CALLED ALONE

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Key Verse

  • Look to Abraham your father,And to Sarah who bore you; For I called him alone, And blessed him and increased him.” Isaiah 51:2 NKJV 

Examples of those called alone

1. Abraham

  •  He said to him, Leave your own country and your relatives and come into the land (region) that I will point out to you. Acts 7:3 AMPC
What actually happened
 
  • The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was still in Mesopotamia, before he [went to] live in HaranAnd He said to him, Leave your own country and your relatives and come into the land (region) that I will point out to you. So then he went forth from the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, [God] transferred him to this country in which you are now dwelling. Acts 7:2-4 AMPC
  • And Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together to go from Ur of the Chaldees into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there. And Terah lived 205 years; and Terah died in Haran. Genesis 11:31-32 AMPC
  • Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you… So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with himGenesis 12:1&4 NKJV

2. Barak

  • Then she sent and called for Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, “Has not the Lord God of Israel commanded, ‘Go and deploy troops at Mount Tabor; take with you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun; and against you I will deploy Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude at the River Kishon; and I will deliver him into your hand’?” Judges 4:6-7 NKJV

What actually happened

  • And Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go!” So she said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless there will be no glory for you in the journey you are taking, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh. Judges 4:8-9 NKJV

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