So Sarai said to Abram, “The Lord has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her.” And Abram agreed with Sarai’s proposal.
Genesis 16:2
In Genesis 15, God told Abraham that He was going to give him and Sarah a son.
The problem was that they were already too old to have children in the natural.
Years went by, and finally Sarah told Abraham to sleep with her maid.
She watered down the promise and brought it down to the level she thought was possible, and Abraham went along with it.
Instead of releasing their faith, believing for the extraordinary, they settled for what they thought was good enough.
But the baby Ishmael was not the promised child.
Too many times we take what God put in our heart, and instead of coming up to His level and believing for the impossible, we bring it down to what makes sense to us.
Get ready for the fullness of what God said.
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