Hello, thank you so much for joining me today, forgive him 15.

The title of today's post is The Senior Partner.

Abraham was a dreamer, maybe one of the greatest ever.

God liked that about him.

At that time in history, he desperately needed a dreaming friend.

The Lord had been waiting for just the right dreamer to come along,

one he could partner with to recapture his dream.

These two friends walked together for many years, enjoyed a special

covenant with one another, and modeled for all of us the power and beauty of divine human

partnership. Their story begins in Genesis 12, where God initiates his plan by instilling a dream in Abraham.

He said, it says, now the Lord said to Abram, go forth from your country, from your relatives,

and from your father's house, to the land which I will show you,

and I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you.

Please notice that God began his journey with Abraham by appealing to his dreaming nature.

How fascinating is that?

I'm going to make you my partner in rescuing my dream, Abraham,

and I'm going to begin by giving you a dream.

Why? When looking for someone to help him recapture his dream, would God approach

it this way? He could have just demanded that Abraham do what he wanted, but the Lord is well aware

of the strength of our dreaming nature. He placed it there, after all, and also he loves it

when we dream. With this in mind, God knew that for this partnership to endure for a lifetime,

Abraham would need the freedom to release this God-given nature. It couldn't be a one-sided dream.

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