknowledging our
humanity will help us appreciate the help of God.
it will equally help us quit boasting in self but
rather boast in God just like Paul says he will boast
in his infirmities that God’s power may rest upon
him. Receive grace to rise above the pain of
humanity.
A CUTTING AWAY
I am the Almighty God; walk before me and be
thou perfect… Neither shall thy name any more
be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham;
for a father of many nations have I made
thee…and I will make thee exceedingly fruitful,
and I will make nations of thee and kings shall
come. Genesis 17:1-6
Now it has been thirteen years since Abraham
gave birth to Ishmael and thirteen years since he
received a word from the Lord. The Lord spoke to
him now that he was ninety-nine years and he had
waited some 25years for the fulfillment of God’s
promise to him ‘I am the Almighty God; walk
before me and be thou perfect.’ God first gave
him the revelation of himself and then expressed
His expectation from him. Abraham I am the big
breasted God who can meet the need of all men, I
can do all things but you need to first walk
uprightly before me. God is also calling your
attention to deal with little sin that is eating your
vine.
Abraham had turn to put his trust in his flesh by
going in to Hagar. So, God made a covenant of
circumcision with him that every male child
among his family shall be circumcised. It occurs to
me that the cutting away of Abraham foreskin
actually purify him and make him trust God the
more for Isaac. God’s covenant shall be in his flesh
for an everlasting covenant (Col. 2:11). This is God
rendering help to Abraham to keep him and his
seed in remembrance of his covenant and to keep
them from trusting in their flesh but in Him alone.
God also change his name from ‘father of many’ to
‘father of many nations’. Many of his mockers
must have reproached him the more for a change
of name without result. They must have said when
you were father of many; you had no child is it not
now worst that you are calling yourself father of
many nations without having anything to show for
it just like they are mocking you too. Even your
mockers are working for your good. But Abraham
who against hope believed in hope, that he might
become the father of many nation. He ran with
God’s instruction, that very day he circumcised the
entire male in his family including himself. It was
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