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When God Speaks to Women Part 6

Hello and welcome to the Women’s Weekly Bible Challenge!   I’m Lisa Ann Spencer. Today is Part 6 of the series, When God Speaks to Women . We are going to take a brief look at Sarah .   Last week we were in the middle of looking at all the references to Hagar , but God speaks to Sarah after He spoke to Hagar the first time.   It has been 13 years since God spoke to Hagar, when we read that God spoke to Sarah.   Genesis 18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh . So the challenge last week was to find the three spellings of Sarah in Scripture and see what we can learn from her. Using Blue Letter Bible, I found: Sarai – 17 times in 13 verses Sarah – 37 times in 31 verses Sara – 3 times in 3 verses Up to this point in the story, we have already covered ‘Sarai’.   Her name was changed in Genesis 16:15 and that name is never used again.   ‘Sarah’ is found 37 times from this poin...