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(2026.01.11 · The Encouragement of the Holy Spirit)
God called Abraham and commanded him to leave his homeland, his people, and his father’s household, and to go to the land that God would show him. Abraham obeyed God’s word and left Ur of the Chaldeans with his family, stepping onto a path he had never walked before and could not control or predict in advance. He moved forward by faith, not by sight, heading toward the land of Canaan that God had pointed out to him. God told him to leave Ur because it was a Babylonian city, a place filled with idolatry and uncleanness. God wanted those who belong to Him to come out of the world and enter the land He had promised, set apart, and blessed. This shows Abraham’s obedience to God’s word and helps us understand that God’s will is always for people’s good—it is meant to redirect the course of a person’s life. Because Abraham responded to God’s call with obedience and faith, he received God’s acceptance and blessing.
When Abraham entered the land of Canaan, many Canaanites were still living there, and the land was full of idolatry, sorcery, sexual immorality, and other sins. Yet it was in such a place that God appeared to him and promised to give this land to his descendants. This reveals that even in darkness, light from God can still be seen, and it testifies that even in lands filled with corruption and evil, God remains in control. On a land stained by sin, God still gives people opportunities to repent and turn back to Him. Anyone who is willing to turn to God can still be accepted by Him, just as Rahab was—when she heard about what God had done, she turned to Him in faith. Therefore, what people should truly fear is not the darkness of the external environment, but a heart that refuses to turn to God and continues to live in darkness.
At the places where God appeared to him, Abraham built altars to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. By doing so, he acknowledged that the true ownership of the land belonged to God and declared that the One he relied on was the God who gives promises and rules over all things.
After that, Abraham moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent there. He did not settle down permanently or build a lasting home for himself, because he clearly knew that he was only a sojourner on this earth. Throughout his life, he kept moving, and every step was taken in the direction God showed him. Wherever he went, he built an altar to God and called on His name. Though outwardly he had no fixed dwelling, inwardly his heart had a clear direction. Abraham honored the Lord as supreme, made God the center of his life, and entrusted the road ahead, his future, and his hope entirely into God’s hands. He allowed God to rule over each day of his life and to lead the path before him. For what he was waiting for was not an earthly city, but the city with foundations, built by God—a better, heavenly homeland, the kingdom God has prepared, firm and unshakable.
Scripture
Hebrews
Chapter 11 Verses 8–10, 13–16
By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Leviticus
Chapter 20 Verses 22–26
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
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How do I pray?(the right prayer) ( Many popular methods of prayer are wrong;The name of God, “Jesus ” carries power, and it must be spoken in the very first sentence of your prayer.
Kneel with humility
Close your eyes to concentrate.
The first sentence should begin by saying, “In the name of the Lord Jesus I pray.”
Then
Praise the Lord by saying, “Hallelujah!”“Praise the Lord Jesus!”
Spend time to speak with God from your heart and ask Him to fill you with the Holy Spirit.
Conclude your prayer with, “Amen.”
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