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ISAAC’S COUNSELLOR IN A
TIME OF FAMINE
At a certain time, there was a prolonged dry
season all over the land of Canaan. Famine had
set in and many people were leaving for Egypt.
Then God told Isaac, “Sojourn in this land, and I
will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee,
and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries,
and I will perform the oath which I sware unto
Abraham thy father; And I will make thy seed to
multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto
thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall
all the nations of the earth be blessed;” (Genesis
26:3-4).
True to His words, every time Isaac went
somewhere and dug the ground, he struck water,
and the people couldn’t understand it. Nobody
else found water; even though they dug deep, they
still couldn’t get water. But when Isaac came and
dug right beside them, water came out!
During this period, everyone lost his crop as