YOU WILL SEE GOD’S TESTIMONY (4)

Post date: May 14, 2020 11:16:14 PM

In a time of famine, in a time of fear, in a time of hunger, severe lack, and in a time where nothing was working not even the best ideas, Isaac saw and experienced the extraordinary abundance of the testimony of God such that he was openly noticed and envied by everyone around the city. It is very clear and certain that God’s testimonies on Isaac was not hidden in obscurity and they will not be hidden in your life as you continue in Christ Jesus, continue in obedience, and continue in faithfulness to His words despite the prevailing situation in your life and in the nations. It is on record that Isaac was a child of promise, child of the covenant, child of joy, a child who brought laughter and divine joy to his parents and reminds them of the faithfulness and love of God. His presence always brought relieve to his mother after years of waiting and hoping and giving up hope. His presence always reminds his mother that it is wrong to give up hope whenever God is involved in any situation; when God had given His words, and when God is still active is fulfilling His promises despite the ongoing situations.

Isaac inherited his father’s wealth and God’s covenant on his father Abraham. He was physically rich and spiritually connected to God by the fulfillment of the terms of the covenant with his father Abraham, but a time came in his life where he lived that all the wealth he inherited from Abraham his father was eaten up by famine, nothing was coming in and despite investing in farming, he was unable to sustain himself further; he was unable to keep his family, and was unable to be assured of his future in the place he was living. Isaac found himself suffering in the time of famine and it was destroying his expectations, his knowledge, and affecting his focus on the future on what he was doing. He saw his inherited wealth and years of labor taken away; he saw hunger coming after him and his family; he saw his family and business waiting to be wiped out by the famine, and his mind and thoughts began searching for solutions.

The only solution that came to his mind after days of searching for a solution was to take that which was remaining and leave for Egypt with his family; it was to go to the place of his thought that he will find joy and able to sustain and increase his wealth and His family, but a word came to him from God after much thoughts, stay where you are, continue in obedience, sow your seed and trust Me for the best, and when Isaac obeyed the voice of God and stay back and continue in planting seeds even in the famine, God enabled him to see His testimony through multiplication.   

“Now there was a famine in the land beside the previous famine in Abraham’s time and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar. The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants, I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees, and my instructions. So Isaac stayed in Gerar. Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold because the Lord blessed him. The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him. So all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth. Then Abimelek said to Isaac, move away from us, you have become too powerful for us. So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled. Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.” Genesis 26:1-18. For prayers, Click here