Genesis 16:1-15
(the Message, by Eugene Peterson Genesis 16:1-2 Sarai, Abram's wife, hadn't yet produced a child. She had an Egyptian maid named Hagar. [2] Sarai said to Abram, "God has not seen fit to let me have a child. Sleep with my maid. Maybe I can get a family from her." Abram agreed to do what Sarai said. Pray: Father, I acknowledge the unbelief of
Sarai and her recommendation that Abram sleep with Hagar. Genesis 16:3 So Sarai, Abram's wife, took her Egyptian maid Hagar and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife. Abram had been living ten years in Canaan when this took place. Pray: I acknowledge the result of Sarai’s
unbelief in offering her maid to Abram, and Abram’s liability for sleeping with
her and not believing God. Genesis 16:4 He slept with Hagar and she got pregnant. When she learned she was pregnant, she looked down on her mistress. Pray: The seeds of disobedience produced a son,
and created a heart of resentfulness in Hagar. Genesis 16:7 An angel of God found her beside a spring in the desert; it was the spring on the road to Shur. Pray: Praise you O God for not forsaking Hagar
in her disobedience, resentment and rebellion, rather You pursued her. Genesis 16:8 He said, "Hagar, maid of Sarai, what are you doing here?" She said, "I'm running away from Sarai my mistress." Pray: You, O God, wanted Hagar to tell you why
she was where she was and what she was doing. Genesis 16:9 The angel of God said, "Go back to your mistress. Put up with her abuse." Pray: You commanded Hagar to return to Sarai, and
submit to her, even though you knew she was being abused. Genesis 16:10 He continued, "I'm going to give you a big family, children past counting. Pray: Praise you O God for a plan for Hagar’s life, her son and his descendants. Even in her disobedience you began to work your redemptive story. Pray: Hagar
cried out to you. You heard her. May her descendants cry out to You. Hear them O God. Consider their afflictions. Remove their hatred for their own
kindred. Return them to the God of their
Mother. May those who hear you cry out
to their kindred to call upon the God of their Mother. Your name is Elohim. Answer their prayers. Genesis 16:12 He'll be a bucking bronco of a man, a real fighter, fighting and being fought, Always stirring up trouble, always at odds with his family." Pray: Help the sons and daughters of Hagar to
know that they are created in your image, beautiful daughters, and robust,
fighting men. Help them see that they
are fighting out of their own selfish nature, and not out of the love that you
have given them and their Mother. Genesis 16:13 She answered God by name, praying to the God who spoke to her, "You're the God who sees me!" "Yes! He saw me; and then I saw him!" Pray: Remind the sons and daughters of Hagar
that their Mother saw and spoke with the One True God, (not Allah) She heard
Him speak to her, and acknowledged that He saw her and She saw Him. Genesis 16:14 That's how that desert spring got named "God-Alive-Sees-Me Spring." That spring is still there, between Kadesh and Bered. Pray: Dear
Heavenly Father, please bring the sons
and daughters of Hagar to the God-Alive-Sees-Me Spring and give them PEACE, and
turn their hearts to Jehovah, and bring Peace to all their ethnic groups. Genesis 16:15 Hagar gave Abram a son. Abram named him Ishmael. Pray: O
God of Hagar, God of Abram, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, Son of God, Lord Jesus
Christ, once again in great awakening and renewal hear the cry of Hagar’s Sons
and Daughters. Bring
all who will call upon you to See You and experience the RIVER of LIVING WATER IN
THEIR SOULS – to the astonishment of the Nations of the Earth and the Glory of
God Almighty. |
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