Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
Genesis 22:1
Test
- a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something, especially before it is taken into widespread use.
Hebrew word- Hineni
(Here I am!)
Your greatest ability is your availability.
Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
Genesis 22:3
Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” 8Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
Genesis 22:7-8
But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 12“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
Genesis 22:11-12
Obedience leads you toward God;
disobedience drives you away from God.
How does God speak to us?
- Sometimes God directs us clearly.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?”
Luke 6:46
How does God speak to us?
- Sometimes God directs us clearly.
- Sometimes God guides us quietly.
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
Romans 8:14
How does God speak to us?
- Sometimes God directs us clearly.
- Sometimes God guides us quietly.
- Sometimes God grows us silently.
Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
Genesis 22:13-14
“Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. …”
Isaiah 58:9
“Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: [Hineni]. …”
Isaiah 58:9
When we obey, we obey the one who is asking,
not just what they ask.
And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed, saying “ Father if it your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.”
Luke 22:41-42
Jesus knew what He had to do, He heard His Father’s call,
and He was Hineni.