THERE MAY BE SPIRITUAL DROUGHT 

THERE MAY BE SPIRITUAL DROUGHT: THERE’S HOPE IN GOD – FOR YOUR SPIRITUAL WELLBEING IN THE GRACE!  

“Then [in the final time] I will GIVE you [SPIRITUAL] SHEPHERDS after My own heart, who will FEED you with KNOWLEDGE and [TRUE] UNDERSTANDING” Jeremiah 3:15/Amplified. 

There may be a spiritual drought of the TRUTH of God’s WORD about you. Know full well that God will not keep you lacking. He is there to ensure that you are fed healthily with knowledge and understanding in the grace by His provision of spiritual shepherds to feed you in season and out of season. 

Just open your eyes and locate them. Otherwise, you will feed unhealthily and afterwards live in errors and be mistaken too. 

For God’s intent is to see you perfected in the grace in doing life and living godly in Christ Jesus’ stead.  

“And [His gifts to the church were varied and] He Himself appointed some as APOSTLES [special messengers, representatives], some as PROPHETS [who speak a new message from God to the people], some as EVANGELISTS [who spread the good news of salvation], and some as PASTORS and TEACHERS [to shepherd and guide and instruct], 12 [and He did this] to fully EQUIP and PERFECT the saints (God’s people) for works of service, to BUILD up the body of Christ [the church]; 13 until we all reach oneness in the faith and in the KNOWLEDGE of the Son of God, [growing spiritually] to become a MATURE believer, reaching to the measure of the fullness of Christ [manifesting His spiritual completeness and exercising our spiritual gifts in unity]. 14 So that we are no longer children [spiritually immature], tossed back and forth [like ships on a stormy sea] and carried about by every wind of [shifting] doctrine, by the cunning and trickery of [unscrupulous] men, by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything [for personal profit]. 15 But speaking the truth in love [in all things—both our speech and our lives expressing His truth], let us grow up in all things into Him [following His example] who is the Head—Christ. 16 From Him the whole body [the church, in all its various parts], joined and knitted firmly together by what every joint supplies, when each part is working properly, causes the body to grow and mature, building itself up in [unselfish] love” Ephesians 4:11-16/Amplified. 

You have a responsibility to ensure that you don’t go to the waste bin to feed because you are hungry, but to locate the place of a healthy spiritual meal for your wellbeing in the grace. So, don’t be caught up in the famine because by staying in a religious setting instead of in a word-of-faith setting – by the hearing of the word of grace that builds you up and gives you access to your inheritance in the grace, which is available for all who are SANCTIFIED [set apart] for uniqueness to be the living epistle of God’s enrichment in Christ Jesus. Amen. 

“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: 12 and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst” Amos 8:11-13. 

“And now, brethren, I COMMEND you to God, and to THE WORD of his grace, which is able to BUILD you up, and to give you an INHERITANCE among all them which are SANCTIFIED” Acts 20:32. 

God has made available His WORD for your enrichment and has equally given Shepherds that will feed you with His knowledge and understanding by the supervision of the ever-present Holy Spirit, so that the spiritual food is easy to receive and not burdensome, taskmaster, irksome, slavery or grievous. And the shepherds are supposed to break the word down to a plain state for your knowledge and understanding. This is so, so that your wellbeing as a NEW CREATION BABES for the living truth of God’s WORD is ensured and assured in the faith, as the shepherds help you to break it, divide it, and size it to your capacity, ability and ease to assimilate and digest it accordingly in the grace. This will help to ensure and assure that you build up the needed faith that gives VICTORY over the world system and the enemy and his cohorts and their activities in humanity. 

“Wherefore LAYING ASIDE all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2 as newborn babes, DESIRE the SINCERE milk of the WORD, that ye may GROW thereby: 3 if so be ye have TASTED that the Lord is GRACIOUS” 1 Peter 2:1-3. 

“The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man BREAKETH [DIVIDED, BLENDED, SIZED] it unto them” Lamentations 4:4/Emphasis mine. 

“For this is the LOVE of God, that we keep his commandments: and His commandments are not GRIEVOUS [BURDENSOME, IRKSOME, TASKMASTER, SLAVERY]. 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the VICTORY that overcometh the world, even our FAITH. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” 1 John 5:3-5. 

Just know that God loves you and cares about you. And our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ, in humanity, assures us that if we continue in His Word and not in fables and myths, we will KNOW THE TRUTH, and the TRUTH will SET US FREE. And it will give us the unadulterated and unpolluted freedom – the freedom that’s free from indoctrination that’s built on sentiments, prejudice and dissimulation. And Jesus is THE WORD, and THE TRUTH, that sets free. And He is the one who gives illumination to enlighten our wellbeing in the grace, because He is the light and life of our wellbeing. And the earnest grace and truth we need to do life and live godly in the grace are embedded in Him, for He is the grace and truth – what a mystery. Hallelujah to our God, for great is the mystery of godliness in Christ Jesus. Amen. 

“As he spake these words, many BELIEVED on Him. 31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, If ye CONTINUE IN MY WORD, then are ye my DISCIPLES indeed; 32 and ye shall KNOW THE TRUTH, and THE TRUTH shall make you FREE” John 8:30-32 

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, THE TRUTH, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” John 14:6.  

“In the beginning was THE WORD, and THE WORD was with God, and THE WORD was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In Him was LIFE; and the Life was the LIGHT of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not . . . 14 And THE WORD was made FLESH [HUMAN], and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of GRACE and TRUTH . . . 17 For the law was given by Moses, but GRACE and TRUTH came by Jesus Christ” John 1:1-5, 14. 

Therefore, be assured that even though there may be SPIRITUAL DROUGHT, there is hope in God – for your SPIRITUAL WELLBEING in the grace. 

Blessed regards. 

Further SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“And without controversy GREAT IS THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS: God was MANIFEST in the flesh, JUSTIFIED in the Spirit, SEEN of angels, PREACHED unto the Gentiles, BELIEVED on in the world, RECEIVED up into glory” 1 Timothy 3:16. 

“And this is LIFE ETERNAL, that they might KNOW thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” John 17:3. 

“Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do ERR, not KNOWING the scriptures, nor the POWER of God” Matthew 22:29. 

“Jesus answered and said to them, “You are MISTAKEN, not KNOWING the Scriptures nor the POWER of God” Matthew 22:29/NKJV. 

“Study to shew thyself APPROVED unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly DIVIDING [APPLYING] the WORD OF TRUTH” 2 Timothy 2:15/Emphasis mine. 

“But CONTINUE thou in the things which thou hast LEARNED and hast been ASSURED of, knowing of whom thou hast LEARNED them; 15 and that from a child thou hast KNOWN the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is given by INSPIRATION of God, and is PROFITABLE for DOCTRINE, for REPROOF, for CORRECTION, for INSTRUCTION in RIGHTEOUSNESS: 17 that the man of God may be perfect, throughly FURNISHED unto all good works” 2 Timothy 3:14-17. 

SUMMARY: 

The message encourages us that even in a time of spiritual drought — a famine of hearing the pure Word of God [Amos 8:11-13] — there is hope. God has not left us to starve. He provides His WORD, the ever-present Holy Spirit, and SHEPHERDS [Jeremiah 3:15] to feed us with knowledge and understanding so we can grow, be established, and walk in VICTORY. 

KEY POINTS OF THE MESSAGE 

1. THE PROBLEM: SPIRITUAL DROUGHT IS REAL [Amos 8:11-13]

God warned of a coming famine — “not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of HEARING THE WORDS OF THE LORD” [Amos 8:11-13]. 
The result: people wander, faint for thirst, and become vulnerable to error [Matthew 22:29]. 
A spiritual drought produces: lack of knowledge [Hosea 4:6], captivity [Isaiah 5:13-15], spiritual malnourishment, and no meaningful fulfilment [Luke 12:15]. 

2. GOD’S PROVISIONINTHE DROUGHT 

God will not keep you lacking. He provides 3 things for your SPIRITUAL WELLBEING: 

THE WORD 
God has made His WORD available for your enrichment. The Word builds you up and gives you access to your inheritance [Acts 20:32]. It is light, life, and truth [John 1:1-5, 14]. “Desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby” [1 Peter 2:1-3]. 

THE HOLY SPIRIT 
He supervises the feeding process so that spiritual food is not burdensome, taskmaster, irksome, slavery or grievous [1 John 5:3-5]. 

SPIRITUAL SHEPHERDS 
“I will GIVE you SHEPHERDS after My own heart, who will FEED you with KNOWLEDGE and TRUE UNDERSTANDING” [Jeremiah 3:15/Amplified]. 
God appointed APOSTLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, PASTORS and TEACHERS [Ephesians 4:11-13] to: 

• EQUIP and PERFECT the saints
• BUILD UP the body of Christ
• Help you grow to MATURITY and not be tossed by every wind of doctrine [Ephesians 4:14-16]
• BREAK, DIVIDE, and SIZE the Word to your capacity so you can assimilate and digest it [Lamentations 4:4] 

3. YOUR RESPONSIBILITY

You cannot blame others. You have a responsibility to: 
LOCATE HEALTHY FEEDING PLACES — Don’t go to the “waste bin to feed.” Avoid religious settings and choose a word-of-faith setting where the Word of grace is taught [Acts 20:32]. 
CONTINUE IN THE WORD — “If ye CONTINUE IN MY WORD, then are ye my DISCIPLES indeed; and ye shall KNOW THE TRUTH, and THE TRUTH shall make you FREE” [John 8:30-32]. 
Freedom from indoctrination, sentiments, prejudice and dissimulation comes only by the Truth. 
FEED DELIBERATELY — As NEW CREATION BABES, we must desire the Word [1 Peter 2:2]. “Study to shew thyself APPROVED unto God, rightly DIVIDING the WORD OF TRUTH” [2 Timothy 2:15]. 
Scripture is PROFITABLE for doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction [2 Timothy 3:14-17]. 

4. THE GOAL: PERFECTION, MATURITY, AND VICTORY

God’s intent is to see you PERFECTED — matured, whole, complete — in doing life and living godly in Christ Jesus’ stead. 
When you feed healthily: 

• You build the faith that gives VICTORY over the world system and the enemy [1 John 5:4-5] 

• You grow into the FULLNESS OF CHRIST [Ephesians 4:13] 

• You become a LIVING EPISTLE of God’s enrichment, SANCTIFIED [set apart] for uniqueness 

• You experience the MYSTERY OF GODLINESS — Christ in you [1 Timothy 3:16] 

5. WHO IS THE ANSWER? JESUS CHRIST

Jesus is THE WORD and THE TRUTH [John 14:6]. In Him is embedded all the grace and truth we need to do life and live godly. He is the light and life of our wellbeing. To know Him is LIFE ETERNAL [John 17:3]. 

Hallelujah to our God, for great is the mystery of godliness in Christ Jesus. Amen. 

FURTHER SCRIPTURES TO PONDER 

1. Jeremiah 3:15 — God gives shepherds to feed with KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING. 
2. Ephesians 4:11-16 — Five-fold gifts to equip, perfect, and mature the body. 
3. Amos 8:11-13 — The famine of hearing the Word. 
4. Acts 20:32 — The Word of His grace builds you up and gives inheritance. 
5. 1 Peter 2:1-3 — Desire the sincere milk of the Word to grow. 
6. 1 John 5:3-5 — His commandments are not grievous, and faith is the victory. 
7. John 8:30-32; 14:6 — Continue in His Word. He is THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE. 
8. 2 Timothy 2:15; 3:14-17 — Study, be approved, be thoroughly furnished. 

IN ONE LINE: 
There may be drought, but God has provided the Word, the Spirit, and shepherds. Locate them, feed healthily, continue in the Word, and you will grow into maturity, freedom, and victory in Christ. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI