FOUR WAYS THAT GOD WILL PROVIDE
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THROUGH THE HAND OF MAN
THROUGH THE HAND OF MAN
And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
God used a raven, a dirty bird that is a scavenger to bring the prophet bread twice a day.
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
God used the widow of Zaraphath to sustain the prophet.
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
THROUGH THE HAND OF GOD
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
There arose a new Pharoah - God will send people to bless you in amazing ways, but they are not the source - The widow - the dirty bird - the business - the job - the contract is the system, not your source.
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
God provided manna, with the different amounts provided for each family dependent upon the size of that family.
God will prosper you according the size of your assignment.
God does not give us what we ask for, but what we need according to the size of our assignment or the season that you are in.
There are still miracles of provision available to those on assignment from God.
Don’t you dare quit believing! Don’t quit dreaming! god will supply your needs! He will make you the head and not the tail, God will bless you in the city and in the field.
BY YOUR OWN HAND - A JOB
BY YOUR OWN HAND - A JOB
Some people don’t want to read the Book of Job, because they are afraid that they might have to get a job!!!
And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
Now comes a time when God says, “ I don’t want you totally dependent on miracles.
And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
In Egypt, the land was so very dry, that the only way to get water to the crops was to use little foot pumps to move water from the Nile River.
Now God moved them from a “foot pump” mentality right on in to the land of milk and honey and into the flow of provision, but I need you to use the work of your own hand and use the gift that God has given you = WORK.
God says, “You have skills and abilities”. Find out what is your gift - your ability, and then use it for the Glory of God. He is Jehovah Jirah - our Provider.
So, God provides for us through His own Hand, through the Supernatural .
God will bring blessing people into your life, maybe a wife - an employer - a Pastor -
God will provide through the labor of your hand, in which we use our God given gifts and abilities to work for it.
THROUGH THE HAND OF YOUR ENEMY
Your enemy comes to kill steal AND DESTROY.
Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.
Fear not, your enemy will buy you bread.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
God will sometimes give us the best blessings in the presence of our enemies.
The level of the attack that the enemy brings upon us will determine two things.
1. How valuable you are to God is in your assignment.
2. The level of the attack upon you will tell you the level of the blessings waiting for you on the other side of the attack.
Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads;
We went through fire and through water:
But thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
God can bring us to the wealthy place!
You need to know two things”
1. You need to know who God is and you need to believe in God.
2. You need to believe in yourself
The wealthy place is where you are so blessed that it spills over into the next generation, and the next generation...
It’s not about where you are. It’s about where you are going and what God can trust you with!
God does not want us to live with that “foot pump” mentality like the children of Israel did when they were slaves in Egypt.
I am almost 70 years old - I don’t have time to play games.
We need to get out thinking right regarding God, regarding our destinies, regarding our assignments!