A Nation Preserved

Apostle Grace Lubega

Genesis 41:35-36(KJV); And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.  And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

A Nation PreservedA nation can perish because of the absence of the Word of God.

In our theme scripture, the Bible speaks of a time when famine was to come to Egypt. Joseph told Pharoah that it was important to store up bread for the time to come lest the nation PERISH THROUGH THE FAMINE.

Understand this as more than a physical famine. There is such a thing as a famine of the Word of God.

When there is no Word[bread] in a land, it can be destroyed.

Look at Israel in the time of Samuel. The Bible says that in those days, the Word of the Lord was scarce and there was no open vision(1 Samuel 3:1)

What was the fate of a nation in such spiritual depravity?

The scriptures reveal that even the covenant box that was the representation of the presence of God could not save them against their enemies.

In those days of the scarcity/famine of the Word, when they dared to take the covenant box out of Shiloh to the battle against the Philistines, the children of Israel fell in great numbers(1 Samuel 4).

A nation without the Word of God, that frustrates the gospel, that disregards the truth of the scriptures, that outlaws Bibles and prayer in schools, that points at biblical truth as intolerance can never lay a claim to the full manifestation of God’s presence.

They may hold national breakfasts to intercede for the nation, they may call non-denominational alliances to plead the cause of the Lord to God but in the absence of the abundance of the Word and its free course in a land, all they will have is a covenant box without the presence of God; buildings without the Person of the Holy Spirit; institutions without power.

FURTHER STUDY: Hosea 4:6,1 Samuel 3:1

GOLDEN NUGGET:

A nation without the Word of God, that frustrates the gospel, that disregards the truth of the scriptures, that outlaws Bibles and prayer in schools, that points at biblical truth as intolerance can never lay a claim to the full manifestation of God’s presence.

PRAYER: Most loving Father, I thank you for the immeasurable gift of your Word. It is what preserves men and what preserves nations. It is the DNA of success and the foundation of growth. I look to it in all things because you have exalted it above your very name. By your Word, I change my nation and the whole world, to the glory of your name. Amen.

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