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GOD IS FAITHFUL TO REDEEM US! (1 OF 7)

by Brian Mills

Scripture: Ruth 1:1
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God Is Faithful to Redeem Us! (1 of 7)
Series: Lessons in the Drought
Brian Mills
Ruth 1:1


Illustration of the Dust Bowl that took place in Oklahoma Back in 1934-1940

With an insufficient understanding of the ecology of the plains, farmers had conducted extensive deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains during the previous decade;

During the drought of the 1930s, the unanchored soil turned to dust,

The drought and erosion of the Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres.

The Dust Bowl forced tens of thousands of poverty-stricken families to abandon their farms, unable to pay mortgages or grow crops, and losses reached $25 million per day by 1936

During the next decade, the northern plains suffered four of their seven driest calendar years since 1895

November 11, 1933, a powerful dust storm, the dust clouds blew all the way to Chicago, where they deposited 12 million pounds of dust.

On April 14, 1935, - the worst one

223 Million (Shelterbelts) 18,000 miles of tress built to protect the land and break up the wind. Droughts can defeat us or deploy us.

Much like the drought in the 1930, you can go all the way back to 1300 BC, and there was a famine in the Promised Land, the land of Canaan, which was a very fruitful country.

We learn this in Ruth 1:1 ''In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land.''

There was a famine in the land. or a drought.

Can we just declare that droughts or famines are inevitable for all of us?

Just ask the Parent of 3 pre-schoolers.

Just ask a couple who has been married a long time if they have ever had a drought. All would say yes. If you say you're in a drought, I encourage you to pause this week and take a date night.

Not to fight but to praise each other. Talk to each other, not about each other.

I know some say, well, I can't afford a date night. Listen, just make some pennant butter and jelly sandwiches and sit in the front year. Well, I might ...

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