Deuteronomy 8:18A, “Remember the LORD your God. He is the one who gives you power to be Successful"

Many of us are depressed by the current economic situation in our country and even globally. Everything looks stagnant and nothing seems to be working.

People are stagnated, people are hungry, and people are confused and irritated because of what they are going through.

You can compare it with the times of the Israelites in the Bible… After they had left Egypt and camped in the wilderness (A place of confusion, frustration, anger and depression), for 40 years. When God was leading them back to their promised land (the place of rest, where there is peace, wealth, health and love).


During this period, the Israelites grumbled, complained, got irritated and depressed because of what they went through. And God punished them severely. A journey that should go for weeks turns into journey of years.

God’s aim is to punish them, to correct them, to humble them and test them to prove their character, to see whether they would obey His commands or not (Deuteronomy 8:3)

So when you are going through certain situation, pain, depression and hardship, it maybe God’s way of humbling you to test and see your faith in Him. To test and see if, you don’t have that money, if you would disobey Him by stealing, or by being covetous (corrupt) to survive.

Deuteronomy 8:3, “He humbled you by letting you go hungry (starve, broke, depressed, oppressed) and he fed you manna (bread), (in place of your pounded yam and bush meat). Manna is like your bread. Imagine eating bread every day, for a week. Bread without butter, no egg, no jam, morning and night. Just bread and water for a week, not to talk of a month or years.

Or maybe you have used big cars like Range, and other four-wheel and fast moving cars, you have lived in mansions, but God punishes you, by taking them through bankruptcy, court case, lack of profit etc, to humble you. God’s only reason for taking them away is to humble you. Maybe you have become too proud, too puffed up, and losing focus.

God is doing all these “to teach you that people do not live by bread alone; rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”Deuteronomy 8:3B

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