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What to Do When the Blessings Stop -- When God Sends Famine
How do you counsel the Christian who never succeeds? Who loses home, business, family? Do you tell him to pray more? Study more? Keep up the positive confession? Is God angry? What hope do you offer? Or is this person you? Do you look back and remember a time, unlike now, when God’s blessings were a daily experience? Have you endured so many calamities that it seems as if an unseen force is arrayed against you, opposing you at every turn? Your problem may be famine, a spiritual rod God uses to correct.
What to Do When the Blessings Stop – When God Sends Famine provides guidance to help Christians recognize the signs of spiritual famine in their lives as outlined in the Book of Haggai. We’re not talking here about routine trials and tribulations that we all must endure. No, this is about the hitting-the-wall aspect of spiritual famine: when NOTHING you do prospers. What to Do When will teach you how to recognize spiritual famine in your life, the difference between spiritual famine and ordinary faith trials, how and why God sends famine, and what steps you must take to break its crushing effects off your life.
What to Do When the Blessings Stop – When God Sends Famine provides guidance to help Christians recognize the signs of spiritual famine in their lives as outlined in the Book of Haggai. We’re not talking here about routine trials and tribulations that we all must endure. No, this is about the hitting-the-wall aspect of spiritual famine: when NOTHING you do prospers. What to Do When will teach you how to recognize spiritual famine in your life, the difference between spiritual famine and ordinary faith trials, how and why God sends famine, and what steps you must take to break its crushing effects off your life.
111 pages, Paperback
First published May 20, 2013
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About the author
Virginia Hull Welch
5 books18 followersGinny was born at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, the second of four daughters of Carl and Mary Hull. When Ginny was about eight months old her father was transferred to Ft Eustis, Va.; the family lived nearby in a small brick rambler in Lee Hall. In 1962 Mr. Hull retired from the Army and the family relocated to Santa Clara, Ca. to be near her mother’s clan in San Francisco. The Hulls purchased a new home in the Killarney Farms suburban development of Santa Clara, where Ginny was raised. Her father found work as a mail carrier at the Santa Clara Post Office. Her mother was hired by Santa Clara Unified School District as a secretary. Ginny attended now-closed Emil R. Buchser High School. She majored in English at Santa Clara University, married, and then earned a master's degree in Communications at California State University, Chico, where she also taught a business writing course. While at CSUC in 1982 she sold her first freelance article to a small secretarial career magazine, earning just enough to pay for two steak dinners―but not the champagne or tip.
During the next twenty years she followed her FBI agent husband around the United States, writing freelance articles for various publications and taking on all types of contract editing assignments. She brought four children into the world during that time, two boys and two girls. While her husband was stationed in Birmingham, Ala. she contracted as a weekly freelance foods writer for the Birmingham News. Also in Birmingham she served a short stint (before her husband was transferred again) as associate editor in the crafts division at Oxmoor House, the book publishing arm of Sunset/Southern Living magazine.
In 1991 her husband’s job took the family to the Northern Virginia/DC Metro area, where Ginny made the switch to technical editing and writing but continued to dream of producing something with a larger reach. In 2005 she was inspired to write The Lesson, an inspirational romantic comedy based on her own wacky falling-in-love story. On the night she met her husband he really did follow her home from a Bible study without her knowledge, stunning her by presenting himself at her apartment door.
In 2006 Ginny followed her husband’s government transfer one final time when the family moved to Virginia Beach, Va. There Ginny wrote Crazy Woman Creek. This western romance was inspired by a cross-country car trip in 1999 when she came upon a highway sign marking the bizarrely named creek that stretches over the northeast corner of Wyoming. When Ginny learned that no one really knew the story behind the strange name, she decided to write one. Ginny’s nonfiction book, What to Do When the Blessings Stop – Lessons from Haggai, required several years to write, mostly because Ginny’s time was occupied with child-raising. The same is true of her first nonfiction book, The Hiss from Hell Only Women Hear, which she wrote between 1993 and 1994.
Ginny still lives in Virginia Beach with her husband. Their four children, daughter-in-law, and grandsons live locally. She works full-time as a writer/editor for a worldwide defense contractor. She attends New Life Providence Church in Virginia Beach. She loves to cook, sew, bake, and make machine embroidered gifts for her family.
During the next twenty years she followed her FBI agent husband around the United States, writing freelance articles for various publications and taking on all types of contract editing assignments. She brought four children into the world during that time, two boys and two girls. While her husband was stationed in Birmingham, Ala. she contracted as a weekly freelance foods writer for the Birmingham News. Also in Birmingham she served a short stint (before her husband was transferred again) as associate editor in the crafts division at Oxmoor House, the book publishing arm of Sunset/Southern Living magazine.
In 1991 her husband’s job took the family to the Northern Virginia/DC Metro area, where Ginny made the switch to technical editing and writing but continued to dream of producing something with a larger reach. In 2005 she was inspired to write The Lesson, an inspirational romantic comedy based on her own wacky falling-in-love story. On the night she met her husband he really did follow her home from a Bible study without her knowledge, stunning her by presenting himself at her apartment door.
In 2006 Ginny followed her husband’s government transfer one final time when the family moved to Virginia Beach, Va. There Ginny wrote Crazy Woman Creek. This western romance was inspired by a cross-country car trip in 1999 when she came upon a highway sign marking the bizarrely named creek that stretches over the northeast corner of Wyoming. When Ginny learned that no one really knew the story behind the strange name, she decided to write one. Ginny’s nonfiction book, What to Do When the Blessings Stop – Lessons from Haggai, required several years to write, mostly because Ginny’s time was occupied with child-raising. The same is true of her first nonfiction book, The Hiss from Hell Only Women Hear, which she wrote between 1993 and 1994.
Ginny still lives in Virginia Beach with her husband. Their four children, daughter-in-law, and grandsons live locally. She works full-time as a writer/editor for a worldwide defense contractor. She attends New Life Providence Church in Virginia Beach. She loves to cook, sew, bake, and make machine embroidered gifts for her family.
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June 13, 2013
Have you ever wondered why God seems so silent sometimes? Have you ever wondered if He really wants you to have an abundant life? If so, you are not alone, and if so, "What To Do When The Blessings Stop" has answers for you. Based on sound Biblical teachings, the author details the steps needed for the believer to recover what the locusts have eaten. In all the cases cited in the book where the Lord has brought famine, He also brought a means of healing the land and restoring the abundant life to all those who will turn and follow Him. The ultimate message of "What To Do When The Blessings Stop" is that God is in control. He sends the famine, and then He delivers you from your personal famine be it spiritual, physical or financial. What the book teaches is how understand and identify why God sent the famine, there is always a reason, the importance of repentance or turning away from those things that caused God to send the famine, how to offer acceptable sacrifices including fasting and financial gifts, and how to put God's work first in order to be delivered from the famine that has come your way. All this may sound difficult, but because it is ultimately God's desire to bless you and not curse you with famine, He will also provide a way for you to return to Him and be blessed and delivered from the famine. As the author says, "He didn't have to bless us to the extent that He did. He blessed us so abundantly because He wanted to.
June 7, 2013
I came home with this book yesterday (6/6/13) and showed it to my wife. She browsed the first few pages and that was it. I have not been able to get it back.
She stayed up late with it and took it to work with her today to show all her coworkers this AMAZING book. She wants me to order more copies for her family and friends.
What she likes about it:
- It is well written and easy to read.
- The author takes the biblical principle, explains it clearly and draws a personal connection
- The book presents practical life applications
Wife quotes:
"You can tell she (author) is a strong Christian who has lived through this stuff."
"This is an amazing teaching book."
"Everybody should have this book even if they are not going through hard times. It will help prepare them for when hard times do come."
Personally, I'm looking forward to getting the book back so I can read it too.
:-)
She stayed up late with it and took it to work with her today to show all her coworkers this AMAZING book. She wants me to order more copies for her family and friends.
What she likes about it:
- It is well written and easy to read.
- The author takes the biblical principle, explains it clearly and draws a personal connection
- The book presents practical life applications
Wife quotes:
"You can tell she (author) is a strong Christian who has lived through this stuff."
"This is an amazing teaching book."
"Everybody should have this book even if they are not going through hard times. It will help prepare them for when hard times do come."
Personally, I'm looking forward to getting the book back so I can read it too.
:-)
January 15, 2018
Down to earth
I think this story is written for everyone to understand the good things that can happen if given the thought and pray they deserve. Its hard when In the deepest of dispair to give much positive thought to anything much less pray. But that's when we need to sit quietly with ourselves and really evaluate are actions.
I think this story is written for everyone to understand the good things that can happen if given the thought and pray they deserve. Its hard when In the deepest of dispair to give much positive thought to anything much less pray. But that's when we need to sit quietly with ourselves and really evaluate are actions.
January 10, 2023
eye opening
A quick interesting read which gave me a lot to think about. So lucky to have kindle unlimited to get exposed to all different books.
A quick interesting read which gave me a lot to think about. So lucky to have kindle unlimited to get exposed to all different books.
August 17, 2013
According to the author, God sends us various unpleasant life events as a "rod of correction". Interesting theory. My biblical reading indicates that it is just as likely that the famine, death, horror and pox in your life are a direct result of God's wagering with Satan as to your reaction to punishment. For a brilliantly executed example, see the book of Job. In Job, God strips Job of all his wealth, gives him leprosy, kills his wives and children-- all to prove to Satan that no matter how God punished Job, Job will continue to worship God. Guess what? God was right, Job was faithful! As a reward, God gives Job lots of new wealth, cures him of leprosy and provides new wives and healthy new children! Job is once again totally wealthy and happy--Clearly demonstrating that a) God is great, b) Job is faithful and c)wives and children are totally interchangeable, if God kills a few for sport, he will provide new ones.
I think the author's failure to do real biblical research and understand all of the many reasons God punishes people really limits her book's usefulness. Readers would be better served by a close reading of the Old Testament to better understand the many and varied punishments that God meets out-- some for actual offenses (looking back at Sodom, pillar of salt thing) and sometimes just for sport.
I think the author's failure to do real biblical research and understand all of the many reasons God punishes people really limits her book's usefulness. Readers would be better served by a close reading of the Old Testament to better understand the many and varied punishments that God meets out-- some for actual offenses (looking back at Sodom, pillar of salt thing) and sometimes just for sport.
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