Today’s Devotion
Topic: Move On
Text: Exodus 14: 15- 17a
15 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. 16 Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. 17 I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army…. Amen.
Moses is frustrated at the grumbling of the Israelites and begins to cry out to God. Surprisingly God asked him, “why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Wow!
“God please where do we move to?” Moses must have thought. “Before us is the Red Sea and behind us is the strongest army in the world at that time, where exactly do we turn to?”.
Well Moses and all Israel with him probably did not consider the following things about our God:
i. He never starts what He can not finish. He is Himself the ALPHA & OMEGA. When He told Pharoah through Moses to let His people go so they may serve Him, He knew Pharoah could in no way withstand His ability to achieve that.
He even explained to Moses countless times while in Egypt that it was He who permitted Pharoah’s heart to be hardened so that He could prove to both Israel and Egypt that He’s God. Pharoah and His army was not a threat to our God.
ii. When He commands you to GO, that WORD contains the Power to cause the impossible to be possible. At creation, He commanded light in the mist of darkness and there was light. When He commands you to go, yours is just to obey even if the odds remain against you. This is because that command contains within it the POWER to make a way through every blockade and to build a bridge over the waters. It will even quench every fiery flame till you reach your destination.
When we meet an obstacle on the journey that God commands us to take, we don’t stop, pray, pray, pray and do nothing. No! WE PRAY WITHOUT CEASING AND WE PRESS ON TOWARDS THE GOAL.
Prayer (as happened in verse 16), will reveal God’s victory strategy to us but it doesn’t come to do our work for us. It is not the best therefore to quit every great thing we are doing under the guise of praying for a solution. This is because although God’s victory strategy will be given in prayer, the solution is in implementing the strategy received AS WE PRESS ON AND MOVE FORWARD!
iii. We are partners with God in writing the victory song. God gave the rod of power to Moses for a purpose. It would be as useful and relevant here at the Red Sea just as it was in Egypt. In fact, much later to come, that same rod will supply Israel water out of a rock.
You see, sometimes God will use the very same “gifts” and experiences from your past to solve challenges both now and future. For David, the same sling that killed bears and lions, killed Mighty Goliath. For Moses, the same old rod that swallowed pharoah’s serpents, parted the red sea. For new testament believers, our knowledge and faith in the WORD OF GOD is what is required to move mountains. We must just be sensitive to God in prayer, because He is always going to magnify His Word through the experiences of the past and the operations of His gifts to us to bring victory.
Meditate on this WORD. Take a step of faith today and MOVE ON EVEN WHEN THE ODDS ARE AGAINST YOU! Your prayer and faith will not be in vain. Kindly click, watch and be blessed: https://youtu.be/iM5JVWjZqSo
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