First Baptist Church, Somerville, NJ

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Created: 28 January 2020

What is possible for you to accomplish this year that you have been putting on hold? Oftentimes, it is easy to get distracted in this life, to put our hopes and dreams on hold and to keep our focus on what has happened in the past instead of on what is possible. What is impossible for us can become possible with God. We learned in the Bible of the countless times God gave proof of the impossible. Moses lacked confidence because of his poor speaking skills and yet God made it possible for him to lead the Jews out of Egypt. You recalled David killed a giant with a tiny stone all due to the wisdom God bestowed upon him. Most importantly, God made it possible for Sarah to give birth to a son even though she was beyond the years of child bearing. We witnessed God worked in the lives of Abraham and Sarah. In Genesis 18, the Lord told Abraham that in a year from that moment, he and Sarah would have a son. “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son,” he said (v. 10).  

While Abraham was hearing this word and the exact timing of when God said it would come to pass, Sarah was also listening. As you may recalled “So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, ‘After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”. Sarah didn’t believed that she was capable of having a child in old age. Abraham was now 99 years old, and Sarah was 90 and barren. Sarah didn’t believed that she was capable of having a child in old age and strongly believed that she was way past the childbearing years. Many of us can identify with Sarah and can think of circumstances in own lives that really seems impossible for us to have faith that God will delivered on his promises to us. .  

God heard Sarah laughed and 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?” (v.13-14). Each of us need to ask ourselves that same question. Is it? Is anything too hard for the Lord? In spite of the initial laugh, Sarah came to truly believe God could and would do what He said. “By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. We know there is nothing too hard for God. Our God is not hindered by physical or geographical limits. He transcends all things in time and that is why we must be willing to place our faith in God and not place our hopes and dreams on hold but continue to believe that all things all possible with God.  

 Yours in Christ,

Pastor Loreno R. Flemmings