Week 1: Follow Me and Multiply
“Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 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. 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.””
Abraham’s promise becomes ______________ promise.
1. Am I really _________________________ God?
How John Calvin summarized God’s call to Abraham “Just close your eyes and __________________.”
Many people want to follow God without getting out of the _______________________.
At some point, you have to make your ___________________ to follow God.
2. Where is my _______________________________?
This is the equivalent of God telling us to walk away from our careers ____________________________.
Here’s the one sure way to know what part of your life you don’t really trust God in—it’s the place you won’t offer him ___________________________.
3. Have I offered my blessing back to God to be ____________________ for his kingdom?
God is a good father who loves to give gifts to his children, but he doesn’t give us blessings simply for us to ______________ them.
He blesses us so that we can offer those blessings ____________________, so that he can multiply those blessings in the lives of others.
“He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.”
No matter who you are, or what season God has put you in, he has given you __________________________.
Jesus one day observed a woman who put in only two pennies into the offering (2 mites). She probably didn’t feel financially blessed. But Jesus said she gave ________________________ because she took what God gave her and multiplied it.
“He will increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which, through us will produce thanksgiving to God.”
God presents Abraham, and you, with a stark choice: Hold on to what you have, and you’ll end up _______. Offer it without restriction to God, and you’ll be _________.
Three crucial discipleship questions:
- Have you really fully ________________ to him?
- What do you most __________________?
- What ________________ are you primarily living for?
Calling you to sacrifice is never ______________, for you or me.
God, multiply me. I’m ready to _____________.