BY THIS TIME NEXT YEAR
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BY THIS TIME NEXT YEAR
"Then the LORD said, 'I will surely return to you about
this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a
son'" (Genesis 18:10, NIV).
Wonders never end. Sarah and Abraham seemed to say when
God told them that they would have their own child
"about this time next year" (Genesis 17:15-16, 19-21;
18:10,13-14). How would a man of hundred years
impregnate a woman of ninety years? Naturally, it is
impossible! Sarah laughed it off, while Abraham gave
God another option to fulfill His promises for his
(i.e. Abraham's) life (see Genesis 17:18; 18:12).
However, God insisted that His promise of making
Abraham the father of many nations would be fulfilled
through the son that Sarah would bear to him, "For
nothing is impossible with God" (Luke 1:37, NIV. See
also Genesis 18:14; Jeremiah 32:17, 27; Mark 10:27;
Luke 18:27).
God did fulfill His promise! In Genesis 21:1-2, the
Bible says, "Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he
had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had
promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to
Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had
promised him" (NIV). I want to emphasize two things in
this passage:
a. God was gracious to Sarah: it was by the grace (the
unmerited favor) of God that made God to remember her
and fulfill the promise;
b. At the very time: God fulfilled His promise for
Abraham and Sarah at the very appointed time, not
earlier, not later, but at the very time.
What are you also trusting God to do for you? Have you
lost hope on it? Are you thinking of another means that
God would do it for you? By this time next year, God
would have done that thing for you in His own way, and
at His very appointed time. God will be gracious to you
and remember you for good. It may not even be up to a
year. It may be less than a year, a month, a week, or
even a day. Remember, the Lord spoke through prophet
Elisha, "Hear the word of the LORD. This is what the
LORD says: About this time tomorrow, a seah of flour
will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a
shekel at the gate of Samaria" (2 Kings 7:1, NIV). The
prophecy did happen less than a day. The officer who
did not believe only saw it but never enjoyed it.
By this time next year, you also will have one or more
things to testify about God's goodness in your life. Do
you believe it?
In His service,
Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor).
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