Withstand Dont Withold 280112
- 1. WITHSTAND, DO NOT WITHOLD IN A TIME OF FAMINE AND DROUGHT Week 4 - 22-29 Jan 2012 by RM Richard
- 2. Deuteronomy 30:19 (NIV) This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live. Jesus is the greatest of God's blessings Are you aware of your blessings as descendants of Abraham ?
- 3. Jeremiah 17:5-8 (NIV) This is what the LORD says: “ Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the LORD. That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. “ But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” Withstand, do not Withhold
- 4. 2 Tim 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Mark 11:23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he say. Are you aware of what you are thinking and saying now? What will you be thinking and saying in a time of famine and drought ?
- 5. Have you received your blessings? Deuteronomy 33:1 This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death.
- 6. Deuteronomy 33:13-16 About Joseph he said: “ May the LORD bless his land with the precious dew from heaven above and with the deep waters that lie below; with the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can yield; with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the fruitfulness of the everlasting hills; with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwelt in the burning bush. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.”
- 7. Deuteronomy 33:18-19 About Zebulun he said: “ Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and you, Issachar, in your tents. They will summon peoples to the mountain and there offer the sacrifices of the righteous; they will feast on the abundance of the seas, on the treasures hidden in the sand.”
- 8. Deuteronomy 33:24-25 About Asher he said: “ Most blessed of sons is Asher; let him be favored by his brothers, and let him bathe his feet in oil. The bolts of your gates will be iron and bronze, and your strength will equal your days.
- 9. Genesis 49:26 Your father’s blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than the bounty of the age-old hills. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.