Just one little but
powerful word AGAIN has empowered Isaac to move forward despite the rejection
and the opposition of his enemies. He digged again and again and again until
the Lord turned him from "nothing" to "something", from
"rejected" to "celebrated" and the Philistines from
"enemies" to "allies".
We discover this
marvelous story in Genesis 26 showing us how "again" carries
tremendous power in the process of the change of level and growth in our daily
walk with the Lord.
After God had blessed
Isaac who became extremely great in the land of the Philistines, we read in
Genesis 26:14 that "the Philistines envied him".
In Genesis 26:15, we
read that the same Philistines, moved with envy "stopped Isaac's wells and
filled them with earth".
In Genesis 26:16, the King himself chases Isaac
away of the land, "Go from us, for thou are much mightier than we".
After the rejection,
Isaac did not fall into depression nor complained, murmured or begged. Just
because the wells were stopped, nothing stopped Isaac. Rather, he kept moving,
going forward and digging other wells.
In Genesis 26:18 "And Isaac digged again ..."
In Genesis 26:21 "And they digged [again] another well ... '
In Genesis 26:22 "And he removed from thence, and digged [again] another well ... and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
Amazingly, after
digging again and again, we discover in Genesis 26:28 that the people who
envied Isaac, stopped his wells and rejected him, the same come back to him
with different language and attitude,
"And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, [even] betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
PRAYER 1
Father, I pray today
that you empower me by your Spirit to pray again and again like Elijah did
James 5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
PRAYER 2
Father, I pray today
that you empower me by your Spirit to love you again and again like Peter did
John 21:16 He said to him again the second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou Me?" He said unto Him, "Yea, Lord; Thou knowest that I love Thee." He said unto him, "Feed My sheep"
PRAYER 3
Father, I pray today
that you empower me by your Spirit to dream again and again like Joseph did
Genesis 37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
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