Bible Lesson: Answered Prayers:
Isaac Prays For Rebekah.
Subject Of Prayer: The Birth Of
Children.
Bible Text:
Genesis 25:21,24-26 NLT
21 Isaac pleaded with The Lord on
behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children. The Lord
answered Isaac’s prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant with twins.
24 And when the time came to give
birth, Rebekah discovered that she did indeed have twins!
25 The first one was very red at
birth and covered with thick hair like a fur coat. So they named him
Esau.
26 Then the other twin was born with
his hand grasping Esau’s heel. So they named him Jacob. Isaac was
sixty years old when the twins were born.
Barrenness among Jewish wives was considered a judgment, to be childless was to be
scorned.
God's Will:
Genesis 1:28 KJV
Adam and Eve.
And God blessed them, and God said
unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth..."
I Samuel 1:6 KJV
(Hannah, had no children-Divine purpose.)
"...the Lord had shut up her
womb.
Genesis 30:1 KJV
And when Rachel saw that she bare
Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob,
Give me children, or else I die.
Genesis 25:21
KJV
Isaac pleaded with The Lord on
behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children...”
Isaac, interceded
for his wife.
Does God hear
our prayers?
Psalm 65:2 KJV
O thou that hearest prayer,
unto thee shall all flesh come.
Is anything too
hard for The Lord?
Jeremiah
32:17,27 KJV
17 Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast
made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out
arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
27 Behold, I am The Lord, the God of
all flesh: is there any thing too hard for Me?
Isaac prayed,
and God heard and answered that prayer!
Genesis 25:21
NLT
“...The
Lord answered Isaac’s prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant with
twins.
Should We Pray?
Matthew 7:7 KJV
Ask, and it
shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you:
John 16:24 KJV
Hitherto have ye
asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy
may be full.
James 4:2 KJV
"...yet ye
have not, because ye ask not.
PRAYER:
I Chronicles
16:11 KJV
Seek The Lord
and His strength, seek His face continually.
Psalm 6:9 KJV
The Lord hath
heard my supplication; The Lord will receive my prayer.
Psalm 55:17 KJV
Evening, and
morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and He shall hear
my voice.
Psalm 65:2 KJV
O thou that
hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Psalm 66:19 KJV
But verily God
hath heard me; He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Psalm 91:15 KJV
He shall call
upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will
deliver him, and honor him.
Psalm 102:17 KJV
He will regard
the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
Psalm 122:6 KJV
Pray for the
peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Proverbs 15:8,29
KJV
8 The sacrifice
of the wicked is an abomination to The Lord: but the prayer of the
upright is His delight.
29 The Lord is
far from the wicked: but He heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Isaiah 56:7 KJV
"... for
Mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
Isaiah 58:9 KJV
Then shalt thou
call, and The Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and He shall say,
Here I am...:"
Isaiah 65;24 KJV
And it shall
come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they
are yet speaking, I will hear.
Zechariah 13:9
KJV
And I will
bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver
is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My
name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they
shall say, The Lord is my God.
Matthew 5:44 KJV
But I say unto
you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them
that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and
persecute you;
Matthew 7:7,8
KJV
7 Ask, and it
shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you:
8 For every one
that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that
knocketh it shall be opened.
Matthew 18:19,20
KJV
19 Again I say
unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any
thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father
which is in heaven.
20 For where
two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the
midst of them.
Matthew 21:22
KJV
And all things,
whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Matthew 26:41
KJV
Watch and pray,
that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but
the flesh is weak.
Mark 11:24 KJV
Therefore I say
unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye
receive them, and ye shall have them.
Luke 11:9,10 KJV
9 And I say
unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
10 For every
one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him
that knocketh it shall be opened.
Luke 18:1 KJV
And He spake a
parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not
to faint;
Luke 21:36 KJV
Watch ye
therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape
all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before The Son
Of Man.
John 15:7 KJV
If ye abide in
Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it
shall be done unto you.
John 16:24 KJV
Hitherto have
ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy
may be full.
Ephesians 6:18
KJV
Praying always
with all prayer and supplication in The Spirit, and watching
thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Philippians 4:6
NLT
Don’t worry
about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you
need, and thank Him for all He has done.
Colossians 4:2
NLT
Devote
yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.
I Thessalonians
5:17 KJV
Pray without
ceasing.
I Timothy 2:8
KJV
I will
therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without
wrath and doubting.
James 5:13 KJV
Is any among
you afflicted? let him pray..."
I Peter 4:7 KJV
But the end of
all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
I John 3:22 KJV
And whatsoever
we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do
those things that are pleasing in His sight.
Revelation 8:3-5 NLT (Prayers heard and kept)
3 Then another
angel with a gold incense burner came and stood at the altar. And a
great amount of incense was given to him to mix with the prayers of
God’s people as an offering on the gold altar before the throne.
4 The smoke of
the incense, mixed with the prayers of God’s holy people, ascended
up to God from the altar where the angel had poured them out.
5 Then the
angel filled the incense burner with fire from the altar..."
