<TITLE>10. Par 48-52</TITLE>L-48 Now, Abraham was called for separation to sojourn as a pilgrim and a stranger. With what? A promise that God was going to bless the world by him. Called out when he was seventy-five years old, Sarah being sixty-five, ten years difference in their age... And he set out, and waited twenty-five years, still trusting, still believing, professing to be a strangers, coming to God through the approach and everything, still believing that he was going to have a son. And then after he was a hundred years old, or ninety and nine, 15th chapter of Genesis we find that God, after Abraham getting way up into the twenty-five years now, God approached Abraham...
He said, "Now, Lord, I'm getting old, but how? I believe You're going to do it. But I don't know just how You're going to do it." Amen. All right. "I--I--I... not doubt it. It's going to be Lord. But could You just show me a little way that it's going to be?"
There's where your little special blessing comes. You see? "How you going to do it, Lord? Now, I am old. You're going to do it. But just could You just show me how You're going to do it?" Oh, I love that, don't you? "Just how You going to do it, Father, could You show me?"

L-49 God said, "Come right here, Abraham. I want to talk to You just a moment." He said, "Abraham, I am the Almighty One, Almighty God. Walk before Me and be perfect. That's how I'm going to do it. I am the Almighty One."

L-50 The word in Hebrew, "El..." "Almighty," means "El-Shaddai," which means "the Almighty One." Or, "El" means "God," and "shad" means "breast." Shaddai is in the plural. "I am the Almighty, the strong One, the all-sufficient One." You see it?
Now, Abraham watched what that name was that He appeared. "I am the El-Shaddai." In other words, "I am the breasted One, Abraham." The God, the... Really, the word s-h-a-d comes from the... In the Bible it means the--like the--the woman, the place, the nursing place of the baby. In other words, "Abraham, I am the strong One. I am the life Giver." Not only a life giver, like the baby fretting, "I am the Satisfier."

L-51 The little baby, if he's fretting, sick, still got the tummy ache, as long as he's laying on his mothers arms nursing, it satisfies him. Oh, my. You get it? He may be sick, and his little head is swimming around, everything else, but if he's laying on his mothers breast nursing, it pacifies him.
No matter how sick you are, what's taken place, how long the Lord is answering, as long as you're laying on His breast, pulling from the Word, It satisfies the believer.

L-52 "That's My approach," He said, "that's the way I'm asking You to approach Me. I--I am your Satisfier. Do you believe it?" He said. Amen. "I am the One that'll satisfy you as you draw from Me, life. Abraham, you're a hundred years old, but you're just a baby to Me." See?
Well, he said, "Look at my flesh, how it is wrinkled up. And my hair is gray, and my shoulders are stooped."
"But I am the Life-giver." Amen. "That's it, Abraham." Do you see it?
Abraham believed God then, 'cause he had a--a--approach through a symbol, through a name.
So have we an approach through a Name, Jesus. What does Jesus mean to us? Saviour. Amen. El Shaddai to Abraham, Satisfier, Strong One, salvation Giver, strength Giver. The same thing that El Shaddai was to Abraham, Jesus is to the believer. Oh, my. Doesn't it just carry you away?


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