We Still Need to Pray

Gen. 25:21 "And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived."

Isaac was the promised seed of Abraham. God had promised that the coming Messiah would come through his bloodline. Isaac had married Rebekah but she was barren and could not get pregnant.  His brother, Ishmael, was married and had fathered several children by this time.

Get the picture. Isaac was right in the center of the will of God. He was doing what he was supposed to do. He was right where he needed to be. But yet he was troubled. You mean to tell me that a person can be in the perfect will of God and still have troubles? Still have concerns? That everything might not go just right all the time? You mean that someone can be in the will of God but because they cannot see the entire plan they get discouraged?

So what did Isaac do when he got to this point? He prayed.

V21 says Isaac prayed to God on behalf of his wife (something I have been doing daily since before we married). That is a great practice to get into whether things are going great or not.  We have no record of how long Isaac prayed or how many times he approached the throne with his requests. What we do see is that God heard his prayer and answered it.  God's plan was to bring forth the Messiah through Isaac and that was accomplished.

Let me make it personal. Metha and I believe that we are doing what God wants us to do. We are where we need to be and yet we are troubled. So what have we been doing? We've been praying.  We have been praying fervently for Noah, our family and each other during this time.  We fully expect God's plan for Noah's life to be accomplished. We are praying for God's will, whatever that might be, and His grace to help us through it and to accept it.

But we still need to pray.