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Genesis 26:1, 12 NIV
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. Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him.

There's a fundamental and foundation problem that we seek to address with the passage quoted above. We were brought up with the erroneous view that we had to go to school, get good grades, get a good job and marry right so that we could take good care of our families. We had come to equate success with wealth, we had brought riches and respect to the same level of importance as pursuing purpose and destiny. Nobody thought too much about finding out God's will or direction or seeking out his purpose. We just assumed that if we could work hard, live well and be a success, then God would be glorifed somehow.
Without belittling the issues raised above, I believe that the passage quoted above raises a salient point: what is God's place in our decision making process and future plans? Does God really bother too much about the mundane and the ordinary? Today's scripture tells us that he does. By regular human standards, nobody stays in a land where there's famine. Reason and logic dictate that you seek out greener pastures if you want to survive. This is the problem with most of us. Our brains are our most prized possession and our most-limiting factor when it comes to what God can do. We hear about God and his works, and we begin to wonder whether he really can do all we hear he can do. We rationalise and logically process God with our limited human reasoning, and then take decisions based on 'reason'. We forget that God is too powerful to be reasonable, and his thoughts are way too advanced for modern science or logic to keep up.
How do you explain Peter walking on water or the feeding of over 5,000 people with just 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. How do you explain how a jar of flour and a cruse of oil can flow non-stop for 3 and a half years until Elijah's famine was called off? Or as stated above, how do you 'reasonably' process a man who plants in famine and in the same year, reaps a hundredfold of what was planted? The reason is stated there and is the answer for all ages and seasons: because the Lord blessed him. When a man is blessed by God, qualifications, degrees, riches, wealth and positions don't count. God does not share glory so he will work out his will in a way that it will be obvious that only God could do the things we see. You can't fight the battles by yourself, you can't survive on your own, you can't win by your strength. A total dependence on God's ability and power is the way forward for our breakthrough and freedom.
Seek God out today. He alone has the means, resources, power, wisdom, strength, ability and capacity to bring about to pass all his good plans for us. All we need to do is to show up in faith, trusting that whatever he does or wherever he leads, resources have been miraculously made available for us to survive and thrive and be a blessing.
Rejoice, for his time of favour is here.