Can I Still Conceive After I Have Entered My Menopause? (Part 3)
The Promise Itself
When Abraham was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, I am God almighty, walk before me and I will greatly increase your numbers. Genesis 17:1-2.
God also gave Abraham this promise regarding Sarah his wife. “I will bless her and surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations, kings of people will come from her.” Abraham fell face down; he laughed and said to himself, “will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?” Genesis 17:15-17
When God gave this couple this promise, He did not say to them, “Abraham go and look for a man at the fertility clinic to donate sperm for you to impregnate your wife.”
God did not say to Sarah, “go look for a woman you can pay to donate eggs for you, or who will lend a womb to you by carrying your baby because you are so old, or “go for IVF- let the doctors mix Abraham’s sperm and your eggs in a glass and try to make a child for you.
”I am not condemning anything here but all I am saying is that God’s power is far above all these things. Where man’s power ends Gods power begins for those who believe in his word. Many of you would have tried a lot of stuff and gotten no result but I want you to know God’s word cannot fail you.
God told Abraham and Sarah they were going to have fun making that baby. They were going to have pleasure, have the child in the way ordained by God. And the next time the angel of God came to Abraham, Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him.
Abraham and Sarah were already old and well advanced in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. So she laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will we now have this pleasure?”
Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, “will I really have a child, now that I am old”? Is anything hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son.” Genesis 18:10-14. I ask you sister, is anything hard for the Lord? What you say is what you will get.
We read in Sarah’s words her response to God’s promise; she could not comprehend how she would make love at 91 years old. “After I am worn out and my master is old, will we now have this pleasure?” She did not think it was possible for her and Abraham to make love anymore, talk much less of having a child. But God’s Word is true and sure. They had a promise bigger than the problem and only their faith in God could bring them into that promise.
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