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Abundant prosperity!

Scripture reading for January 9th:  Genesis 23-27

Cause for Thanksgiving:  Genesis 26:1-3, 13-14  “Now there was a famine in the land–besides the earlier famine of Abraham’s time–and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar.  The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.  Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you.”  “. . .Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundred-fold, because the Lord blessed him.  The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.  He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.”  

Isaac was caught in a famine and sought help.  The Lord God appeared to him with instructions to stay put and He would bless him.  Isaac obeyed the Lord and God blessed him in a land of famine with a “hundred-fold” return and wealth that caused envy of the heathen!

Thanks to our Lord:  Jesus promises up to a “hundred-fold return” to those who heard the Word of God and acted on it!  We are in on a secret that gives us wealth beyond measure in the heavenly realm!  “But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”  (Matthew 13:23)