Genesis 14 - Praying God's Word

Please read Genesis 14.

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Meditate on verse 18.

And Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine;

 now he was a priest of God Most High.

On the first day of the week, the day Christ arose from the dead, He met two men who were walking to Emmaus. Jesus started walking with them, asked them a few questions, then “beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures” (Luke 24:27). (All the Scriptures means all of the Old Testament.) Genesis 14 was probably one of the passages Jesus explained to the two men because the writer of Hebrews recorded it in reference to Jesus Christ in Hebrews 7.

Abram won a battle against four kings who had taken his nephew Lot and other people captive. Abram rescued Lot and the others. As Abram returned home from the battle, the king of Sodom and the king of Salem came to greet Abram and thank him for his kind and courageous deed. The king of Salem was Melchizedek who was also a priest. He greeted Abram with bread and wine.

Why would God have Moses record this strange encounter between Melchizedek and Abram? God was giving a picture of Messiah. Jesus is King and Priest. He gave His disciples bread and wine to symbolize the covenant relationship He had with them. Melchizedek is not listed in any of the genealogies of Genesis; he has no date of birth or date of death. Hebrews 7:3 says God did that on purpose to show the Son of God has neither beginning of days nor end of life.

God’s Word is amazing! Every Word is handcrafted by the Almighty to show you the Savior. Enjoy Him like you never have before this Christmas season.

Pray Genesis 14:14 and 16 in thanksgiving of what Christ has done for you.

“LORD, as soon as You heard

 I had been taken captive by sin, You pursued me.


Thank You for bringing me back to You.


In Your name, Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

Genesis 13 - Praying God's Word

Please read Genesis 13.

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Meditate on this phrase from verse 5.

Now Lot, who went with Abram …

There is a repeated phrase in Genesis 12-13: “Lot went with him” (Genesis 12:4; 13:1, 5). Lot was Abram’s nephew, the adult son of Abram’s deceased brother, Haran. Abram’s father, Terah, assumed the responsibility of his grandson, Lot, after the death of Haran (Genesis 11:27-31).

God told Abram to go forth from his country and from his relatives and from his father’s house to the land He would show him (Genesis 12:1). Well, Abram obeyed part of God’s commands. He left his country and went to the land God showed him, but he took Lot with him.

Partial obedience to God is disobedience, and there are always consequences to disobeying God. Abram gave up the best of God’s gift of land to selfish Lot in order to appease him and put an end to family strife. Abram finally obeyed God in Genesis 13:11, “thus they separated from each other.” But by this point, the consequences remained, and you will continue to read about Lot in the days to come. In fact, to this day, the descendants of Lot occupy the land east of the Jordan River (Genesis 13:11), and there is still strife between the descendants of Lot (Jordan) and the descendants of Abram (Israel).

Does it matter whether you choose to completely obey God or not? The countries of Israel and Jordan live with the consequences of a relative who partially obeyed God over 4000 years ago.

Pray Genesis 13:18 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, help ________ and me to move
our tents as soon as You tell us,


to the place You tell us, and in the way You tell us.


Then and there we will build an altar and worship You, LORD.

 Because of Your name, Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

Genesis 12 - Praying God's Word

Please read Genesis 12.

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Meditate on verses 1-3.

Now the LORD said to Abram,

“Go forth from your country,

and from your relatives,

and from your father’s house,

 to the land which I will show you;

 and I will make you a great nation,

 and I will bless you, and make your name great;

and so you shall be a blessing;

and I will bless those who bless you,

and the one who curses you I will curse. 

And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

You are about to start the Christian season many believers refer to as Advent. Advent begins four Sundays before Christmas day. It is a time for meditation and prayer in anticipation of celebrating the coming of Christ to earth as the perfect and acceptable sacrifice for the sins of the world.

Genesis 12 contains a prophecy from God to Abram about the Messiah. When God told Abram, “in you all the families of the earth will be blessed” (v. 3), God was prophesying that the Savior for the entire world would be a descendant of Abram.

As you continue reading Genesis for the rest of the year, look for Jesus. Genesis was part of the Scriptures Paul used to give evidence that Jesus is the Christ and to explain salvation through faith in Him (Acts 17:2-3). The New Testament was just beginning to be written when Peter, James, Paul, and the other New Testament preachers were teaching. The Scriptures the writers of the New Testament used are the same Scriptures used today known as the Old Testament.

Look for evidence that Jesus is the Messiah in Genesis. It is a great treasure hunt!

Pray Genesis 12:3b, 4, and 8 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, thank You for blessing __________ and me.

Help us go forth just as You command us to go.

 Wherever we go, may we worship You


and call on Your name, LORD.


Because of You, Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

Genesis 11 - Praying God's Word

Please read Genesis 11.

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Meditate on this phrase from verse 4.

Let us make for ourselves a name.

Moses recorded God’s Words in Genesis in a distinct pattern. In Genesis, God listed five genealogies starting with the genealogy of the earth (Genesis 1). Immediately following each genealogy, God gave a closer look at one part of the genealogy. For example, Genesis 2 is a closer look at how God created man.

God followed His pattern in Genesis 10-11. Genesis 10 is the genealogy of the nations of the world beginning with Noah’s three sons. Genesis 11 gives you a closer picture of Nimrod and his city, Babel, which were part of the genealogy in Genesis 10.

Nimrod’s rebellion before God continued in Genesis 11. The people in Nimrod’s city of Babel decided to make a name for themselves by building a city with a tower that reached into heaven. As they were saying, “Let us ... let us ... let us ...,” the LORD said, “Let Us go down there and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech” (Genesis 11:7).

God will not tolerate rebellion! When you try to make a name for yourself, you are in opposition to God, and He will come down into your business and confuse what you are doing until you choose to let God’s name be glorified instead of your own.

Pray for God not to have to do Genesis 11:7 to you and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, Your name is above every name in heaven and earth!

As _________ and I bow to You, I pray You do not have


to come down and cause confusion in our lives.


In Your name, Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

Genesis 10 - Praying God's Word

Please read Genesis 10.

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Meditate on verse 32.

These are the families of the son of Noah,

according to their genealogies, by their nations;

and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.

From the three sons of Noah, the whole earth was populated (Genesis 9:19). The sons and grandsons of Japheth, Ham, and Shem are listed in Genesis 10. These are the men from whom all the nations on earth began.

God gave additional details about one man in this genealogy, like He did for Enoch in Adam’s genealogy (Genesis 5:21-24). God wanted you to know more about Nimrod.

Nimrod was the founder and leader of Babel. According to Hebrew scholars, C.F. Keil and F. Delitzsch, Nimrod means “we will revolt.” He may have hunted animals, but in the context of these verses, Nimrod was a hunter, a killer of humans. He walked in rebellion before God to make himself mighty on earth and to establish his kingdom.

God told you about Nimrod, so you would learn from Nimrod. Examine your life. Do you walk with God like Enoch did? Or do you rebelliously walk before God like Nimrod did?

Pray not to be Genesis 10:8-9 for yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, You are the Mighty One on the earth.


Do not let ________ and me try to become what only You can be.

 Do not let us do anything before You.


Continue to make us like Enoch, walking with You (Genesis 5:24).

 In Your name, Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

Genesis 9 - Praying God's Word

Please read Genesis 9.

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Meditate on verse 9.

Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant

 with you and with your descendants after you.

Before entering the ark, God promised to establish His covenant with Noah. Genesis 6:18 was the first time covenant was used in the Bible. The next time God used the word was in Genesis 9, after Noah and his family left the ark and offered sacrifices to God. A covenant is a contract between two individuals which is made official by signs, sacrifices, and vows. Seven times in Genesis 9 God said He would establish His everlasting covenant with Noah and his descendants after him for all successive generations to never again destroy the earth with a flood. The sign of His promise was His bow in the clouds (Genesis 9:13-14). This covenant set the pattern for the covenant God cut with Abram nearly 400 years later and the covenant He cut for you through Jesus Christ 2200 years after the Abrahamic covenant (Genesis 15; Hebrews 13:20).

God takes covenants very seriously. The next time you see a rainbow think about the fact that as you are looking at it, God is also looking at it and remembering His everlasting covenant with every living creature that is on the earth (Genesis 9:16). If you are a Christian, thank God for the everlasting Noahic covenant and for the everlasting covenant you have in Christ.

As a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7), pray Genesis 9:16-17 over those who need to be in a covenant relationship with God.

“LORD, when You look upon _________, please remember them.

They need to be in an everlasting covenant with You.

God, You establish covenant. Establish them in Christ.


In Your name, Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell

Genesis 8 - Praying God's Word

Please read Genesis 8.

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Meditate on this phrase from verse 1.

But God remembered Noah…

God sent the prevailing, increasing, greatly increasing, prevailing more and more flood waters to blot out people whose every intent of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually (Genesis 6:5; 7:17-24). Noah was in the middle of those waters on the ark for one year and 17 days (Genesis 7:10-11; 8:14). I wonder if Noah ever thought God had forgotten him and his family during the course of that year. I wonder if he ever feared the prevailing floodwaters would blot out him and his family.

But God remembered Noah... What situation threatens to flood you and your family? What feels like it is about to blot you out? Come honestly before “the God and Father of your Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort” (2 Corinthians 1:3) and ask Him to remember you. Confess your sins and the sins of others and ask Him to remember you and yours with His mercy and comfort.

God remembered Noah, and the water decreased steadily (Genesis 8:1 and 5).

God remembers you, and He wants the floodwaters to decrease in your life. He waits for you to humbly ask Him to do it.

Pray Genesis 8:1 and 5 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, remember _________ and me.

Please let these waters decrease steadily.

For the sake of Your name, Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell