Two FaminesSame BlessingOne Decision

"Only be strong and very courageous; … ; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go."

• Joshua 1.7 NASB

Sometimes that means believing for the impossible while doing the impossible in impossible circumstances.

Two Famines

Abram’s Famine:Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.- Genesis 12.10 NASB

Isaac’s Famine:Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham.- Genesis 26.1 NASB

Same Blessing

Abram’s Blessing:“And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you,And make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing; and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed. … To your descendants I will give this land.”- Genesis 12.2-3, 7 NASB

Isaac’s Blessing:“… stay in the land of which I shall tell you. Sojourn in this land and Iwill be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I willgive all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to yourfather Abraham. I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven,and will give your descendants all these lands; and byyour descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.”- Genesis 26.2b-4 NASB

One Decision

Stay in the land that God has given you.

One Decision

Abram didn’t and …

Traded Sarai, his wife, for livestock out of fear they would kill him for her

Plagues on Pharaoh and his house

Escorted out of Egypt and told not to return

- Genesis 12.12-20

One Decision

Isaac did and …

Sowed in the famine and reaped that year a 100 fold return

The Lord blessed Isaac and he became rich until he was wealthy

Envied by his enemies because of his great possessions

- Genesis 26.12-14

One Decision

Do you have a famine in the midst of your promise?

One Decision

Does it look like you have to:

believe for the impossible

while doing the impossible

in impossible circumstances

One Decision

Good…

Only be strong & very courageous!!

Sow in your impossible and reap 100 fold!!

One Decision

Persist in that which God has promised you

Disregard the circumstances and do it any way

Become so rich in that promise God gave you that you become wealthy in it; and your enemies are jealous

One Decision

On the day of Pentecost120 waited on the Promise of God

according to Jesus’ word

Jesus had leftThe other Jews thought them heretics

Rome thought them instigators and seditionists

Yet they stayed until the Promise was fulfilledand reaped 3000 added to the Church that day

- Acts 2

One Decision

C3 True North Church Has a PromiseHas a famine

Believing for the impossibleWhile doing the impossible

In impossible circumstances

Only be strong & very courageousStay in the land

Sow in the faminePersist

Reap the 100 fold harvest!!

One Decision

Persist!!

Here it comes…