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Check Your Rights

Never give up on your primogeniture in God

25/10/2017

By: Obispo Amaury de Farias

The punishment was for us as well as pain, curses, diseases, and any other evil that stop you from being happy, we have achieved the right to win, given the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. When we accept Jesus and die to the world, we have the right of not allowing such situations in our lives. We have the right to be happy. The choice of dying for the world and Christ, or fearing the name of the Lord belongs to us. You should not throw your dream out because you have significant rights. In Genesis 25:29 onwards, Esau changed his birthright to a dish of lentils when starving to his possible death. He took his most precious and powerful thing and, instead of using in your favor, bargained for something worthless. Don't do the same as Esau, who sold his birthright. The right to be in the first place, to be the head and not the tail, the right of the first part, to be always on top. Esau sold Jacob the right. The right was given to who was born first, and God gave us. For your rights to be effective you need to apply them; you need to claim your rights. Esau, instead of using his right of primogeniture, he acted as an ordinary human being, and a regular human being cannot trigger the primogeniture. To trigger this right, we need to make all our efforts and apply our faith on God's will. The right we have is like a weapon, but a gun in the hands of those who don`t know how to use it is worthless. You need to be spiritual to apply all your strength, faith and confidence in your birthright instead of putting it aside and act naturally.

We activate our rights through faith. When Esau found himself facing a situation in which he would need to use his birthright, he negotiated and used it as a bargaining chip to get something different and out of the situation. He had the primogeniture in his hands, but instead of using it, he negotiated.

Instead of using the birthright and his right to get out of dangerous situation, Esau used it in a wrong way, and he changed the birthright to a dish of lentils. Now, I show you in Ishmael the real way of using primogeniture. God made the promise to Abraham that his offspring would make a great nation. Ismael, young, went through the same grip as Esau, near death due to starvation. Sara banishes Hagar and her son Ishmael and told them to leave for the desert. As well as Esau, Agar was between a rock and a hard place and, in this situation, rather than bargaining with the right of primogeniture, she placed the right of Ishmael on the promise that God provided her through Abraham. When you get to one end and have God`s promise in your life, apply the right of primogeniture because God keeps his promise even if you are in the desert, not foreseeing any solution, at death's door, having your tears like Agar`s. It would be the end; God hears the cry and changes everything. Agar was not blasphemed; she didn't throw out the right of primogeniture. God gave the victory to both of them because Agar expressed the faith. God didn`t leave his word collapse. Esau bargained what was the most valuable for a dish of lentils, resigned to death, while Hagar and Ishmael were dependent on God, Ishmael was made the father of a great nation. We all have the right of primogeniture. What do you do with it? Negotiate or shoot? Play out for a dish of lentils or thrive? It's up to you to decide how you will use your right of primogeniture. I always ask God for showing you that you should say: I die, but I won't do it even at the last time, at the moment of bargaining, of selling your right. Don't give up because God is faithful.