{"id":8396,"date":"2018-03-01T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=8396"},"modified":"2018-02-28T08:37:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T07:37:05","slug":"step-up-lesson-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2018\/03\/01\/step-up-lesson-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Step Up Lesson 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8396-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-1.mp3\">https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/March-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/116\/GEN.18.12.nlt\">Gen.18:<\/a><strong><sup>12\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>\u201c<em>So she laughed silently to herself and said, \u201c<strong>How<\/strong> could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master\u2014my husband\u2014is also so old?\u201d<\/em> [with emphasis].<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What did God tell Sarah would happen by the same time in the following year? God said Abraham and Sarah would have a son, right? But what was Sarah thinking about? She was thinking about sex [it is in the Bible, read your Bible]. <!--more-->All she was thinking about was the process. Sarah \u201c\u2026<strong><em>How<\/em><\/strong><em> could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure\u2026\u201d<\/em>. Did God say pleasure? Do not get too fixated on the process; do not get too fixated on \u2018HOW\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/116\/GEN.18.13-14.nlt\">Gen.18:<\/a><strong><sup>13\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>\u201c<em>Then the\u00a0Lord\u00a0said to Abraham, \u201cWhy did Sarah laugh? Why did she say, \u2018Can an old woman like me have a baby?\u2019\u00a0<strong><sup>14\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Is anything too hard for the\u00a0Lord? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son<\/em>.\u201d While God was focused on the baby \u2013 the end result, Sarah was focused on the process. Many times because we are too engulfed with the \u2018HOW\u2019, we miss the \u201cWHAT\u2019 all together. God had said to us, to me that I will lend to nations; I pray that you will receive that Word too. But when some people hear that Word, all they can think about is their certificate or how they need to change their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Bible; God never said I will give you a new job and then you will be able to lend to nations. God says you will lend to nations; how that will happen is God\u2019s business. Your job and mine is just to follow Him one step at a time. The same goes for having children. Even today, are people not having children without sexual intercourse? Could God not have given Abraham and Sarah children without the pleasure she was so worried about? He is God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/116\/GEN.18.14.nlt\">Gen.18:<strong><em><sup>14\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>\u201cIs anything too hard for the\u00a0Lord?.\u201d <\/em>Can you see God\u2019s pain in this sentence? God was more or less saying, \u201cWhy is Sarah talking like this? Why is she breaking My heart? Is anything too hard for the Lord?\u201d God can give you the desires of your heart without the process that you are worrying about. Nothing is beyond God. I pray that we will find mercy with God as Sarah found mercy with God.<\/p>\n<p>The step up lesson from Sarah is that nothing is beyond God! Nothing! So when God speaks, personalize it and trust Him completely to bring His Word to pass in your life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prayer<\/strong>: Lord Jesus, I will fix my eyes on You as I follow You and trust You for the fulfillment of Your unfailing Word in my life, in Jesus Name. Amen!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen.18:12\u00a0\u201cSo she laughed silently to herself and said, \u201cHow could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master\u2014my husband\u2014is also so old?\u201d [with emphasis]. &nbsp; What did God tell Sarah would happen by the same time in the following year? God said Abraham and Sarah would have a son, right? But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,45,46,155,44,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acknowledge-god","category-focus","category-mercy","category-the-word","category-trust","category-walking-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8854,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions\/8854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}