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Pastor Brett Deal discusses Leah's journey of seeking love and recognition in a patriarchal society and her transformative prayer life after the birth of Levi.

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. An amazing thing happened between the birth of Levi and the birth of Judah. It’s as if something finally clicked into place for Leah. For at least the first three to six years of her marriage to Jacob, Leah exhausted herself. She was the tradwife par excellence with nothing to show for it. We can hear the desperation in her prayers. Everything in her world revolved around her husband. Lonely in a patriarchal society, she did everything in her limited power to get him to see her, hear her, love her. If we slow down long enough, we can hear Moses' subtle critique against Jacob his forefather for his neglectful treatment of his foremother. After three attempts to get Jacob’s love and attachment, Leah appears to be at the lowest point of her life. Every time she prays it’s a variation on, “now my husband will love me, now he’ll care, now he’ll hold me in love.” That may not be our exact story, but how many of us have bent ourselves out of shape desperate to be appreciated, cared for, loved. But something happens in her prayer life after the birth of Levi when Jacob fails to change (again). Her focus shifts. Her eyes are opened to the One…

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Host: Brett Deal

Topics covered

• sermon
• faith
• patriarchy
• love
• identity
• prayer

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