Instruction - Promise - Obedience

In Genesis 12:1 it says,
"Now the LORD had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country, & from thy kindred, & from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:"

God gave Abram specific details as to what He wanted him to do.

v2: And I will make of thee a great nation, & I will bless thee, & make thy name great; & thou shalt be a blessing:
v3: And I will bless them that bless thee, & curse him that curseth thee: & in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Abram was given a promise by God that he would be a blessing & receive blessings. Abram would possess a land that God was going to give him. But God also told Abram what to do in order to receive those promises (verse 1).

As I was reading in my bible I noticed that Abram only partially obeyed God. He left the country that he was in but he didn't depart from his kindred as God instructed. Genesis 12:4,5 "So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Ha'-ran. And Abram took Sa'-rai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Ha'-ran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came."

What has God promised us? What instructions did the Lord give us in order to receive the promise?

Abram was trusting in the Lord by leaving the country he was in. Not knowing where to go. He had no map, not even a clue as to where he was heading. All he knew was that God told him to go. He was heading to an unknown destination, stepping out on faith. What courage it must of taken him to leave everything he had ever known. Leaving his comfort zone not knowing where he was going.

We can trust in the Lord & do what He says but if God has given us specific instructions we need to follow them fully to the best of our ability. We must do this in order to see His promises come to pass.

It was only when Abram had fully obeyed God, that he seen the promise.
Genesis 13:14,15 "And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from 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."

Trusting God for a child as He has promised me. I wonder have I fully obeyed Gods instructions? I pray that I do not overlook or miss anything God has commanded or asked me to do.

The Lord says in Jeremiah 29:11 that "..I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."

I know that anything God has spoken & asked me or commanded me to do, it is for my own good. The Lord would not tell us to do something that would harm us. We need to put total trust into Him.

We need to squeeze out all trust, hope, faith, & obedience into the Lord. We need to start putting it all into action. We must do this if we ever want to see our promises come to pass.