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-House rules: I’ll share the message for today with questions that you can answer/discuss/ internalize.
- If you wanna add a point, ask questions/answer them please do
- Everything should be done under this thread(no quote tweets) this allows for consistency.
-House rules: I’ll share the message for today with questions that you can answer/discuss/ internalize.
- If you wanna add a point, ask questions/answer them please do
- Everything should be done under this thread(no quote tweets) this allows for consistency.
Welcome to the #virtualCell
lets wait for everyone to join in and we will begin at 8pm on the dot.
lets wait for everyone to join in and we will begin at 8pm on the dot.
lets begin!!!
So who read tonights scripture??? HOW DEEP????
So who read tonights scripture??? HOW DEEP????
For those that didn't the Scripture for today is Genensis 29. The story of Jacoh, Leah and Rachel
The message of today is titled:
What happens when God doesn’t choose you?
#virtualCAell
The message of today is titled:
What happens when God doesn’t choose you?
#virtualCAell
In Genesis 29:18-30 we read how hard Jacob worked in order to marry Rachel.
Guys this man worked 14 years for his queen only from him to be given Leah, the women he didn’t want!!! IMAGINE? The women he didn’t choose.
Guys this man worked 14 years for his queen only from him to be given Leah, the women he didn’t want!!! IMAGINE? The women he didn’t choose.
Side note:When are we having the chat that IF A MAN WANTS TO HE WILL??? #virtualCAell
(Im gonna start numbering the tweets for order)
5. Then in Gen 29:30 we see how he ended up with two wives, however what’s emphasised in this verse is that the Bible tells us that HE LOVE RACHEL MORE. #virtualCAell
5. Then in Gen 29:30 we see how he ended up with two wives, however what’s emphasised in this verse is that the Bible tells us that HE LOVE RACHEL MORE. #virtualCAell
6. Have you ever wanted a promotion at work, a degree, a child, a new house etc and all you see is someone else getting chosen?
It’s hurts.
It’s hurts.
7. It hurts so much cause here you are, fasting, praying , you are studying hard for this exam, you are changing your lifestyle to show how faithful you are, you even sign up to run children ministries at church cz E for effort.
But yet God chooses someone else. #virtualCell
But yet God chooses someone else. #virtualCell
8. So I went and did smol smol research to try and figure out why is it that when you want something so badly, God Ses whoaww pause and makes you watch someone else get it?
9. so Joyce Meyer says that God does this because he doesn’t think you are spiritually mature so he gives you two answers:
- You are not ready baby girl
- My child I want to give you something better, but you are not spiritually mature to ask for THAT.
- You are not ready baby girl
- My child I want to give you something better, but you are not spiritually mature to ask for THAT.
10. Look when I read it that way, what i find empowering is that in ALL CASES(we may not see it right there)once God has accomplished that thing he wants u to learn, u would’ve gained a blessing and a lesson(your spiritual blessing). Something that no one will ever take from u.
11. Okay lets go back to the bible, If we read chapter 29v31 you see that God was aware of this unfortunate situation, and the bible Ses he had COMPASSION on Leah.
“When God saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless.”
“When God saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless.”
12. In other words even throughout her hurt, her loveless marriage GOD ALWAYS SAW HER,Leah was not overlooked or unloved by God!
13. How comforting is it to know that even though you are hurting, brother man is still looking for you? He seees it all! in fact he often sends small somethings to "cushion" the blow.
13. but often we use this "cushion" to our own detriment and glory!
14. Leah had 3 children all in the name of trying to prove her love to this man, and hoping he would love her too more than he loved Rachel
We see this in 29:14 where the bible Ses “at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.”
We see this in 29:14 where the bible Ses “at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.”
15. The feeling of being overlooked or not being good enough is the worst kinda feeling, that kinda hurt is deep because it often makes you feel forgotten, worthless, anxious, it hightens the fear of not being wanted just because you haven’t been choosen.
15. BUT By the time Leah has son 4, something changed, so she conceived again but this time her heart was different
Because this child wasn’t there to win over her husband but to praise God and that's why she named him Judah which means “This time I will praise the Lord.”
Because this child wasn’t there to win over her husband but to praise God and that's why she named him Judah which means “This time I will praise the Lord.”
16. I believe its cause at this point Leah had gained her spiritual maturity.
I believe even thought she had more children later in Genesis at this point, she was she’s able to watch Rachel get something she has always really wanted and was able to be genuinely happy for her.
I believe even thought she had more children later in Genesis at this point, she was she’s able to watch Rachel get something she has always really wanted and was able to be genuinely happy for her.
17. Haven’t we all been there at some point?
where we do literally everything in order to get what we desperately want and it honestly just makes us feel more and more miserable, because we have forgotten who the source of all blessings come from??
where we do literally everything in order to get what we desperately want and it honestly just makes us feel more and more miserable, because we have forgotten who the source of all blessings come from??
18. The blessing we see in Leah’s life is that her DEPENDENCE on Jacob’s love and attention slowly turned toward God, the giver of contentment.
Leah found her security in her Lord and no one could take that away.
Leah found her security in her Lord and no one could take that away.
In conclusion:
(Take home)
6 lessons!!!
(Take home)
6 lessons!!!
1. IF A MAN WANTS TO HE WILL
2. What God does in someone else’s life, is none of your business.
3. God wants us to seek his face and notHIS HAND.
2. What God does in someone else’s life, is none of your business.
3. God wants us to seek his face and notHIS HAND.
3. Don’t ever be jealous of what someone else has unless you are ready to bear the journey they had to get through to get it!!!!
(I said 3 twice)
5. God uses whom he wants, when he wants, according to HIS purposes
6. Bo sister; we are not promised a pain free life, we are gonna cry to kingdom come, but what we are given in the morning is so much more!
5. God uses whom he wants, when he wants, according to HIS purposes
6. Bo sister; we are not promised a pain free life, we are gonna cry to kingdom come, but what we are given in the morning is so much more!
THE END!
SIDE NOTE: can we discuss how shady it was that Jacob only realised he had slept with Leah and not Rachel, THE DAY AFTER, IN THE MORNING???
NEXT WEEK WEDNESDAY @nolt_love will be hosting #Virtualcell on her TL!
After that, she will elect someone to host and that person will pick someone and so fourth...
After that, she will elect someone to host and that person will pick someone and so fourth...
