Faith, Family and the Glory of God

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Faith, Family and the Glory of God

• Genesis 16

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Faith a call to persevere in faith and patience
waiting for God

• Genesis 122 And I will make of you a great
  nation, and I will bless you and make your name
  great, so that you will be a blessing.
• Genesis 127 To your offspring I will give this
  land.
• Genesis 1315-16 I will give to you and to your
  offspring forever. I will make your offspring
  as the dust of the earth, so that if one can
  count the dust of the earth, your offspring also
  can be counted.
• Genesis 154-5 This man shall not be your heir
  your very own son shall be your heir. Look
  toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are
  able to number them. So shall your offspring
  be.

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Faith a call to persevere in faith and patience
waiting for God

• Genesis 1130 Now Sarai was barren she had no
  child.
• Genesis 1811 Now Abraham and Sarah were old,
  advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to
  be with Sarah.

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Faith a call to persevere in faith and patience
waiting for God

• Psalm 1273 Behold, children are a heritage from
  the LORD,
• the fruit of the womb a reward.
• Psalm 13913 For you formed my inward parts
• you knitted me together in my mothers womb.
• Isaiah 442 Thus says the LORD who made you,
• who formed you from the womb and will
  help you
• Genesis 2521 And Isaac prayed to the LORD for
  his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD
  granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife
  conceived.
• Genesis 2931 the LORD he opened her womb, but
  Rachel was barren.
• Genesis 302 Jacob said, Am I in the place
  of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of
  the womb?
• Genesis 3022 Then God remembered and God
  listened and opened her womb.

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Faith a call to persevere in faith and patience
waiting for God

• Romans 122 Do not be conformed to this world,
  but be transformed by the renewal of your mind,
  that by testing you may discern what is the will
  of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

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Faith a call to persevere in faith and patience
waiting for God
Isa 268 O LORD, we wait for you your name
and remembrance are the desire of our
soul. Isa 3018 Therefore the LORD waits to be
gracious to you, and therefore he exalts
himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD
is a God of justice blessed are all
those who wait for him. Isa 332 O LORD, be
gracious to us we wait for you. Isa 4031 but
they who wait for the LORD shall renew their
strength Isa 4923 those who wait for me shall
not be put to shame. La 325 The LORD is good
to those who wait for him, La 326 It is good
that one should wait quietly for the
salvation of the LORD. Mic 77 But as for me, I
will look to the LORD I will wait for the
God of my salvation Zep 38 Therefore wait
for me, declares the LORD, 1Co 17 as you wait
for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

• Ge 4918 I wait for your salvation, O LORD.
• Ps 2714 Wait for the LORD wait for the LORD!
• Ps 3124 all you who wait for the LORD!
• Ps 3320 Our soul waits for the LORD
• Ps 377 Be still before the LORD and wait
  patiently for him
• Ps 379 but those who wait for the LORD shall
  inherit the land.
• Ps 3734 Wait for the LORD and keep his way,
• Ps 3815 But for you, O LORD, do I wait
• Ps 397 And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?
• My hope is in you.
• Ps 401 I waited patiently for the LORD
• Ps 1305 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
• and in his word I hope
• Ps 1306 my soul waits for the Lord
• Pr 2022 wait for the LORD, and he will deliver
  you.
• Isa 817 I will wait for the LORD, and I will
  hope in him.
• Isa 259 Behold, this is our God we have
  waited for him, that he might save us.
• This is the LORD we have waited for him

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Faith a call to persevere in faith and patience
waiting for God

• I Samuel 1216 Now therefore stand still and see
  this great thing that the LORD will do before
  your eyes.
• Isaiah 644 From of old no one has heard
• or perceived by the ear,
• no eye has seen a God besides you,
• who acts for those who wait for him.

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Faith a call to persevere in faith and patience
waiting for God

• Eph 210 For we are his workmanship, created in
  Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
  beforehand, that we should walk in them.
• Col 110 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the
  Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in
  every good work and increasing in the knowledge
  of God.
• 2Ti 221 Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself
  from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel
  for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to
  the master of the house, ready for every good
  work.
• Tit 31 Remind them to be submissive to rulers
  and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for
  every good work,
• 2Ti 317 that the man of God may be competent,
  equipped for every good work.
• Tit 214 who gave himself for us to redeem us
  from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a
  people for his own possession who are zealous for
  good works.
• Tit 38 The saying is trustworthy, and I want
  you to insist on these things, so that those who
  have believed in God may be careful to devote
  themselves to good works. These things are
  excellent and profitable for people.
• Tit 314 And let our people learn to devote
  themselves to good works, so as to help cases of
  urgent need, and not be unfruitful.
• 1Co 1558 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be
  steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the
  work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your
  labor is not in vain.
• 2Co 98 And God is able to make all grace abound
  to you, so that having all sufficiency in all
  things at all times, you may abound in every good
  work.
• Heb 1024 And let us consider how to stir up one
  another to love and good works,

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Faith a call to persevere in faith and patience
waiting for God

• Matthew 516 In the same way, let your light
  shine before others, so that they may see your
  good works and give glory to your Father who is
  in heaven.
• I Peter 411 whoever serves, as one who serves
  by the strength that God suppliesin order that
  in everything God may be glorified through Jesus
  Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever
  and ever. Amen.

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Family role of husband as protector and leader

• Then the LORD God said, It is not good that the
  man should be alone I will make him a helper fit
  for him.
• Genesis 218

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Family role of husband as protector and leader

• Genesis 162And Abram listened to the voice of
  Sarai.
• Genesis 317 And to Adam he said, Because you
  have listened to the voice of your wife
• Genesis 163-4 So Sarai, Abrams wife, took
  Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to
  Abram her husband as a wife. And he went in to
  Hagar,
• Genesis 36 , she took of its fruit and ate,
  and she also gave some to her husband who was
  with her, and he ate.

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Family role of husband as protector and leader

• Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the
  church and gave himself up for her,
• In the same way husbands should love their wives
  as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves
  himself.
• Ephesians 525, 28

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Glory Gods glory displayed in his love for the
nations

• El Roi yar la
• the God who sees me or the God who is seen.

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Glory Gods glory displayed in his love for the
nations

• Matthew 2819 Go therefore and make disciples of
  all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
  Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
• Romans 15 through whom we have received grace
  and apostleship to bring about the obedience of
  faith for the sake of his name among all the
  nations,
• Revelation 59 And they sang a new song, saying,
  
• Worthy are you to take the scroll
• and to open its seals,
• for you were slain, and by your blood
• you ransomed people for God
• from every tribe and language and people
  and nation,

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Glory Gods glory displayed in his love for the
nations

• Romans 155-9 May the God of endurance and
  encouragement grant you to live in such harmony
  with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
  that together you may with one voice glorify the
  God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Therefore welcome one another as Christ has
  welcomed you, for the glory of God. For I tell
  you that Christ became a servant to the
  circumcised to show Gods truthfulness, in order
  to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,
  and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God
  for his mercy. As it is written, Therefore I
  will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to
  your name.