1. We need to live the spiritual reality of bearing children for God, as happened with Sarah, because He has spoken to the church, and His Word is the source of living water that makes us fruitful. The time of barrenness is over! We receive a rich word weekly, but to supply those who are in the desert, we need to be the first to receive it (Genesis 21:1-2; John 15:5; Jeremiah 17:8).
2. God gave Abraham a son under impossible circumstances: he was already advanced in age, and his wife was barren. It must not have been easy to believe in that promise. Then, God asked him specifically for his son. If God asked you for what you love most, would you give it to Him? Many times, we resist, thinking that we possess something, but everything we have we receive from God, and everything belongs to Him (Genesis 22:1-2; Psalm 24:1; 1 Chronicles 29:14).
3. When the Lord asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, he did not question or hesitate, but did as God commanded him. Abraham believed that everything belonged to the Lord and trusted that He could provide all things, even restore his son to him. That was Abraham’s heart. Do you have this heart? Our faith needs to be tested (Genesis 22:1-3; 1 Peter 1:6-7).
4. “However firm our lives may be, it is still vanity! […] Seek nothing on this Earth; the only thing you should seek is the word of the Lord, which endures forever. The word of the gospel carries a seed, the seed of the kingdom, and this word is not grass, it is not vanity, but it is the word of God, which endures forever!” (1 Peter 1:24-25) (Daily Food, book 4, week 2, Wednesday, pp. 27-28).
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