Now you may not be used to hearing this because you’ve heard the opposite on television. I was listening yesterday to a panel. They were talking about how bad it’s going to become in America. But that doesn’t mean it has to be bad for you, and it doesn’t have to be bad for me. It’s only going to be bad for us if we decide we’re going to listen to all that and believe what they say, instead of believing what God says. Now I’ve chosen to believe that I’m going to live above that.
This is a divine moment in my life. And I’ve got news. God is no respecter of persons. If it’s going to be a divine moment in my life, then it can be a divine moment in your life.
Now there are several things I want to share with you tonight. But before I do, I want to tell you one more story from the Bible because there was a time in the Bible when they faced exactly what we’re facing right now.
It was in the time of Isaac. Now if you go back in the book of Genesis, you’ll find that Abraham and Sarah had a son named Isaac, the son of promise. And there came a time when there was a great famine, a great recession that came in the land of Israel.
Now, Ron, when times get tough, that’s when people become stingy with their money. That’s when they hoard things. That’s when they hold on to things, trying to make it.
Isaac wasn’t like that. In the middle of a recessional time, the Bible says he sowed. He sowed in famine. Or in our terms we would say, he sowed right in the middle of the recession. And what happened when he sowed? The Bible says that he reaped a hundredfold in the same year. It was a divine moment in Isaac’s time.