21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

Hebrews 11:9 "By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:" Hebrews 11:10 "For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God." By faith Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of promise as a stranger dwelling in temporary tents. He had his heart set on another city for permanent residency, one whose architect and builder is God. He focused on the spiritual while looking for the physical. Often in life, you won’t know where God is taking you. And if you overlook the spiritual, you will become discouraged. God is the architect of the eternal city, and he’s the architect of the opportunities in your life. The important thing in all of this is that Abraham believed God. This is the most important thing in our life as well. We must stop looking at homes and things here on the earth and look for the home in heaven which God has provided for all who believe. This city Abraham was looking for was the new Jerusalem that comes down from God out of heaven. II Corinthians 5:1 "For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."

Revelation 21:2 "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."

Hebrews 11:11 "Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised." Hebrews 11:12 "Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable." Sarah is an example of the power of God in a person’s life. She was unable to have children, and Abraham was as good as dead in terms of ability to procreate. In fact, the book of Hebrews only gives us the conclusion to the couple’s infertility story. When God promised them a child, at separate times they both laughed and thought it was a joke. Genesis 17:17 "Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?"

Genesis 18:11-12 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? This seemed so strange because Sarah had already gone through the change of life. The thing that she and Abraham had forgotten is that you have to have an impossibility, before you can have a miracle. Eventually, though, they had faith that the one who had promised was faithful. It took twenty-five years to get from promise to baby. Oftentimes God doesn’t complete what he wants to do in your life until you’re spiritually prepared. This is not a child of the flesh. This is a miracle baby. This is Abraham's and Sarah's child of promise from God. He is of the spirit, not of the flesh. We see here that Sarah had faith

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