The Nations
Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good (Gen 1:9-10).
In Scripture, seas often represent nations, as we see in Isa 17:12: “Alas, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas, and the rumbling of nations who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters!” Also in Rev 17:15: “And he said to me, ‘The waters which you saw where the harlot sits are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.”’
In the previous verses in Genesis, the Lord established the heavens. Immediately after this, He established the seas, which represent nations. As Paul explained in 1 Cor 15:4649: However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. And just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. The new creation follows the same pattern as the original creation. Immediately after we have our place established with Christ Jesus seated in the heavenly places, He then wants to give us a vision for the nations (seas). As was written concerning the Son in Ps 2:8: “Ask of me, and I will surely give the nations as Thine inheritance, and the very ends of the earth as Thy possession.” The church is the Lord\’s bride, but the nations are His inheritance. He created the nations, the different cultures and peoples, and they each have a specific and glorious purpose in Him. The Great Commission is:
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matt 28:19-20). We were not saved just so we can sit in the heavens, but so we can go forth with the glorious message of the cross. We need to be firmly established with the Lord and His authority before we go, but then we do need to go. If we do not live with a mission in life, we will be counted with the backsliders. Join us in this passion to reach the world.
Prayer for the Nigeria
- Pray for Nigeria that today’s state elections will be an election of grace.
- Pray that there shall be a release of the grace of God upon the nation in such a way that the people will vote for leaders who have vision and will lead the nation to a new and better level.
- Pray for leaders who will not just mimic what is considered “modern” by the western world; and push for it , but a leaders that will have kingdom citizens who will be the Josephs and such leaders, the ones that will bring the nation back into her spiritual heritage.
Josephs and bring into the nation.
- Pray that through nation can begin
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Sunday, April 12,
The Seed
Then God said, vegetation, plants trees bearing fruit in them, on the And the earth plants yielding trees bearing fruit, their kind; and good. And there was morning, a The basic understanding creation begins with Every plant has a role to creation. If a plant or uniqueness, it could not balance that enables life wonderful planet would