Sarah Laughed

Sometimes we laugh at God (Genesis 18: 9-15)

Have you ever laughed at what God has told you?

Has God ever told you something and you thought there is no way that this would ever happen?

You will say, I am not hearing this correctly

God has way more confidence in me then I do

First and foremost, we tend to forget a very important scripture in the Bible

Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

See, we seem to keep believing the lies that Satan is spitting at us every single day

You are not good enough, you can’t do it, just stop - give up, nobody cares

Have you ever noticed that when you are in a group of people, it is always easier to talk negative?

It’s called gossip, we do it to make ourselves look and feel better

We get caught up in this mindset that if we talk about someone, it takes the heat off of me, it takes the focus off of me

This is called insecurities, it is unhealed wounds

We will use people in a horrible way just to make ourselves feel better

We will make fun of people to get people to laugh so that they will like us

We will hang around what we call an ugly person so that we look more attractive

Hang around a larger person so that we don’t look so large

Why do we do this?

Just like Sarah, we just don’t believe God can do certain things

We trust Satan, man and ourselves more than than we do the one who created us

Do you hear how sill that sounds when you say it out loud

We trust Satan

We believe him when he tells us we are ugly, incompetent, we are not loved, nobody wants me etc etc

It all boils down to we don’t believe God

Sarah did not think that she could conceive a child at her age just as we think that we are not good enough

What is it today that God told you could do and you don’t believe him and you chuckled

We don’t believe

Ask Daniel, ask Shadrach Meshack and abindago, ask Noah

I can go on all day long

If God says you can do it, you can do it

9) Abraham knew God and God knew Abraham

God was Abraham’s friend and Abraham was God’s friend

God asked where is his wife Sarah

God knew where she was

God will ask questions and he knows the answer but he wants to see how you will answer and to see where you are at

Look at Adam when God asked him Adam where are you

God knew exactly where Adam was

God said go ahead and hide, I know where you are

Adam done said he got scared and hid because he was naked

God responded with who told you that you were naked

Abraham answered with she is over in her tent

10) God told Abraham that he will return this time next year and Sarah will have a son

Sarah was standing at the door of the tent and overheard them

A little eavesdropping

Don’t be judging her, you would have done the same

Come on now, did you hear that God was talking with her husband

I would say that was pretty special to see and hear

That would be a sight to see and a conversation that I would like to hear as well

11)Now here is a fun fact, Sarah was 90 and Abraham was 100

I don’t need to explain how babies are born

At this age, some will argue the point that it is physically impossible for this to happen

But if they said that, they clearly don’t know our God

Truth of the matter is that we put a cap on what God is capable of

We have faith to a certain extent

It is so easy to have faith when things are going good or if it falls under the category of “ I believe that could happen”

But when it comes to something of this degree, we say that can’t happen

Why don’t we let Daniel preach a little while

Shadrach, Meshach and Abidndago

Jonah

If we could ever get to a point where we literally trusted God with everything in us

We could move mountains

When we heard something to this extreme, our answer would be - yes, my God can definitely do that

God has to be the one to tell you not the world

We are living in an era where the world will convince you, you can do whatever you set your mind to it

We constantly are lying to our children, if you put your mind to it, you can do it