Isaac — Genesis in English — His Glory In Our Story

Story 36: Sarah's Laughter: Sarah’s Laughter: An Ode to the Faith of Abraham and Sarah

Abraham and Sarah had waited on the LORD for twenty-five years. All during those years, Abraham believed in a message he had heard from God.

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Story 37: Hagar’s Tears

Years of joy went by for Abraham and Sarah. Isaac learned to crawl and toddle around on his little feet. When he was two or three, they weaned him from his mother.

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Story 39: The Faith of Abraham

For three days, Abraham did not waver in his faith. God had commanded him to do the unthinkable...to offer his own son as a sacrifice...the very son that God had promised him as a gift so many years before.

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Story 42: Rebekah Comes Home

The Lord guided him to a beautiful young virgin named Rebekah as she took water from the village well. He knew she was the one for Isaac, and so he gave her bracelets of precious gold and asked to be taken back to her home. She ran ahead and told her mother everything that had happened during her time at the well.

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Story 43: The Battling Sons of Rebekah

The LORD had a very unique and specific plan to bring salvation to humanity, and Abraham and Isaac were on board and willing to do what He willed.

Story 44 Isaac and Abraham, Cut from the Same Cloth

In the early days of Isaac and Rebekah’s marriage, long before they had their twin boys, they went through many trials and struggles. At one point, a great famine came upon the land. It grew more and more difficult to find enough to eat.

Story 45 The Trials of Isaac

Isaac and Rebekah lived in Abimelech’s land for quite some time, and everyone believed that they were sister and brother. It was quite a charade. But then one day, King Abimelech looked out a window of his royal palace, and he saw Isaac caressing Rebekah with the kind of tender affection that belongs only between a husband and wife!

Story 46 The Blessing

Isaac was getting older. His eyes were becoming so weak that he was almost blind. He was a hundred, and his aging heart and limbs could not move about as they used to. He feared that the time of his death was coming. Before he was gone, he was determined to speak a blessing to Esau, his firstborn son.

Story 47 The Cost of Deception

What a sad and distorted picture of a family. Isaac, Esau, Rebekah, and Jacob each worked out of their own selfish ambition, competing over the powerful and potent blessing of the firstborn son. What great blessings and harmony they could have shared together if they had all submitted to the will of their faithful God.