Rodney Howard Browne

If I read these verses properly this was a widespread famine like the world hadn’t known, for it asserts, “The famine was spread over all of the face of the earth.”.

In these circumstances what did Joseph do? He did not hoard the warehouses of plenty for himself and his folks, or for the royal household, or maybe for the land of Egypt. He opened those great vaults and released the contents to anyone that required food. “The folks of all of the earth came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph.” This was a person who never made use of his rights, his authority, or his financial resources. He continues to walk politely before his Lord.

He has earthly power, but his integrity is still in place, and he openly shares his profusion with others in need. That provides help in our evaluation, doesn’t it? We can’t help but admire people who harvest the benefits of goodness because God prospers them, when they, in turn, provide for others in need. Ministries I’ve been part of have benefited massively not only from people who have hardly any of this world’s products, but also from the Josephs of this and prior generations. To the rich Josephs that God is raising up in this generation and the subsequent, may you continue to stroll with Him. May you freely use your affluence and authority for His glory and your influence and success to make His Word and truth known.

God can use our authority and our profusion and our promotion as He did with Joseph. But before he will be able to, we want to humble ourselves before God’s mighty hand and say, “Jesus Christ, I need You. I have all this to account for, and I cannot take any of it with me. Please use me as you see fit.” With authority comes the necessity for accountability. People who model the same depth of personality mixed with knowledge merit our respect and confirmation.

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Rodney Howard Browne talks about Joseph. After those two full years, Joseph experienced a significant point in his life—on a day that appeared like every other day. That morning dawned like each other morning over the prior 2 years. Like the morning that dawned before Moses saw the burning bush. like the morning that dawned before David was anointed by Samuel as the king-elect.

Rodney Howard Browne tells us that for Joseph, it was yet another dungeon day—except for one small matter Joseph knew nothing about : the evening before Pharaoh had a bad dream. The king of the land had a dream, and in it he saw 7 fat, graceful cattle coming up out of the marshy Nile delta. Then 7 foul, thin, starving cows came up from the same stream and devoured the fat, sleek cows. Pharaoh awoke, maybe thinking that large meal he’d eaten before he went to bed wasn’t setting too well on his stomach. Before long he dropped back to sleep, and his dream continued.

Rodney Howard Browne tells that this time Joseph saw a stalk of grain with 7 plump and healthy ears. But then 7 lean ears, scorched from the east wind, sprang up and devoured the 7 healthy ears of grain. When Pharaoh heard that there had been someone around who could let him know what this discouraging dream meant, he naturally related, “Go get the man.”.

Talk about comprehensive integrity This was Joseph’s moment in court, his wonderful opportunity to point out, “Do you realize that I may have been out of that place 2 years back if that dummy standing right over there hadn’t forgotten me?” But there was none of that. You know why Joseph may be so humble and talk so openly? Because his heart had been damaged. Because he’d been attempted by the fire of affliction. Because while his external circumstances seemed nearly intolerable during those years, his internal condition had been turned into pure gold. We are now witnessing the advantages of enduring affliction with one’s eyes on God.

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Rodney Howard Browne teaches us to be mature. That is the only real way to explain my infancy. Listen, I went to school barefoot, and I was still playing children’s games into highschool. Life was permitted to run its own course back then. There’s a new child in our town streets. Music, books, films, and TV increasingly portray the young as precocious and seductive. Such portrayals force children to assume they should act grown up before they’re ready.

Rodney Howard Browne discusses on child development. Feelings are the most intricate and complicated part of a kid’s development. They have their own timing and rhythm, which can’t be hurried. Growing up is hard enough with no one pushing. Am I overreacting to proffer the unique traumas among today’s children are somehow tied to all this? Younger alcoholics.

Rodney Howard Browne talks about the high suicide rate. And the record high suicide rate among children and teens is definitely telling us something. If nothing else, at least for those youngsters, it’s informing us we are reacting too late. Scripture obviously states, “There is an appointed time for everything” ( Eccles. What about time to be a child? What about time to reach adulthood slowly, carefully yes, even protected, naive? Otherwise, it is too far, too quickly, too shortly.

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Rodney Howard Browne teaches us to read the Bible. God has guaranteed a special blessing to those that read His book of prediction, Revelation. However, this is going to be one of the least read books in the Bible. Many folks are threatened by its tricky images or by the judgments recorded in Revelation. They don’t understand the book is also worshipful and celebratory.

Pastor Rodney Howard Browne points us to Psalm and Revelation. The books of Psalm and Revelation are maybe the 2 most praise-filled books in the Bible. The 5th chapter of Revelation records one of the strongest worship experiences that ever will happen. True worship honors God, and it’s not based mostly on emotion or feeling. The main incentives for our praising and adoring God are who He is, what he’s done, and what he’s going to do.

Rodney Howard Browne teaches us to seek Christ. This has nothing to do with pursuit of a non secular high; in truth, such a pursuit takes one’s focus away from God. Always confirm your worship is targeted on Christ as you praise and love only Him. This quite naturally can bring some fitting emotion. Yet we should worship God without greedy motives, without looking to be spotted or considered “super-spiritual.” We should worship Him because we recognize His worthiness to get praise. It also honors God when we inspect the worshipful passages of Revelation and try to commit them to memory. Then we’ll already have a head start by knowing the words.

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Rodney Howard Browne suggests this for those in pain. One of the most important reasons we infrequently have a weak religion is our faulty view of God. Of course, he is so enormous, how could we ever actually get a correct portrait of what he appears to be, how He acts, and how He feels about us personally? Let’s think about what Jesus expounded.

He let us know that if we would like to know what God the Father is like, we must look toward the Son. The Savior expounded, “He who saw Me saw the Father” (John 14:9). Rodney Howard Browne explains that we will be able to know the Father because we are able to know Jesus. And when we have a look at the way Jesus treated the people around Him, we get a good picture of God’s love.

Consider the girl at the well in today’s Scripture passage. This was a lady who had been outcast by society. Pastor Rodney Howard Browne points out that the incontrovertible fact that she came to the well at that particular time of day – a time when no-one else was around – shows that her exclusion from the townspeople wasn’t just their idea ; she herself felt the necessity to stay isolated. But what did Jesus do? He loved her. He accepted her. He gave her what no-one else would give: respect and attention. That’s what He does for us as well. God doesn’t want us weighed down by guilt, shame, and heart-ache.

Nor does He would like us to be isolated from people. Instead, He calls us to be an active partaker in His dominion. Have you cut yourself off from those around you? Take hold of your Savior’s hand today, and experience the enjoyment of His acceptance.

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Rodney Howard Browne asks us, if you had some hours to live, and if you weren’t a follower in Jesus Christ, where would you look to find comfort or hope? Each day, many of us face death, but unfortunately, lots of them don’t know Jesus as Lord. However, some people, in a last act of religious acuity, accept Christ on their deathbed.

You can disagree, but they cannot truly be Christians then, can they? Rodney Howard Browne explains that they sinned their complete lives and accepted Jesus just because they were frightened of dying. They do not get the same reward that I am going to get, do they? Well, think about the repentant burglar on the cross next to Jesus. Scripture is clear this was a vicious, violent, guilty criminal. There is not even a pointer that he was wrongfully charged.

He was attempted, convicted, and handed death by the most evil means possible. Certainly, he wasn’t an individual we’d consider a good guy. But as he hung on his cross, something stirred inside him. The Spirit started to work in his heart, and in the moments before his demise, he was for the first time made alive in his spirit. He accepted Jesus, and Jesus accepted him.

You see, Rodney Howard Browne says, the great deliverance that is ours in Christ is one hundred percent reliant on what Jesus did for us. This implies that there’s nothing you or I could ever do to warrant it. When we realize that His love is open to all folk, even to those we despise the most, we will really give Him all of the glory for the great things he’s done.

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He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8-9 NKJV

I.  Rodney Howard Browne teaches us that Jesus was born, lived and died, to destroy the works of the devil and empower us to do the same.

• If you want to know what the works of the devil are, take a look at the works of Jesus. Look at everything Jesus destroyed and undid.
• Luke 5:17b NKJV – And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
• Matthew 10:8 NKJV – Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
• Luke 9:2 NKJV – He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
• Jesus did nothing but love, save, heal, deliver and restore – and He directs us to do the same.

II.  Rodney Howard Browne shows us that everything Jesus said and did was motivated by love.

• Motivated by love, He patiently taught them: Mark 6:34-35 NKJV – And Jesus, when He came out, saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep not having a shepherd. So He began to teach them many things.
• Motivated by love, He fed them: Mark 8:2 NKJV – I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat.
• Motivated by love, He healed them: Matthew 14:14-15 NKJV – And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick.
• Motivated by love, He raised them from the dead: Luke 7:13-15 NKJV – When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.”  14 Then He came and touched the open coffin, and those who carried him stood still. And He said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.”  15 So he who was dead sat up and began to speak. And He presented him to his mother.
• In Jesus’ parables – out of compassion – the Good Samaritan rescued the robbed man (Luke 10:33) and the father of the Prodigal Son gladly forgave and restored him (Luke 15:20).

III.  Rodney Howard Browne shows us that Jesus went to where the people are.

• Jesus did not come to minister to the well and the righteous, but to the average person.
• Mark 2:17 NKJV – When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
• Jesus showed compassion on everybody, with no distinctions.
• John 4:3-45 NKJV – He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria. 5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”  8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?” 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” 15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.” 19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.  22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.  23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.  24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.” 27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?” 28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” 30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him. 31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.” 33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.  35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!  36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.  37 For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’  38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.” 39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of His own word. 42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.” 43 Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee. 44 For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also had gone to the feast.
• At midday, Jesus sat down to rest by a well. There are many wells in a city – the place where people came to drink.
• The woman, whom Jesus asked for water, did not come looking for Him. He came to where she was and engaged her there.
• The Samaritans were looked down upon by the Israelites, but not by Jesus. He just sees people who need a Savior.
• Jesus offered Living Water and the woman asked, “Where can I get this Living Water?”
• This is the cry of the world.

IV.  Your past does not disqualify you from receiving God’s forgiveness.

• Jesus knew the woman’s past and told her so, yet with no condemnation.
• She was so touched that that she went and called all the people of her town to come to Jesus.
• Jesus remained there and ministered to all of them for two days.
• They all believed in Jesus, not just because of what the woman told them, but because they heard what He had to say themselves (verse 42).

V.  The harvest is ripe and the laborers are few (verse 35).

• The harvest will not be made ripe in the future, but it’s ripe right now.
• Lift your eyes and see that the fields are white for harvesting.
• It is time for the mass mobilization of the Body of Christ to reap this harvest – from the littlest child to the oldest saint.
• Full of the Holy Ghost, full of compassion, meeting the needs of the people right where they are.
• Souls, souls, souls!

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