Look At Sarah

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

Isaiah 51:2

   Abraham and Sarah are our fore-parents by faith. God is using them as an example of what only He alone can do.

These people during their days were mocked, despised and ridiculed. In fact, they were written off by their contemporaries and by the natural phenomenon of conception. No one would have believed that Sarah would bore Abraham a child at her old age. “Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women” (Genesis 18:11). Sarah did not believe either that she could conceive or bring forth a child. God asked her a question, which we did not hear her response to it. “Is anything too hard for the LORD?” (Genesis 18:14).

   There is absolutely nothing too hard for the Lord to do. Imagine a 91 years old woman being pregnant of child. How old are you if I may ask? Can you compare you age to that of mother Sarah? You will agree with me that Sarah’s case was lifeless and hopeless – a typical case of a dry bone. I believe people even told her you will never become a mother of many nations because you have passed the age of bearing children’. Nevertheless, at the end, the Bible says, “And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken. For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. She also said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age” (Genesis 21:1-2,7). Can you see that there is no impossibility with God? This is the reason He asked you to look at Sarah. In other words, make her your reference point. ‘If I could do it for her, I can also do for you’

Isaiah 54:1-2

Sing, O barren, You who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, You who have not labored with child! For more are the children of the desolate Than the children of the married woman," says the LORD. Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, And strengthen your stakes.

  God is asking you to rejoice not because you’ve not had a child but because you’re about to carry your own child. And He is asking you to “enlarge the place of your tent” because He is not going to give you a child but children. He said, “…do not spare; Lengthen your cords…” for “Your children like olive plants All around your table”. (Psalm 128:3).

   You’ve been in this situation for too long. God wants you to prepare yourself for there’s a sound of abundance of rain – not the normal rain but the rain of children. Be spiritually and physically ready, set your room for the coming of a newborn baby – get the baby things ready for I see children entering your womb now.

Culled from the book titled: Can These Bones Live?