{"id":5,"date":"2016-11-25T16:14:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isaac.the-davidsons.com\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2016-11-25T16:54:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T16:54:36","slug":"who-is-isaac","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/isaac.the-davidsons.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Isaac?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine having a daughter who seemed to be seeing things before they were there. Imagine feeling like you related to Philip the Evangelist who happened to have 4 daughters who were prophetess.<br \/>\nImagine one morning waking up and during your private time praying to God sharing this and asking if I was to have a son or would have 4 daughters &#8211; in my mind either would have been fine.<\/p>\n<p>That morning my reading was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"text Gen-17-15\"><sup class=\"versenum\">15\u00a0<\/sup>And God said to Abraham, \u201cAs for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah<sup class=\"footnote\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;\" data-fn=\"#fen-ESV-413a\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-413a&quot; title=&quot;See footnote a&quot;&gt;a&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Genesis+17%3A15-21&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-413a\">a<\/a>]<\/sup> shall be her name.<\/span> <span id=\"en-ESV-414\" class=\"text Gen-17-16\"><sup class=\"versenum\">16\u00a0<\/sup>I will bless her, and moreover, I will give<sup class=\"footnote\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;\" data-fn=\"#fen-ESV-414b\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-414b&quot; title=&quot;See footnote b&quot;&gt;b&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Genesis+17%3A15-21&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-414b\">b<\/a>]<\/sup> you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.\u201d<\/span> <span id=\"en-ESV-415\" class=\"text Gen-17-17\"><sup class=\"versenum\">17\u00a0<\/sup>Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, \u201cShall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?\u201d<\/span> <span id=\"en-ESV-416\" class=\"text Gen-17-18\"><sup class=\"versenum\">18\u00a0<\/sup>And Abraham said to God, \u201cOh that Ishmael might live before you!\u201d<\/span> <span id=\"en-ESV-417\" class=\"text Gen-17-19\"><sup class=\"versenum\">19\u00a0<\/sup>God said, \u201cNo, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac.<sup class=\"footnote\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;\" data-fn=\"#fen-ESV-417c\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-417c&quot; title=&quot;See footnote c&quot;&gt;c&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Genesis+17%3A15-21&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-417c\">c<\/a>]<\/sup> I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.<\/span> <span id=\"en-ESV-418\" class=\"text Gen-17-20\"><sup class=\"versenum\">20\u00a0<\/sup>As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.<\/span> <span id=\"en-ESV-419\" class=\"text Gen-17-21\"><sup class=\"versenum\">21\u00a0<\/sup>But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.\u201d\u00a0<em>&#8211;from Genesis 17<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That day I knew one day I would have a son because God answered me with the statement:<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And hence he is Isaac!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine having a daughter who seemed to be seeing things before they were there. Imagine feeling like you related to Philip the Evangelist who happened to have 4 daughters who were prophetess. 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