The story of Sarah, Abraham’s wife, is one in which one woman goes from a self-made woman. A story of a woman who only trusted her own ability and instinct, however, she turned into a princess. We are all fighting our nature of self-reliance and the belief that we know better than everyone else-including God. However, with that perspective we miss out on our rightful place of being a princess as the daughter of the most high King. Sarai was a woman who walked her own path when she wanted to. She forced another woman on her husband and then appalled by her own actions tormented the poor girl that she utilized for her own gain. Sarah was a woman of God. Sarah was a woman that followed her husband and obeyed God’s commands even when they made no sense at the time.

Or are you more like Hagar who was kicked around and dealt a harsh hand in life.

1. Obedience as the first priority
2.         Sarai, Abraham’s wife, would have also been called to uproot her whole life when God called Abraham to leave their home for the Promised Land (Genesis 12:1-9)
3. God’s Timing is always the perfect timing
4.         Sarai got restless waiting for God to fulfill his promise to provide them with a son so she decided to hurry the process along by having Hagar sleep with her husband
5.                     Often we manipulate God’s plan to fit our needs…and then we don’t understand why the result is not satisfying: Yes if Abraham got Hagar pregnant than he would have a son just as God promised but that was not the way he promised them to have a son and Sarai is still unsatisfied because she is still childless

~Genesis 16:1-6

3. Nothing is impossible for our limitless God
4.         Despite her faltering faith and her meddling with God’s perfect timing God showed mercy on Sarai
5.                     We see a name change: Sarai (self-made noblewoman) becomes Sarah (princess) Genesis 17:15-17
6.         Even though we have witnessed Sarah’s faith in God through her acceptance and action to uproot her life and follow God’s command for her family to move we see a very important lesson: Even transformed women of God can have moments of hesitation and doubt their abilities and God’s reach
7.                     Sarah did not believe that God would provide her and Abraham with a child due to her old age. She believed in God and yet she did not fathom his ability to directly show power in her own life

        C. Above all God will still provide: Sarah and Abraham received a son, Isaac, who proved to be a man of God like his father and a direct descendant of Jesus’s linage.