Studies

Genesis 24 (part II)

Communion

Genesis 24:10-22

Genesis 24:12 - Please give me success today
So much of our success or failure can depend on our willingness to pray.
Do we ask God for guidance before our important and not so important ventures?

Eliezer [Genesis 15:2] learned to pray to the "God of my master" and to have a dependant faith via Abraham.
What are the kids around us learning from us?

Genesis 24:14 - This is how I will know; "I will water your camels too"
Abraham's servant prayed in great detail for Issac's wife to show herself.
He did not ask for a certain number of ear rings and braclets (beauty) as a sign of Isaac's future wife but rather for woman great inner beauty.
Are we praying for each of the kids in our class? Do we know what we should pray for them?

Hospitality standards of the time was to offer a drink to weary travelers but not to the animals.
For Rebekah, this second mile offer to provide water for the ten camels, would be no easy feat. A camel can drink up to 30 gallons at a time. One gallon of water weights 8 pounds.
After just finishing the journey of 450 miles and two weeks, the camels probably drank pretty close to that amount. How many trips to the well would that have been for Rebekah?

Illustrates God desires for us. Jesus died because :

• So we have opportunity for us to depend on Him
• To hear from us and our inner details of our heart

Contribution
Genesis 24:15 - Before he finished praying
God knows what we need, we just need to ask for it.

Eliezer received an exact and immediate answer. He was left to watch in silience [Genesis 24:21] (possibly shocked) as God answered his prayer exacly as he prayed.

Answer became greater than he requested

God also answered by blessing the servant with other attributes of Isssc soon-to-wife.

• Rebekah not only provided water for his animals but she did with kindness and with servant heart.
• She not only provided some water for the camels but enough water until they were finish. 
• The Bible also describes her a very beautiful phyiscally, old enough to marry, and a virgin.