together with their households of servants and their flocks, said good-bye to relatives and friends in Haran, and set out on the hot and dusty journey to Canaan, the land God had promised, a narrow land bridge between three continents. Abram committed himself and his future completely into God’s hands. There’s a time to pray for God’s guidance, but there’s also a time to stop praying and to start moving. Abram followed God in glad obedience. Abram traveled south to the center of Canaan, to the ancient