🙌 Celebrate Jehovah Jireh

• The God who sees 👁️ and the God who provides 🕊️.
• Legacy Sunday reminder → We celebrate His faithfulness.
• This year: Engage with God + Engage our Faith.
• We are going after the Detached 🙃, the Drifted 🌊, and those who Don’t Know ❓.
• Today is also World Communion Sunday → we will take the first and best step of getting “Unclogged” together 🍞🍷.

📖 Genesis 26:1–3, 12–18 (ESV)

1 Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines. 2 And the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you. 3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.”

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12 And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him, 13 and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. 14 He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him.15 (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.) 16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.” 17 So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. 18 And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them.

🟢 Recognize the Famine

• Many today are in a famine, not from water 💧, but because of clogged wells in life.
• What once was…
• Excitement 🎉 → has become apathy 😐.
• Peace 🕊️ → has become anxiety 😰.
• Joy 😀 → has become mundane 😴.
• Blissful ❤️ → has become busy 📅.
• The enemy's tactic: If he cannot defeat you, he will distract you ⚠️.

🟢 Sow in the Famine 🌱

• Genesis 26:12 – “And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold.”
• The answer to your famine is often contrary to your feelings.
• It is not natural to sow in famine or dry ground → but faith acts beyond feelings.
• Example: It’s not natural to invest in a marriage that feels dead 💔, but small acts (like buying flowers 🌹) are seeds of faith.

🧠 Worship Changes Your Brain

• Psalm 22:3 – “God inhabits the praises of his people.”
• Research (Liedke, 2018):
• Worship increases BPNF – helps grow healthy brain cells.
• Every morning, we wake up with 300 million new brain cells 🧠.
• Worship creates gamma waves, helping us feel God’s presence.
• Just 7 minutes of worship daily can change your brain → more wisdom, deeper relationship with God, greater awareness of His love.
• 🔑 When praise goes up, the Blesser comes down.

🟢 Decision in Adversity ⚔️

• Isaac faced two problems:

1. A lot of dirt 🪨.
2. A famine 🌵.

• He chose to sow physically & by faith, not just pray.
• You must sometimes push dirt physically while trusting God supernaturally.
• Don’t dig with dread of the dirt → dig inspired by the dream of the harvest 🌾.

📖 Galatians 6:9 (ESV)

“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”

🟢 Greater Purpose

• The goal is not just comfort or convenience, but to let the Spirit’s living water flow through us to others.

📖 John 7:37–39 (ESV)

37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

• People around us are dying of thirst 💀💧.
• The Holy Spirit’s river flowing through you is their source of life 🌊.

🟢 Communion – The Source of Life 🍞🍷

📖 Matthew 26:26–29 (ESV)

26 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” 27 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, 28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 29 I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

🎯 Final Call: Decide to Dig! ⛏️

• Make the decision to dig again.
• You can’t do it without Jesus, but He will empower you to push through the dirt.
• Your wells can flow again.
• Your famine can turn into a harvest 🌾.