{"id":1887,"date":"2013-05-10T12:42:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T17:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2016-09-02T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T16:48:20","slug":"genesis-1813-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"Genesis 18:13-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Then the Lord said to Abraham, \u201cWhy did Sarah laugh and say, \u2018Will I really have a child, now that I am old?\u2019 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.\u201d <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We could erroneously think that people in the Bible were primitive and superstitious, therefore it was easier for them to believe what God was telling them. The Scripture actually paints a different picture. Sarah\u2019s laughter was a nervous reaction to a promise from God that she saw as preposterous. Have a child at her age? Impossible! Yet when Sarah had her child, she named him Isaac \u2013 which means \u201claughter\u201d. The irony of Isaac is good news for us, for God is in the business of turning the laughter of skepticism into the laughter of joy. All things are possible for God.\u00a0 ~ Dave Whitehead, Senior Pastor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracenyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GraceNYC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ylb-container\" style=\"background-color:E6E6E6\">\n                   <a href=\"#\" class=\"ylb-close\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/wp-content\/plugins\/mtx-license-plugin\/images\/close-icon.png\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t   <p><div style=\"background-color: #F8F8F8; color: #3B5D9B; font-style: italic;  font-size: 10px;\">\r\n<fieldset style=\"border: #FFF dotted 1px;\" >\r\n<legend><strong>Iowa Web Network<\/strong><\/legend>\r\n<span style=\"padding-left: 15px;\">This article is subject to Creative Common License.  You can reproduce content, but citing the source and the author\u2026<\/span>\r\n<\/fieldset><\/div><\/p>\n               <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then the Lord said to Abraham, \u201cWhy did Sarah laugh and say, \u2018Will I really have a child, now that I am old?\u2019 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1887\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5,1],"tags":[12,56],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorites","category-old-testament","category-readings","tag-genesis","tag-old-testament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}