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    Living in Dry Places: Overcoming the Dry Seasons of Life
    Living in Dry Places: Overcoming the Dry Seasons of Life
    Living in Dry Places: Overcoming the Dry Seasons of Life
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    Living in Dry Places: Overcoming the Dry Seasons of Life

    By J. Wesley Boyd III

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    God will so tailor the events of our lives so that all roads will lead to Him. What happens is we become so use to depending on our resources until we fail to rely on our source. So what he will do is allow our brooks to run dry in order to refocus our attention back toward Him. He did for Abraham when he required the very life of his son Isaac; He did it for Moses, after he murdered an Egyptian and had to flee for his lifehiding on the backside of a mountain. He did it for David, just after he was anointed king and he finds himself on the run from King Saul and ends up hiding in a cave in Adullam with a few hundred dysfunctional potential giant killers. He did it for the prophet Elijah, as he was escorted by God Himself eastward to Cherith where he would be provided for with flesh and water from the brook only to have thebrook run dry. And Hes done the same for me, so walk with me if you will on this journey as we discover and unfold how to handle our seasons of drought.

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    Release dateApr 10, 2009
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    Living in Dry Places: Overcoming the Dry Seasons of Life
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    J. Wesley Boyd III

    J. Wesley Boyd, III is the founding and Senior Pastor of the Fellowship of New Beginnings Church located Houston, Texas. His ability to reach the unreachable through his preaching and teaching is not only amazing, but it is truly inspiring.   He is viewed by many as a leader, a scholar, a teacher, a friend, but the titles that Pastor Boyd is most proud of are husband and father. He is married to the lovely First Lady, DeNita Boyd and has two daughters, Charity Danielle and Christian Deanne.    The Pastor is a graduate of Texas Southern University where he attained a B.A. in Communication and became a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated.     Pastor Boyd has been a guardian of the sacred legacies of the gospel of Jesus Christ for over 25 years. He's served on the Pastoral Staff at the Zion Hope Church in Pensacola, Florida as Youth Pastor and then became Assistant to the Pastor in Administrative responsibilities, under the leadership of Senior Pastor Bernard C. Yates. He also served on the Pastoral Staff of The Church Without Walls in Houston, Texas where he gave leadership to over 5,000 children and youth as Pastor of Generation Next as well as serving as the Personal Assistant to Senior Pastor Dr. Ralph Douglas West. And In 2007 Pastor Boyd founded J.Wesley Boyd Ministries.   The energy and passion in his real, relative, and relevant approach to bringing forth the word is the foundation on which Pastor Boyd has built The Fellowship of New Beginnings Church. The church was established in March of 2005 and is known as the place "Where You Can Begin Again". When asking Pastor Boyd what his vision for the church is, he will quickly say, "To take the world by storm, one soul at a time". 

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      Living in Dry Places - J. Wesley Boyd III

      AuthorHouse™

      1663 Liberty Drive, Suite 200       

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2009 J. Wesley Boyd, III. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or

      transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 4/7/2009

      ISBN: 978-1-4343-8061-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4678-6500-5 (ebk)

      Contents

      Dedications

      Foreword

      Introduction

      About The Author

      Phase One:

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Phase Two:

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Phase Three:

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Scripture References

      Dedications

      I want to take this time to dedicate this work to my Lovely wife DeNita, who never gave up on the vision that God placed in my heart, as well as the work that he’s placed in my hands. Thank you for always pushing me to achieve and reach my fullest potential. The Chinese have a saying, True Gold Is Not Afraid of Fire. You have truly been my source of Refreshing and Renewing through my seasons of drought. Also to my daughters Charity Danielle and Christian Deanne Boyd, daddy loves you forever and for always. To my spiritual father Bishop Gerald T. Dolphus, thank you for covering me!!! To the staff of The Fellowship of New Beginnings, thank you for your tireless warring, both in the flesh and the spirit, May God continue to reward your labor of love. To the staff of J. Wesley Boyd Ministries, thank you for believing in me at times, even when I didn’t believe in myself. We made it happen; who knew? And to all those who played your role in me becoming the instrument of God that I’ve become, Thank You!!!

      Foreword

      By Gerald T. Dolphus

      Author of Speak to the Demons

      Beloved, an ordained shift has been ordered for your life! That is the reason you have been divinely inspired to pick up this book. God desires to shift you out of your complacencies, and thereby eliminate any/all spiritual lethargy, which may have attached itself to you. With his book, Living in Dry Places, Pastor J. Wesley Boyd rightfully opens a deluge of living water; that is sure to flood the lives of its readers forever. This book has the power to create wonderful healings, and transformations in everyone who embraces its truth. The authorial intent of each chapter ekes out revelation for its readers, which will uncover the mystery of the individual’s season of: spiritual, financial, (and other) lack.

      Have you ever been in a dry place? Are you there now? Do you know the pain, and the asphyxia of a place that has dried up? If so, I admonish you to dig into the wells of water-words that are in this book, and allow them to replenish your place of dearth (lack).

      In the Christian walk, there are lean days, droughts, and famines. One would be fooling his/herself to think that dry seasons are not inevitable. Pastor J. Wesley Boyd expressly states that: Every man has his own brook. Regardless of that man’s status in the Kingdom of God, he will have a brook that he will be sent to on a directive of God. Isaac (one of the founding fathers of our faith) experienced a dry brook season in the twenty-sixth chapter of Genesis; and there, he began to dig. Ordinarily, one would not think to be industrious in a place that is seemingly devoid of potentiality; Yet Isaac dug again!

      Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham

      Genesis 26:18

      ….and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; ⁴ And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

      Genesis 26:3-4

      The place that you are currently in may not appear to be a place of great substance, but the serendipity of your digging will produce your father’s wealth. It is there! It is in the place where you have yet to dig. The only reason you can not perceive it, is because: the enemy has covered it up! Hence, the reason why this book is so necessary to the confluent will of God - for your life – is because: it was designed to make you dig. You see, though God made the promise to Isaac, (to perform the oath that he swore unto his father, Abraham) the blessing was not automatic; he had to dig!

      I commend J. Wesley Boyd to you as a teacher. You will find his writing style easy to read, and full of insight, which will serve as a pneumonic device that will position you (and any reader) for victory. From the first page of his writings, Boyd takes you on a Journey from Cherith, (a place of drought) to Zarephath (a sustaining place).

      And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

      1 Kings 17:8-9

      The shift from Cherith to Zarephath is highly critical to the new streams that God has prepared for you. In short: You must shift! Complacency is a murderous demon, to those who would do the will of God! Oh yes, anyone who has committed to doing God’s will, must fight the spirit of complacency; it comes with the turf! But God has favored you, because He has lovingly placed this instruction manual in your hands: To get you out of your rut, and into the next move of God!

      In essence, the substratum of this writing: is about our Ordained Next. If God says, move Beloved: then we must move! We must move out on our utter trust in God’s ability to sustain us. He knows that we have exhausted the supply of our previous region, but because His power has no boundaries, He ushers us into our next realm of spiritual breakthrough! However, it is incumbent upon us, to do as Elijah did, and position ourselves for what God wants to do next! Again, we must shift! Staying in a place that God has allowed to dry up: is not an option! This is what Pastor Boyd is lifting up to us, when he says, The brooks of yesterday are now just dusty memories. The profundity of this statement suggests: if we are overly consumed with our yesterday, we will resent our now, and resist our next. So, if where we have been digging, is turning up dry, hot rocks from the creek beds of our situation; Boyd admonishes us to: Find the Place Called There, so that we can locate our place of productivity!

      Living in Dry Places, is a book to be revisited again and again - and each time you revisit it, you will gain a greater perspective on your life’s situation. It is going to open up new and provocative possibilities, to your draughts. Now prepare to discover and embrace your transitional seasons, as you traverse the life experiences of Moses, Gideon, Elijah, Jairus, and the woman with the issue of blood. You may even find your testimony in the pages of this ministry of writing. Let it serve as a tell-tale sign: that you are not the only one, who has had to endure dry places.

      I am proud to say, that after reading the words of my spiritual son, (J. Wesley Boyd) you will no longer get lost in the drifting awareness of your current reality; but you will be encompassed by the full spectrum of consciousness: in spirit, soul, and body.

      Intrigued? Then read: Living in Dry Places!

      Pastor Gerald T. Dolphus

      Author, Speak to the Demons

      The Gap (who’s covering you)

      Houston, Texas U.S.A.

      March 2008

      Introduction

      Have you ever felt that you were being pulled in a particular direction, toward a certain destiny, a job, a relationship or even a ministry? You knew that God was directly responsible for getting you to that point of decision. You were already afraid and full of uncertainty, because you knew what direction you wanted your life to go. And here comes God with a great big Veto to your plans and imposes His will on yours. And if that wasn’t bad enough, you now have to foot the bill on your own. It is the equivalent of being invited out to dinner by a friend and being told that it’s their treat, and being told to get whatever you want and when the check is brought to the table, your dining companion all of a

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