12 The sun began to go down and Abram got very sleepy. While he was asleep, a very terrible darkness came over him.
13 Then the Lord said to Abram, “You should know this: Your descendants will live in a country that is not their own. They will be strangers there. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for 400 years.
14 But then I will punish the nation that made them slaves. Your people will leave that land, and they will take many good things with them.
18 So on that day the LORD made a promise and an agreement with Abram. He said, “I will give this land to your descendants. I will give them the land between the River of Egypt and the great river Euphrates.
Exodus 3:7-17
9 I have heard the cries of the Israelites, and I have seen the way the Egyptians have made life hard for them.
13 Then Moses said to God, “But if I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors sent me,’ then the people will ask, ‘What is his name?’ What should I tell them?”
Numbers 13 :25-33
25 The men explored that country for 40 days, and then they went back to the camp.
Whose reports do you believe? Do you believe in man\’s report or God\’s report. We are living in a world where lots of contrasting reports flies everywhere. There are reports emanating from God and those that are from the devil based on lies and demonic manipulations to decieve the hearers. So in whose report do you believe in as was queried by Isaiah 53 :1
\”Who has believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed\”.
According to the Bible verses in consideration, we saw how God visited Abraham and informed him of how his decendants will be desplaced and live in a foreign land and suffer lots of hardship and will be treated harshly like a slave for many years and thereafter God promised him of deliverance and after four generation, his people will come back to defeat the nations that had occupied those areas for such a donkey years in other to dwell in that land.
With the passage of time, we saw the history of the Israelites, their travails and God\’s intervention based on His convenant with Abraham God\’s friend and the father of faith. When Abraham was promised that he will be the father of many nations at his very old age and Sarah his wife also was advanced in age. Abraham did not consider the deadness of his wife Sarah\’s womb rather he decided to trust God on His word (Roman4:17-21) he believed that since God had declared and decreed it, it surely shall come to pass.
Most times is good to know what God has written in your account and for your favour so that the devil our enemy will not steal our inheritance from us due to ignorance. Anytime the devil comes knocking with his decit by quoting wrongly remind him what was correctly written like Jesus rebuked the Lucifer when he came to tempt Him in the wilderness……But He answered and said \”it is written man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceed from the mouth of God\” (Matthew 4:4)
If man comes up with a contrary report which is not according to what God said concerning your situations who do you believe. Let God be true, and Everyman a liar even if it takes so long a time, still trust God for His word which cannot be broken, it surely will deliver according to what He has said.
Yeah! It took the Isaerlites so many years to enter the promised Land, if the likes of Joshua and Caleb wherent in their midst they would have missed the land flowing with milk and honey promised them by God due to their unbelief.
What did man say concerning your health situation? Did the doctor\’s report frightening you?As such you have exhausted all your earnings visiting both Orthodox and none orthodox means seeking for solution relax, the woman with the issue of blood for 12 years as was recorded in the book of mark 5: 25-34, didn\’t give up. She hanged on there and suddenly she heard that Jesus Christ was in the neighborhood . She decided in her heart that though she was unclean according to the Jewish customs yet tradition will not stop her from enjoying the presence of God and tapping onto the strength from Him because as soon as she touched the Hem of His cloth, Jesus confessed that power has gone out of Him. (Mark 5:30).
Has the doctor pronounced you barren? Claiming that there\’s no hope, tell him is a lie that the word of God says \”there shall be no barreness in that land\” and \”He grants the barren woman a home, like a joyful mother of many children. Praise the Lord\” Allelujah! ( Psalm 113:9).
What are men saying concerning your financial status, did they say you can\’t worth nothing? Alas, for God raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash dump and make him sit with the princes and Kings of this world. Are you being bothered about the report of men and you feel ashamed of mixing up with others, don\’t let them talk you down God has a better regards for you, just find out what His thought towards you is and claim it. May it be well with you as you rest on His promises in Jesus name 🙏. Please leave a comment after reading. Thanks ✍️ Mrs Blessing I N Onugha.