This is a continuation of yesterday's post.
1. Famine in our land today.
Today there is a famine in the land. It may not be a famine for food but rather a famine for the Word of God. Amos tells us, "The days are coming," declares the Sovereign LORD, “When I will send a famine through the land- not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.” Amos 8:11 (NIV). Today the Bible is available to almost everyone who wishes to have one. They are in our homes but sadly they often remain unread and unstudied.
If we are to be prayer warriors for our nation, our churches, our families then we need to be people of the Word. Paul tells us in Romans 10:17 that faith comes by the Word of God. We must spend time in the Word. We also need to read our newspapers and listen to the newscasts with our eyes filtered with the Word of God. As we hear of the corruption and decay in our society we will know how to pray in the will of God if we have been in the Word. However some think that we will know what to pray for by looking at the world. It may be true that we will know what to pray for but often we don’t know how to pray. We have a sense that what read in our newspapers or see and hear on our newscasts is wrong but we don’t know why they are wrong. We need to interpret the world through the Word of God. The Bible today is the least read bestseller. Most homes in North America and Europe have Bibles but many of those Bibles remain unread.
Continued tomorrow LW.
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