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Now the LORD said to Abram, Go from your country and your kindred and your fathers house to the land that I will show you. 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 12:1 ESV

Abram had to make a choice: obey God, or continue on with his life as it was going. He was going to have to move away from his hometown, abandoning the life he had built and even leaving his family behind. As a son, he would also inherit his fathers property so he had every reason to stay.

Yet...the Lord had given Abram a promise that required an action. If he would leave his fathers house and country and go to the land that He would show him, God would bless Abram and make him into a great nation. Abram had to take the first step to make that dream happen. Abram chose to make the move and God did fulfill His promises to him, just as He had said.

Many of Gods promises come like this:

Give and it will given unto you. (Luke 6:38)

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. (Matthew 7:7)

Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. (Matthew 7:12)

You are not given chapter two until you complete chapter one. Sometimes God gives us a dream or a promise which requires an action on our part. Nothing will happen until we take that first step. Abram would not have become Abraham if he had not obeyed God, and the idea that He gave you will not come to pass, if you never begin.