Taken from The Dawning of Wisdom Part 2
Also available in booklet Daily Professions for Faith Builders
Day 29
By faith Abraham, even though he was past age--and Sarah herself was barren--was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. (Hebrews 11:11-12)
Abraham is known as the father of faith. Nearly everything we read about him involves his faith in God to carry out what God had promised. He had no Scriptures to read, no one to teach him the Bible. He heard the voice of God, he believed what God said would come to pass because of God’s faithfulness and it was counted for him as righteousness. He was justified by faith. He is the father of  true believers.
When God told Abraham that his wife, Sarah, would bear a son by him within a year, he was one hundred years old and Sarah was ninety, past the years of child-bearing. We know that Sarah and Abraham tried to help God early on by their own plan of using Hagar, Sarah’s maidservant, to bring forth a son, Ishmael. This did not keep God from  fulfilling His covenant with Abraham, the promise  that he would have as many heirs as the stars in the heavens. When this covenant promise first came to Abraham, he must have wondered how he could have so many offspring when he hadn’t even been able to produce one son. But Abraham did not look at the natural impossibility, he believed the Lord. He already knew God as Almighty God who was faithful to His promises.
Profession of faith:
I see through Sarah and Abraham that God can do anything He says He will do. He is God Almighty and He can do miracles to fulfill His purpose. God is a covenant-keeping God and He has made a covenant with me through the blood of Jesus Christ. I must believe that He will fulfill the promises of that covenant even when it looks impossible in the natural realm.

Flossie Randels