When God Whispers

It’s sometimes hard to understand fear.  Think of a time your children were frightened.  It may not have made sense to you, but you were there to console, comfort and offer support.  God does the same.  Frankly, I think,  “how ridiculous the Israelites acted having just been freed from the Egyptians in a miraculous way and then suffering what seemed to be amnesia, not trusting or having faith in G...

Oh Pharaoh, you are so fickle and quick to forget God’s wrath.  It didn’t take long for Pharaoh to question his decision to release the Israelites.  So now we see an army preparing to attack and take back the Israelites who were encamped by the sea in the wilderness.  Although Pharaoh wasn’t a child of God, we can learn much from his actions.  How are we sometimes like fickle Pharaoh and change ou...

These verses share how God went before the Israelites.  He continues daily to go before us as well.    How have you witnessed God going before you?    How are you comforted to know that God watches over you and is already in your situations?   Recall a time or times when without hesitation you know that God went before you. 

These verses share sacrifice, redemption, praise for God’s faithfulness, and an urgency to share the testimony of God’s fulfilled promise to free the Israelites with their children.    I recently read a quote saying, “tell your children about Jesus, so Satan doesn’t share his lies about the world.”  Are you sharing the urgency of Christ’s sacrifice so we might have eternal life with your children,...

We find these verses are the beginning of instructions for a new nation.  God shares that the firstborn whether human or animal is to be consecrated to Him.  It also served as a reminder that firstborns were His.  Israel was God’s firstborn, firstborn was thought to be the best, and finally that God redeemed His firstborn, Israel, from Egypt.  In verses 3-7 we read about the Feast of the Unleavene...

These scriptures share God’s laws and rules that were to be followed in order to partake of the Passover.  The chapter concludes by noting that the Israelites and those participating in the Passover did indeed observe and follow the command of the Lord; and were brought out of Egypt on that very day.  Passover was to remind the Israelites of the coming of Christ who would become the sacrificial La...

After exactly to the day, four hundred, thirty years of living in Egypt under slavery, brutality, hunger, watching loved ones beaten, tortured, and die, and now the Israelites are FREE!   The Lord had kept vigil, guarded, and protected them that first Passover night to bring them out safely.  Not one hand was laid on the Israelites.  They were obedient to the instructions they received from God th...

Think of the shear dynamics of moving 600,000 men plus women, children, multitudes of other people, livestock, flocks, and herds with their departure…their exodus.    What are some questions that loom in your mind regarding their hasty departure and journey in the wilderness?  What prayers do you think they cried out to God?  Were they filled with wonder?  Do you think joy or fear gripped them?  ...

September 2 – Exodus 12:33-36 The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.”  The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.   The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for...

September 1 - Exodus 12: 29-32 At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.   And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house whe...

August 31 – Exodus 12:21-28 21  Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.  22  Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morn...

God gives what seems like to us to be very strange instructions about not having anything leaven in the home for seven days and eating nothing leavened during this time.  He even says twice that if anyone eats anything leavened, they will be cut off from the congregation of Israel.  Those are very strong words, but obviously God had his reasons.  Why do you think God was so serious in His instruct...

August 29 – Exodus 12:1-13 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,  2  “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.  3  Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.  4  And if the household is too small for a...

August 28 – Exodus 11:1-10 The Lord said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.  2  Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry.”  3  And the Lord gave the people favor in...

Exodus 10:21-29 21  Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.”  22  So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.  23  They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the people of Israel had l...

Exodus 10:12-20 12  Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left.”  13  So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had...

We are finally seeing the servants of Pharaoh tiring of the punishment they are receiving because of Pharaoh’s decisions, and they push him to let at least the men go to worship.  Pharaoh agreed but this partial agreement isn’t what God promised the Israelites and they push back.  He drives them away from him and we see they are stuck in the same spot.  Have you ever felt stuck? Maybe you feel the...

I have to admit here that I struggle with the concept that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart and then dealt harshly with the Egyptians.  I know they certainly had done many horrible things to the Israelites and certainly deserved God’s punishment, but I still don’t understand why it seems tied here to God hardening Pharaoh’s heart rather than their past actions.  What I do know is that God is perfect a...

Here we go again.  Pharaoh makes a promise and does the exact opposite of what he swears he will do. Have you ever met someone who lies this easily? Do you think Pharaoh intended to change his mind each time he promised to let them go, or do you think he really meant what he said and then changed his mind? As a child we had someone in our life that my dad said you could tell when they were lying b...

I have seen some pretty bad hailstorms in my life.  I remember once when I lived in the Dallas area there was a storm that brought softball size hail.  I saw windshields with huge holes in them and huge dents in the cars.  In the area where it hit most homes had to have new roofs installed.  But I have never seen fire rain down or hail so large and widespread that it destroyed entire trees and kil...

This plague was definitely different than the previous ones. God gave a forewarning as well as instructions on how to protect themselves and their household. and the believers were able to protect their livestock and move all that they had in the field into a protective shelter before the plague struck. This reminds me of the unbelievers in our world that will not listen to God’s truth. They, too,...

This is the sixth plague that God brings upon Egypt.  How many plagues before Pharaoh realizes the power of God and that he can’t win against God?  Even the magicians that had denounced God and worked to try to prove these plagues were nothing more than “magic” suffered from these boils to the point they couldn’t stand before Pharaoh. Do you ever find sin keeping you from God? The enemy would love...

This plague probably had a much bigger impact on the Egyptians than the previous plagues. Their cattle, horses, donkeys, camels, oxen and sheep were all dead.  Here we see God not only protect His chosen people but also their livestock. Not only did this protection provide great wealth for the Israelites, it protected the animals that would be used for sacrifices to God. God loved His chosen peopl...

In this scripture passage, we see Pharaoh once again being less than honest. I think what I love most about this passage is that we are now seeing Moses step up and speak with Pharaoh. How God has grown Moses! Are you finding growth in your spiritual walk? Ask God to grow your confidence and increase your desire to speak boldly with others about who God is to you.

In this scripture passage we see God sending another plague for the people of Egypt. However, Moses makes it very clear that God would protect His chosen people from this disastrous plague. What do you think God was trying to show Pharaoh? Pharaoh had used the Israelites as slaves for many years. Verse 21 states “Thus I will put a division between my people and your people.” What impact do you thi...