Abraham, My Friend_21 Abraham, My Friend
The Making of a Praying Man
Chapter Four: New Beginnings
Melchizedek; time to sit and eat
In our previous devotional we gave an overview of Abraham's encounter with kings, confederates and a priest. We can take time now to think a little more about his remarkable meeting with that priest, Melchizedek. Who was this man and ...read
Abraham, My Friend_22 Abraham, My Friend
The Making of a Praying Man
Chapter Four: New Beginnings
Melchizedek; revealer of God
Last week we began to think about Abraham's encounter with the priest Melchizedek and we began to ask our questions. Who was this man and why did his meeting with Abraham have such a profound effect on Abraham? We made ‘communion' or ‘fe ...read
Abraham, My Friend_23 Abraham, My Friend
The Making of a Praying Man
Chapter Four: New Beginnings
The Lord hath need...
We are meditating on Abraham's meeting with Melchizedek and have tried to identify some key elements of this encounter. We have seen authentic "communion" with God, a genuine priest's power to bless in the name of the Lord, the way in which a ...read
Abraham, My Friend_24 Abraham, My Friend
The Making of a Praying Man
Chapter Four: New Beginnings
and he believed in Jehovah...
Genesis 15 contains one of the most important verses in the Bible. The verse becomes the basis for a major New Testament doctrine; justification by faith. It is sometimes said that Christianity has Jewish roots; this is not strictly accur ...read
Abraham, My Friend_25 Abraham, My Friend
The Making of a Praying Man
Chapter Four: New Beginnings
the people of the God of Abraham
'Sometimes a light surprises the Christian while he sings;' wrote William Cowper, 'It is the Lord, Who rises with healing in His wings:' Sometimes the same light surprises the Christian while he reads. It happened while reading Psal ...read
Abraham, My Friend_26 Abraham, My Friend
The Making of a Praying Man
Chapter Four: New Beginnings
person-to-person
Let's gather up some fragments that remain from this account of Abraham's faith. (New Readers to this column should be warned that the ‘fragments which remained' ultimately proved to be more that the original meal!) In our last devotion we examined ...read
Abraham, My Friend_28 Abraham, My Friend
The Making of a Praying Man
Justice divine is satisfied
How can God, at one and the same time, be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus? (Rom 3:26 KJV) That was the question we left hanging in the air in the previous devotional. There is a saying used in the UK which says that ‘justice must not only be do ...read
