2. Two Famines
Same Blessing
One Decision

3. "Only be strong and very courageous; … ; do not turn from it to
the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever
you go."
• Joshua 1.7 NASB
Sometimes that means believing for the impossible while doing
the impossible in impossible circumstances.

4. Two Famines
Abram’s Famine:
Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to
sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
- Genesis 12.10 NASB
Isaac’s Famine:
Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had
occurred in the days of Abraham.
- Genesis 26.1 NASB

5. Same Blessing
Abram’s Blessing:
“And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you,
And make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing; and I will
bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed. … To
your descendants I will give this land.”
- Genesis 12.2-3, 7 NASB
Isaac’s Blessing:
“… stay in the land of which I shall tell you. Sojourn in this land and I
will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will
give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your
father Abraham. I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven,
and will give your descendants all these lands; and by
your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.”
- Genesis 26.2b-4 NASB

6. One Decision
Stay in the land that God has given you.

7. One Decision
Abram didn’t and …
Traded Sarai, his wife, for livestock out of fear they would kill him for her
Plagues on Pharaoh and his house
Escorted out of Egypt and told not to return
- Genesis 12.12-20

8. One Decision
Isaac did and …
Sowed in the famine and reaped that year a 100 fold return
The Lord blessed Isaac and he became rich until he was wealthy
Envied by his enemies because of his great possessions
- Genesis 26.12-14

9. One Decision
Do you have a famine in the midst of your promise?

10. One Decision
Does it look like you have to:
believe for the impossible
while doing the impossible
in impossible circumstances

11. One Decision
Good…
Only be strong & very courageous!!
Sow in your impossible and reap 100 fold!!

12. One Decision
Persist in that which God has promised you
Disregard the circumstances and do it any way
Become so rich in that promise God gave you that you
become wealthy in it; and your enemies are jealous

13. One Decision
On the day of Pentecost
120 waited on the Promise of God
according to Jesus’ word
Jesus had left
The other Jews thought them heretics
Rome thought them instigators and seditionists
Yet they stayed until the Promise was fulfilled
and reaped 3000 added to the Church that day
- Acts 2

14. One Decision
C3 True North Church
Has a Promise
Has a famine
Believing for the impossible
While doing the impossible
In impossible circumstances
Only be strong & very courageous
Stay in the land
Sow in the famine
Persist
Reap the 100 fold harvest!!

15. One Decision
Persist!!
Here it comes…