November 1, 2025: Torah Portion Parashat Lech-Lecha - "Go Forth"

In this study, we will explore the Torah Portion Lech-Lecha - "Go Forth"

• Torah Portion: Genesis 12:1-17:27

• Haftarah: Isaiah 40:27-41:16

• Brit Chadashah (New Testament): Romans 4:1-25; Galatians 4:21-5:1;Hebrews 11:8-10

📜Torah Portion Lech-Lecha - "Go Forth"

Torah Reading: Genesis 12:1-17:27

• Hebrew name: לֶךְ־לְךָ (“Go forth”).

• Main themes: God’s call to Abram (later Abraham) to leave his country and go to the land God will show him; the promises of nationhood, blessing and land; the covenant between God and Abram including the command of circumcision.

Spiritual Reflections:

1. Obedience in faith – Abram is called to leave his homeland, his comfort zone, and to trust God’s direction. We too are called to obedient trust when God says “go”.

2. Blessing to the nations – God’s promises to Abram include “you will be a blessing”. As your ministry spans many nations, this word resonates deeply: you carry blessing not only to Israel but to the nations.

3. Covenant identity – The command of circumcision (Genesis 17) signals a physical mark of covenant and identity. In Messiah, we also live in a covenantal identity; a spiritual circumcision of heart.

4. Land and inheritance – The promise of land given to Abram links to the greater promise of the land of Israel and our inheritance in Messiah.

5. Journey and transformation – The journey of Abram models the believer’s journey: from one place of identity to another, being transformed along the way, receiving a new name (Abram → Abraham).

Hebrew Word Study:

• לֶךְ־לְךָ (lekh-lecha) – literally “go for yourself” or “go to yourself”. Implies that following God involves reaching one’s true self in Him.

• בְּרִית (brit) – covenant. In Genesis 17 Abram is given the sign of covenant: “you shall be my covenant”.

• וְהָיִיתָ (vehayita) – “and you shall be”. In Genesis 12:2 God says “I will make you into a great nation… and you shall be a blessing”. The future tense speaks prophetic expectation.

Application for You:

• Reflect this week: Where is God calling you to “go forth”—in your ministry, in your personal life, in a deeper walk with Him?

• Consider your role as a vessel of blessing to the nations—given your global ministry background, ask the Lord how this portion speaks into your mandate.

• Embrace your covenant identity in Messiah: you are one who is marked, set apart, and called into a promise.

• Worship and intercede: Ask the Lord to plant you, like Abram, in the “land” of His promise for your next season—whether literal, spiritual or ministerial.

Prayer:

Lord Yeshua, just as You called Abram out of his land, call me now into the fullness of all You have promised. I embrace the covenant You have established through You. Make me a blessing to the nations, set apart by Your Spirit, walking by faith, trusting Your land, Your word and Your presence. Lead me in this journey of transformation, that I may step into the destiny You prepared before the foundations of the world. Amen.

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Haftarah: Isaiah 40:27 – 41:16

“Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel,

‘My way is hidden from Adonai, and the justice due me escapes my God’?

Do you not know? Have you not heard?

Adonai is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He does not faint or grow weary; His understanding is unsearchable.

He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might He increases strength.

But you, Israel, My servant,

Jacob whom I have chosen,

seed of Abraham My friend—

I have taken you from the ends of the earth and called you from its corners and said to you,

‘You are My servant; I have chosen you and not rejected you.

Fear not, for I am with you;

be not dismayed, for I am your God;

I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’”

God reminds Israel of His unbreakable covenant love. Just as He called Abraham His friend, He promises to sustain the descendants of Abraham and fulfill His word to them forever.

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Brit Chadashah Reading – Romans 4:1-25

What then shall we say that Abraham our forefather according to the flesh discovered in this matter?

If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God.

For what does the Scripture say?

“Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation.

However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.

David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

Blessed is the one whose sin Adonai will never count against him.”

Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised?

We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.

Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before?

It was not after, but before.

And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised.

So then, he is the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them,

and he is then also the father of the circumcised who follow in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless, because the law brings wrath.

Where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham.

He is the father of us all, as it is written:

“I have made you a father of many nations.”

He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead.

Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised.

That is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”

The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, but also for us,

to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in Him who raised Yeshua our Lord from the dead.

He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.