It’s Also A Concept Taken From
Psalm 1:3,
(And A Song ♪ ~ Just Like A Tree Planted By The Waters, I SHALL Not Be
Moved ♪).
Psalm 1:3
~ He Shall Be Like A Tree Planted By The Rivers Of Water, That Brings Forth
Its Fruit In Its Season, Whose Leaf Also Shall Not Wither; And Whatever He
Does Shall Prosper.
See Also Jeremiah 17:7-8 ~
7 Blessed Is The Person Who Trusts In Yahweh, And Whose Trust Yahweh Is.
8 For They Shall Be Like A Tree
Planted By The Waters, Which Spreads Out Its Roots By The River, And Will
Not Fear When Heat Comes; But Its Leaf Will Be Green, And Will Not Be
Anxious In The Year Of Drought, Nor Will Cease From Yielding Fruit.
9 The Heart Is Deceitful Above
All Things, And Desperately Wicked; Who Can Know It?
And This Was Proven True With Isaac When God Told Him To Dwell In The Land Which I Will Tell You Of.
You Can Read The Whole Story In
Genesis 26:1-17,
Where Isaac Never Left Gerar Even In The Midst Of A
Famine, And Increased A Hundredfold, And Didn’t Even Leave Gerar When The King Told Him To Depart From Him,
{(Genesis
26:14, 16)
~ Because Yahweh Made Jacob So Wealthy That The King Was UnComfortable With Jacob Being Mightier Than He Was As The TownsFolks
Were Envious Of Jacob}, or You Can Click On This Link Above or Below.
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And He Went Up From There To
Beer-Sheba.
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Yahweh Appeared To Him The Same Night, And Said, “I Am The God Of
Abraham Your Father. Don’t Be Afraid, For,
“I Am With You”
And Will Bless You, And Multiply Your Seed For My Servant Abraham’s Sake”.
Interestingly, Isaac Hadn’t Heard From Yahweh All The While Digging And Re-Digging Wells In The Wrong Land, But As Soon Jacob Got Back Into Israel,
Yahweh Appeared To Him The Same Night.
If Isaac Had Left And Gone On To
Egypt, Would He Have Been Blessed? Isaac Was Blessed Because He Was Obedient To The Voice Of Yahweh
And Stayed Temporarily In The Land Of Gerar.
In The Same Way, If Jacob, (Whose Name Was Later Changed To Israel), Had Left Laban,
Despite The Fact That Laban Was A Cunning Taskmaster, Jacob Would Not Have Prospered. How Much More So,
God Wants Us To Stay With The Man or Woman That Yahweh Directs And For Us To
Stay Where Yahweh Has Placed Us,
Despite The Fact That We May Rub Each Other The Wrong Way. Yahweh Is Calling Us To Humble Ourselves.
† The Lexham
English Bible (LEB) Reads This Way For
Genesis 26:3, “Dwell
As An Alien In This Land”. The NIV Reads, “Foreigner”.
Many Translations Read In The Future Tense Such As, “Dwell In The Land Which
I Shall Tell You Of”. God’s Word Translation Says, “Live Here In This Land For A While”. Other Translations Say To, “Sojourn In This Land”. So, Apparently A Few Translators See Gerar As Not Being The Final Place. Gerar
- Means ~ “Lodging-Place” — Just A
Temporary Place To Lodge, (A Hotel Comes To My Mind; Something Temporary);
{And Also Was A Philistine Town}.
Beersheba Is In Israel, And The
Largest City In The Negev Desert In Southern Israel. Often Referred To
As The “Capital Of The Negev”, It Is The Seventh-Largest City In
Israel. To Put This In Perspective,
Think Of Philistines And Israel As Rivals.
† For Years, I
Too Thought That Jacob Stayed In Gerar, Because That Was The Land That Yahweh Told Him To Stay In. Then One With The Gift Of Teaching Showed Me On A Map That
Gerar Was In Philistine, And That Beersheba Was In Israel~!
Israel Was The
Place That Yahweh Had Told Him, Not Gerar. And I Had To Ask Myself, Which
Lands Did Yahweh Mean When He Said, “I Will Give ALL These Lands?”
…The Land Of Israel, Of Course.
So, Because Isaac Did Not Go To Egypt He Prospered; But With The Local
Philistine Folks Filling His Wells, {He Had To Re-Dig A New Well Four Times}, And The King Took His Wife. I Wouldn’t Say That Was All A Bed Of Roses, And The Blessing Of Yahweh Makes One Rich And He Adds No Sorrow With It,
(Proverbs 10:22); And There Was Excessive Sorrow. However, It Wasn’t Until He Left The
Philistine Town Of Gerar And Went Inside The Land Of Israel
To Beersheba That Something Wonderful Happened,
“Yahweh Appeared To Him The Same Night~!”
Jacob Had Been On The Journey, Sojourning With The Philistines, But Once He Got To Where
Yahweh Had Told Him Of, “Yahweh Appeared To Him
The Same Night~!”
Here’s What
Walter Zemaitis Surmised.
When God Puts You In A Place or Position He Will Give You
The Grace To Keep You. When You Strive And Put Yourself In A Place or Position That God Has Not Given You, You By The Arm Of The Flesh Will Strive
To Maintain That Position. Because God Hasn’t Given You The Grace To Be In
That Position You Will Have To Maintain That Position By The Flesh. When You Maintain Things In Your Own Flesh or Carnal Thinking There Is No Peace or
Joy Because You Don’t Belong In That Position. When Yahweh Puts You By
His Grace There Is Peace And Joy~!
In A NutShell, If You’re In Your Place Then You’ll Find God’s Grace. However,
If Not Then You’ll Fall On Your Face, Big Disgrace~!
Anything You Start In The Flesh, You Will Have To Maintain In The Flesh~!
Also, In The New Testament ~ (Look At
1 Corinthians 12:18 ~ But Now God Has Set The Members, Each One Of Them, In The Body, Just As He Desired).
Three
Things From Nehemiah About Joining A Local Body Of Christ.
If The Reason, You Have Not Joined A Local Church, Is Because You’ve Been Hurt By Someone, Please Read This, (Enter Here).
You Might Say, “Well, I Don’t Feel Like Going To Church
Tonight”. ‘Feelings’ Are Not What We Walk By. We Walk By ‘Faith’ Not By ‘Sight’,
(1
Corinthians 5:7), And So Then ‘Faith Comes’By
Hearing And Hearing The ‘Rhema’,
4487 or ‘Revealed Word’ From Yahweh ,
(Romans
10:17). But, We Don’t Want To Be Hearers Only, But Doers Of The Word. So, If Yahweh’s Word Tells Us To ‘Forsake Not The Assembling
Of Ourselves’,
{Hebrews
10:25}, Then Our Response Should Be, “We’re Going To Church, Whether We Feel Like It
or Not”. Not Just So That You Can Be Ministered To, But That You Need
To Go To Minister To Others.
Hebrews 10:25 Also Says That The Justifiable Reason For Coming Together In An Assembly Is
To Encourage or
Exhort One Another And Also Gain Encouragement or Exhortation,
(That You May Not Know That You Needed).
Bottom Line: Find A Local Body Of Builders That Have
“Like Precious Faith”, And Start Going There On A Regular Basis.
Don’t Pick This Church
Based On ‘Sight’, Like Do They Have A Good Children’s Program or A Softball Team, But Pray About It.
The Holy Ghost Will Show You Things To Come,
(John 14:17, John 15:26, John 16:13, 1 John 2:27). And Your Future,
Your Destiny Is Very Involved In Where And Who You Get Hooked Up With,
(1 Corinthians 12:18
~ But In Fact Yahweh Has Arranged, (or Placed) The Parts In The Body, Every One Of Them, Just As He Wanted Them To Be.).
Notice How Many Times John And Peter Were Together. It Was No Accident That They Traveled Together To The Empty Tomb or When They Saw A Man
At The Gate Beautiful, Peter And John Were Present When Peter’s Mother Was Healed, And Also On The Mount Of Transfiguration And When Peter Walked On The Water, etc.
Interesting Thing I Saw In Joshua 1:7 ~
Only Be Strong And Very Courageous, That You May Observe To Do According To All The Law Which Moses My Servant Commanded You;
Do Not Turn From It To The Right Hand or To The Left, That You May Prosper Wherever You Go.
We In America Have The Attitude That If We Hear From God, (Not From Man), Then We’ll Do It. But Here Yahweh Is Talking, And He Is Telling Joshua,
(Yahoshua), To Observe To Do According To ALL The Law Which ‘Moses’ My Servant
Commanded You. Do What Moses Has Commanded You.
If Our Pastor Is Telling Us To Do Something, Then We Think That We Don’t Have
To Honor That Word. Wrong. Also NoteWorthy Is That Moses Is Called,
‘My Servant’, But He Was A Leader, However, Not Before He Was Willing To Submit To
Yahweh Would Others Submit To Him.
