Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe God has amazing

things in your future. I hope you enjoy this message.

I've never heard the term a self-made man. Usually it refers to someone who had nothing and

became wealthy and influential all on his own. Usually it's one of those rags to

riches stories. We've all heard them read about them, seen them on TV. But today I want to talk

about a man who became wealthy, influential, and he was a legacy lever on this earth. Now this man

was not a self-made man. His label read God made man. He was a God made man. And the reason I say

and describe him as a God made man is because God spoke to him and said something very significant

to him. Now this man's name is Abraham. Yeah, Abraham, the father of our faith, the one we read about

in Genesis. He was a God made man in Genesis 12, too. He was living in a land where his father had

settled. His relatives were all there. When God spoke to him, he said this to him. He said, Abraham,

I want you to leave the land of your father and I want to take you to a land that I will show you

and I want to make you into a great nation. What God spoke to him was I want to take you and I want

to make you. That's why Abraham wears the label God made man because he willingly trusted God

to take him somewhere. He didn't know he was even going where he was even going and he trusted God

to make him able to do what God had called him to do. Now God said this to Abraham. He said Abraham,

I'm going to make you wealthy. I'm going to make you a blessing and I will make you where you bless

other people. He said I'm going to make you a great nation and all the people on earth will

be blessed because of you. Listen, I'd rather wear a God made man label any day, wouldn't you?

That sounds good to me, didn't it? I want to make you and you see he willingly went and obeyed

God and God fulfilled his promises to Abraham and today that willing God made man allowed you and I

to stand in the place we stand today as believers in Jesus Christ because he told Abraham that I'm

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