Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... |
Table of Contents
Model of Marriage
- So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh, and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling, but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.” Genesis 24:2-4 BSB
- Isaac went out to bow down [in prayer] in the field in the [early] evening; he raised his eyes and looked, and camels were coming… Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah [in marriage], and she became his wife, and he loved her Genesis 24:63,67 AMP
Read: MARRIAGE
Knew How To Pray
- Isaac pleaded with the Lord for his wife, because she was barren Genesis 25:21 NKJV
Other versions
- Isaac prayed much to the Lord for his wife because she was unable to bear children Genesis 25:21 AMP
Didn't just sit on Promises but worked
- The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you. Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.” Genesis 26:2-5 BSB
- Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him. The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous; for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him. Genesis 26:12-14 NKJV