The Call of Abram
Gen 12:1  And Jehovah said to Abram, Go out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house into a land that I will show you. 
Gen 12:2  And I will make you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing. 
Gen 12:3  And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses you. And in you shall all families of the earth be blessed. 
Gen 12:4  And Abram departed, even as Jehovah had spoken to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 
Gen 12:5  And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gained in Haran. And they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan. 
Gen 12:6  And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, unto the Oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 
Gen 12:7  And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said, I will give this land to your seed. And he built an altar there to Jehovah who appeared to him. 
Gen 12:8  And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel. And he pitched his tent with Bethel toward the sea and Hai on the east. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah. 
Gen 12:9  And Abram journeyed, going on and pulled up stakes toward the south. 
Abram and Sarai in Egypt
Gen 12:10  And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to stay there, for the famine was grievous in the land. 
Gen 12:11  And it happened, when he had come near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon. 
Gen 12:12  And it will be when the Egyptians see you, they shall say, This is his wife. And they will kill me, but they will save you alive. 
Gen 12:13  I pray you, say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me for your sake. And my soul shall live because of you. 
Gen 12:14  And it happened when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 
Gen 12:15  The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her before Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 
Gen 12:16  And he treated Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and male servants, and maidservants, and she-asses, and camels. 
Gen 12:17  And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 
Gen 12:18  And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she is your wife? 
Gen 12:19  Why did you say, She is my sister? And so I was about to take her to me as wife. Now therefore behold your wife. Take her and go. 
Gen 12:20  And Pharaoh commanded men concerning him. And they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. 

Prayer – Called

Father, I look to Abraham, for You called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go.

I look to Moses for You called to him out of the midst of the thorn bush, and said, Moses! Moses! And he said, Here I am.

I look to Samuel for You, Jehovah, called Samuel. And he answered, Here am I.

I look to Mary for the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come on you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you. Therefore also that Holy One which will be born of you shall be called Son of God.
And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, His name was called JESUS, the name called by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

I look to Jesus for He called His disciples.

Jesus, my Saviour, You have called me by my name; I am Yours. Then I said, Here am I; send me!

I therefore pray, that I will walk worthy of the calling with which you called me.

In Jesus’ name

Amen

Die Here beveel Abram om te trek
1Die Here het vir Abram gesê: “Trek weg uit jou land, weg van jou familie en jou ouerhuis en gaan na die land wat Ek jou sal aanwys. 2Ek sal jou die voorvader maak van ’n groot nasie. Ek sal jou seën sodat jy geëerd sal wees, en vir ander tot ’n seën sal wees. 3Ek sal dié seën wat jou seën en dié wat jou vervloek, sal Ek vervloek. In jou sal al die mense op die aarde geseën word.”
4Abram het toe weggetrek soos die Here hom beveel het en Lot het saamgegaan. Abram was 75 jaar oud toe hy uit Haran weggetrek het. 5Hy het sy vrou, Sarai, sy neef Lot en al hulle besittings, asook almal wat in Haran deel van sy gesin geword het, saamgeneem Kanaän toe. Daar aangekom, 6het hulle deur die land getrek tot by die waarsêersboom naby die plek Sigem. Die Kanaäniete het toe nog in die land gewoon.
7Die Here het aan Abram verskyn en gesê: “Hierdie land gee Ek vir jou nageslag.” Toe bou Abram daar ’n altaar vir die Here wat aan hom verskyn het. 8Daarna het Abram verder suid getrek en kamp opgeslaan in die heuwels met Bet-El aan die westekant en Ai aan die oostekant. Daar het hy ook ’n altaar gebou en die Here aanbid. 9Mettertyd het Abram in die rigting van die Negev verskuif.
Abram en Sarai in Egipte
10Toe die land met ’n swaar hongersnood getref is, het Abram Egipte toe gegaan om tydelik daar te bly. 11Naby die grens van Egipte sê Abram vir Sarai: “Luister, my vrou, jy is ’n baie mooi vrou. 12Sodra die Egiptenaars jou sien, sal hulle sê: ‘Dit is sy vrou. Kom ons maak hom dood en vat haar vir ons!’ 13Sê tog dat jy my suster is, want dan sal die Egiptenaars my goed behandel ter wille van jou, en ook my lewe spaar.”
14En dit was ook so. Toe hulle in Egipte kom, het almal die beeldskone vrou raakgesien. 15Die paleisamptenare het haar gesien, die farao van haar vertel en sy is in sy paleis opgeneem. 16Ter wille van haar het die farao vir Abram baie geskenke gegee in die vorm van kleinvee, grootvee, donkies, slawe, slavinne en kamele.
17Maar die Here het die farao en sy huis met ernstige plae getref oor Sarai, Abram se vrou. 18Die farao laat roep toe vir Abram en vaar teen hom uit: “Wat het jy my aangedoen? 19Hoekom het jy my nie gesê dat sy jou vrou is nie? Hoekom het jy toegelaat dat ek haar as vrou neem deur te sê dat sy jou suster is? Hier is jou vrou! Vat haar, en trap!” 20Die farao het toe vir Abram en sy vrou, asook al hulle besittings onder begeleiding uit die land gestuur.

Gebed – Geroep

Vader, ek kyk na Abraham, want U het hom alleen geroep en hom geseën en hom vermeerder. Deur geloof het Abraham gehoorsaam toe hy geroep is om te gaan.

Ek kyk na Moses, want U het na hom geroep uit die middel van die doringbos en gesê: Moses! Moses! En hy sê: Hier is ek.

Ek kyk na Samuel want U, Here, het vir Samuel geroep. En hy antwoord: Hier is ek.

Ek kyk na Maria, want die engel het geantwoord en vir haar gesê: Die Heilige Gees sal oor jou kom, en die krag van die Allerhoogste sal jou oorskadu. Daarom sal ook die Heilige wat uit jou gebore sal word, Seun van God genoem word.
En toe agt dae vervul was om die Kindjie te besny, is Sy Naam JESUS ​​genoem, die naam wat die engel genoem het voordat Hy in die moederskoot ontvang is.

Ek kyk na Jesus, want Hy het Sy dissipels geroep.

Jesus, my Verlosser, U het my op my Naam geroep; Ek is U s’n. Toe sê ek: Hier is ek; stuur my!

Ek bid daarom dat ek die roeping waardig sal wees waar in U my geroep het.

In Jesus naam

Amen