| Behind Every Ishmael, There's an Isaac |
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Sarai, the wife of Abram, whom God change their names to Sarah and Abraham, bare him no children. She took it upon herself to give Abraham her maidservant Hagar, to conceive. This way Sarah believed she would obtain her children by her. After conception, Sarah became jealous of Hagar and her husband's relationship and dealt strongly with her, causing her To runaway into the desert, Gen 16:2. There Hagar had a visit from an angel of God that instructed her to return and continue to obey Sarah. He told her that she would have a son and to name him "Ishmael" meaning (God hears) Gen 16:11. How many of us, have taken it upon ourselves to handle our own situations just as Sarah? She knew she could not give Abraham children and that he needed an heir. Therefore, she made the decision that created a situation that caused her pain. I could imagine that seeing her servant Hagar, receive alot of attention from Abraham, while she was pregnant would cause resentment. Just as Hagar's tormenting Sarah because she was the one that was pregnant with a child. But Sarah had about as much as she could take and told Hagar she had to go, pregnant and all. Hagar ran away crying into the desert and no where to go. Then an angel of God came to her with a message regarding the child she was carrying, "He will be a wild man his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him; Gen 16:12." (Just as war in the Middle East, to gangbanging in America). In the 15th chapter of Genesis, God promised Abraham that he would have a seed of his own to be heir to his kingdom. [Even though Ishmael was Abraham's seed and born of the flesh and by a servant, but not an heir to his kingdom as Hagar was not his wife.] So first came Ishmael and after Ishmael came the promised seed, Isaac. Born by a free woman in the spirit and by Abraham's wife, Sarah. As the two boys grew older, Ishmael the permissive seed who once had all the attention of his father, now treated like a servant. Where as Isaac the promised seed, now favored by both parents. Ishmael now old enought to know he is no longer his father's heir and being of a wild spirit as the angel of God said to Hagar, persecuted his half brother. Sarah saw Ishmael's behavior toward her son, I could imagine the confrontation with Hagar again and this time words that were probably exchanged between the two, Hagar angry because her son was the first born and should be heir, Sarah knowing that her son is rightfully heir gave Sarah reason to cast her and her son out of the house, as the son of a bondwoman can not be the heir with the son of a free woman. Just as Sarah, we let our feelings and emotions get in the way, not paying attention to what they will lead us into. Even including others and making their lives miserable. She could not see in her decision that her husband would be in the arms of another woman then caught in the crossfire of the mothers of his two sons. She would have never thought Hagar, as her servant, would turn against her. She did not know that in making her own choice of an heir for her husband would later in life cause problems to "her" heir. But the most rewarding thing Sarah did, was recognized her mistake and denounced it and who's to say she may have struggled with it just as we would have. Even though it was Abraham’s seed, it had to go! As some writers say, Ishmael was 12-17 years old. Surely she had to have some love for him. If we could examine ourselves to see what wild spirits are in our lives or the lives of our children causing bondage, anger, hostility or having wild relationships such as heterosexuals having threesomes, homosexuality, bi-sexuality or even bi-curious relationships. Even animals have sense enough to know who to mate with. If we made the wrong decisions, we have the power and authority to cast them out of our temples which our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit and because we are of a free spirit, not a wild spirit. A wild spirit will not live with a free spirit; the wild spirit will always be at war which is a spirit of jealousy. Angry because it is bound so it tries to keep us in bondage. We have to be like Sarah and cast it out! Growing up, we have had to hear, how we act like our uncles or aunts or just like our no-good fathers, so we adapt their ways and look up to them not knowing what spirit we adapt to. We to have been persecuted just as Ishmael did Isaac because we were free molested by a wild spirit by a family member leaving deep humiliating scars that will keep us bound. Some of us have been physically beaten by a wild spirit and left for dead because they were on their way to freedom. Remember what Ishmael means; GOD HEARS and just as God heard Hagars afflictions who was a woman in bondage, he hears ours. The sooner we recognize, inner-healing can take place giving us restoration and when there is restoration there is rest, where there is rest there is peace, where there is peace there is freedom. Situations may seem impossible, but so was the birth of Isaac. Sarah conceived at an impossible age. We can be barren, taunted by someone or something's, we look around us and everyone have, but we have not. We have friends on their second go round and we're still waiting on the first. They own, we rent. Don't worry, just know that God loves us and wants us to receive our inheritance to his kingdom. Remember God said he hears our afflictions. If we wait on Isaac, we will receive the promises of God. God blessed a woman who was barren and blessed her with more than her husband Abraham gave her by making her the mother of many nations. That barren woman was Sarah. I encourage you to recognize the wild Ishmael spirits, take authority over them and by the power invested in you, command them all to go in the name of Jesus! Then we can be set free, our children will be set free and be blessed heirs to the kingdom. God will bless us where we won't have to enlarge our tents to receive all the blessings he has for us because after every Ishmael there is an Isaac. |
| Vernetha Mims 2001 |
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