, from your family And from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who
you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
“GENESIS 12:1-4 (NKJ)”
Then the Lord brought Abram outside beneath the night sky and told him, “Look up into the heavens and count the stars if you can. Your
. And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: “As for Me, behold, My
is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.”
“GENESIS 17:1-5 (NKJ)”
(as it is written – “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not
among us in this: that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
“1 JOHN 4:17 (NKJ)”
And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken. For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him—whom Sarah bore to him—Isaac. Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had
God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
“ROMANS 4:17-19 (NKJ)”