Sarah: Women In The Bible Week 1
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"The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse, and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there. Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him. From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev." Genesis 12 v 1-9
"Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said. So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.” “Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her. Genesis 16 v 1-6
"God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.” Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?” And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!” Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him." Genesis 17 v 15-19
“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him.
“There, in the tent,” he said. Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?” Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.” Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, “I did not laugh.” But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.”
Genesis 18v 9-15
Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.” Genesis 21v1-7
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Now that is a lot of scriptures to read, but I feel in order to get to know Sarah or any of the other ladies we will look at you really need to know the full picture. We first really get to know Sarah or 'Sarai' as she is known first when she's with Abram. God basically tells them to pick up there stuff and go, go set out the land of Caanan.
Something really admirable of Sarai and Abram or as we known them more popularly as Sarah and Abraham is they were SO obedient to God, literally as soon as God says "go" they picked up all they had and went, they didn't know where they were going or when they were going to get there, but all they knew is God wants them to do it and really God knows his stuff.
I think it's so important to remember this in our lives, when God speaks to us, and tells us to do something, not to do something or even to pick something up we should do it because God is always faithful, he's never going to throw you under the bus or leave you by yourself all he asks is we consecrate ourselves and listen to what God wants us to do.
Sarah's obedience to God soon gets restless when she begins to try and have children in her own strength. Genesis 16 v 2 “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Sarah grew tired of being patient and waiting for God to bless her with children, she knew he would however she tried to get the family in her timing as opposed to God's timing.
Sarah sends her servant Hagar to try and make her family for her with Abraham, as you can imagine it didn't exactly go to plan. Hagar fell pregnant and the two began to despise each other, in the end the jealousy Sarah felt grew too strong and she "dealt harshly" with Hagar who then fled. Hagar ran away. Sarah's jealousy got the better of her she tried to make her own way instead of relying on God and trusting more fully in him.
But despite all this, even though Sarah strayed away from God's plan and moved away from trusting in him, God changed the entire situation.
Through our failing, God's mercy still prevails he gives us a new identity in Christ, he gives us a new name he took Sarai and turned her into Sarah. He takes us and transforms us into a new person, He makes us a daughter in Christ.
God promised Sarah a son, her own son. At 90 years old God promised Sarah a son. It's a bit crazy right?! Sarah thought so too and laughed it off, in all honestly would you really blame her? Now she's frail and old and weak NOW she gets promised a son.
God hears her and answers back with "Is Anything too hard for the Lord?"
It's a reminder to her and to us that no matter physical, God can overcome all things because HE is God, he can take you from wherever you are and transform it all around. Just a year later as God promised Sarah gave birth to a son and called him Isaac, just like God promised.
Something really admirable of Sarai and Abram or as we known them more popularly as Sarah and Abraham is they were SO obedient to God, literally as soon as God says "go" they picked up all they had and went, they didn't know where they were going or when they were going to get there, but all they knew is God wants them to do it and really God knows his stuff.
I think it's so important to remember this in our lives, when God speaks to us, and tells us to do something, not to do something or even to pick something up we should do it because God is always faithful, he's never going to throw you under the bus or leave you by yourself all he asks is we consecrate ourselves and listen to what God wants us to do.
Sarah's obedience to God soon gets restless when she begins to try and have children in her own strength. Genesis 16 v 2 “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Sarah grew tired of being patient and waiting for God to bless her with children, she knew he would however she tried to get the family in her timing as opposed to God's timing.
Sarah sends her servant Hagar to try and make her family for her with Abraham, as you can imagine it didn't exactly go to plan. Hagar fell pregnant and the two began to despise each other, in the end the jealousy Sarah felt grew too strong and she "dealt harshly" with Hagar who then fled. Hagar ran away. Sarah's jealousy got the better of her she tried to make her own way instead of relying on God and trusting more fully in him.
But despite all this, even though Sarah strayed away from God's plan and moved away from trusting in him, God changed the entire situation.
Through our failing, God's mercy still prevails he gives us a new identity in Christ, he gives us a new name he took Sarai and turned her into Sarah. He takes us and transforms us into a new person, He makes us a daughter in Christ.
God promised Sarah a son, her own son. At 90 years old God promised Sarah a son. It's a bit crazy right?! Sarah thought so too and laughed it off, in all honestly would you really blame her? Now she's frail and old and weak NOW she gets promised a son.
God hears her and answers back with "Is Anything too hard for the Lord?"
It's a reminder to her and to us that no matter physical, God can overcome all things because HE is God, he can take you from wherever you are and transform it all around. Just a year later as God promised Sarah gave birth to a son and called him Isaac, just like God promised.
When God promises something he will always come through. Just. As. He. Promised.
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"Therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come."
2 Corinthians 5v17
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