Lesson 12
Read: Genesis 24:29-61 - www.bible.com/bible/59/gen.24
Rebekah:
- Adaptability – able to adjust to new conditions
- Cooperation – people helping each other out to achieve a common goal
- Discernment – the ability to decide between truth and error, right and wrong
- Fearlessness
Abraham’s Servant:
- Persuasiveness – having the power to induce action or belief
- Purpose – have as one's intention or objective
- Responsibility – the opportunity or ability to act independently and make decisions
- Trustworthiness – reliable: you do what you say you're going to do.

The young woman whom Abraham’s servant met at the well was named Rebekah. Her brother Laban had seen the expensive jewelry Rebekah  had been given, and ran to the spring where Abraham’s servant was standing with his camels, and invited him to come into their home.

Abraham’s trustworthy servant went into Laban’s house. Laban’s servants fed Abraham’s camels, but the servant wouldn’t eat until he had told Laban and their mother his story – the purpose for his visit.

“I’m Abraham’s servant. God has blessed Abraham with great wealth, but his biggest blessing is the son God gave him and his wife in their old age. My master made me promise to find a wife for his son in the land which was his father’s home. Abraham assured me that the Lord’s angel would go with me and work things out so a wife for his son would come from his family.”

He told Laban and their mother about his prayer asking God to show him the right young woman – she would water his camels – and how he had just barely finished his prayer when Rebekah arrived at the well. Abraham’s responsible servant praised God for leading him straight to his master’s family.

Laban and their mother said, “This is definitely God. Rebekah is your master’s son’s – take her with you back to him; God has made it clear through your persuasive experience this is His will.”

Abraham’s servant bowed before God in worship. He gave gifts to Rebekah, her brother and their mother. He and his men spent the night there, but as soon as the sun came up, they wanted to start traveling back to Abraham. Her brother and mother wanted Rebekah to stay ten more days, then go, but Abraham’s servant wanted to leave that morning.

Rebekah discerned that Abraham’s servant was trustworthy, and agreed to leave her home that day. She definitely showed traits of adaptability, fearlessness and cooperation when she left her family and all that she had ever known to go with a stranger to a new land and to a husband she had never even seen. Rebekah and her nurse left with Abraham’s servant after she was blessed by her family.

Apply God’s Word to your life:
*When has God enabled you to use adaptability, fearlessness and cooperation after He’s helped you discern something is His will, and what were the results?
*How did God use Abraham’s servant’s sense of purpose, responsibility and trustworthiness to make him persuasive enough that Rebekah’s family was willing to let her go with him?
*Tell how the Holy Spirit has guided you this past week.