From the Pastors' Desk

Graham & Gina Sunderland

Pastors Graham or Gina
can be contacted
by emailing: riverstones@uhaog.org.nz

Notes from a message given by Pastor Graham on 7 March 2010.

Digging the wells of Prosperity

A message inspired by Ps Iliafi Esera A / G Vice Superintendant

Gen 26: 1-4 NKJV There was a famine in the land

Isaac went to Abimelech - King of Philistines

In other words - he went to the bank - to man - not to God

Psm 65:11 Abundant harvest

1 Stay where you are meant to be

V's 2 "Don't go to Egypt, live in land which I tell you"

Live in confines parameter where God has called and placed you.

V's 3 Dwell in this land and I will bless you. Gerar town inland from current Gaza

Don't go chasing help where God does not want you to go

In a Famine - tough times - some people move - cause THEY want to.

Move jobs, homes, churches : but not because the Lord Says.

Some churches move - this will be better - Jack Hayford same street - found another building

God told me .. God told me .. ( He changed his mind )

Abraham went to Egypt - Hagar came from there - as a servant to Sarai - Devil plans over time!

2 Deal with Deception of the past

Gen 26:7 NKJV Men asked about wife - "she is my sister - because she is too beautiful"

Men this is NOT the way to build a loving & trusting relationship

This is generational Abraham did this in Egypt - Gen 12:13 NLT says - treat me well

Not enough - again to Abimelech - Gen 20:2 - same king

V's 9 Ab looked out window & Isaac " fondling intimately" - actions found him out

Past sin - deception must be brought to the light

Front up to it - consequences may not be as bad as you imagine - Ab made a law to protect!

Deal with it

Woombye / Word of Life

3 Sow into the famine

Gen 26:12 NKJV Isaac sowed same year reaped 100 fold

Plant in the place where God has put you In the Famine

Psm 65:11 you have crowned year with goodness - harvest - Where you are - IF YOU SOW

V's 13 He began to prosper ... continued prospering ... very prosperous

STORY

4 Learn to deal with people who contend with your well

Gen 26:15 NKJV Philistines had stopped up .. Abraham's wells .. filled earth

Guard your heart with all diligence - filling wells with dirt - Dumb! You just get angry!

V's 14b Philistines envied him

V's 18 Dug again the wells

V's 19-20 Servants found a well - herdsman quarrelled "this water is ours"

Called the well Esek : Arguement or Quarrel Strife

V's 21 They dug another well also quarrelled Sitnah : Opposition or Enmity Hatred

Must deal with contentions properly

Overcome opposition in the Spirit of Christ

V's 22 Moved and Dug another well did not quarrel Rehoboth; spaciousness Prosperity "now the Lord has made room enough - and we shall be fruitful"

5 Keep Godly priorities

Gen 26:23 - 25 NKJV Went Beersheba - built an altar - Called on Lord - pitched his tent

NB Issac did not pitch tent and build an Altar.

Put the Lord first

Wherever Isaac put his spade - he prospered - crops, flocks, wells

There Isaac's servants dug another well!

V's 32b & 33 the name of the city is Beersheba The Charge of the Light horse

He named the well Shebah ; well of seven; Oath

We have on oath

John 3:16 NLT "For God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son so that anyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life"