So you will know...

Exodus 10 - 12

Exodus 10:2

I've also done it so you can tell your children and grandchildren about how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and about the signs I displayed among them-and so you will know that I am the LORD.

Don't you love the moments that you realize the LORD talked to you?  Those moments without a doubt that you realize the Great I AM is talking to little old you?  I do.

Are you sharing your moments about the things He is doing?  The moments when without a doubt it is Him answering your prayer and you know because only He could give you an answer!  I love those moments and you know what I love more?  Sharing them with other people and the look of wow...and you see it all over them that they want a moment too!  I love to gather with friends and we share these special times that only God provides.

Give thanks today for your special moments and then share them with someone that knows that the Great I Am is indeed LORD and still working amongst us right now!

Sweet blessings,

Debbie

Ignore everything

Exodus 7:25 - 9

Wow, aren't we just like the Pharaoh?  Oh, is it just me?

God gave Moses instructions again in Exodus about standing on the bank of the Nile taking the staff to once again with him to use in front of the Pharaoh.  So, Moses and Aaron are standing beside the Nile staff in hand, when they begin to tell the Pharaoh that God told them to tell him to "let His people go" and then to take the staff and hit the water, which will then turn to blood.  The fish will die and everything will stink.  The people no longer will be able to drink the water.  Aaron then will raise his hand over all the other waters turning them too.  They did everything just as instructed and well it happened.  

Then Pharaoh immediately turned from his ways and let the people go, right?  Nope!  We learn in verse 23 of chapter 7, that he returned to his palace and put the whole thing out of his mind.  How?  How? 

Well, don't we feel the same way sometimes?  I know that I listen to the news and I know in my heart what God is warning us about through reading His Words, hearing sermons, and prayer, but it is as if I do just like Pharaoh did.  I return home and put the whole thing out of my mind!  Don't you?  It saddens me to be like Pharaoh, but if we take a look around, aren't we?  What are we standing for or against?  Does it line up with God's Word?  My word doesn't matter, but God's Word does matter!  I can tell you anything is alright,but it doesn't matter what I say. it matters what God's says. 

Why aren't we responding to things that we know are wrong?  Are we sharing of God's love?  Are we agreeing with everything the world is telling us and ignoring God?  It saddens me, but it seems like being politically correct is more important than truth.  We can't speak truth, we might hurt somebody's feelings.  Yet, over and over unbelievers speak their truth and hurt my feelings.  Why is it easier to speak untruths rather than truth?  Why is it easier to believe another human rather than God?  

I don't want to be like Pharaoh.  I don't want to return home putting it all out of my mind, while those around me suffer.  Do you?

What truths will you share today?  

I share with you that sometimes truth hurts, but it also Saves!

Sweet blessings,

Debbie

More of God

Exodus 4: 18 - 7:1-13

God always, always has more!

Imagine, the scene of events found in chapter 7.  The Pharaoh't throne room with all of his court, Moses who is now 80 and Aaron his older brother is 83.  They follow the Lord's instructions enter the room with all of these important leaders of the land when Aaron throws down his staff and it becomes a serpent!  Imagine, pretty impressive right?  Well, then the magic folks of the Egyptian following throw down theirs and the same thing happens.  Oh...then Aaron's staff swallows all the other staffs!  Wow, isn't that pretty awesome?

The Great I Am is always, always more!  All the more that any of us could possibly need to face our enemy or our problems ~  Call out to Him today!  When doubt tries to creep in, don't let it...because God will swallow up our enemies.  Don't expect it to happen in a way you expect it to...it will never be like you imagine!  It will be more!

Imagine, those wise men of Egypt trying to figure out how to get their staffs back...ONLY GOD!

Sweet blessings,

Debbie

Letting go

Exodus 1 -4: 1-17 and 1 Chronicles 6: 1-3a

What is it you love most in the world?  I would imagine a lot of you mothers think of your children or all of you mothers.  Some think of your spouses.  Some think of family period and still I am sure the list goes on and on...I think that one of the stories today always just makes my heart jump thinking of the tremendous love a mother shows her son, but also the family as a whole shows by the lengths they go to protect the baby.

The story of baby Moses and how this whole little family protected this little boy for 3 months.  Imagine, the first 3 months of his life.  The cries of a little one that we know he will make, but this family and God protected him from being found knowing they had to come up with a plan to save his little life.  A plan of building a basket and placing it in the Nile river.  What?  Amongst the crocs?  (and I'm not talking shoes)  Does this sound like a good plan to you?

I have to believe this mother was close to the Great I Am.  How else could a mother place her much loved baby in a basket in the river with these nasty looking critters?  She trusted God to work out all the details to save her child.  God placed a princess by the river to rescue this little baby.  Baby Moses who grows into a man that feels so unworthy to save his people, but because he too grows to trust and believe God he does!

What is it today that perhaps you need to release and trust God with the outcome?  What words is God asking you to speak perhaps, but you feel you just can't?  Well, look at the man Moses and know that indeed you can speak too!  

Read the passages today from Exodus and believe and trust in the Great I Am!

Sweet blessings,

Debbie