#278 – He Will Make Your Paths Straight (Genesis 26:1–2)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 15 May 2018
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:05.7 | Genesis chapter 26, verses 1 and 2. |
| 0:10.1 | Say now there was a famine in the land, |
| 0:12.9 | besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham, |
| 0:15.9 | and Isaac went to Garar, to Abimala, king of the Philistines, |
| 0:19.7 | and the Lord appeared to him and said, |
| 0:23.2 | Do not go down to Egypt. |
| 0:25.6 | Dwell in the land of which I shall tell you. |
| 0:29.8 | These verses are a great picture of God's kind providence |
| 0:37.3 | in the way he leads and guides our lives. |
| 0:42.6 | Like I think about Isaac in this situation. |
| 0:45.2 | There's famine in the land. |
| 0:46.3 | He's wondering, where do I go? |
| 0:47.5 | What do I do to provide for my family? |
| 0:50.3 | And God comes to him and says, here's where you don't go. |
| 0:54.0 | Don't go down to Egypt. |
| 0:55.7 | Dwell in the land of which I shall tell you. |
| 0:58.3 | And then the verses that follow after that, he just reiterates, promise after promise, |
| 1:02.7 | that God's going to bless Isaac as Isaac trusted him. |
| 1:06.3 | Just like Abraham trusted in God and obeyed his voice, his commandments. He's calling Isaac to do the same |
| 1:13.7 | thing. And God is promising to Isaac, I will lead and guide and direct your lives. I just, I think this is a |
| 1:21.6 | living illustration of Proverbs 3, 5, and 6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, don't lean on your own understanding |
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