For every situation, there is a cause. A foundation, a reason behind every season. A cause of every curse without which the curse will not alight and hit a target.
Behind every famine is a reason, a purpose, a cause. Every course is traceable to a cause which when explored takes one to the foundation.
“If the foundation be destroyed what can the righteous do”
Psalm 11;3
In Egypt, God was magnanimous to have shown Pharaoh what was to come, seven years of plenty before another seven years of excruciating famine, the magnitude of which will wipe off the memory of the first seven years of abundant harvest.
God assisted him to locate Joseph; In whom was the wisdom of God. He simply set the machinery in motion, to save the raining day in the time of sunshine.
During the seven years of abundance before the famine, Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city put the food grown in the fields surrounding it. Joseph stored up huge quantities of grains, like the sand of the sea, it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure (Genesis 41; 48-49).
The seven years of abundance apportioned by God for Egypt came to an end, and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said, there was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt, there was food.
Adequate preparation was made by Joseph in the time of abundance to combat the anticipated famine to last for seven years.
Any mistake by the administrator Joseph in the time of abundance would have greatly devastated Egypt in the time of famine.
Indifference, executive recklessness, wanton mismanagement of state or personal resources, wrong economic decisions, lack of transparency, outright insincerity, reasons not even related to the management ability of the ruling class as inclement climate war and insecurity making investors stay away for safety reasons, lazy attitude of the citizenry. All these are some of the reasons that can lead to a decline in the GDP(Gross Domestic Product) of any Nation, and when it persists progressively for six months, recession sets in. All these can be categorized as errors underlying the incidence of recession. Thank God we have a God who is capable of turning around situations.
Mistakes to miracles, adversity to prosperity, cross to crown, prison to palace, and trials to experiences. Personal mistakes leading to penury can indeed be easily transformed by God to prosperity.
Mistakes by one can indeed become miracles for another.
Jabez was transformed after he prayed.
In Esther 11:10-11, the commandment of King Xerxes in Susa to bring queen Vashti out to display her beauty to the people and the nobles were rebuffed for reasons not known to anybody, she simply refuses to come out. It was a mistake that coasted Vashti her place in the palace of King Xerxes.
Vashti, meaning “beauty” was banished from the palace and the king’s presence and was replaced by Esther meaning “Star”.
Also, when the same ark that destroys Uzzah was taken to the house of Obededom, is the same ark that God used to bless Obededom the Gittite. The ark was taken to the house of Obededom due to the mistake of Uzzah which turn out to bless him and his household.
Beloved, God will take and move you from your mistake to a miracle with his mighty hands. I see God reverse the famine in your life and move you from scarcity to abundance. Shalom