Charles Spurgeon, one of my great heroes, said the following, and I'm going to quote him,

he said, though grace does not run in the blood, and regeneration is neither in the blood nor birth,

yet it does very frequently happen that God, by means of one of the household, draws the rest to himself.

It is not surprising, therefore, that you will always see in the Bible that faithful prayer, persistent prayer, plus unconditional

obedience, spells an answer to the prayer. Let this sink in. Okay, that's our formula for today.

All right. Persistent, faithful prayer plus unconditional obedience equal answers to prayer.

We saw in that last message how Abraham's servant, Eliasor, who was really the chief of staff, how he was commissioned by

Abraham to go and find a wife for his son Isaac, the son of promise, the son of the covenant.

And we saw how Ali-Izer bathed his journey in prayer. We saw how he followed and obeyed his master's instructions.

We saw how he traveled along obedience highway until he got to his destination.

And today we're going to see God answering that prayer.

Verse 27 of chapter 24 in the book of Genesis, if you have your Bible,

underline it. Aliazza was testifying to the future in-laws of Isaac, and he said, God guided my

steps. Aliazza's prayer was very simple. Lord, help me to recognize the right woman that you already have prepared for Isaac. Very simple.

Ali Azza was utterly and completely dependent on God as he traveled to the Earl of Caldeers. He was utterly dependent on God to guide all of his steps,

not just some of them. He did not pray for a miracle, as I mentioned in the last message. He prayed

for an indication, for a sign. What does the sign say? When a sign says to Atlanta,

it's just an indication. It says this is the way he got to Atlanta, right? And the sign is very

different from a miracle. I'm going to explain that in a minute. Listen to me carefully.

He just said, I want an indication to be absolutely certain that she's the one.

Here he is a stranger in a strange land, strange place with a mission. He did not have time to work

out his strategy papers, all right? He did not have time to work out the pros and the

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