Power to Provision - 25 June 2107 - Bruce McCallum

Sermon by Bruce McCallum

1. S top managing your crisis Start managing your promise

2.   Deuteronomy 1:8 (NIV) See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore he would give to your fathers …

3.   PROMISE   PRINCIPLES PROBLEMS   PROVISION

4.   Genesis 37:5-9 (NIV) Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it." 8 His brothers said to him, "Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?"

5.   Genesis 37:5-9 (NIV) And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said. 9 Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. "Listen," he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."

6.   Genesis 41:41 (NIV) So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt."   Genesis 42:6 (NIV) Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the one who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph's brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

7. Joshua 1:1-18 (NIV) After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' aide: 2 "Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them - to the Israelites. 3 I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses.

8. 4 Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates - all the Hittite country - to the Great Sea on the west. 5 No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.

9. 6 "Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them. 7 Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go

10. 8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful .

11. Joshua 12:24 (NIV) …. thirty-one kings in all.

12. Joshua 23:14 (NIV) "Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.”

13. S top managing your crisis Start managing your promise

14. 1. Dig out God’s promises for you  

15. 1. Dig out God’s promises for you   2. Defeat the kings

16.   The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mould men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behaviour, but Christ can change human behaviour. (Ezra Taft Benson)

17. 1. Dig out God’s promises for you   2. Defeat the kings 3. Teach me your ways

18. Exodus 33:13 (NIV) “If Y ou are pleased with me, teach me Your ways so I may know You and continue to find favour with You. Remember that this nation is Your people."  

19. 1. Dig out God’s promises for you   2. Defeat the kings 3. Teach me your ways 4. Suddenly