Encouragement for a Single Mother
Encouragement for a Single Mother — Genesis 21 — when Abraham released Hagar, Heaven received her!
You may feel like, Hagar cast out, misunderstood, and left to wander in a wilderness you didn’t choose.
- Rejected by those who once needed you.
- Judged by those who never knew your full story.
- Abandoned and left to raise what they walked away from.
But God sees and has not forgotten you!
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. (Psalm 68:5)
When man’s provision ended, God’s covenant began.
The wilderness became the womb of revelation, because sometimes God must separate you from dependency to show you that He alone is your source!
Single mother, do not despise your detour, the rejection that broke you is the same moment God redirected you…
He still remembers the promise spoken over your seed.
You and your child will not die in the desert.
The same God who heard the boy’s cry will open your eyes to the well of life.
Be encouraged:
- The rejection that hurt you is the redirection that will heal you.
- The wilderness that stripped you is the ground where revelation springs forth.
- The child you’re raising in tears will rise in destiny, for God has heard his cry.
- Jehovah El-Roi still sees. Jehovah Jireh still provides!
- What looked like abandonment was divine preservation.
- What seemed like judgment will become your Testimony of Grace!
Hold on, woman of promise your well is closer than you think.
God will Restore, and raise you up before the very eyes of those who thought it was over for you.
“Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear… For thy Maker is thine husband; The LORD of hosts is his name.” (Isaiah 54:1,5)
When you are abandoned or forgotten, God Himself steps in as Husband, Provider, and Protector.
He becomes the Covering of the Uncovered!
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Correction : Elijah was in the wilderness and sustained. 1 Kings 17 and 19.
I apologise for the error in the audio, it was inadvertent… The prophet Elijah, not Ezekiel was at the brook Cherith.
Hagar and Ishmael Depart
“So the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned.
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, scoffing. Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac.” And the matter was very [b]displeasing in Abraham’s sight because of his son.
But God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be displeasing in your sight because of the lad or because of your bondwoman. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac your seed shall be called. Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is your seed.”
So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba. And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs. Then she went and sat down across from him at a distance of about a bowshot; for she said to herself, “Let me not see the death of the boy.” So she sat opposite him, and lifted her voice and wept.
And God heard the voice of the lad. Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad and hold him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.”
Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink. So God was with the lad; and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.” Genesis 21:8-21.
Shalom
~ Syreeta Thomas
Amazing word..thank you..