I did not want to call it preparing for a famine. But yes, a famine is coming and preparation is key. But not the kind of preparation you think. The Word tells us that we are always to prepare our hearts because that is how the LORD will take care of His children. When your heart is right with God, He will guide you and deliver you from trouble. 

Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity. – Joel 2:13 NIV

So therefore for us to prepare for what’s to come has to come from having our hearts right with GOD. Anyone can prepare for what’s to come with tangible items but if your spiritual man is not right with GOD, those physical items will not matter. 

So therefore, for you and I to prepare is by the way of the parable of the sower and being girded. 

If you know the parable of the sower, found in Matthew 13: 1-23, you know that there are four categories of people that receive the WORD of the GOD. And, unfortunately, one receives it gladly while the others receive it for a little while but it does not stay grounded in their heart. So let’s go deeper with the first three. 

The first seed that was sown on the road, is the one that receives the WORD but does not understand and the devil takes it away from them. This is the one that does not believe in the WORD and therefore, does not perceive the WORD as truth. The LORD GOD wants us to understand His truth. Let us not be asleep to the devil’s scheme at this time and begin reading, studying, meditating, and uttering the WORD with the Holy Spirit. Ask Him to open your understanding to comprehend the scriptures. 

The second seed is the one that was sown on the stony places. Now, these are the ones that receive the WORD. However, when tribulations came, which the LORD already said was going to come according to John 16:33, the WORD was not deeply in their heart, so the WORD did not fully grow in them to stand firm and abide in the WORD. When the WORD is deeply planted in you, you stand, and in everything, continue to stand. Ask the LORD to stand strong in HIM and His mighty power. 

The third seed is about the seed that fell among the thorns. These people are the ones that have received the WORD, but there was intermingle with the world, therefore, making their faith in GOD not firm. They trusted in their horses and man, as well as GOD when the bible tells us to only trust in the LORD and not man who cannot save. GOD will not give His glory to another, so let us therefore give Him all the glory. Let us ask the Holy Spirit to lead us in all truth, teaching us to know the truth from the lie, so that our lives are not yoked with the things of the world. Romans 12:2 tells us that we should not conform to the patterns of this world, meaning we should not be of the world, though we live in it. Let us ask the LORD GOD to submit to Him resist the devil and he shall flee from us in agony. 

The last seed that was sown on good soil, though it does not need much explanation, is the one who receives the WORD fully. Their faith has stood firm and they are not shaken of what’s to come. And that my friend is where our LORD GOD wants us to be. I believe that this is part of spiritual growth because when you abide in the WORD and walk in His WORD, being a reader and doer of the WORD, spiritual growth occurs. Now, it will not be by our might nor power, but the Holy Spirit as we ask Him to fill us. Let us ask the LORD GOD to fill us with the Holy Spirit since He does give us the Holy Spirit without limit, as He did to the LORD Jesus Christ. 

And think about this, the surface that the seeds landed on is your heart. Is your heart like the path? The rocky places? Among thorns? or a good soil that the seed can get in and grow? Be honest with yourself, and repent. GOD will surely forgive you and heal your heart. He alone redeems us and we need to allow Him to change us. Ask Him to search and know your heart, and reveal anything offensive to Him so He leads you on the path everlasting. What He starts in His children, He shall finish it.