IS IT THE “ELKANAH” OR “ISAAC” TYPE OF HUSBAND YOU ARE ASKING FOR OR YOU HAVE?

IS IT THE “ELKANAH” OR “ISAAC” TYPE OF HUSBAND YOU ARE ASKING FOR OR YOU HAVE?

In marriage, my sister, you trust God for your own and not “one of them”. You cannot afford to joke with your destiny…this thing is real. Some women can get away with it but it is not every woman can afford to have a “managed” husband to their destiny.

The smooth ride to your destiny has some significant attachment to WHO YOUR HUSBAND IS (1 Cor. 11:10). Is he an Elkanah or an Isaac?

In case you marry or are married to an Elkanah you cannot afford to live a prayer less life. Elkanahs are very religious people but they are not spiritual.

They love to do the religious activities that come with fanfare. They are quick to do their offerings or take the communion even though they may not know the spiritual implication of what they do.

Every year they will go to Shiloh without a miss. Every Sunday they will be in Church but they are not praying, doing the work of an Evangelist or discipleship…no, they came to fulfill all ‘religious’ righteousness.

And so an Elkanah would not pray for himself let alone pray for you and for your needs (physical, spiritual, emotional or psychological). If you finally realize that you need to take your destiny into your own hands and rise up and pray, he will do everything to discourage you or even prevent you.

 He will complain about why you attend prayer meetings. He will tell you it is not necessary. Even if you tell him why you have to pray, he will tell you he should be more valuable to you than any need in your life and therefore you should pre-occupy yourself with his needs and do’s.

When Hannah could not have a baby and was seriously praying for it, Elkanah asked her in 1Samuel 1:8 that “Why are you crying, Hannah? Why aren’t you eating? Why be down cast? Just because you have no children? You have me- isn’t that better than having ten sons?”

If your husband is an Elkanah who thinks that you should not have any other need or priority in this life but rather be satisfied because you are married to him then you better be on your knees daily. He does not recognize that you should have a destiny to fulfill from God yet, PRAY sister.

An Elkanah, even when he knows your need will play it down by describing it as ‘JUST’. He trivializes your most important needs and desire to achieve.

By the way he talks, you should know he does not pray about your issue with you or for you. He does not see your need as important. He thinks that he should be the most important thing you ever wanted in this world.

BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN HE DOES NOT LOVE YOU…HE DOES, BUT IN HIS OWN WAY.

But If you are married to an Isaac, blessed are you. You can afford to go to bed and sleep comfortably because an Isaac, unlike an Elkanah, will be on his knees for you. Isaacs are not religious people but very spiritual. They are very sensitive to things of the spirit.

In Genesis 25:21, the Bible says that “Isaac pleaded with the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children, and Rebekah became pregnant with twins”.

An Isaac is an intercessor. An Isaac would recognize your deepest need and will not rest until it is fulfilled. They do not go to Shiloh every year like Elkanahs, but they are connected to the Throne of Grace and when they pray, heaven responds with “more than you can carry” results.

His prayers produced twin, the first of its kind in human history then.

Who have you married or who are you planning to marry? Is he an Elkanah or an Isaac?

Every woman reading this, I pray we have the best, THE GOD FEARING ISAAC, but in the case you marry or are married to an Elkanah, be a Hannah, RISE and PRAY.

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