WIVES FROM THE DAUGHTERS OF CANAAN

-
"If the righteous are barely saved, what will happen to godless sinners?" 1 Peter 4:18
-
Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals." - 1 Corinthians 15:33
-
HOSANNA! Son of David save our lost loved ones. Save them from getting entangled with the godless. If the righteous scarcely be saved, what will happen to our lost loved ones?
-
Esau, Jacob’s twin brother took his wives from the daughters of Canaan, which strictly was forbidden by You. He no doubt was swept away by their physical beauty, provoked by their sensuality, and taken by their charm. Being a lover of godless women, he fell in his own trap. He didn’t choose a virtuous woman with a gentle and quiet spirit--which is priceless in Your sight. Esau did not follow his father Isaac’s example of obeying Abraham to find a proper wife to marry.
-
Esau‘s wives “made life bitter for Isaac and Rebecca.” Spare us, Father God. On the other hand, Jacob waited and worked 14 years to marry the love of his life, Rachel!
-
LORD, You command believers to marry only in the Lord. When our loved ones are lost themselves and their heart is in defiance against You, their vision is short and superficial. Deliver them from becoming one flesh through fornication or adultery. Deliver them from an ungodly marriage against Your will.
-
In view of eternity, Esau would have made choices that were right with You. His descendants excelled as “chiefs,” and “kings” in Edom. In comparison, his twin brother Jacob’s sons were shepherds for generations, and were in bondage in Egypt for 400 years! But through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’s lineage came our Savior Jesus. Now the promises made to Abraham have also been inherited by Your church--the spiritual kings and priests of the earth--Your servants that will reign with Your Son, the Lord Jesus!
-
“If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us;”
2 Timothy 2:12
-
LORD, You said that through faith and patience Your church shall inherit the promises. The world mocks, “Where is Your God?!” Today Edom’s prestigious fame has disappeared from the face of the earth, but everyone has heard of Israel, still making headlines today.
-
Without You reigning in the heart, there is the need for instant gratification.
-
“See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears” Hebrews 12:15-17
-
Esau wanted to kill Jacob for deceiving their father Isaac and taking Esau‘s birthright and blessing. But LORD, there was still hope for Esau! He and his brother Jacob “made up” after a 20-yr. separation. Together they buried their father, Isaac.
-
LORD, the choices we make, big or small, will become our personal history, it is a legacy that we will leave our descendants. What legacy Esau left--an example and warning for others not to follow. And what legacy Jacob left --though he himself had his flaws, he deceived and then he was deceived himself by his wife Rebecca‘s father--but then Jacob had an encounter with You! O LORD, we pray our lost loved ones also have an encounter with You that will change their lives and turn the course of a path of destruction to paths of righteousness!
-
LORD, You said to set our eyes on the eternal, not the temporal. Esau traded his birthright for a bowl of soup! Those gorgeous girls he married, if they got to old age, saw their better days of vanity, and Esau was left with the “real” wives of Canaan, beneath skin deep.
-
HOSANNA, Jesus of Nazareth, have mercy on our lost loved ones and on us. Save them, Father God, we pray in Jesus name, amen.