Faces of Fear: Do-Overs The Life of Abraham

Faces of Fear: D0-Overs 2 Key Things 1. Our ego affects our feelings 2.Guilt vs. Conviction -Guilt comes from Satan -Conviction comes from the Holy Spirit

When FEAR comes 1.God is with me and fully vested (Lift Up) 2.God empowers me (Look At) 3.God upholds me (Let Go) Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 12:1-3, Now the L ORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 12:1-3, I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 12:1-3, Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 12:1-3, and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live. 13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.” Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 12:1-3, When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 12:1-3, And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels. Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

FEAR of the Unknown -Self-Preservation We surrender the ultimate for the immediate -Compromise for a false-contentment -Take advantage of others in order to stay in control -Undermine God’s word

Genesis 15:1-6 1 After these things the word of the L ORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 15:1-6 2 But Abram said, “O Lord G OD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 15:1-6 4 And behold, the word of the L ORD came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.” Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 15:1-6 5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 6 And he believed the L ORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness. Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 16:1-8 1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 16:1-8 2 And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the L ORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 16:1-8 3 So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 16:1-8 4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress. Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 16:1-8 5 And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the L ORD judge between you and me!” Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 16:1-8 6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her. Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 16:1-8 7 The angel of the L ORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur. 8 And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai.” Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

FEAR of Not Mattering 1. We get ahead of God, by taking things into our own hand. 2. Draw attention to ourselves

Faces of Fear: Do-Overs FEAR of Not Mattering 3. We begin the “Performance Ploy” -Perfectionism -Avoidance of risk -Depression

Faces of Fear: Do-Overs FEAR of Not Mattering 4. We become “Approval Addicts” -People pleasing -Control freaks

Genesis 17:1-8 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the L ORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, 2 that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.” Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 17:1-8 3 Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, 4 “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 17:1-8 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you. Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 17:1-8 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Genesis 17:1-8 8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.” Faces of Fear: Do-Overs

Take-Aways… 1. God is never late. 2. Trust the unknown future to a Known God. 3. Trade your validation for God’s justification.