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3. If ye walk in my statutes, and keep
my commandments, and do them;
4. THEN I will give you RAIN in due
season, and the land shall yield her
increase, and the trees of the field
shall yield their fruit.
5. And your threshing shall reach unto
the vintage, and the vintage shall reach
unto the sowing time; and ye shall eat
your bread to the full, and dwell in
your land safely.(emphasis mine)
It took me a couple of minutes to get
hold of the best words in explaining to
you what the word “THEN” means. But
as students (learned people), I believe
we would’nt be needing much words in
describing this grammatical lexicon.
From the Advanced Learner’s Oxford
Dictionary, “then” can be used to
introduce the next item in a series of
actions, events, instructions etc. “then”
can also be used to show the logical
result of a particular statement or
situation. It can also be used to show
the end of a conversation or
something. Considering all of these
different senses of the word “then” we
can now come to the conclusion that
the word “then” is most times used
when one wants to establish a final
point.
Why do we need the explantion or
definition of “then”? I will tell you..
Most times, christians confesses
scripture; some are of prosperity,
health etc. Then after sometime they
begin to wonder why they aren’t
seeing their lives being shapend to
those scriptures they always confess.
This now brings us to the place of
“THEN”
From the opening scripture we read,
we could see that God was telling the
children of israel; if ye walk in my
statutes and keep my commandments
and do them;….. Now they were first
of all instructed to do something. You
must plant before you harvest. If you
look very closely at the scripture again
you will notice there is a semi-colon at
the end of verse 3. What does a semi –
colon introduces? It is used to separate
the parts of a complicated sentence or
items in a detailed list. What are we
saying, it means God was’nt done with
what he was saying. The semi colon at
he end of verses 3 shows that there is
more to keeping God’s
commandments.
This is where “then” comes in. If we
keep God’s commandments and
statues only THEN will i give you RAIN
in due season and the land shall yield
her increase and the TREES OF THE
FIELD SHALL YIELD THEIR FRUITS
(VERSE 4, emphasis mine).
Wow! It is that simple, all the promises
which God made to us in the scriptures
can be made manifest in our lives only
if we keep his ways? Yes that simple!
Praying and fasting and asking of God’s
promises won’t yield much or little
when you have not examined your life
to see if you have really done what
God’s requires of you before seeking of
the “then” aspec .
Scriptures says in 2 Chron 7:14 “if my
people, which are called by my name,
shall humble themselves, and pray and
seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways; THEN will I Hear from
heaven and will forgive their sins and
heal their lang”. Did you see the
“semi- colon” and “then” in the
scripture?
I can hear God speak to me clearly; if
we want the promises of “then” in our
lives(academics, spiritual life, finances)
then “we need to follow whats before
the “semi-colon.
For RAIN and HEALING upon our land
(every thing that concerns us) then, we
must acknowledge the power that
moves “then”, keeping God’s statues
and commandments is the power of
“THEN”.
Written by
Okikie Oghenero Emmanuel
13th day of July, 2014.