Genesis 12:8,9

He removed from thence

Lessons

1.

Faith moves a man from place to place in the world, upon God’s word or intimation.

2. The bad entertainment of believers in the world maketh them remove their stages.

3. In the wanderings of believers, God sends abroad the discoveries of His will to several places.

4. Faith maketh souls dwell in tents here below, and be still movable for heaven.

5. Faith causeth souls to adhere unto and make profession of the true religion of God in all places; faith is never ashamed of God, truth, worship, or way.

6. Believing souls cannot be without communion with God in offering to Him and hearing from Him.

7. Supplication to God and speaking in His name are special ways of worship suiting believers (Genesis 12:8).

8. Faith maketh saints true sojourners below, to be still taking up their stakes at God’s beck.

9. To all points, east and west and south, God orders the motions of the saints to leave some savour of His truth everywhere (Genesis 12:9). (G. Hughes, B. D.)

Mountain devotions

In a meeting to pray for the president’s recovery, one of his classmates rose and said, “Twenty-six years ago tonight, and at this very hour, our class were on the top of Graylock to spend the night of the fourth of July. As we were about to lie down to sleep, Garfield took out his pocket Testament and said, ‘I am in the habit of reading a chapter every night at this time with my mother. Shall I read aloud?’ All assented; and when he had read, he asked the oldest member of the class to pray. And there, in the night, on the mountain top, we prayed with him for whom we have now assembled to pray.” (Dr. Prime.)