0 - Bible Commentary | Karuna Sadan

And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken. (Genesis 21:1)

The Lord visited Sarah:

This was a divine visitation of the LORD in Sarah’s life. God orchestrates certain moments in a person’s life where He visits His people. You and I need to recognize such moments. When Lord Jesus visited His people in Israel, The tragedy was they did not know their time of visitation. He came to His own and His own did not recognize Him and accept Him.

41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, 44 and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.” (Luke 19:41-44)

God’s plan for His people is always protection rather than destruction, health instead of sickness, provision instead of devastation. However, we have to recognize the time when God visits us with the answer to our problems and with the wisdom which will avert disaster.

The LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken:

A manifestation will always follow a visitation. I believe Sarah recognized her moment of visitation from the LORD and God turned it into a manifestation. You want to see something big in your life then desire a visitation from the LORD. Recognize the moment of visitation

Between the visitation and the manifestation

As He had said

As He had spoken

I want you to take a look at these phrases

And Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and all who hear will laugh with me.” (Genesis 21:6)

There are two types of people. One who will laugh at you and the other who will laugh with you. God will shock and surprise your mockers. The LORD will give you people who will rejoice with you.

I believe there is a spiritual component to laughter. God is the One who created the sounds of joy and excitement when we laugh.

Laughter is a powerful antidote to countering the negative effects of stress and anxiety. Research indicates that humor has many benefits for our health and well-being. Few things are able to immediately counter the negative impact that stress may have like a good laugh. Humor helps to lighten our mood make us feel better, and feel less stressed.

Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is your seed.” (Genesis 21:13)

The sperm of a man is important spiritually. God calls it seed.

Then she went and sat down across from him at a distance of about a bowshot; for she said to herself, “Let me not see the death of the boy.” So she sat opposite him, and lifted her voice and wept.

And God heard the voice of the lad. Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, “What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. (Genesis 21:16-17)

Notice Hagar lifted her voice and wept and yet God heard the voice of the lad. God heard the voice of the Lad because he was the seed of Abraham. You and I will also be heard before God because we too are the seed of Abraham

Long ago, the Lord God made a promise to Abraham and his seed. (Genesis 13:15) The apostle Paul gave the identity of who this seed is in his letter to the Galatians. He wrote, “The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,” meaning one person, who is Christ.” (Galatians 3:16)

This divine revelation teaches us that the promises that God made to Abraham were handed down to Christ and are now found in Him!

“And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” (Galatians 3:29)

And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken. (Genesis 21:21)

God always does what He says and says what He does

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink. (Genesis 21:19)

I believe that this was no ordinary well but a spiritual well. Lord Jesus told the woman at the well, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” (John 4:10)

And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phichol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do. (Genesis 21:22)

What a testimony to Abraham’s life. Can we also have the same testimony?

It's one thing for you to say that God is with you and quite another thing for someone else to say that God is with you.

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