The first reference to healing in the Bible is in Genesis 20:17, “So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.” The reason this was necessary is found in the next verse — “ For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.” Abraham’s intercession for the house of Abimelech describes to us many things. One is that for them to realize they were not having children would have taken more than the overnight dream we so often think about in this lesson. Another important point is that it is the Creator who cursed or weakened the people so they were not able to have children and this was done because of Sarah. This could have been due to what was being said to and about her not having children or for other reasons but it was Him who caused the lack of reproduction and it was the same Creator who answered Abrahams prayer. This curse and healing is as much about the attitude of the people as it is the physical inability to have children.