The Prayer from the Crypt by Hank Kunneman

Author:Hank Kunneman [Kunneman, Hank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780768487824
Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc.

COME YOU AND ALL YOUR HOUSE

Perhaps you might be thinking that your family is a particularly hard case, nearly impossible, while others might be praying, “Lord, will You really save my family?” God’s answer is yes; He can save our families if we will continue to pray and believe. Certainly, people’s wills are involved in making a decision to accept the Lord, but having revelation of household salvation coupled with prayer can produce what may seem impossible. It can bring laborers into our family’s lives, soften them for the Gospel, and ready them to receive the Lord.

The Lord had an entire family on His mind when He spoke to Noah about building an ark. God knew that only Noah would believe, and He instructed him to prepare a way of escape. It was God’s idea: “But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you” (Gen. 6:18 NIV).

Be encouraged that if God wanted this for Noah, then He certainly wants this for you and your family. What is even more faith building and amazing is that the first “invitation” given in the Bible was for the saving of a family. You might say that this was the very first altar call ever given; God gave it, and the result was the salvation of a whole family! “And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation” (Gen. 7:1). Every member of Noah’s family was saved in that ark: eight people altogether, including those related to Noah through marriage.

Yes, that’s right—even those wonderful in-laws that some may love to hate and others want to avoid and forget. For Noah, this meant his daughters-in-law, but for you it may be another “in-law” or relative; the key thing to remember is that God wants them all saved, as was the case with Noah and his family:

In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark (Genesis 7:13).

Another indication of how much God wants our entire households saved is by an unusual instruction given to Noah. God told him to cover the ark with “pitch” both inside and outside: “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch” (Gen. 6:14). You could say that Noah threw the first “pitch” in the “beginning” of time. But seriously, what this pitch represents is a powerful truth regarding households saved through the blood of Jesus. The pitch was most likely some type of tar, or glue, that held the ark together making it waterproof. The Hebrew word for pitch is kaphar, meaning to cover, appease, make atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, and pardon.1

As you can see, the Hebrew word for pitch is also the same word as atonement.

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