#EaglesDevotional - WHEN THERE IS TROUBLE IN THE PROMISE

“And there was famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.” – Genesis 12:10

In Gen 12:1 God said to Abram: “…get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee”. God made a promise to Abraham that made him leave his kindred and his country, but in Gen 12:10 Abraham found that there was famine in the land which God promised “…there was famine in the land…”

The question that comes to mind is; how can there be famine in a land that God promised? Ponder on the fact that God took Abraham from a land that had food to a place that had no food. If you must follow God, you must be prepared to drop your earthly wisdom and be as one who men will call a fool.

Abraham left everything he was used to and came to a promised land that had a famine that the Bible described as grievous because the land was very dry.

There are many people reading this devotional today who God has made promises to and every time you seem to enter the promise it feels dry. You pray in one direction and everything seems to be in another direction. Your surrounding situations contradict the promise God made you, and you wondering where is God? Did God make this promise to me? Am I serving God for nothing?

Every time you are faced with such, know this: the God who gave you the promise is faithful to perform it. Numbers 23:19 says “God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”

Prayer & Confession: Lord, let water flow in my promise. Every dry land in my life, I command water to flow. My miracle, happen in my promise in Jesus name.

Further Reading: Genesis 12: 1,9-13
Words of Wisdom: God did not promise you a trouble-free promised land but He assured you that you will have the victory.

Eagles Devotional is a daily revelatory and inspirational Publication by Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the founder and presiding Pastor of Word of Life Bible Church, Warri, Nigeria.

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