MIX IN THE MIDST
Genesis 26

Seeing through the word of God in the midst of mixed up situations will set us up for God’s blessing. Isaac saw through the word of God when he demonstrated no evidence of complaints or frustration in all confronting situations that he encountered. When there was famine in Gerar, God appeared to Isaac to dwell in the land and not to run to Egypt. Genesis 26:6, So Isaac dwelt in Gerar. 7 And the men of the place asked about his wife, and he said, “She is my sister”; for he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” because he thought, “lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to behold.” The land where God had him stay was becoming a challenge. After a while it was discovered by Abimelech, the King of Gerar, that Rebekah was Isaac’s wife. With the discovery, “So Abimelech charged all his people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.” _” (Genesis 26:11)  After being delivered by God through Abimelech charge, Isaac now entered into a season of sowing and reaping in hundred fold Prosperity became his portion. As a result of his blessing, “…Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”(Genesis 26:16) Isaac did not have any choice, but to move forward. The Bible said, “Then Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.” (Genesis 26:17)At his departure he encountered another challenge, but the word of God that asked him not to move could not fail. In Isaac’s new territory, twice they founded a running well, but he was not able to lay hold of his claim on the well because of the people of Gerar. Isaac and his servants finally found another well, “…Called its name Rehoboth, because he said, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”(Genesis 26:22) In the mix of all of Isaac’s ups and downs the word of God could not be misplaced. When everything looks bad and like there no way, God repeatedly showed up. After he had been pushed from one ground to another, and from one well to another well, the hand of God was evident in his life. Abimelech eventually came for Isaac, “And Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?” 28 But they said, “We have certainly seen that the LORD is with you. So we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a covenant with you.” (Genesis 26:27-28) In the mix of all confrontations and challenges, hold on to the word of God, see through His word, and He will not fail in seeing you through.