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~”

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

Genesis 7 - Praying God's Word

Please read Genesis 7.

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Meditate on verse 5.

Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him.

The theme of obeying God runs throughout the book of Genesis. People’s deliberate disobedience to God brought His righteous judgment on the earth. In the midst of judgment, one man, Noah, and his family were spared because Noah was righteous before God (Genesis 7:1).

Noah did according to all that God commanded him (Genesis 6:22). His obedience brought blessings to his entire family.

What about your family? Are the people in your life being blessed as you obediently follow Jesus Christ? Are they learning from your example how to live and walk every day with God?

Jesus Christ makes you righteous before God. Obedience to Christ draws others to want a righteous relationship with Him. Live for your Savior so the destroying flood of sin does not prevail over you and those you love. He wants to spare you and your family. Choose His righteousness.

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

“LORD, make _______ me righteous before You for the sake of my family!

Let ________ and me do according to all that You command.

In Your name, Jesus~”

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

Genesis 6 - Praying God's Word

Please read Genesis 6.

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Meditate on verse 9b.

Noah walked with God.

Like Enoch in Genesis 5:21-24, Noah walked with God. God gives you details in Genesis 6 about those who walked with God and those who chose not to. Examine your life in light of these truths.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless, walking with God, and he found favor in the eyes of God (Genesis 6:8-9). Noah stood in direct contrast to the rest of mankind who grieved God and whom He described as having great wickedness, whose “every intent of the thoughts of their heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5-6).

Which person are you?

Are you:

1. Righteous

2. Blameless

3. Walking with God

Or are you:

1. Wicked

2. The intentions of the thoughts of your heart are continually evil

3. You grieve God in His heart

Here is how to decide which list you are; you will not be both. Genesis 6:22 says, “Noah did according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.”

Pray Genesis 6:8-9 and 22 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“God, ________ and I want to find favor with You.

Make us like Noah:
righteous, blameless, walking with You.


May we do according to all that You command us.

 For the sake of Your name, Jesus~”

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

Genesis 5 - Praying God's Word

Please read Genesis 5.

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Meditate on verse 24a.

Enoch walked with God…

Chapter 5 is the second recorded genealogy in Genesis. The first is in Genesis 1-2:3, the genealogy of creation. Readers of God’s Word are often tempted to skip genealogy chapters; however, treasure verses are left undiscovered when they do.

Genesis 5:24 is the story of one of my favorite Bible heroes, Enoch. It contains the words I would like to be worthy of having inscribed on my tombstone: She walked with God.

Walked carries within it the idea of one’s continual behavior and existence. Enoch walked with God. He lived life with God.

Enoch began walking with God when he was 65 years old, after he became the father of Methuselah (Genesis 5:21-22). From that point, walking with God was the beginning and the end of his story. No other detail was needed except the fact that Enoch so lived with God that his sentence in the genealogy does not end with “and he died” like every other man listed in the chapter. “Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him” (Genesis 5:24).

It was as if God and Enoch were walking together, and the day came when God said, “You know, Enoch, today we really are closer to My house than yours; let’s go spend the rest of eternity there.”

Think about your life. How do people describe you? Would they describe you as walking with God?

Pray Genesis 5:24 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“God, let ________ and me walk with You!

In Your name, Jesus~”

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