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Introduction
GPS
How many of you are solely dependent on your phone to get you around town?
ATL - Missed two stops
How many of you desire for clear direction in your life?
Transition
Well the good news is that God makes a way for us to pursue Him through things like prayer and obedience.
And we read about that in stories like where we are tonight.
Setting the scene
Abraham and his son Isaac
Sarah had just passed.
Abraham incredibly old.
Promise has been made, its been upheld, but once more there is this certain tinge of wondering how God is going to make a way....
C.I.T. - God providentially works to bring about His purposes.
Proclamation
12 “Lord, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “make this happen for me today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
13 I am standing here at the spring where the daughters of the men of the town are coming out to draw water.
14 Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac.
By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”
15 Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah—daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah,k the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor—coming with a jug on her shoulder.
16 Now the girl was very beautiful,l a virgin—no man had been intimate with her.
She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up.
17 Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”
18 She replied, “Drink, my lord.”
She quickly lowered her jug to her hand and gave him a drink.
19 When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I’ll also draw water for your camels until they have had enough to drink.”
Application
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In what areas of life do you wish you had clear guidance?
School?
Family?
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Relationships or maybe no relationships.
There is no doubt that this life that we’re living in has so much about it that we don’t understand.
But where there is mystery, we can lean into God’s loving care.
Exposition
We see that here in this episode, if that’s what you want to call it.
Look here, Abraham’s beloved servant “prayed… make this happen for me today and show kindness to my master Abraham.”
He’s not praying for his own benefit, He’s not even really praying for Abraham’s benefit, but instead he is cherishing this promise that God made to his master long ago.
He long’s after God’s promise.
To make from Abraham many nations.
He longs for His purposes.
Is that the same way that we long for God’s purposes?
Are we like that?
Application
We should respond in life with a mind-set that if something is going to happen, that God has to “make-it” happen.
That’s exactly what’s happening here as Abraham’s servant prays specifically and expectantly.
14 Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac.
By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”
Application
He’s not saying God prove yourself to me but he is saying, “God I have journeyed several hundred miles, for a long, long time, we know this to be your promise and purpose so make it happen and make it obvious!
Sidenote:
Camel’s
We read about Rebekah here and we read that she is beautiful but apparently she’s ripped too.
Must be doing some Crossfit...
But do you pray in such a way?
Do lean in and depend on Him in such a way?
When have you experienced God answering your prayer?
What happened?
How has that shaped your life today?
Expectant that God will come through?
Desperately?
If you sit there and say, “I don’t know.”
God hasn’t answered my prayers because I don’t pray.”
I just want to ask you, why not?
God clearly demonstrates here that He provides for His children! Pray! Pray boldly, pray in a way that makes you lean completely into Him.
I’m not saying go and pray for a Ferrari, cause that has nothing to do with God’s will on your life in that He has created you to be with Him.
He loves you.
He wants you to lean into Him and Him alone for all of your needs, none more important than to save you from sin and destruction.
That’s what Paul is talking about in that famous Romans passage when he says, “ - ...we know that for those who love God, all things works together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.”
- And we know that for those who love God, all things works together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.
We read on in verse 23...
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23 “Whose daughter are you?” he asked.
“Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
23 “Whose daughter are you?” he asked.
“Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
B Lit they are finished drinking
24 She answered him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.” 25 She also said to him, “We have plenty of straw and feed and a place to spend the night.”
26 Then the man knelt low, worshiped the Lord, 27 and said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld his kindness and faithfulness from my master.
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Application
Application
In what areas of life do you wish you had clear guidance?
Application
Why should we respond in life with a mind-set that if something is going to happen, that God has to “make-it” happen.
Exposition
Application
This is Rebekah checking all the boxes.
She is from Abraham’s homeland which means that she doesn’t worship any foreign God’s and this is God making good on His promise to make a people from Him and people that would be God’s.
When have you experienced God answering your prayer?
What happened?
How has that shaped your life today?
So you can imagine that this servant here is lighting up like a Christmas tree.
I found her!
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