Date: Thursday, 3rd October, 2024
Text: Genesis 41:17-32
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
Sometimes when God sends you a message in a dream, it comes to you again and again. At times you see exactly the same thing and at other times you get the same message in different forms. When you see these what is the significance?
In today’s text Pharaoh the Egyptian king dreamt that he was standing on the bank of the Nile River, when seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the river and began feeding on the grass. Then seven other cows came up which were thin and bony. They were the poorest cows he had ever seen anywhere in Egypt. He saw that the thin cows ate up the fat ones, but no one would have known it, because they looked just as bad as before. Then he woke up.
Again he also dreamed that he saw seven heads of grain which were full and ripe, growing on one stalk. Then he saw seven heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the desert wind,and the thin heads of grain swallowed the full ones and he woke up the second time.
When he invited Joseph to assist him interpret his dreams, he made it clear to the king that the two dreams meant the same thing. God was only showing the king what he was about to do so that the king could prepare for the looming global event. There was going to be seven years of great plenty in all the land of Egypt to be immediately followed by seven years of famine, and all the good years would be forgotten, because the famine was going to ruin the country. The time of plenty was going to be entirely forgotten, because the famine which would follow was going to be so terrible.
Joseph the dream interpreter told him that the repetition of his dream meant that the matter was fixed by God and that he would make it happen in the near future. In other words the matter was certain to happen and was to happen soon. Genesis 41:17-32
Reflective Nugget: Whenever God sends you a message in a dream repeatedly, it’s urgent and sure to happen. Take serious steps to prepare.