LORD BLESSED SARAH

[Genesis 17 15-22]

God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her.

I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples 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?

And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!”

Then God said, “YES", but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him ISAAC. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.” When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.