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Genesis 26

8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.

Hebrews 11:8 [NIV]

3 Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

Romans 4:3 [NIV]

1 Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed)...

Hebrews 11:1 [AMP]

18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up…he gave them the same names his father had given them.

Genesis 26:18 [NIV]

How To Rediscover Grace In A Dry Place.

1. Don’t Let Disputes Drain You.

20 But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.

Genesis 26:20 [NIV]

1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?

James 4:1 [NIV]

3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

Matthew 7:3-5 [NIV]

14 Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam; so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.

Proverbs 17:14 [NIV]

18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

Romans 12:18 [NIV]

1 Now it happened when Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall, and that there were no breaks left in it, 2 that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together.” But they thought to do me harm. 3 So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?”

Nehemiah 6:1-3 [NKJV]

2. Don’t Let Hostility Harden Your Heart.

21 Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

Genesis 26:21 [NIV]

8 Do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness…

Hebrews 3:8 [NIV]

1 These are the nations that the Lord left in the land to test those Israelites who had not experienced the wars of Canaan. 2 He did this to teach warfare to generations of Israelites who had no experience in battle.

Judges 3:1-2 [NLT]

12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Ephesians 6:12 [NIV]

21 After consulting the people, the king appointed singers to walk ahead of the army, singing to the Lord and praising Him for His holy splendor.

2 Chronicles 20:21 [NLT]

12 From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

Matthew 11:12 [NKJV]

14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in His flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in Himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility.

Ephesians 2:14–16 [NIV]

3. Don’t Let Yesterday Keep You From The Promises Of Today.

22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, “Now the Lord has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”

Genesis 26:22 [NIV]

31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.

Genesis 11:31 [NIV]

19 He brought me out into a spacious place; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

Psalm 18:19 [NIV]

2 Enlarge the place of your tent… 3 for you will spread out to the right and to the left.

Isaiah 54:2–3 [NIV]

26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Matthew 19:26 [NIV]