A MEDDLING WIFE CAUSES TROUBLE

Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ! Here is the word for your meditation and prayer! I am delighted to share the word of God at such a time as this! The title of my message is:"A MEDDLING WIFE CAUSES TOUBLE" We all know the story of Abraham and Sarah, when the promised seed didn't come when Sarah expected it to come, she decided to help her husband out. Sarah decided to give Abraham her maidservant, so she could bear Abraham a child. But I want to mention that you cannot assist God, because God is God. Sarah decided she would help the Holy Ghost! Sometimes try to take the place of the Holy Spirit, so to speak, in the lives of their husbands. But God's timing is as important as God's plan. Sometimes when our plan comes to pass, we realize that what we thought we wanted wasn't what we wanted at all! We can't get ahead of God and expect everything to work out. Abraham listened to his wive and produced a child, Ishmael, with Hagar as a result. Hagar and Ishmael made life difficult for Sarah, so Sarah got upset and tried to put the blame on Abraham.  The Living Bible in Genesis 16:1-2,4-6 says,
[1]"But Sarai and Abram had no children. So Sarai took her maid, an Egyptian girl named Hagar,
[2](2-3) and gave her to Abram to be his second wife.
“Since the Lord has given me no children,” Sarai said, “you may sleep with my servant girl, and her children shall be mine.”
And Abram agreed. (This took place ten years after Abram had first arrived in the land of Canaan.)
[4]So he slept with Hagar, and she conceived; and when she realized she was pregnant, she became very proud and arrogant toward her mistress Sarai.
[5]Then Sarai said to Abram, “It’s all your fault. For now this servant girl of mine despises me, though I myself gave her the privilege of being your wife. May the Lord judge you for doing this to me!”
[6]“You have my permission to punish the girl as you see fit,” Abram replied. So Sarai beat her and she ran away."  Abraham told Sarah that the situation was her fault, so she needed to deal with it  herself. Sarah dealt so sharply with Hagar that Hagar fled to the wilderness. Finally, the time came for the promised seed, Isaac, to be born. The Lord came to Abraham and said, "This time next year, a son will be born." Then God changed Abram's name to Abraham, meaning "father of many nations." God also changed Sarai's name to Sarah. After all Abraham had been through from the time he was 75 and first commanded to leave his country, you would think he would rejoice that his son's birth was so close at hand. Yet how did Abraham respond? Abraham started laughing! He thought he was too old to bear a child. Genesis 17:17 says, " Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?"I verse 18, Abraham starts to bargain with God, saying, "Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!" In other words, Abraham was saying, " Just let the blessing come through Ishmael." God responded by saying that He would bless Ishmael and multiply his seed, but that the covenant would be with Isaac, not Ishmael. When Sarah heard the Lord say that she would bear a son, she started laughing too! Sarah probably thought, Abraham's too old to produce a child, and I 'm certainly too old to deliver one! But when it's the plan and will of God, it shall be done even aa the Lord said! And what did He say?  The Amplified Bible in Genesis 18:14 says,
[14]"Is anything too hard or too wonderful for the Lord? At the appointed time, when the season [for her delivery] comes around, I will return to you and Sarah shall have borne a son." [Matt. 19:26.] Is anything too hard for the Lord? No, nothing is too hard for Him.( Jeremiah 32:27, Mark 9:23) As long as we learn to trust Him and rely upon Him, it shall be done for us exactly as He has promised. God is not a man to lie, what He promises comes to pass. ( Numbers 23:19-20)  God never fails!  Whatever, you may be believing God for it shall come to pass in the name of Jesus Christ!  

May God richly bless you!                      

Evangelist Fanuel Masikati

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