1. The need to find a bride for Isaac is another occasion for Abraham to exercise his faith in God in Genesis 24.  As the son of promise his marrying was integral to the fulfillment of God’s promises to Abraham.

2.  Abraham shows his faith in his two concerns for Isaac’s marriage:

-that he not marry a Canaanite girl (there was to be no confusion about the land having been a supernatural gift to Abraham and his family from God-not by Isaac marrying well)

-that he not return to Abraham’s native land (God’s promises were tied to the land, Isaac must not leave it)

3.  Eliezer (Abraham’s servant) prayed and “put out a fleece” (a concept that comes from Judges 6:36-40).

4.   Because we have the Word of God, the Spirit of God within us, the providence of God, and prayer as resources for determining God’s direction we in the church age should not live by the “fleece.”