#26. Exodus 14-16 | The LORD Will Fight For You

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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.