Devotions

“And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, nor will I let Israel go.”

Exodus 5:2

The world reacts to the LORD no differently today, no fear of Him, no desire to know or seek Him either! The Pharaohs of today will try to do the same to us. They will ty to get us to not follow God and deny that He is real! We need to be watching and being aware of what is going on around us!

“But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the LORD who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.”

2 Peter 2:1

We need to be careful, prayerful and mindful of the things going on around us! The enemy desires us to question God in everything! Understand, during the four hundred years Israel was in Egypt they went from highly respected living in the choicest of land to slaves of Pharaoh! This is how being in bondage works: the more we compromise, the more we become slaves and then we are questioning the LORD in everything!

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.”

Proverbs 3:5-6

Today, we are all bombarded with lies from the enemy, lies of doubt and unbelief! My prayer for all of us today is to encourage each other in the LORD. Call or message someone today, tell them God loves you and has a perfect plan for you! Understand, even if you are going through some rough waters, so are people around you! Have a blessed day shin ing the encouraging light of the LORD in someone else’s life today!

“At a lodging-place on the way, Adonai (the LORD) met Moshe (Moses) and would have killed him, had not Tzipporah taken a flintstone and cut off the foreskin of her son. She threw it at his feet, saying, What a bloody bridegroom you are for me!”

Exodus 4:24-25 CJB

These verses seems to be out of place in this narrative, Moses being called by God to lead the children of Israel out of bondage. Until, we realize, that God is calling Moses out, saying if you’re going to represent Me, your house needs to be in order! This goes for us also!

“And He spoke a parable to them: Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into the ditch?”

Luke 6:39 NKJB

The point of these verses is simple. God calls us to lead people to Him, the promised land! Problem is, if we are acting just like the world around us, we become like the blind leading the blind. We need to circumcise our hearts, sever the worldliness from our lives, so we can lead!

“Today you have proclaimed the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice.”

Deuteronomy 26:17 NKJB

Today, let’s walk in the ways of the LORD, not the ways of the world, so we can lead people to Him!

May your day be richly blessed as you walk with the LORD!

“Then Moses said to God, Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. And He said, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.'”

Exodus 3:13-14

This indeed is a good question, we all have asked it, who are you LORD? His reply is the same “I AM WHO I AM!’ The LORD has everything we need, He is the greatest gift to mankind, the greatest gift we can ever receive!

“Your name, O LORD, endures forever, Your fame, O LORD, throughout all generations.”

Psalm 135:13

We all need to spend some time today calling on His name!

“Look to Me, and be saved, All the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.”

Isaiah 45:22

Today, realize, there is nothing that can save you but the LORD! Not your intellect, your bank account, your humor or anything else you can come up with! Only the LORD!

“And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.”

Matthew 1:21

Realize, we all need to be saved and the only one who can is the LORD! So call upon His name ‘JESUS’ and allow Him to take you out of the bondage of this world!

Have a blessed day.

“Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.”

Exodus 2:11

Like Moses, how often do we intervene without looking up first, without calling on the LORD! Do we take things into our own hands or do we call upon the LORD?

“In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, For You will answer me.”

Psalm 86:7

Sad to say, we usually take things into our own hands, then call on the LORD, to fix our messes!

“It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in man.”

Psalm 118:8

Today, realize, the LORD has all things covered and before we act, let’s call upon the LORD and wait for Him! Have a blessed day seeking the LORD first, knowing He has all the answers!

“But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.”

Exodus 1:12

It seems the more you grow in faith and the bolder you walk with the LORD, the more the world comes against you!

“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33

As a believer you won’t find peace in the world, but you will find it in the LORD! The more we walk with the LORD, the more uncomfortable we get with the world. You will have trials!

“My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials.”

James 1:2

Realize, you will have various trials in life, Jesus said you would. Today, don’t be surprised when they come upon you, instead look to the LORD, count it all joy and just walk through them! Have a blessed day seeking the LORD and His peace!