Bishop Joseph Walker III - "Jehovah Jireh"

Genesis 22 Wow Genesis 22 [Music] Genesis 22 ha little early world pleasure a Bible says in Genesis 22 now it came to pass after these things God tested Abraham and said to him Abraham and he said here my then he said take now your son your only son Isaac whom you love go to the land of Moriah and after there there you're there as offer him there as a burnt offering one of the mountains of which I will tell you so Abraham rose early in the morning saddled with the donkey and took two of his sons and he split the wood the burnt offering and rose went to the place which God had told him that on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off and Abraham said to his young men stay here with the donkey land and I will go up yonder and worship and he we will come back to you look at verse 13 the Bible says that Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by the horns Abraham went and took the RAM and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son and Abraham called the name of the place the Lord will provide and it is said to this day and the mountain of the Lord it shall be provided you may be seated in the presence of the Lord today I'm in part two of the series there is a name for that and I work today our name today is Jehovah Jireh the Lord will provide there those moments in all of our lives where our lives are divinely orchestrated by God in order that we might come into a greater revelation of who God is make no mistake about it God from time to time will impose his sovereign wield upon us in order to disrupt the normal sea of our lives that there were monkey wrench in our program in order to reveal to us more about himself when you meet you home a gyro you have to gone through some things to know that name you don't StumbleUpon to hope a giant you've been in some situations where your resources were depleted doors were closed opportunities with dried-up impossibilities we're staring you in your face somebody somebody came in a day and that's where you are in your situation you you have a need and and you come in today something pressing something pressing in your life and you're like lord I needed to happen because if it doesn't happen now I don't know how I'm going to make it but have you considered in this season that maybe this is a Divine Center why you're upset at other people for not coming through when you need there but not answering the phone or kinda help get through this crisis maybe you need to understand and maybe the Lord is setting you up to show you where your real help comes from that this delay is not a denial no no no no it is divine your weight is in the wheel of God and somebody sitting around you today can testify that God will provide make no mistake about it there are people all in this place that would have the uniform testimony that God is still in the providing business whatever your situation is you will find out you will meet him face to face his name is Jehovah Jireh you got a lack in your life as a there's a name for that bills had been paid yet there's a name for that you're trying to figure out how the situation's gonna get met there's a name for that it's called Jehovah Jireh the Lord will provide Abraham's life is one most fascinating stories of the Bible you really cannot even understand the Bible or any modern religion without understanding the life of father Abraham he is the father of the Christian faith is also if you didn't look at it carefully he wants to three world religions he wants to Islam and Judaism and Christianity Abraham is respected as the patriarch of the fate he is an amazing character to which God makes a promise to him in Genesis chapter 12 God tells this man he tells him get up out of your country from the familiar place and go to a land and I'm going to tell you Abraham now by faith must step out of his comfort zone out of the normalcy of his life god interrupts his whole plan and God tells him go and he gets up he takes a lot with him his nephew he then begins to take his wife Sarah and it is interesting because God makes a promise to him God tells him Abraham in you I'm gonna bless you so that all the nations of the world in your belly boy you don't realize that in your sea the nations of the world are going to be blessed Abraham whoever blesses you I'm going to bless whoever curses you I'm going to curse in you all the nations of the world shall be blessed what a mighty word spoken over a man's life here is Abram at in Genesis chapter 12 God pairs and Abraham I'm gonna bless you then God but sequentially tell him that I'm going to give you a male child that you must understand in a patriarchal culture that meaning a male dominated society to have a seat to have a male child was a major thing because you would pass down a patriarchal bloodline meaning that if you had a son your name would live forever it is a powerful thing until God tells Abram I'm going to give you a son but you have to recognize the context to which God tells Abram this because sometimes God will tell you he's going to do something and you think God had Factory in your situation Abraham is 99 years old his wife is 89 and here they are should be on their way to the gerontologist for a check-up and God is sending them by the gynecologist God can move like that here it is you must understand but now Abraham is looking and Sarah is laughing Sarah saying boy you by dead how in the world are we going to have a child like this and it's taken a long time Sarah's a little frustrated Sarah concocts our own little solution tails able to go in with made hacker and they have an issue Yale Ishmael represents the disobedience of Abraham and Sarah getting ahead of God at the Bible declares to us that but Ishmael is born Sarah gets a little hot she gets a little hot under the collar about it because Hagar is walking around her house with her husband's baby it's a drama y'all it's a crazy situation and all of a sudden now they end up putting Hagar out of the house and the Ishmael out of the house but yet Abraham had a promise that he would have a son Ishmael would not be that original promise Ishmael was a thing that represented getting ahead of God but then God would give Abraham a son in his old age imagine that that Sarah would give birth to Isaac Isaac was the promised child Isaac I say can you imagine what it must have looked like for Abraham when he finally healed Isaac in his arms can you imagine what that must have felt like to finally get the promise the thing I've been praying about the thing I've been believing God for here but he is right now God thank you you finally did it I knew you could do it you did it God you did that there he is there is Isaac and then all of a sudden now you must understand that God just a few chapters later tells Abraham Abraham I need you to do something I want you to take your son I want you to take what I just blessed you with and I want you to take him up to the mountain and I want you to sacrifice him on the mountain that I will tell you all that you must understand the sacrificial system of the Hebrew Bible that they had to go up on the mountain they had to take a sacrifice some kind of lamb a Bullock or Ock they had to go up with the RAM and they had to kill it and sprinkle the blood they had to have learned at the altar and the incense of the carcass would go up to the glory of God understand something had to die in a sacrifice unto God and here God is saying to Abraham Abraham I want you to take the thing you love the most the thing you pray for I want you to take your son Isaac the one that took you 99 years again I want you to take Isaac and I want you to kill him on the mountain I want you to sacrifice him to my glory and do you not know that there's somebody right now that God has made an unusual request of you he's asking you not for the thing that's easy but he's asking you to offer him up the thing that's difficult and people of God you will discover in your life that every now and then God takes us through providential tests everybody's gonna go through a test look at your neighbor say you're next you're next the Bible says that the Lord tested Abraham yes he did the Lord did there's some things that we like to blame on the devil and rightly so but you must understand people of God that in it's moments like this for God purpose for our lives to get us to the next level that the Lord did this the Bible said the Lord did this the devil had nothing to do with this one this was God this was God and somebody needs to understand right now that God is testing you and the test is personal because the test was so personal that nobody is privy to it but God and Abram understand this we oftentimes think people can make sense out of what's going on in our lives in this season and we become irritated and agitated because they don't talk to us a day they can't explain to us what's happening but God has purposely insulated you and isolated them from what you're going through because what you're going through has nothing to do with him this is between you and God that's just you got to go through this solo baby it's between you and God I'm sorry sometimes God will fix it but you got to work it out with him because here it is understand something but whenever God takes us through a test there were two things in particular you got to understand the first is this that God takes us through a test not for you right now but he's testing you for you not yet he is testing you based on what he's about to take you but the second thing is the real shouting news and that God never takes me through a test with our first measuring my capacity to handle what he takes me through God will never take you through something I left here sure you can handle what he's allowing you to go through some of you right now send all that sounds good Bishop but you don't know I'm about to lose my mind going through what I'm going through you need to really stop just for a second and look your life and what God has allowed you to go through and you really will give God glory if you really knew she's a fact you are listening to me right now in your right mind haven't jumped off a bridge meant that you could have have no stuff that you never thought you could have though I know you may have cried I know you may have been up all night long but you are here today and you don't even look like you've been through it look at your neighbor tell him you survived and tell them that's enough to give God I'm not popular any survivors here you survived it so God God God tests us to pull out of us to birth out of us things that otherwise would never come in up and out of us and so God now would take him and say I'm taking you to Mount Moriah the test is solely for Abraham sometimes if I'm being tested problematic because we misspoke James chapter 1 verse 13 that no man say when he is tempted he is tempted of God but that is not the test I'm talking about that is temptation that is why God will never put you in a tim tempting situation that's always of the devil but when it comes to tests when it comes to getting you to the next level it's always God because you got to know that God put Abraham in a situation Abraham and already given up Ishmael right now he's commanded to take Isaac to be sacrificed and this is an interesting thing because you must understand that yes are always assigned to help understand where we are in our level of growth people are got the higher the grade level the more will be required of the student God says I want to find out where you are I want you to know where you are in the process and God says I never take you to a test without there being a plan Abraham will be the father of many nations and many of us will be able to see the parallelism now that God would raise up what the alone is called a beautiful typology what the typology I'm glad you asked it is the idea that God will give you a similar look a glimpse at something else that would occur in Scripture it's called a typology here it is he was a beautiful picture and portrait of a father Abraham who was told to take his son Isaac up on a mountain and sacrifice him to prove how much he loved God and then watch the typology thousands of years later God would offer up his son on a hill called cavalry to show us how much he loved us then God always has a plan and he knows what he's doing and the earth is the testing ground for the activation of heavenly activities to move on our behalf in other words when you move heaven moves sometimes you're sitting there waiting on God to move and God is waiting on you to move God's got a plan for your life tell your neighbor God's got a plan for your life he got a plan for your life he had a plan for Abraham's life there were no random tests and the tests are designed to propel you to the next dimension the tests are designed to find out your readiness to get to the next dimension did you see what God says I do not promote you based on tenure that's what the world does God doesn't promote based on tenure God for most people because they pass tests you see that's what got someone to on your job about to lose their minds because you ain't been there longer than them but you got promoted over there but because you passed some tests that's why you want to thank God that you been through what you've been through because every time you come out of one test god promotion or something else huh am I talking to anybody here today Abraham has to go offer his son Isaac I want you to see it into the fascinating story Abraham now with his son Isaac God told us to go and sacrifice Isaac it's not even privy to what's going on it's Abraham we'll get to donkey and Abraham gets two men to assist him and they're now headed to the place where God would tell them and the Bible says and when he saw it afar way off when he saw it a far way on the Bible declares that when he saw the place where God told him to go he comes at the foot of the mountain I really want you to see this because this is strategic because now when it gets to the foot of the mountain where God told him to go Mount Moriah he demonstrates to us the power of prophetic trust what is prophetic trust it means that I trust God so much that I'm willing to go out on a limb and make a prophetic declaration about what God told me the Bible says that my - well he saw the mountain the statement in verse five I want you to see this it's in verse 5 Abraham said to the young men at the foot of the mountain stay here with the donkey and the lad meaning Isaac and I are going up they are younger and worship and if it is we will come back that's ok you have time to let that digest before we shout about it I'll be right back to that in just a second but I want you to understand something people have gone it's right here at the foot of the mountain but you must understand that what God does it gives us an opportunity to learn how to manage people because when you trust God you can know Logan that this is not the season for holding people's hands from your faith is being tested if you look left respectively at Abraham's life this is going to bless somebody Abraham and chapter 12 when he left his kindred house the Bible says he ended up bringing his nephew lot the living arrangement did not last long because lot departed ways and so now Abraham realized at this point in his life that when God said go he needed to be very strategic regarding who he would take with him you see when you live the little you recognize that this is an open invitation I'm going somewhere when you've lived a little you start recognize that everybody just can't go where you're trying to go used to be a time you say whoever want to come on come over now this part is invitation only touch your neighbor and tell them this is invitation only it's only people that have a certain pedigree only people have a same level of pain only people that's trying to go where I'm trying to go can get to this next level with me let me prove it to you because you'll discover something Abraham Abraham said I need y'all to stay here at the foot of the mountain why would God I would God to label him to leave the two young men at the foot of the mountain let me tell you why you need to leave some people at the foot of the mountain because when you go up Mount Moriah Mount Moriah is a high place it's a high place it's a place of elevation everybody can't survive in high places because the air gets dead there was a competition of breathing air and if you're not careful you become so concerned with trying to resuscitate people who out of breath because they came navigate at that level and you will miss your own assignment time that says suffocate other people and that's some of you right now you gotta just recognize something your crowd is going to get dinner the higher God takes you because the air is thinner I ain't got having you resuscitate you I got something to do either you can have it or UK don't know don't take it personally just stay at the foot of the mountain am i popular anybody of me I'll be back I ain't cut you oh I didn't tell you I'll be back just stay right there don't get upset if you don't hip a little too much chill out I'll be back but right through here ain't got time to be famous and nobody I got something touch to normal push this end enhance but not only that I need you to stay at the foot of the mountain not only because of that but I need you to stay at the foot of the mountain because only people going up the mountain got some in their hand the sacrifice Abraham got the knife Isaac got the wood and the fire what you got what you got on this ain't the season for you to be trying to y'all better heaven it's a two-seater you'd be trying to tag along ain't got none to your head hey I'm tired of folk training me what you got on this tell somebody I'm part of ndrine I'm tired of being training part of it taking advantage of I'm tired of people using me up I'm proud of you always loathed but never for a second in my life what you got on this [Applause] and stay here at the foot of the mountain it's really okay are you experiencing tests in your life it's really okay to tell people stay right there at the foot of the mountain but you need to understand that your your propelling your propeller trust is tied to a promise well do when you get home I want you to spend some time reading Genesis 17:1 to wait because God gives Abraham a promise regarding his posterity and longevity of his ancestry guard reaffirms to Abraham that your your bloodline will be uninterrupted well God if my bloodline is mine if my bloodline will be uninterrupted if if you telling me I'm gonna be the father of many nations and you just gave me Isaac for me to be the father of many nations and Isaac's got to have children and then Jacob my grandson's got to have children so you can't kill Isaac now and be true to your word see when a child of God gets a promise from God it's not matter what the situation looks like you just stop believing what God says you got sense enough to go out on a limb and remember that the promises of God are yeah and amen so when you get letter to go down and do it God tell you to do you gotta help you out dancing and look at people say listen I don't know how it's gonna happen I don't know how God don't do it how soon I don't do it but let me just tell y'all this we will be back to dancin people feeling sorry for you said oh lord it's over now I feel so solvent we gotta go through that low I just feel so so but the kitchen table they don't feel sorry for me tell them we'll be back tell them I may be rough right now but be back tell about may not have all the answers so the questions are will be back I may not know how it's gonna work out but someway somehow we will feel we'll be back somebody don't get this right here always remember God will never let you go up a mountain of sacrifice and come down with less than you wind up with I want to drop this mic and take a lap right now I'm gonna do I said God will never let you sacrifice and leave with less than you came with oh I was ahead of witness up in here today hey bruh him you have to proceed when it's tough you could only imagine what this looks like huh Abraham it's going up the mountain with this son Isaac knowing what Isaac does not know you have to regret this at an atmosphere you don't climb mountains without getting stronger what you're going through is going to make you so much stronger you don't even realize how your prayer life is getting stronger you don't even realize how your word is getting stronger you don't even realize what God is building up inside of you all the way up is the process the process that I I gotta go to it Apple after Billy put my faith into action because faith without works is dead I gotta go do it I'm going up this mountain I kind of promised some god I cannot pass laws you told me to do this Lord I'm gonna do it you you told me any behalf get to the top of the mountain and Isaac is Isaac is a strong teenager you got to get this and Isaac says in verse seven now daddy I've been sacrificed for you for some years now here mind that then he said daddy look I see the fire I see the wood but where is the lamb for the burnt offering it is who gone somebody say a word a word or word watch it Abraham says my God will provide himself a lamb God's going to do it and one of the most fascinating things in this scripture if you really look critically at it is that when Abraham that Clare that God would provide the lamb the tension inside the anxiety inside of Isaac left if you look at it carefully your natural proclivity as a human being is when you recognize some role is to be pens it to be tips Isaac says I heard you daddy I'm cool and if you really examine it Abraham put Isaac on the altar of sacrifice without Isaac resisted because when you speak a word over your sacrifice your sacrifice will obey you miss that I've learned to take out my time and speak a word and make my money obey God's Word I make stuff obey God's Word your problem is you your stuff is resisting what God's Word says but you gotta stop putting stuff in submission to what God say he put Isaac without resistance he put I what was civil you when you know what you there were you given on the way up the mound you like oh Jesus but when you get ready you're like okay I'm good because I got a word see Abraham took out his knife Abraham went to slay his son that you must understand Abraham wasn't like us one two in a hand no no no no Abraham had done this on many occasions he prepared his son like he would anything else and he took the knife out and he went forward motion with all of his power and the moment he began to go forward a voice of the Lord ever heard not your son do him no harm now I know let you you love me somewhere between here and there gods get me in you're sitting next to somebody that God worked a miracle between right here and right there between bill do an eviction between the diagnosis and surgery between unemployment and then put out God stepped in anybody can be a witness that God works between here let me tell you why you ought to be glad she showed up today getting ready release from in this house and the Bible says God said to Abram look over your shoulder and there was a ram this is going to bless you you have to look at this critically a ram caught in a thicket now truth be told a thicket is like a thorn bush like a little tree like you can break it with your hands but the ram's horns and a ram is the RAM I would have easily got out of the thicket but God arranged it so all you got to get this this is why I came to show you there's some things on Mount Moriah you need to understand why wouldn't God let the two boys assist Abraham up the mountain question why would God put something strong in something weak and make something weak hold it question reason why Abraham had to lead the lads at the bottom of the mountain Ram is behind him Isaac is incapacitated he's tied up Abraham's got a knife in his hand and all of a sudden there's a ram can't get out of some you got to really study the scripture to get this you bring sacrifices to Mount Moriah you go up the mountain with lambs Rams because when you get up there they don't exist you have to bring them up there how in the world did it get there well if the two boys had come I could have said well you know y'all and Misurata snuck this lamb up and until then no God fixed it so that when you see something somewhere and no human hand could have orchestrated you begin to recognize that could nobody else provide this but God that God set you up in such a way that God says when you see this next blessing your money then do it you'll agree to do it your family do it your friends and do it nobody hears this one but God I have an or thing I got some stuff held up for you and I put it there for you because you are faithful to me and God says all you got to do is look over your shoulder and what you need what you need is right behind you look at your neighbor some of you next breakthrough is right over your shoulder telling it about to come out of nowhere God about the bryggen no human hand will have anything to do with it in this season God can better to prove to you he share Houma Shirah [Music] Abraham took Assad Isaac off the altar got the RAM brought the round sacrificed the RAM a brunette I look all this place jehovah-jireh i remember when i was an undergrad and my mother hadn't come through yet and i was people to that little one in the final chain i was like is it there yet and they kept like I said now I said look again they say no sir I said please look one more time and she always found something I named that place [Music] get home ajar somebody you were looking for a job and we will get back with you will will get back with you will will get back with it but but somebody in the last few days they call you resent the job is yours you made that place I was ahead somebody here that could give God glory for providing for you I want you to stand I don't care what is lacking in your life this test is of God sometimes it ain't pretty sometimes it'll stretch you to make you doubt your own faith and God knows what he's doing easy one know what you still trusted but you're all perfect things you love the most to get more can you imagine Abraham and Isaac going back down the mountain like I told y'all I tried to tell y'all we'd be back that's what some of y'all haters need to hear right now I tried to tell y'all I'd be back

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Length: 35min 18sec (2118 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 14 2017