True Riches
Sermon title: Keep Digging: How to Live in the Hundredfold Blessing
Galatians 3:29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Genesis 26:1-4
1 Now there was a famine in the land—besides the previous famine in Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar.
2 The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.
3 STAY in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.
4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed.
There was famine in the land again.
- The ground was dry, the wells were empty… and food was running out… everyone is just trying to survive…
- It hadn’t rained, and everyone around Isaac was getting ready to leave—chasing a better opportunity somewhere else.
- But God spoke to Isaac and said, “Stay where you are. I will bless you right here.”
Genesis 26:12–14
12 Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a HUNDREDFOLD, because the Lord blessed him.
13 The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.
When everybody else was barely surviving… Isaac was thriving…
- It was supernatural increase — the kind of multiplication that proves God’s blessing doesn’t depend on the soil, it depends on your obedience.
God is saying, “Stay faithful right where you are. Believe in who I’ve called you to be.”
But as the blessing grew, so did the tension.
Genesis 26:14 He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him. So all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.
Now, in the Bible, a well represents life, provision, and the presence of God.
- They were saying, “We’re going to cut off your life source.”
- Favor can feel like an offense to people who don’t understand it.
When I say “dig a well” today, I’m talking about any place in your life where you’ve built a connection with God —
- your prayer life, your worship, your faith, your generosity, your church, your family.
- Those are the wells the enemy tries to fill in.
After the Philistines filled in Isaac’s wells… their king, Abimelech, said,
“You’ve become too powerful for us. Move away from here.”
Isaac didn’t fight them — he just packed up everything and moved on.
Abimelech couldn’t take Isaacs blessing; he could only move it somewhere else.
- And everywhere Isaac went, the blessing followed.
- When God’s hand is on you, blessing isn’t tied to a place—it’s tied to His presence.
Here is the practical power of this moment:
- Sometimes God will let people push you out of places you were never meant to stay.
- Sometimes rejection is actually redirection.
- When people, jobs, or circumstances push you away, they might think they’re removing your opportunity — but really, God’s just relocating your blessing…
- Because the blessing follows those who are faithful to God…
Isaac settled in the Valley of Gerar.
And the first thing he did was start digging wells again.
- He reopened the wells his father Abraham had dug, the ones the Philistines had filled in.
- The well was Isaacs LIFESOURCE… He opened them immediately!
Just like Isaac re-dug the wells of his father Abraham,
- we’re keeping open the same wells of prayer, community, and worship that gave life to those before us.
But Isaac knew the story couldn’t end with the old wells — if God was still with him, there had to be MORE water ahead.
Then Isaac began digging new wells of his own.
The first one was called Esek — it means “dispute.”
The Philistines fought him for it.
He dug another called Sitnah — it means “opposition.”
They fought him for that one too.
Opposition is often confirmation.
- The enemy doesn’t fight what isn’t a threat.
- Don’t quit in the middle of the fight — the water’s closer than you think.
1 Corinthians 16:9 I will stay on in Ephesus, because a great and effective door has opened to me — and there are many who oppose me.
- In other words, opposition doesn’t mean you’re out of God’s will; sometimes it’s the sign you’re standing right in the middle of it.
So Isaac moved again, dug another well, and this time nobody fought him for it.
- He named it Rehoboth, which means “wide open spaces.”
- He said, “Now the Lord has given us room, and we will flourish in the land.”
After finding peace in Rehoboth, Isaac moved again — this time to Beersheba.
- And that’s where everything came full circle.
- God visits him, speaks directly to him, and Isaac builds his first altar.
Genesis 26:24 I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and MULTIPLY your descendants.
Right there, Isaac built an altar, worshiped the Lord, and dug one more well.
- This wasn’t a survival well — it was a covenant well.
- A covenant is a sacred promise — an eternal binding agreement between God and His people, where He commits His blessing and we commit our hearts.
- In Genesis 17:7, God says, “I will establish My covenant… an everlasting covenant.” It’s eternal — not temporary, not conditional.
Let’s look back on Isaac’s life…
- He trusted God, and God gave him a hundredfold harvest in the middle of a famine.
- He faced opposition, but he never stopped digging.
- He re-dug the wells of his father Abraham and reconnected to the faith of generations before him.
- He was rejected and pushed out, but the promise still followed him wherever he went.
- And in every season — through famine, fighting, and favor —
- God kept giving him true riches and wide-open spaces to flourish.
From Abraham to Isaac — and now to us — God’s promise has always been the same:
I will multiply you. Genesis 26:4
2 Corinthians 9:11 You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
- God doesn’t just add — He multiplies.
- He multiplies peace.
- He multiplies provision.
- He multiplies families, faith, and favor.
Some of you are walking through a famine season — God says, “Stay faithful, keep sowing!”
Some of you are facing opposition — God says, “Keep digging and keep connecting to Me.”
Some of you have faced rejection — but God says, “The blessing still follows you wherever you go.”