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Sarah: The Princess And The Promise Series
Contributed by Rik Wadge on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: Part III of a six week series demonstrating how God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
There are a thousand other ways that life hands us the pink slip of rejection and abandonment. Maybe you wake up in the middle of the night and ask yourself the question, “Do I really believe God.” We hem and haw, struggle and complain, and say along side of Sarah, “I’m too old, I’m too tired, I’m too weak, I’m too…”
Is it easy to hear God calling Sarah’s name, but not yours?
You say, “God loved them, but how can He love me?”
Yet, through all our fears, through all our worries, and through all our weaknesses… God’s still there. And God still keeps His promises!
You see the only way I know of to grow in your Christian faith is in +two ways.
+1. Read the word of God (faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of God).
+2. Put it into practice. In other words, believe God will do what He says.
Faith takes time to grow, ask Sarah. She waited her whole life to have that baby boy. She heard God’s promises, yet struggled to trust Him…just like us.
Yet, God remained faithful. God kept His promise.
God isn’t going to back down from His claims.
God isn’t going to take back His word.
God isn’t going to scratch out His promise, just because you have doubts, fears, worries!
God’s name is on the line, and God is a Promise Keeper!
D.L. Moody once said, + “God never made a promise that was too good to be true.”
Listen to some of +God’s promises to us:
+I will bless you, Gen. 12:2
+I will not fail you, Josh. 1:5
+I will heal you, 2 Kings 20:5
+I will guide you, Ps. 32:8
+I will teach you, Ps. 32:8
+I will deliver you, Ps. 50:15
+I will satisfy you, Ps. 132:15
+I will help you, Is. Isa 41:10
+I will strengthen you, Isa 41:10
+I will uphold you, ; Isa 41:10
+I will hold your hand, Isa 42:6
+I will forgive you, Jer. 31:34
+I will restore you, Jer. 30:17
+I will be your God, Eze. 36:28
+I will love you, John 14:21
+I will save you, Eze. 36:27, 29
Where are you at in your life today? Is God ready to deliver on a promise He’s made to you? Which one is it? What circumstance are you in that is greater than his promise?
Remember at the ripe old age of 90, Sarah heard the words that she was going to have a son. No wonder she responded like +Moses did when God informed him he would deliver the Children of Israel from the hand of Pharaoh, “I don’t think so.”
She probably felt like +Mary when the angel Gabriel announced that she was pregnant with the Son of God. She said, “how can this be?”
What God promised Sarah was too incredible, too miraculous, and too unimaginable.
Yet, Sarah believed God. She became the mother of a nation. She saw God’s promise fulfilled… in Isaac! And +Genesis ch. 21says that Sarah laughed when he was born. I bet she laughed, in her arms was the physical proof that God is a promise-keeper, and that she was indeed a princess. A princess with a promise.
Today in our many circumstances that seem just too big for God, God asks us the same question he once asked a princess named Sarah, +“Is anything too hard for the LORD?”
