(By G.Y Lekia) Genesis 24 Abraham had entrusted the task or responsibility of getting a wife for his son to his eldest servant. Not to say much of what that means, the eldest servant we believer had enough of discernment, and training under the patriarch to function in the capacity he had been charged. The old Abraham had to charge his servant by oath, God being the witness. This was a griever matter than the covenant Abraham had made with Abimelech where he brought seven eve lambs (Genesis 21: 28). Here the servant was ask to place his hands under the thigh of Abraham – a man God had made great, whom the children of Heth called lord (Genesis 23:6). The servant was to feel the weight of the thigh of the man who is the father of them who believe by faith, a man who had sojourn on many lands,a friend of God (Isaiah 51:2; Genesis 23:4). At the point of taking hold of Abraham’s thigh he knew the weight of his master’s heart on the matter. Abraham was now close to hi...
A LETTER FROM THE ISLAND OF PATMOS To my dearly beloved brothers round the world .The coming of Lord as we have thought seem to tarry, He himself before the very eyes of those who saw him ascend spoke of coming soon - Those words did comfort there heart that in no time they will be with him. Today, these words of our lord has gradually fade away –not holding much than mere words [to the perishing]. I write to you brothers noting how much you must have suffered in the flesh even as our very own brother who labour for the lord had suffered preferring death. I thought I could be of some comfort to you writing unto you, but not as much as the very departing words of the master when he said I am with you always even to the end of the age. I commend the grace of God in you and how much of help you have been to the saints, seeing that though you have little, yet have use of that given you, diligent in the vineyard labouring among the saints in reaching to the heathen....
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