The Pregnancy Test - Don’t Let the Test Results Fool You

The Pregnancy Test

  Kenzi, one month old

Don’t Let the Test Results Fool You

The doctors told my daughter Sarah, she should have an abortion.

Her health condition made it unsafe for her and the baby.

With fear, Sarah and Tim chose to trust God with the outcome.

They could not make the choice of death for their unborn child.

They acted on their faith in God, and chose not to abort the baby.

Many of you acted in faith by joining them in prayer.

Mackenzie was born December 31, 2008.

God was greater than the test results!

 

Abram with all his wealth

finds a deep emptiness.

All he had acquired in life

would go to a slave in his house.

Abram had no children;

no family to carry on his legacy.

The grief and disappointment

weights upon him

as he realizes

that the years of having children

have passed him and Sarai.

   

God had told him

he would become a great nation

and promised him land.

All these words from God

had to have fed his desire

to have a son.

Abram has no desire for God

to give him anything else,

without the joy of knowing

he can pass it along to his son,

as an inheritance.

Things have lost their meaning.

Only leaving a legacy;

fulfilling the command

to Adam and Noah

mattered to him.

“Be fruitful and fill the earth.”

With hope gone,

God shows up in a vision

and says to Abram,

Genesis 15:4-5 NIV

4 Then the word of the LORD

came to him:

"This man will not be your heir,

but a son coming

from your own body

will be your heir."

 5 He took him outside and said,

"Look up at the heavens

 and count the stars

 — if indeed you can count them."

Then he said to him,

"So shall your offspring be."

Month after month - year after year

and no pregnancy! 

How many baby showers had

Sarai come home from

grieving her inability to have a child.

I have known many couples

who could not have children

and the grief was so great.

They would not come

to church on Mother’s Day

or attend baby celebrations,
because it would bring on

deep depression.  

Yes, this was great news,

God would give Abram a son.

But could he believe the vision?

If anyone had reason to doubt,

Abram did.

If anyone could have questioned

God’s timing,

Abram could.

But Abram believed God.

“ Abram believed the LORD,

and he credited it

 to him as righteousness.”

Genesis 15:6 NIV

Abram choose to believe God

over the Pregnancy Test.

What God has spoken

we can believe in!

Scripture Reading

Genesis 15:1-6 NIV

15:1 After this, the word of the LORD

came to Abram in a vision:

"Do not be afraid, Abram.

I am your shield,

your very great reward."

2 But Abram said,

"O Sovereign LORD,

what can you give me since I remain childless

and the one who will inherit my estate

is Eliezer of Damascus?"

3 And Abram said,

"You have given me no children;

so a servant in my household will be my heir."

4 Then the word of the LORD came to him:

"This man will not be your heir,

but a son coming from your own body will be your heir."

5 He took him outside and said,

"Look up at the heavens and count the stars

— if indeed you can count them."

Then he said to him,

"So shall your offspring be."

6 Abram believed the LORD,

and he credited it to him as righteousness.