The Prayer of RACHEL for your next level.

Jacob had just left his father’s house in a hurry. His brother Esau was after him to kill him for stealing his blessing. His mother, who orchestrated the entire thing, quickly packaged a few things and sent him to her brother Laban.

On his way, Jacob encountered the Lord in Genesis 28. For the first time, he saw angels ascending and descending and the Lord Himself was revealed to him.. It was so powerful. It was in the strength of this destiny changing revelation that Jacob continued his journey, and the Lord, as He had promised him, indeed ordered his steps.

Genesis 28:15-17:Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”When Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.” And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”

It was a divine encounter that made Jacob afraid. His perception changed, and when he resumed his journey after this encounter, it was clear that his steps were ordered. The next discussion after encountering God led him to the family he was looking for.

Genesis 29:2 tells us that Jacob looked and saw a well in the field, and he approached the shepherds. In verse 5 he asked the shepherds if they knew Laban, the grandson of Nahor. Oh, they knew him. In fact, the Bible says in verse 9 that while he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

Verse 10 says that as soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep. Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

So the first family member Jacob ever met after his encounter with God was Rachel. He was not only happy to meet her—he loved her. God had ordered their steps. Something spectacular had happened. It was even this same Rachel who introduced Jacob to her father. Amazing.

But how come this amazing Rachel became a very sorrowful woman? What would make such an amazing woman—one whom God had ordained that her union with Jacob would produce the seed Joseph that would bring to fulfillment the covenant God had with Abraham in Genesis 15?

Joseph was the seed that God had intended to send ahead of the family to Egypt. Joseph was the dreamer with the gift of interpretation of dreams that would save a nation from economic destruction. Oh, and not to forget Benjamin also. The seed that would produce a tribe that would produce the first king of Israel was in the womb of Rachel.

Do you realize that in the process of coronating the first king of Israel, Rachel was not left out?

Samuel told Saul in 1 Samuel 10:1–2:

“Then Samuel took a flask of oil, poured it on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, ‘Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over His inheritance?’ When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’”

But how come the woman whose life was so ordered eventually became a woman of “sorrowful birth”? How did a woman of the covenant lineage of Abraham, an amazing fellow who carried the beauty of the promise and the weight of destiny, eventually become a woman who had to struggle and compete for love all her life? How did a woman whose relationship started with a “Covenant Kiss,” sealed between her and Jacob, her lover, have her relationship swapped in the dark? This precious soul even had to share her covenant matrimonial bed with her housemaid.

This is the essential fulcrum of this discourse: to expose how satanic manipulat