Later her son Jacob would wrestle with God and be given a new name, Israel.Ĥ. And His plan unfolded exactly as He had told her. It should be noted that God did not call Rebekah to deception, but God is sovereign despite the good or bad choices we may make. Rebekah risked deception to follow God’s promise because she believed what He said was true. ![]() Just do what I say go and get them for me.” I think it is safe to say that she remembered and took very seriously what God had spoken to her during her pregnancy. ![]() Jacob was unsure about deceiving his father, but Rebekah responded in Genesis 27, “ My son let the curse fall on me. But Rebekah overheard this and told Jacob to bring her food so she could prepare it for Isaac first. When Isaac was old in age, he told Esau to hunt and prepare food so that he could receive his blessing. When she asked the LORD why this was happening, He answered her: “ Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.” In that time, the older would have never served the younger, and the firstborn son would have inherited the best of everything. Genesis 25 tells us that when Rebekah became pregnant she could feel the babies jostling within her. Rebekah was a woman of great faith, obeying God when Isaac’s servant told her of the man who wanted to marry her. She obeyed, and He blessed her and her son just as He promised He would. Hagar thought she would get to escape her misery, but God called her to return to it. He lived in the desert and became an archer.” Genesis 21 tells us, “ God was with the boy as he grew up. But God is faithful and showed her a well. Later, Hagar and her son Ishmael were sent away into the desert, where she believed they would both die. Isaac would go on to continue the legacy of his father Abraham. Then she laughed with joy at what the LORD had done. ![]() “ ’God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.’ And she added, ‘Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.’”Ĭan you imagine waiting that long for a blessing? Sarah tried to believe the promise, but she had doubts until it finally came to fruition. God fulfilled His promise according to His plan and Sarah responded in Genesis 21, Sarah probably wouldn’t win an award for waiting and she even laughed at the idea that God could do what He promised, but thankfully God’s promise did not rely on the level of Sarah’s faith. Abraham and Sarah waited 15 years before God renewed His promise, and 10 more years before the promise was fulfilled and Sarah bore a son, Isaac. ![]() In Genesis 11:30 we learn, “ Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.“ This would have grieved both Sarah and Abraham, and in Genesis 15 when the word of the LORD came to Abram he answered, what will you give me LORD since you have not given me an heir? God tells him to look at the stars in the Sky, for that would be the number of his offspring. We can learn much from the examples of these Biblical mothers. These women obeyed God's calling, served sacrificially, and built a life of faith for their family. Let's pause to take a look at 10 extraordinary mothers in the Bible.
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