Text: Genesis 15:2
Further Reading: Genesis 15:1-7
But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
Genesis 15:2 NKJV
MESSAGE
You may think you have some very big problem until you meet someone with bigger fish to fry. The faithfulness of God to us His children is that He will not allow us to be tested above what we can take. This comes even with the promise to make a way for us to escape unscratch (1 Corinthians 10:13).
Another promise you can bank upon is that God will watch over all His promises to fulfill them (Jeremiah 1:12). He will see to it that He brings to pass all that He has promised you. Nothing will stop God from doing what He said He will do. But, you must keep trusting God.
The story of Abraham will give you the perfect picture of what it means to trust God in hard times. This was a man who had followed God with all His heart with the promise that God would make a mighty nation out of Him.
Although Abraham had wealth, it became a concern to Him that without a son, all he had would be wasted. In our reading of the day, you can hear the prayer of the man Abraham which may be similar to yours, “God, what will you give me since I have not child”.
Even though God had promised to reward him yet at seventy-five years, Abraham was barren. This must be hard for him and his wife because right in that house, servants were giving birth to children yet the master was childless.
All God gave Abraham was a promise, and Abraham trusted God. He kept on believing until God gave them Isaac. I want you to carefully read how the Holy Spirit explained the faith of Abraham during those testing times and take courage because God will do what He says He will do for you.
As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations” in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.
Romans 4:17-21 NKJV
Follow after the faith of Abraham by trusting God to fulfill all His promises for your life even when things are rough.
REFLECTION
And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken.
Genesis 21:1 NKJV
God will always fulfill His promise if you will d
PRAYER
Father, I put my trust in You, please meet all my needs according to Your riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Amen
