God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Gabriel Agbo – 2013
All scriptures used in this work are from the New Living Translation of the Holy Bible unless otherwise stated.
Publisher: Excel publishers
First published in the USA
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Rev. Gabriel Agbo
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Dedication
I dedicate this book to Senator Jim Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo for the role he played in linking me to God’s programme for my life. My working in his Satellite Newspapers helped me to develop the interest in writing and journalism. Today, that interest has indeed turned out to become a very powerful and ready tool in the hands of God to further the gospel.
I will forever remain grateful to you. Thank you and God bless.
Appreciation
I must at this stage appreciate some people who have in various forms contributed to shaping my life and prepared me for the assignment God has for me.
First, all glory be to Jesus; who called us into this wonderful and privileged mission to preach the gospel. Then to my parents, family, partners and friends for their wonderful support and encouragement through these years.
I also thank God and Senator Jim Nwobodo for the privilege of working with his Satellite Newspapers as a teenager. It was there that I developed the interest in writing. In fact, my first ever news report published was in that newspaper, in 1991, when the Owerri main market got burnt. I still remember the headline, ‘Owerri Market Gutted By Fire’.
I thank Sir Victor Mbanisi, the chairman of Banex Group Lagos for also giving me the opportunity to work in his large organization. In fact, he entrusted me with the massive company’s central warehouse; where I received and distributed variety of goods from abroad to all of our sales channels throughout the country. It was a very challenging job. He also was giving me some spiritual assignments, even when I was not yet a pastor. That was my last secular job.
I must also thank the leadership of the Assemblies of God Nigeria for giving me the rare privilege of serving as the pioneer Public Relations Officer of the General Council. All these responsibilities thoroughly prepared me for the task ahead and for the ministry. May God bless you all! – Gabriel Agbo
Introduction
God’s covenant promises do not fail. This book is written to help you achieve all God’s promises for your life. It is a careful and elaborate study, with personal testimonies, on the ability and willingness of God to perform all his words towards us. He said that He watches over His words to bring them to pass.
Here, we will critically look at the dynamics of a divine promise; how it is established, maintained and nurtured to fruition. Every covenant promise has its beginning, timing and conditions. We must always know this to be able to perfectly and comfortably key into God’s will for our life. Indeed, all things are possible with God!
Read on and be blessed!
Gabriel Agbo
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
God is coming to introduce or re-introduce Himself to you. Yes, He did that before, but there is the need for Him to do it again as the time for the fulfillment of His promise to you has come. He already knows that your faith is getting weak. He knows that you urgently need a fresh revelation, a fresh encounter and encouragement for the final push into your Promised Land. For Him, He does not need any encouragement, help or push to perform His will, promises and purposes. He is the sovereign universal authority. He sees and manipulates the end from the beginning. In fact, He Himself is the alpha and the omega; the beginning and the end, the first and the last. But for us, we will always need a fresh revelation to carry on, especially, when the vision seems herculean, near-impossible or will take a long time to come to pass.
When God met Moses in the wilderness, through the burning bush, to commission him for the operation ‘Come out of Egypt’, He had to introduce Himself to Moses. Yes, that might not be the first time Moses was hearing about the God of Israel; the God of his ancestors (remember the Jews are very good at transferring their history to the younger generations through the oral tradition), but because of the nature and the level of this particular assignment, God came in a very spectacular, special and convincing way to put His ‘divine signature’ to that mother-of-all-assignments. The burning bush, the warning not to come close, the instruction to remove his sandals, and then the ultimate bombshell, “I am the God of your ancestors – the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Wow!
In fact, God was literally excited about the mission He was about sending Moses. Yes, Moses was going to be unenthusiastic about the whole thing, but God was excited, determined and committed because the integrity of His name, His word, promises and sovereignty were at stake. Remember, He had told Abraham hundreds of years ago that his descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, and that they will be oppressed as slaves in that nation for four hundred years. And after that, He will come with a strong hand to bring them out with great riches. Truly and promptly, He came to bring this to pass after hundreds of years. God keeps His covenants promises. If He said it, He is eagerly watching over it to perform. He monitors the timing, the variables and the total performance of His words. His words concerning you will not fail.
He Honors Covenants
God honors covenants. We can forget, we might stop believing, but God will always watch over His promises to bring them to pass. Divine covenants are always trans-generational. They are not just performing on you, but will outlive you to speak for your future generations. True! I know this very well because I am a product of one; where God tells a young lady that when she gets married that her first issue will be a male child, and that he will do great things for the kingdom. And after about thirty years, even when the child is not aware of such an agreement, the covenant begins to speak and perform exactly as God said. That is my story. Everything God said about me is perfoming. I remember one of my aunties came to me few year ago and said, “Gab, everything God said about you is happening.” I was so happy to hear that. God’s words are powerful, sharp, eternal and faithful. Time, circumstances, opposition do not stop them.
God of Abraham
God said that forever He shall be known as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The God that is consistent, constant and faithful. And that simply means that if He did not fail these people, He will certainly also not fail you. Now, we have to briefly try to look at the way He walked with these three so that we can be able to appreciate what we are saying here. Now, we can comfortably say that Abraham was in a deep confusion and frustration when God first met him in Haran. First, he had lost his youngest brother called Haran. The guy died prematurely. The bible said that he died very young at his place