6. Most None of
us don’t receive
nearly what
God wants to
give us.
7. Jabez cried out to the God
of Israel, “Oh, that you
would bless me and
enlarge my territory!
Let your hand be with me,
and keep me from harm
so that I will be free from
pain.” And God granted his
request.
1 Chronicles 4:10 (NIV)
8.
9. So far. . .
• #1 Abraham prioritized
people over possessions.
• #2 Abraham dealt with stuff.
• #3 Abraham came up with a
shrewd solution.
• #4 Abraham understood the
concept of boundaries.
• #5 Abraham let others pick
first.
11. Lot looked up and
saw that the whole
plain of the Jordan
was well watered, like
the garden of the
LORD, like the land of
Egypt, toward Zoar.
12. (This was before the
LORD destroyed
Sodom and
Gomorrah.) So Lot
chose for himself the
whole plain of the
Jordan and set out
toward the east.
13. The two men parted
company: Abram
lived in the land of
Canaan, while Lot
lived among the cities
of the plain and
pitched his tents near
Sodom.
14. Now the men of
Sodom were wicked
and were sinning
greatly against the
LORD. The LORD said
to Abram after Lot
had parted from him,
15. “Lift up your eyes
from where you are
and look north and
south, east and
west. All the land
that you see I will give
to you and your
offspring forever.
16. “Lift up your eyes
from where you are
and look north and
south, east and
west. All the land
that you see I will give
to you and your
offspring forever.
17. “Lift up your eyes
from where you are
and look north and
south, east and
west. All the land
that you see I will give
to you and your
offspring forever.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23. I will make your
offspring like the
dust of the earth, so
that if anyone could
count the dust, then
your offspring could
be counted.
30. What is more, I
consider everything a
loss compared to the
surpassing greatness
of knowing Christ
Jesus my Lord, for
whose sake I have lost
all things.
31. I consider them
rubbish, that I may
gain Christ and be
found in him, not
having a righteousness
of my own that comes
from the law,
32.
33. I consider them
rubbish, that I may
gain Christ and be
found in him, not
having a righteousness
of my own that comes
from the law,
34. but that which is
through faith in
Christ--the
righteousness
that comes from
God and is by
faith.
35. I want to know Christ and
the power of his
resurrection and the
fellowship of sharing in
his sufferings, becoming
like him in his death, and
so, somehow, to attain to
the resurrection from the
dead.
36. Not that I have
already obtained all
this, or have already
been made perfect,
but I press on to take
hold of that for which
Christ Jesus took hold
of me.
37. Not that I have
already obtained all
this, or have already
been made perfect,
but I press on to take
hold of that for which
Christ Jesus took hold
of me.
38. Brothers, I do
not consider
myself yet to
have taken hold
of it. But one
thing I do:
48. Not that I have
already obtained all
this, or have already
been made perfect,
but I press on to take
hold of that for which
Christ Jesus took hold
of me.
55. Not that I have
already obtained all
this, or have already
been made perfect,
but I press on to take
hold of that for which
Christ Jesus took hold
of me.
