The Lord Has Kept Me

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her. (Genesis 16:1-2)

“The Lord has kept me…..” As Sarah grew impatient with God’s timing and began to doubt His promises she made the choice to act from a heart of accusation rather than one of faith. She added the word “from” and could only see what she didn’t have rather than the promises that she did.

What a difference a word, in this case a mindset, can make.

Is there something that you have been waiting on God for? Perhaps a healing, provision, salvation of a loved one or answer to other prayers. In the waiting you also have the promise that the Lord has kept you.

He has kept you under His wing. He has kept you alive. He has kept making intercession for you. He has kept your inheritance secure. He has kept all His promises. He has sustained you.

Rather than dwell on the things that we think God has kept us from, by faith we can focus on the many things that God has done and continues to do in and through the very circumstances that we want to rush along.

Be Intentional about seeing what God has done and is doing in the waiting.

Praises & Prayers

Lord, I thank you for the many ways that You keep me. You keep me in Your Word, You keep me surrounded with Your love, You keep me ever in Your view. Help me to trust in the waiting and to remain faithful to Your promises. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Messages from His Word

Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” (Genesis 28:15 ESV)