12/06/2024
I want to share something special with you today that has changed my life. Some of the words are my own, and for the others, I asked Google to help me so that I can explain it nicely to you.
I recently went for coffee with an old friend, and we have always had the Lord in common. It's important to know that the meeting we arranged was postponed a couple of times and it took a week or two for us to get together. Certain circumstances in my life led to us meeting to discuss possible business and its future.
We shared things about the past and the future and discussed a few possible business matters. I thought to myself, it's as if we have only now, after all this time, met at the right time and right place. Afterwards, he asked me if I had heard of the word Qarah (Karah). He explained it to me briefly, and something clicked for me, and I understood it.
In fact, it made such an impact on me that I immediately went and did some research. It is very interesting and changed a few things in me. My outlook on challenges changed, and my prayers also sounded different—it was as if a union had taken place. Every time I go out to meet people, I stand in expectation to see if it is a Qarah moment.
I'd like to share briefly...
Most of us have felt that it's now coincidental or that we are at the right place at the right time, or others might say it is luck. That was actually a Qarah moment...
Whether you are a prayerful person or just say a quick prayer, I want to inspire you to ask for this too. Lord, please give me a Qarah moment.
I want to show you how you can pray for and experience God’s divine positioning for good success today. There is a principle in interpreting God’s Word known as “the principle of first mention.” Every time a word is mentioned for the first time in the Bible, there is usually a special significance and lesson that we can learn.
The first occurrence of the word qarah is found in Genesis 24:1-15, when Abraham sent his unnamed servant to look for a bride for Isaac, his son. The unnamed servant arrived in the evening at a well outside the city of Nahor and decided to stop there. There were so many young women gathered to draw water that he did not know who would be the right woman for Isaac. The unnamed servant then prayed this prayer: “O LORD God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.”
The word “success” here is the Hebrew word qarah, and this is the first time it appears in the Bible. The servant essentially prayed, “Give me qarah today.” It goes without saying that with the Lord’s qarah or positioning for right happenings, the servant found a beautiful virtuous woman named Rebekah, who became Isaac’s bride.
We need the Lord to give us qarah every day, and here is the meaning:
Qarah
kaw-raw'
Hebrew Word
The Hebrew word, qarah, is often used in other parts of the Bible to explain God-ordained happenings. So “chance happen” should more accurately be translated as “prayed opportunities” or “prayed happenings.”
To encounter or to meet
to encounter, meet (without pre-arrangement) to chance to be present. to come to meet.
to encounter, meet, befall, happen, come to meet
(Qal)
to encounter, meet
to befall
(Niphal)
to encounter, meet (without pre-arrangement)
to chance to be present
to come to meet
(Hiphil) to cause to meet, appoint
I want you to know how you can have “time and chance” happen to you—where you find yourself blessed because you’re at the right place at the right time. Let me show you what the original Hebrew language reveals about how this can be your reality.
The Hebrew word for “time” is the word eth, meaning time or season. The Hebrew words for “chance happen” are pega qarah. Together with eth, they present a picture not of random occurrences, but “right happenings” that are dependent on the Lord’s orchestration.
It’s unfortunate that the word “chance” is used in the English translation. When you read “time and chance happen to them all,” it gives the impression of random happenings, occurrences that happen as if by “luck.”
But if you study the root of the word pega in the Scriptures, you’ll see it is from the word paga, which actually means to make intercession or pray. Let me introduce to you at this point a principle of Bible interpretation called the law of first mention. When you are studying a word, look at the first time it appears in the Bible. There is a lot of spiritual truth and significance in the first occurrence of the word in the Bible.
Applying this principle to the word paga, we see in the Bible that the first time it is used is in Genesis 23:8 (NIV), where it means “intercede.” The same word is also used in Isaiah 53:12 where it says the Lord “made intercession for the transgressors.”
The other Hebrew word, qarah, is often used in other parts of the Bible to explain God-ordained happenings. So “chance happen” should more accurately be translated as “prayed opportunities” or “prayed happenings.”
When you have eth and pega qarah combined here, it speaks of right-time, right-place happenings, or of being at the right place at the right time, doing the right thing as a result of prayer.
May you experience a Pega Qarah today...
