Archive | January 2015

Exodus 10

Jan16

Good afternoon y’all. Today we continue our study of Exodus. We are in chapter 10 🙂

I pray you are blessed as you read 🙂

Pride will keep us bound in sin and blind us to the truth. Pharaoh’s officials had had enough of the plagues and probably started to believe that the God of the Israelites is not a God you mess around with.

“Pharaoh’s officials now came to Pharaoh and appealed to him. “How long will you let this man hold us hostage? Let the men go to worship the Lord their God! Don’t you realize that Egypt lies in ruins?”” (Exodus 10:7 NLT)

They went to Pharaoh and told him to let the people go so they can worship their God, so an end can come to the disasters happening in Egypt. Pharaoh on the other hand was not yet ready to let them go. He was still proud. He knew God meant business but at the same time, he wasn’t ready to surrender to God. He wanted to see if he could bargain with him.

In verse 11, he told Moses only the men can go. In verse 24 he told him leave the livestock behind and everyone else go.

“Never! Only the men may go and worship the lord , since that is what you requested.” And Pharaoh threw them out of the palace”.(Exodus 10:11 NLT)

“Finally, Pharaoh called for Moses. “Go and worship the Lord ,” he said. “But leave your flocks and herds here. You may even take your little ones with you.”” (Exodus10:24 NLT)

Dude just didn’t get it. God doesn’t want half of us, He wants all of us. It’s either you are in or out. There is no in between when it comes to God. Full obedience or nothing.
God’s instruction was clear and precise – ‘Let my people go’ – Pharaoh is saying, ‘…only the men will go…’ or ‘…leave the livestock behind.’ He was asking them to compromise on God’s instruction.

Isn’t this similar to what sin does to us? It tells us it’s okay if we don’t obey fully: as long as we obey to some extent that’s fine; you can compromise with God. I beg to differ. In God’s eyes there is no such thing as compromise. It’s either you fully obey or not.

Today, Lets ask the Holy Spirit to search our hearts and reveal to us the areas we are compromising and give us grace to make amends.

Prayer:
Dear Lord we thank you for today. Holy Spirit, we ask you search our hearts today and if there be any evil way in us, please lead us in the way everlasting. Help us not to resist You but submit to Your work in our lives. Thank you Lord. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

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Next blog will be on Monday by Gods grace. We will be looking at Exodus 11 🙂

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Exodus 9

Jan15

Good evening y’all. Today we are in Exodus chapter 9.

Few points I want to share from the chapter.

Be blessed 🙂

1) God is a covenant promise keeping God. He never lies and when He says something, He does it. He gave the timing for the plagues and indeed they all happened at the time God set.

“And the Lord set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.” And the next day the Lord did this thing. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one of the livestock of the people of Israel died”.(Exodus 9:5-6 ESV)

2) God setting the time tells me there is an appointed time for everything to happen. God owns time. His timing is best. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says “He has made everything beautiful in its time…”. God can be trusted to come through for us at the appointed time.

3) Obedience is a choice. God will never force his will on us. He will show us what he wants, it’s left for us to obey. Moses told Pharaoh about the hail. Scripture says those of his servants that feared the word of the lord did as Moses told and hid themselves and livestock in the house and some didn’t fear God and they perished in the hail.

“Some of the king’s officials were frightened by what the Lord had said, and they hurried off to make sure their slaves and animals were safe. But others paid no attention to his threats and left their slaves and animals out in the open“.(Exodus 9:20-21 CEVUS06)

“It left all of Egypt in ruins. The hail struck down everything in the open field—people, animals, and plants alike. Even the trees were destroyed“.(Exodus 9:25 NLT)

Everyone heard the same message; some chose to act on it and others chose to ignore it. Choose wisely!

4) With all the plagues God’s aim was to keep revealing himself to Pharaoh till he understood and came to the realisation that indeed there is only one true God -Yahweh. He is the one who reigns over all and controls everything.

“But I have spared you for a purpose—to show you my power and to spread my fame throughout the earth“.(Exodus 9:16 NLT)

“….. Then the thunder and hail will stop, and you will know that the earth belongs to the lord“.(Exodus 9:29 NLT)

God longs for a relationship with us, his creation and therefore will always look for opportunities to reveal himself to us. He will continue to prod at our hearts till we acknowledge his Lordship and enter into all that He has for us.

Revelations 3:20 says: “Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends”.(NLT)

I pray today we will not turn our hearts away from him but we will open our hearts to him and let Him have his way.

Prayer:
Thank you dear Lord for today. We ask for the grace to always trust your timing. Help us be obedient to you and submit to your Lordship in our lives. We love you Lord. In Jesus Name Amen.

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Have a wonderful night rest 🙂

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