Gen. 22: 1 - 18 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. (2) And He said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. (3) And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. (4) Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. (5) And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. (6) And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together (7) And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? (8) And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. (9) And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. (10) And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. (11) And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. (12) And He said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from Me. (13) And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. (14) And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. (15) And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, (16) And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: (17) That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; (18) And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed My voice. Notice verse 17, God sanctified Abraham's seed, Isaac unto righteousness. Whereas if Abraham had disobeyed and witheld Isaac, he would have most definitely have lost him.

This Abrahamic principle, as I call it, is the most important principle of operation in God�s Kingdom. It is based totally on faith and trust in Jehovah-jirah to provide all that is needed concerning His children. It�s no accident Abraham is called the father of faith. This one act of obedience in Gen. 22 sealed his covenant with God and set this great misunderstood mystery of God�s Kingdom called faith into motion for mankind. This act of Abraham wasn�t something he came up with to please God. Abraham was starting to hold Isaac in higher regard to God. This is the most important principle for us today to walk by faith. If we have made up our hearts and minds to follow Jesus in His footsteps, anything we hold in higher regard to the Father will be required of us. God will require us to spiritually offer up all that we venerate above Him.

Jesus said in Lk. 14: 26 & 27 If any man come to Me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. (27) And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after Me, cannot be My disciple. This in no way means we have to literally hate or disown our family. What it does mean if we love our family or our own life more than God, we cannot follow Him. God doesn�t consider or honor sacrifices we offer on our own, thinking they'll please Him. What He does consider as perfect sacrifices are sacrifices of obedience or ones He commands us to offer. These sacrificesc are spiritual. Which is the sacrifice of praise, worship, and humilty and a complete trust in His will for us and our family's life. Spiritually sacrificing ourselves and our family to God. This is done by praying, Dear Father, I commit myself and my loved ones into Your hands to be of service to Your will, nothing more, nothing less, nothing else at any cost. This at any cost is the most important part of this prayer. We have to be prepared to walk up to Mount Moriah with our sacrifice, lay it on the altar and raise the knife to its throat. This is not for God to find out if we will obey. It's for us to see we trust God to do whatever he has to do to fulfill the promise. This is all Abraham stood on. He remembered God's promise and knew He would fulfill it.

These sacrifices I do believe are the hardest to offer continually because of pride, and the carnal uncertainty and inconsistency of this fleshly walk, but it is one that we are commanded to offer. We venerate ourselves and our loved ones above God and in doing that we withold them to our care, not His. And this is ridiculous, we can't protect them as He can. When we pray, God's will, nothing more, nothing less, nothing else at any cost we commit them into His hands to do whatever He wants. This is a scary thought to someone just learning this principle, when you don't know and trust your Father. But it is a complete place of heart peace when you do.

Heb. 13: 15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His name. This is another sacrifice that completely pleases God and one that we are commanded to offer in Psalms 51: 15 - 17 (amp) O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise. (16) For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in burnt offering. (17) My sacrifice (the sacrifice acceptable) to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart (broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent), such, O God, You will not despise. These two sacrifices, trusting God's will and praise are the roots of our faith walk. There can be no faith in our lives without them. Faith and humility, how can this be any simpler?

We as God�s children from the beginning of time have always tried to shut God out of our lives and make our own way. This Babylonian system of economy that man has set up was established to separate ourselves from God�s grace. God never intended it to be this way. He wanted us to depend totally on Him for all our needs and if we had to, we could trade with other people for the things we didn�t have. They in turn would trade with others for what they needed, all the while God is moving and positioning all the goods needed so all would have the necessities for life. God's barter system. Jehovah-jirah at His best. All would be blessed with exactly the goods they needed because God is doing the planning. Man in his wisdom said, God we don�t need you any longer. I�ll set up a system where mammon will supply all my needs. And since we know our Father will have nothing to do with mammon, He was shut out of His children�s life concerning physical needs. This way of operating has usurped Faith. There is no need for Faith concerning physical provisions. Now when it comes to things that mammon can�t buy, we run back to The Throne Room and suddenly we need our Father again. We didn�t need Him when we trusted in money, the god of this world. All was well then. But let us get sick, or a natural disaster or grief arise from someone on a death bed, and we suddenly need Him again. We�re a pitiful lot.

The parable of The Dishonest Steward explains this Lk.16. 1 - 13 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. (2) And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. (3) Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? For my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. (4) I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. (5) So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
(6) And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. (7) Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. (8) And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. (9) And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. (10) He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. (11) If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? (12) And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? (13) No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

This is clear and very simple. If we trust in money and worldly possessions, money and worldly possessions will be our provider and deliverer from lack and hardship. Just the opposite is true. If we trust in Christ for all our needs, Christ has promised us He would be our Deliverer from this fleshly carnival we�re on. It all is dependent where we put our faith. Just as it was to the unjust steward. God has made it real simple for us to follow. We in our self-sustaining, prideful struggle have complicated ourselves right out of God�s loving hands.

This same principle, Jesus taught on in Jn. 12: 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. The Amplified translation says it this way, Anyone who loves his life loses it, but anyone who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. (Whoever has no love for, no concern for, no regard for his life here on earth, but despises it, preserves his life forever and ever.) This is saying, if Abraham loves Isaac more than God, he will lose him. If he gives him over to God and gives up his concern for him, then he will get him back sanctified unto righteousness. This same principle is illustrated in Jn. 10: 17 Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again. The Amplified Bible says this For this (reason) the Father loves Me, because I lay down My (own) life---to take it back again.

This is a very easy principle to operate by. It's the only principle as far as God is concerned. All other principles in the Kingdom of God stem from this one. And it is vital we understand it. It's based solely on Faith in Jehovah-jirah. It's just as His name says GOD WILL PROVIDE THE RAM.

I BID HEART PEACE AND ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSING UNTO YOU FROM HIS THRONE OF GRACE!