ROMANS 9:7

“nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, but: “THROUGH ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS SHALL BE NAMED.”

Isn’t it frustrating when you are trying to get an answer out of someone and all you get are vague responses? My wife accuses me of that. She asks me a simple question, and I launch into this complicated, more-than-she-asked-for response. As Joe Friday used to say, “Just the facts, ma’am.” I am thankful God doesn’t give us disguised answers and make us guess what He is up to.

In today’s verse, Paul refers back to Genesis 21:12 when God told Abraham, “‘Do not be distressed because of the boy and your slave woman; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for through Isaac your descendants shall be named.’” His lineage would not come through a slave. Ishmael was not the answer. Isaac was! God named the specific child through whom He would bless Abraham.

APPLICATION

What are you asking the Lord for right now? Be bold and ask for a specific answer. I have a friend who prayed for a wife. But he didn’t just pray for a wife. He prayed for God to give him a wife shorter than he was, lighter skinned than he was and even a left-handed wife. He got specific. Needless to say, on their first date when that shorter, light-skinned woman picked up her fork with the left hand he shouted, “Hallelujah!” That may sound funny, but he got specific in his prayers.

Do you think God wants your family to live in peace with each other? Of course, He does. Do you need a specific answer to a specific prayer? Ask Him for it. Perhaps you need healing from an illness. Ask Him to heal you. You may need money to pay a specific bill. Ask Him for it. Then believe He hears and wants to bless you.

We are told in 1 John 5:14-15, “14 This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.” Do you believe God’s Word? Then believe this. Make His will your will so that your will will be His will. Get specific with God because He is a specific God.

Father, I believe You know exactly what I need and when I need it. Thank You for being so specific in my life.

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