Name Change Series Week 1: Abram->Abraham

Name Change Series

Week 1: Abram -> Abraham

Genesis 12:1-5 NIV

The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

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.[

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.”[b]

4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

Genesis 17:1-6 NIV

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty[a]; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. 2 Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.”

3 Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, 4 “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. 5 No longer will you be called Abram[b]; your name will be Abraham,[c] for I have made you a father of many nations. 6 I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.

Genesis 11:31 NIV

31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.

The Hebrew word for Harran means Crossroads.

Do you believe the words God has spoken to you?

Can you leave what you know for what God knows?

Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV

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“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

    neither are your ways my ways,”

declares the Lord.

9 

“As the heavens are higher than the earth,

    so are my ways higher than your ways

    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Harran-Crossroads

Canaan- Promised Land

Genesis 12:1 NIV

The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

Genesis 12:2-3 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.[

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.”

4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

What To Do When You Face A Crossroads Situation?

the implications

with the word of God.

your actions with your obedience to what He has said!