Divine Sustenance
Oct 25th, 2006
Acts 7:11-12 AMP Then there came a famine over all of Egypt and Canaan, with great distress, and our forefathers could find no fodder [for the cattle] or vegetable sustenance [for their households]. [Gen 41:54,55; 42:5.] 12 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our forefathers [to go there on their] first trip. [Gen 42:2.]
Ps 33:18-22 NKJV Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy, 19 To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine . 20 Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield. 21 For our heart shall rejoice in Him, Because we have trusted in His holy name. 22 Let Your mercy, O LORD, be upon us, Just as we hope in You.
Job 5:20-22 KJV In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. 21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. 22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
“ I AM Faithful and True ! I AM Your Sustenance in times of trial, in famine and war. I AM the Source of everything you need. LOOK TO ME AND BELIEVE beloveds. My church which is called by My name is so full of UNBELIEF. They push and pull because they really don’t think I’ll DO anything. But I have come that you may have life, and that more abundantly !
There is nothing that can come against you that I can’t handle ! You don’t have to “handle it” on your own. I am Your FATHER and I am a GOOD FATHER Who cares for His children.
So believe and you will receive. THINK BIG ! Don’t keep limiting me through unbelief.
What do you need, that I cannot provide. There is nothing I will not do for the one who loves ME above everything. There is nothing I won’t do for those who CARE FOR THE POOR, THE BROKEN, THE HUMILIATED, THE HOMELESS, THE WIDOWS, THE FATHERLESS AND ALL WHO ARE DESPISED BY SOCIETY. You are about to see great miracles and startling healings of even those thought “impossible cases”. THERE IS NOTHING I CANNOT DO ! There is nothing I cannot RESTORE. There is NO ONE that cannot be healed and turned around to serve ME.
Difficult and perilous times lay ahead. Famine grows and men seek their own solutions, but without knowledge that is from ME. SEEK MY FACE and you will never lack what you need.
You will not always have what you WANT, but you will always have what you need. The LOST will not even have that. Great WANT is coming to all who despise the TRUTH. This will cause great lawlessness to continue increasing as people who are self willed, strike out at those who have what they want but cannot find. My mercy is available to ALL who will come to ME. My GRACE is sufficient for you in all things.
Do not say to yourselves. I will not have to go through anything, because the Lord is on my side ! Do not be arrogant oh sons of men ! For though I will provide for you, it will not be so that you can continue in your idolatry to self and entertainment ! Know that I will not despise the one who seeks MY HEART above all the luxuries of this world which are NOTHING compared to My KINGDOM ! Care for one another like brothers and sisters. Pool your resources to provide for the brethren as challenges come upon you. Listen for MY VOICE daily. Treasure time with Me, for it is never a waste of time to seek My face , to rest in My glory ! Men have their agendas, but I have Mine. I will use you to subdue the enemy if you will just come and wait in My presence for MY INSTRUCTIONS. Do not arrogantly PRESUME anything in these times. Ask and you shall receive, KNOCK and the door will be opened. Listen, Listen, Listen to the still small voice within. Lay down your TRADITIONS for I am to become preeminent ! I AM WHAT YOU NEED ! Come and find MY WAY for what lies before you. I AM INCREASING the VOLUME of what you hear !
I AM INCREASING THE DISCERNMENT as you stay in MY Word ! I AM INCREASING GLORY and AUTHORITY as you lay down before Me and take up My agenda. Lift up your voices in PRAISE ! Lay aside all worry and doubt, all anxiety and fear by coming into MY PRESENCE in worship. Still yourselves, for the SON arises with healing in His wings !”
1 Kings 17:9-16 NKJV
9 "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you." 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, "Please bring me a little water in a cup, that I may drink." 11 And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."
12 So she said, "As the LORD your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die."
13 And Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son. 14 For thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the LORD sends rain on the earth.'"
15 So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days. 16 The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke by Elijah.
1 Kings 17:2-6 NKJV Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 3 "Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. 4 And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." 5 So he went and did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and stayed by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.
Ps 147:9-11 NKJV He gives to the beast its food, And to the young ravens that cry. 10 He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man. 11 The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear Him, In those who hope in His mercy.
Ezek 14:21-22 KJV For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine , and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast? 22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.
Ezek 36:27-36 KJV And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. 28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. 32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
Rom 8:35-36 KJV Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine , or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rev 18:2-11 KJV
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine ; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth the their merchandise any more:
Priscilla Van Sutphin
Upstream Ministries
