God is Calling a Reverse!
How would you respond if I told you a positive reverse is coming to your family?
Would you believe it, dismiss it, hope for it but doubt it?
Our current beliefs are usually predicated on our current circumstances
If we are in a bad situation in our families, we only see bad things, ok-ok things…
The reverse is not easy to hear, doesn’t sound like you think; a reverse call in NT
Acts 3:6 Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. [REVERSE] In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”
God is Calling a Reverse for Your Family!
You might be thinking, maybe it’s a trick, fake, double reverse; how do I know?
1. God’s will strong families 2. God’s word old gone, new here! 3. God’s way
Naomi and Ruth’s family in ashes, return to Israel and worked in the fields
Chap 2 introduces Boaz, bring reverse, means quickness, Gregory watchman
Naomi Ruth home to nothing, Ruth goes out to work as the poor do, sit and starve, they acted
Ruth stumbles on Boaz harvest, vs.3, as it turned out, vs. 4 Just then, Boaz arrived
Calling a reverse in your family means trusting that God called it first.
You might think you're Brady, you can call plays, but the coach has to call it first
Naomi said call me bitter, God said no, I am calling a Reverse; he was moving…
Might get away with calling your own plays for a while, but you will need the coach
Do you believe God’s reverse is for your family? Willing to line up to his call?
Boaz arrives at his field and notices a woman picking up grain, not his servant
Ruth 2:5 Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, “Where does this young woman belong?”
Boaz finds out who she is and pours abundant blessings on her, plenty, extra, 30 lbs.
She was believing for a little God reverse it so that she would have an abundance
Calling a reverse in your family means trusting that God brings abundance.
Boaz was not just following Levitical law but pouring out abundantly more
1 Chronicles 4:9-10 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.” Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.
Jabez prayed in faith that God would reverse the curse, and enlarge his life, in a big way
God, enlarge my family, help me to live beyond the narrow walls of my name
Jabez’s prayer shows prayer, and a prayer-answering God can overcome bitterness
Naomi reverses her curse, from bitterness to blessing; call me blessed
Bible said God granted Jabez prayer, the word is Bo, it means Go, to go in
Go might be Jesus’ favorite word, after he heals, teaches, challenges, telling them to go
Do something with what I have given you!
Calling a reverse in your family means staying close to God’s harvest.
In the 3 months of the harvest, Ruth would have gathered enough food for a year
Ruth 2:23 So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
The surest way to keep your family intact, keep them close, the whole family
The harvest that reverses the curse in our families is God, the word, church, people
Galatian church abandon the true gospel for an easier one, laws that kept them safe
Heb 2:1 We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
When the turn begins, it is easy to relax and drift away from our safe harbor