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Genesis 25 verse 21

and Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife because she was barren and the Lord granted his prayer and

Rebecca his wife conceived.

This is a verse that hits particularly close to home for me and for my wife as we struggled through

infertility for about five years, longing to have children and God not providing in the way we were

hoping and longing and even praying for and the wrestling in faith even during those years as month after month

after month we're just praying and bleeding God we know you have power to bring children.

So why are you not doing it?

And I just, I can imagine there are a variety of people who are listening to this who either have been through a journey

similar to that or know someone who has and this verse is just a clear reminder that God alone can give life and so we pray to him as the author of life.

He alone can bring a child into the world and sometimes we wonder why he doesn't answer

that prayer at this time or that time but a verse like this just compels me to say,

and to look back even at my own life and family

and to say, oh God, yes, you alone can give life,

and God, you can be trusted with my life and you can be trusted to shape my

family in the way that is best for us and most glorifying to you.

So I just want to pray particularly for people who may be walking through

infertility right now in light of this verse. Oh God I know some of the hurt and

pain and struggle that is involved in praying for, pleading for you to open the womb and you not answering immediately you

not answering in the way in the time that I had in my mind that Heather and I had in our

minds and yet you have shown yourself so faithful to us you are indeed the author of life. You're the one who gives life and

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