2015 7-day worship festival – day 3 – career / studies

THE BLESSING OF PROGRESSION

“What we cannot predict is the evolution

of behavior.”

Reference: The Single Most Important Trend

Each day globally, there are about 350,000 births and 400,000

iPhones sold.

Reference: The Single Most Important Trend

GENESIS 28:3

3 May God Almighty bless you and make you

fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community

of peoples.

GENESIS 27:46 (NIV)

46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm disgusted with

living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes

a wife from among the women of this land, from

Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”

GENESIS 28:1-2 (NIV)

1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him and commanded him:

"Do not marry a Canaanite woman.

GENESIS 28:1-2 (NIV)

2 Go at once to PaddanAram, to the house of your

mother's father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the

daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

GENESIS 28:4 (NIV)

4 May He give you and your descendants the

blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take

possession of the land where you now live as an alien, the land God gave

to Abraham.”

GENESIS 12:1-4 (NIV)

1 The Lord had said to Abram, "Leave your

country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will

show you.

GENESIS 12:1-4 (NIV)

2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will

bless you;

I will make your name great, and you will be a

blessing.

GENESIS 12:1-4 (NIV)

3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;

and all peoples on earth

will be blessed through you.”

GENESIS 12:1-4 (NIV)

4 So Abram left, as the Lord had told him; and

Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old

when he set out from Haran.

GALATIANS 3:13-14 (NIV)

13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for

us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who

is hung on a tree."

GALATIANS 3:13-14 (NIV)

14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing

given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles

through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might

receive the promise of the Spirit.

In Genesis 12:2,

God said “I will make you into a great nation” and

not “I will give...”

PSALM 16:5 (NIV)

5 “Lord, You have assigned me my portion

and my cup; You have made my lot secure.”

“We must not only know the promise of God but

we must know the God of the promise!”

BIG STATEMENT:

GENESIS 22:2

2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac,

whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah.

Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell

you about."

GENESIS 22:5

5 He said to his servants, "Stay here with the

donkey while I and the boy go over there. We

will worship and then we will come back to you."

“We must not only know the promise of God but

we must know the God of the promise!”

BIG STATEMENT:

ECCLESIASTES 3:1

1 There is a time for everything, and a season

for every activity

under heaven.

HEBREWS 10:23 (NIV)

23 Let us hold unswervingly to the

hope we profess, for He who promised is

faithful.