When you think of the Exodus, do you ever think of God proudly saying, "Remember when I did that?" The Exodus is mentioned ALL OVER THE BIBLE! It is a monumental example of God's power to save and it points us to the redemptive work Jesus did on the cross. As you listen to how God guided, protected, and rescued the Israelites, remember that whatever you are battling in your family, the LORD fights for you. Lay down your burden as you pray to be surrendered to His good plans for you and your kids.

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Today's Reading: Exodus 14-16

Scripture Read or Referenced:

Exodus 14:1-15:4

Exodus 15:11-13, 17-18

Jude 5

Psalm 20:7

Welcome to The Dwelling Place

from a Trusted Ministries.

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I'm Stephanie Cocks, and today

we're talking about one of God's

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proudest moments.

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the Exodus is the greatest

symbol of redemption prior to the

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death and resurrection of Jesus.

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As I mentioned earlier, the

Exodus is mentioned over 120

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times in the Old Testament, and

many times in the New Testament,

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God is setting his people

apart in holiness so they can

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worship and dwell with him.

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and if this event is

that important to God.

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Then we better read it in its entirety.

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Let's begin at 14 verse one.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, tell the

people of Israel to turn back and encamp

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in front of Faha Roth between MGD and

the sea in front of Baal Zaffron, and

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Yu shall en camp facing it by the sea.

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For Pharaoh will say of the people of

Israel, they are wandering in the land.

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The wilderness has shut them in.

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And I will harden Pharaoh's heart and he

will pursue them, and I will get glory

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over Pharaoh and all his hosts and the

Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.

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when the King of Egypt was told that

the people had fled the mind of Pharaoh

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and his servants Was changed toward

the people and they said, what is this?

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We have done that.

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We have let Israel go from serving us.

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So he made ready his chariot and took

his army with him and took 600 chosen

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chariots and all the other chariots of

Egypt with officers over all of them.

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And the Lord hardened the heart

of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and

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he pursued the people of Israel.

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While the people of Israel were going out.

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Def divinely.

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The Egyptians pursued them all,

Pharaoh's horses and chariots and his

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horsemen and his army, and overtook

them and camped at the sea by Pi

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Harath in front of Beal Zefran.

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When Pharaoh drew near the people of

Israel, lifted up their eyes and behold

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the Egyptians were marching after

them and they feared greatly, and the

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people of Israel cried out to the Lord.

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They said to Moses.

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Is it because there are no graves in Egypt

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that you have taken us away

to die in the wilderness?

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What have you done to us in

bringing us out of Egypt?

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Is not this what we said to you

in Egypt, leave us alone that

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we may serve the Egyptians for.

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It would've been better for

us to serve the Egyptians

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than to die in the wilderness.

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And Moses said to the people, fear not

stand firm and see the salvation of the

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Lord, which he will work for you today.

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For the Egyptians whom you see

today, you shall never see again.

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The Lord will fight for you

and you have only to be silent.

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The Lord said to Moses,

why do you cry to me?

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Tell the people of Israel to go forward.

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Lift up your staff and stretch out

your hand over the sea and divide it.

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That the people of Israel may go through

the sea on dry ground and I will harden

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the hearts of the Egyptians so that they

shall go in after them, and I will get

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glory over Pharaoh and all his hosts,

his chariots and his horsemen, and the

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Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord

when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh.

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His chariots and his horsemen.

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Then the angel of God who was going before

the host of Israel, moved and went behind

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them and the pillar of cloud moved from

before them and stood behind them coming

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between the host of Egypt and the host of

Israel, and there was the cloud and the

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darkness, and it lit up the night without

one coming near the other all night.

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Then Moses stretched out

his hand over the sea.

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And the Lord drove the sea back by a

strong east wind all night and made the

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sea dry land and the waters were divided.

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And the people of Israel went into

the midst of the sea on dry ground,

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the waters being a wall to them on

their right hand and on their left.

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The Egyptians pursued and went

in after them into the midst of

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the sea, all pharaoh's horses,

his chariots and his horsemen.

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And in the morning, watch the

Lord and the pillar of fire.

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And if Cloud looked down on the Egyptian

forces and threw the Egyptian forces

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into a panic, clogging their chariot

wheels so that they drove heavily

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and the Egyptians said, let us flee

from before Israel for the Lord,

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fights for them against the Egyptians.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, stretch out

your hand over the sea, that the water

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may come back upon the Egyptians, upon

their chariots and upon their horsemen

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so Moses stretched out his hand over the

sea, and the sea returned to its normal

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course when the morning appeared and as

the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw

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the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.

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The waters returned and covered

the chariots in the horsemen

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of all the host of Pharaoh that

had followed them into the sea.

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Not one of them remained, but

the people of Israel walked

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on dry ground through the sea.

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The waters being a wall to them on

their right hand and on their left.

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Thus, the Lord saved Israel that day from

the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel

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saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

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Israel saw the great power that the

Lord used against the Egyptians, so the

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people feared the Lord and they believed

in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

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Then Moses and the people of

Israel sang this song to the Lord

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saying, I will sing to the Lord.

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For he has triumphed, gloriously

the horse and his rider.

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He has thrown into the sea.

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The Lord is my strength and my song,

and he has become my salvation.

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This is my God and I will praise him,

my father's God, and I will exalt him.

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The Lord is a man of war.

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The Lord is his name.

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Who is like you?

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Oh Lord, among the gods who is like

you, majestic and holiness awesome

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and glorious deeds doing wonders.

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You stretched out your right hand.

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The earth swallowed them.

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You have led in your steadfast

love, the people whom you have

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redeemed and have guided them by

your strength to your holy abode.

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And the song concludes, you will

bring them in and plant them on your

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own mountain, the place, oh Lord.

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Which you have made for your

abode, the sanctuary, oh Lord.

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Which your hands have established.

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The Lord will reign forever and ever.

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In this powerful act,

God saves his people.

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He guides them with the pillar of cloud.

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But then as the Egyptians get

near, it switches from guiding

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them to protecting them as it moves

between them and the Egyptians.

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The distinction that God has made

between his people and the Egyptians

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now allows.

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The Israelites to cross this

body of water on dry land.

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But for the Egyptians, God

will create confusion and their

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chariot wheels will get stuck in

the sand and they will perish.

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And finally, the people believe

in the Lord and understand

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And they worship, rightfully so.

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in the worship song,

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they come back to this idea

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that the Lord is making a

dwelling place with them.

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I've heard of a lot of

archeological evidence confirming

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this that I think is so neat.

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I've even heard about how there's amber

footprints at the bottom of the Red

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Sea, and if the Lord was leading them

and a cloud by day and fire by night.

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That seems to make so much sense.

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We've found chariot wheels, many

things, but people will say, but

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there's no record of it in Egypt.

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I've been blessed to attend

several football games in my life.

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And you know what they

never do in a stadium.

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They never put up banners for the years

that they were miserably defeated.

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They put up banners for the years

that they were victorious, and

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the Egyptians were no different.

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They were infamous for erasing any

history That reflected poorly upon them.

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And as the Lord blotted this Pharaoh

out from the pages of history, I

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wanted to tell you that we think

it was probably Aman Hot ii.

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We have a Dream Stella, which is an

ancient Egyptian inscription that

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tells us that his firstborn son died.

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It may be that he died during

the plague of the firstborns.

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We also know that one of his

later descendants, Ahman Hot iv,

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abandoned the worship of Egyptian

Gods and decided to worship one God.

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Do you think maybe he got this idea

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from the events of the Exodus?

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In terms of the Trinity, I usually

think of God the father, when I think

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of Exodus but a couple weeks ago

I was reading in the Book of Jude.

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This is written by Jesus' half brother,

and he did not believe in Jesus until

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after the resurrection when Jesus

appeared to him and Jude verse five says.

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Now I want to remind you, although you

once fully knew it, that Jesus who saved a

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people out of the land of Egypt afterward

destroyed those who did not believe.

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And I just had to rethink my whole

perspective at Jesus's role in the

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Exodus the Lord gave him a leading role

in this redemption story as he would

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have on the cross but I can't help.

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But smirk a little bit.

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When I think about Jesus revealing

to his brother that didn't believe

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him as he walked this earth, that

hey, I just rose from the dead.

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And also can I tell you what

else I've done in history?

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I would really love to have

observed that process of Jesus

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enlightening his earthly brother.

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I hope for my own faith and for my kids

that I don't so quickly forget the amazing

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works that the Lord has done on my behalf.

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And when I come to these moments that

feel like I'm up against the Red Sea

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and that circumstances or fear are

closing in that I remember the testimonies

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the Lord has given me and I can trust

that the Lord will fight for me.

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A verse I've had multiple friends

bring to my mind this week is Psalm 20.

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Verse seven.

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Some trust in chariots and some in horses,

but we trust in the name of the Lord

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even when it seems there is no hope.

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our God will be victorious in

all he determines to accomplish.

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And because he has set his eyes on you

in love, you can be assured that he has

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good purposes for you and for your kids.

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as we've seen in each book of the Bible,

that doesn't promise that it will be

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easy or that it will be comfortable.

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But we can be certain that

God will work it for good.

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today, I had a door closed that

I was so hopeful to walk through,

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but I have to believe in the goodness and

the protection of the Lord for my family.

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Have you had moments where you feel

like you're the Israelites looking at

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the Red Sea and the enemy is coming

upon you, whether it's health news

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or finances or relational strife

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or just complete overwhelm that

you can't seem to get reprieve.

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When we cry out to the Lord,

he is fully able to rescue us.

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Heavenly Father, we praise you for

your power and your glory and your

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might, and we thank you that you

are the same God today and we know

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that means that you can, and you do

mighty works on our behalf as well.

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We pray that we would be patient

when you ask us to wait for them.

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We pray that we would see

how you're working even when

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it's in ways we don't expect.

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And that we would praise you

regardless because you fight for us.

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I pray that you would help us to

worship before the testimony and

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during the testimony and after,

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and that the grumbling that would

come so easily to us and to our kids.

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That you would help us to train

our tongues for righteousness

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and to give you glory.

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We thank you that you are a God who saves,

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and once again, Jesus, we have

this reminder that you are

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our rescuer and our redeemer.

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Amen.