You do know that, as a believer, you’re a spiritual descendant of Abraham, don’t you? The Bible makes it very clear: “If ye be Christ’s,” Galatians 3:29 says, “then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
Obviously, if you’re an heir of the promise God made to Abraham, and his promise included land, that means yours does too. It means God has real estate and an abundance of earthly wealth set aside for all of us, and He wants you to have your portion. He wants you to follow in “the steps of that faith of our father Abraham” (Romans 4:12), walk in the same blessing, and help God get His property back!
“But Gloria, there’s no way I could ever prosper like Abraham did. I come from a poor background and don’t have much of anything. I don’t have much education. How could the Lord make me a wealthy landowner?”
Abraham probably wondered the same thing. After all, he didn’t have any land either once he did what God told him and left his home in Ur. Nor did he have any children. His wife, Sarah, was barren. Yet despite those contrary circumstances, when Abraham got to the land of Canaan, God said to him: “Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered” (Genesis 13:14-16).
To Abraham, such things sounded impossible. He saw no way the entire land of Canaan could ever be his. So, he said, “O Sovereign LORD, how can I be sure that I will actually possess it?” (Genesis 15:8, "New Living Translation").
God answered by telling Abraham to prepare an animal sacrifice. Then, once the animals were slain and their blood shed, God manifested Himself as a burning torch and walked up and down in the blood of those animals. In other words, He backed up His promise to Abraham with a covenant of blood.
What does that have to do with you and your life?
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