Scripture

Genesis 41 v 25 -37

The Lesson

This is the popular story of Joseph and his interpretation of Pharaohs dream.

The verses speak of God’s warning to Pharaoh through his dreams of things to come. Joseph in his interpretation of Pharaohs dreams, tells Pharaoh that there were going to be seven years of abundance and then seven years of famine. Joseph then advised Pharaoh that in the seven years of abundance, there would have to be storage of grain so that in the seven years of famine there would be enough in storage to cover the lean period.

Child of God, there will come a time, when the storage of the Word in your spirit would be that which takes you through the difficult years when you have no strength to pick up your Bible. That is why it is so important that in this present time, you take the things of God seriously. It is also important that you do not just read scripture like a story book but that you read scripture and soak it in and that you meditate and ask God for revelation and insight.

It would also be beneficial for your spiritual growth to go a step further and memorise scripture and let it come alive in your spirit. Because a time may come when you will not be able to pick up a Bible and read; a time when picking up a Bible will be an offence to someone; a time when you cannot openly show that you are Christian because everybody around you is just so worldly or indeed for whatever reason.

In such a time, what have you got stored up in your spirit? What scriptures have you got that would encourage you to keep going and not give up? What do you have in your spiritual warehouse that you can fall back on when the devil comes with the hard knocks and the hard blows? What scripture will you dig out from the archives of your spirit man?

When the devil accosted Jesus after His forty days and forty nights fast – when He had no strength – all Jesus had was the Word to combat the devil. The Word is what will make you overcome.

Child of the Lord, it is time to take note of the needs of your spiritual being. It is time to give attention to your spirit man. Many of us have eaten and eaten and eaten and fed our physical beings so well and left our spiritual beings behind and our spirit man is so lean and sickly. We have built no defences or immunity through scripture that would serve as a buffer in times of adversity. If we were to put your physical being next to your spiritual being and compare the two you might be shocked what we would discover. The lesson here is this; Develop an appetite for the Word! Develop an appetite for the Word! Develop an appetite for the Word of God!

The Bible says that “in the last days perilous times shall come”. What have you done to make sure you are immune to the shocks of the perilous times that we are in and that are still ahead?

People of God, develop an appetite for the Word.

Prayer

If you wish to read and understand the Word of God, you can pray the following prayer.

Dear Lord Jesus, I humbly come before you and ask for an appetite for your Word. Give me a hunger and a thirst for you. I pray that with the help of the Holy Spirit, I will read the Bible more and meditate on it in Jesus’ name. Amen