The Lord can bring provision from impossible places!
Big Idea: When you trust the Lord, he can bring provision from impossible places!
God healed the Bitter Waters at a place called Marah–Refreshed the people at Elim
Exodus 17:1-7 (NIV)
1 The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
2 So they quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses replied, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the LORD to the test?" 3 But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?" 4 Then Moses cried out to the LORD, "What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me." 5 The LORD answered Moses, "Walk on ahead of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6 I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.(Pic -Hundreds of Thousands of Gallons of Water-That is Impossible! – With man it’s impossible, all things are possible with God) 7 And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"
Split Rock at cinemapichollu
When you trust the Lord, he can bring provision from impossible places!
Poverty Mindset
Glenn Stearns
1. Low Ambition-not selfish/belief that you are supposed to settle
2. Pessimistic and Self Pitying
3. Jealous Person-Delayed gratification-Latest technology couldn’t pay their electric bills
4. Decisions based on fear
5. Focused on what you don’t have-continually cutting corners-Self Development, capacity building
Establish your Giving
Malachi 3:10-11 (NIV)
… Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit," says the LORD Almighty.