A Mother's Prophecy of Praise
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And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.
Introduction.
Introduction.
Happy Mothers Day
Happy Birthday to Brittany and Esther, Joe Wade, Luella
Joel and Virginia
Whenever we think of Mother's Day we think of flowers and a nice meal, if our Mothers are living we think of doing something special for them, if they have passed we wish we could.
We like to think of motherhood as very proper and dignified, but motherhood is messy. It is associated from the beginning with sorrow.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Two words are used for sorrow which seem to mean physical and mental pain.
עִצָּבוֹן n.[m.] pain, toil — toil (of travail).
עֶצֶב n.[m.] pain, hurt, toil 1. pain (of travail). 2. hurt (of mind). 3. toil.
The physical pain is first, many times the mental anguish comes later.
Did you know, Israel’s wives, when they gave birth to the twelve patriarchs…Each one of those mothers, when they were having the baby, and the baby was being born, and them groaning; the groans that they came out, and named those boys.
And the very groans that they give, signified the nature of the child and the place they’d make their final resting place. Every groan, amen, under the power of the Holy Ghost! 56-0617 - Revelation, Book Of Symbols
Did you know that those portions, how Joshua lotted them in Palestine, was given by inspiration? And those Hebrew mothers of those patriarchs, when the baby was coming forth, and her in travailing pain, to deliver the child, she uttered the very spot that those patriarchs would settle down and be at the last days. 58-1228 - Why Little Bethlehem?
We know the redeemer would come through the seed of the woman. (Saved in childbearing)
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
When Jacob came along the promise had been narrowed down to his family. It could be any of his sons, he just needed to get married.
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
He wanted a love story like his father and mother, like what he heard from a child, but it was not to be.
And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
Leah’s eyes were dull, she was plain. Rachel had a beautiful face and form.
It’s important to recognize Leah never asked for any of this. She’s not out trying to deceive Jacob, it’s her father’s idea. Evidently Laban realizes that the only way he can keep Jacob around is to use his daughter as a pawn.
Can you think of anything more awful than to be married to someone who thought you were someone else?
Jacob is still determined to marry Rachel, so he agrees to hang around 7 more years.
He loved Rachel more than Leah.
Do you know what Jacob forgot to do? He didn’t pray. He was God’s man, he was in the right place, among believers, but he didn’t do what Eliezer did, so he ended up with two wives.
And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.
Through the physical pain of childbearing, through the mental anguish of being used by her father and unloved by her husband, she found a way to praise. She didn’t know it, but she had just prophesied through her pain.
Some of you mothers might have had a hard life. Things might not have worked out like you thought they would, but when you praise the Lord through your pain, the praise becomes a Mother’s prophecy.
God chose Leah’s son to be the natural bloodline of the redeemer.
Pain produces a Mother’s prophecy, but what you prophesy over your children depends on your reaction to the pain.
And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
Jacob always got in trouble when He left God’s house.
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Ben-oni - Son of my sorrow. Benjamin - Son of my right hand. Jacob had to change his name, because the prophecy was sorrow.
Rachel died, and a pillar was placed over her grave, along the road.
When Jacob was dying he called his children in for a blessing.
Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: Thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; Thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
Judah is a lion’s whelp: From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come; And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
This is him. Rachel would not be in the bloodline of the Messiah, Leah would be. Don’t be discouraged by your current situation. Prophesy praise over your children, in spite of the pain.
Rachel got a pillar, but Leah was buried with Jacob.
And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
And then when along came the prophets of old, Abraham. The sweethearts of the Bible, Abraham and Sarah. When Sarah died, Abraham purchased a piece of ground right near where Job was buried, and buried Sarah. He said, “I am a joint heir with you over yonder.” 55-0410S — My Redeemer Liveth
Job, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah, Joseph.
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Jacob came up with Leah. She was buried with him in the cave of Macphelah.
(Quote: Don’t read - remember, if you got the wrong person, you’ll get the right one in the Millennium. You just keep on going; all wrongs will be made right there. 64-0830M - Questions And Answers #3
Jacob got the right one in the resurrection, might not be what he wanted but it was the right one.
Maybe you look back at your life today and think “I wish it could have been different”. “I wish there was less pain”. Maybe God allowed the pain to get a prophecy of praise.
Many years later King Saul, a Benjamite, Rachel’s descendant, is after David, Leah’s descendant, trying to kill him. David lives among the Philistines for his own safety, and the city he lives in comes under Amalekite attack while he is away.
So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
We don’t know how David encouraged himself, but I like to think that he sang. He had just written Psalm 34.
I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Faithlife Study Bible Psalm 34
34:1 at all times A singular phrase in Hebrew that can be understood as “in every situation.”
My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Faithlife Study Bible Psalm 34
34:2 makes its boast The Hebrew word used here, halal, describes praising Yahweh proudly to others. This boasting focuses on Yahweh’s deeds and is not driven by pride in self (Jer 9:23–24). The word Hallelujah (meaning “Praise Yahweh”) is derived from this term.
O magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt his name together.
I sought the Lord, and he heard me, And delivered me from all my fears.
They looked unto him, and were lightened: And their faces were not ashamed.
Lightened = Radiant. Joyfully satisfied.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
The angel of the Lord encampeth Round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
David encouraged himself in the Lord with praise.
Many years later, after Isaiah’s prophecy of a virgin that would conceive, Mary is found with child of the Holy Ghost, and she begins to sing:
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; And holy is his name.
And his mercy is on them that fear him From generation to generation.
He hath shewed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He hath put down the mighty from their seats, And exalted them of low degree.
He hath filled the hungry with good things; And the rich he hath sent empty away.
He hath holpen his servant Israel, In remembrance of his mercy;
As he spake to our fathers, To Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
It was a Mother’s Prophecy of Praise.
Mary too would know pain of mind and body.
And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
He is the redeemer, so He will have to die.
He was a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. He had to shed His blood, for the redemption of Leah, for the redemption of Rachel, for the redemption of Mary. He had to be bruised, to bruise the head of the serpent.
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
When Christ was here on earth, He was crowned with a crown of thorns, to shed the Blood. That’s right. But every believer that comes through that shed Blood, pulls forth that crown of thorns and crowns Him with the glory of praises and honor.
Every believer that steps into His Presence, accepts that Blood from His pressed brow here with thorns, and crowns Him with glory and praises and majesty: as King of kings, as Healer, as Alpha, Omega, as the Beginning and Ending, as the Counsellor, the Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father. 55-0522 - The Ark
After Jesus ascended there was another Benjamite named Saul, but by meeting the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, his name and his nature had been changed. He had been spiritually born at Bethlehem, so by natural birth He is a Benjamite, but by Spiritual Birth He comes under the prophecy of Leah.
And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
And then we find out that along about midnight, Paul and Silas must have talked about the Lord until about midnight, and then they begin to sing hymns, some good ol’ Christian song. Oh, if we’d sing today, we’d sing There’s Power In The Blood, or Oh, How I Love Jesus, or something like that.
And when they begin to sing, all of a sudden, an earthquake struck the place. And notice how it done, instead of piling those walls of that big ol’ building right in on top of them, and them…and mashing them to death, it shook the walls away from them, and not only that, but it broke the stocks and bars loose from them, and they were set free. 61-0808 - Thy House
They could have said “Why us?” They could have murmured and complained, but instead they praised. They were spiritual descendants of the Tribe of Judah.
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
When the house is a mess, prophesy praise. When the kids won’t behave, encourage yourself in the Lord. A Mother’s prophecy makes a difference.