Genesis 25:20-21 ( ESV )
20and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to be his wife,
the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the
Aramean.
21And Isaac prayed to the Lord
for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife
conceived.
1.
Most scholars believe that Rebekah and Isaac
were married for 20 years and like his father before him they did not have any
children for a long time. You can’t tell me that he did not think about his father
during these days. He had to have heard the stories over and over again. He,
the promised one had even been offered up as a sacrifice by his own father. His
father believed so much in the promise that if he would have killed Isaac he
believed God would raise him back from the dead. Now he was going through what
his father had gone through before him. What did he do? He prayed that Rebekah
would be able to conceive.
One of
the things that will encourage others to pray is when we tell our stories of answered
prayer by our Father. As parents,
grandparents or relatives do we pass this heritage on to our children?
Secondly, do they see us in prayer? Even
as an unsaved lad I remember my great grandparents praying in the morning as
well as at bedtime for us as a family. I would see them bend their knees for us
and for those around them. It was a legacy that I will never forget. Do our
loved ones see that legacy lived out in us?
2.
One of the most practical things that we can
also do in our prayer lives is to pray for those who desire to have children
and are unable to. When we have friends or loved ones who tell us of this deep
sorrow. We should take time to humbly bow before our Lord for them.
I
Here are others who prayed to their
God for children.
a.
Abraham Genesis 15:2
b.
Rachel Genesis 30:1, 22
c.
Hannah I Samuel 1:10-11 and 2:1-10
d.
Zachariah’s prayer Luke 1:5-7, 13-17
3.
Don’t miss it though Isaac had prayed for an
heir. God would answer even beyond that in that he would be given not just one
son, but two. In our prayer lives sometimes God will even do abundantly even
more then what we could even think of.
1 comment:
Hello Pastor Mike and family. so good to know you through your profile on the blogger. I am glad to stop by your blog "Salt and Light" and the post on it "Prayer Hertiage: Isaac".Thank you for your reminder through this post. How essential it is for us to pass on the heritage and a legacy of Prayer to our generation but unless we practice we can not pass it on. I am also in the Pastoral ministry for last 34yrs and the Lord laid a burden up on us to pray for such families with their names every day who seeking God's blessing to have children. The Lord has heard our prayers and gave a privilege to have children and we continue to take names of such couple and pray for them every day. We just a little about the ministry we are doing in the city of Mumbai, India a city with great contrast where richest of rich and the poorest of poor live. We reach out to the poorest of poor with the love of Christ to bring healing to the broken hearted. We also encurage young people as well as adults from the West to come on a short / long term missions trip to work with us during their summer vacation. We would love to have your young daughters along with their friends and some young people from your church to come on a short term missions trip to work with us.I am sure that they will have a life changing experience. My email id is: dhwankhede(at)gmail(dot)com and my name is Diwakar Wankhede. Looking forward to hear from you very soon.
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