IT IS IN YOU!

Studying the scriptures I understood that God doesn’t give an individual instruction to do something if he knew he wasn’t capable of doing it. God gave Moses instructions on how the altar and furnishings were to be made. He also provided the man power. He had in mind the people who would do the work.

He had appointed Bezalel son of Uri from the tribe of Judah for the craftsman work. The Lord had filled him with wisdom and skill, understanding and intelligence. In knowledge and in all kinds of craftsmanship. He would make excellent artistic designs of gold, silver and bronze. Cutting of stones for settings, carving wood and all kinds of craftsmanship. He was to make the Tent of meeting, the ark of the Testimony, the mercy seat upon it and all the tent furnishings. God had also appointed Oholiab an engraver, a skillful craftsman and an embroiderer in blue, purple, scarlet fabric, and in fine linen to work together with him. They did an excellent work that pleased God.

God told Gideon that he was a mighty man of valor. Gideon like all the other Israelite's was troubled by the Midianites. He had heard of the Mighty works God had performed for their Father’s and wondered why he didn’t do them anymore. The Lord sent his angel to him and told him to go in his strength and save Israel from the hand of Midian. But he doubted God’s word. He looked at his background and considered himself insignificant. He was the youngest in his family and his family was the least in Manasseh. He didn’t realize the great potential God had placed within him. Until the day he believed God’s word and brought deliverance to the Israelite's.

It’s astonishing how we as Christians despise our selves, whenever a task is laid before us we quickly disqualify ourselves and make it seem impossible to accomplish it. Yet just like Gideon and Bezalel all we need is inside us. It is upon to us to tap into the potential deposited by God’s spirit in us and arise to accomplish our purpose.

GOD OF WONDERS!!

It is evident that we serve a God of wonders when we look at Abraham’s story. An old man who was told to leave his father’s place and settle in the land of Canaan, he is given a promise that he will become a father of nations having surpassed child bearing age. At his age he leaves with his family to the great land and the lord immensely blesses him with wealth and riches.

He was told that he would become a father of many nations, kings would come from him and that his descendants would become as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Sarah found it hard to understand God’s promise at that point; the promise made her wonder and even laugh at herself. She couldn’t imagine herself carrying a baby and nursing at her old age.But Abraham just believed the promise and waited for that wonder. Note, during Abraham’s time nobody had ever gotten a child in their old age. It was unheard of and so for Abraham to believe it, it just took the hand of God. It was great faith. That is why it was credited to him as righteousness. At the appointed time Sarah conceived and gave birth to Isaac at their old age.  The son that brought much joy to them.

When the Israelite's left  Egypt they came at the Red sea and God performed a wonder; the Lord swept the sea back by a strong east wind and turned the seabed into dry land. The Israelite's went into the middle of the sea on dry land. But when the Egyptians pursued them he clogged their chariots wheels making it hard to drive the chariots. The Lord overthrew them and tossed them into the midst of the sea.

God caused food to fall like rain from the sky for the Israelite's. In the evening quail came and covered the camp and in the morning dew lay around the camp. When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost were on the desert ground. So the Lord rained down bread in the morning and at twilight meat for them to eat. What a Wonder God!

He also provided for them water to drink at Mt. Sinai by ordering  Moses to strike a rock with the same staff he used at the Red sea and water came out. He brought water out of a rock for the Israelite's to quench their thirst.

Looking at all this Awesome Manifestations of God’s works; one can’t help but marvel! If you are in a situation whereby you need to see the mighty manifestations of God’s wonders just like Abraham believed that’s all you have to do.

Who can bring forth water out of a rock? Who can rain down food from the sky? But God! Who can make a way through a sea? But God! Who can give Abraham and Sarah a child at an old age? But our wonder working God!! Have unshakable Faith!!

GOD’S FAVOR.

When God favors his beloved, he turns around their lives. They become certainly noticed and are honored. But the enemy is not happy about this; he attempts his evil schemes against them.  Yet God fights for them and ensures no harm befalls them. God assures that his will prevails.

Being sold in Egypt at a young age, Joseph worked as a slave to Potiphar. God showed him favor and Potiphar put him in charge of everything he owned. But Potiphar’s wife had an evil plan; she tried to seduce him but seeing that Joseph wouldn’t give in, she eventually designed a plot against him that landed him in prison. This could be so tormenting for Joseph knowing that the allegations against him were lies. Prison life was not easy for him either, but God made the prison wader favor him and put him in charge of everything in the prison.

God made Pharaoh Servants to dream so that Joseph’s gift could be manifested and used to interpret the dreams and later on for them to introduce him to Pharaoh. But after leaving prison they soon forgot all about Joseph. Joseph never lost his faith in God he kept being faithful even in prison. Then one night God gave Pharaoh a dream that bothered him. He called all the magicians and wise men in Egypt to interpret it but they couldn’t. God revealed the interpretation to Joseph and this got him out of prison. Because of this he was promoted to be a governor in Egypt and second in command after Pharaoh. Pharaoh gave him his signet ring and dressed him in official vestments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.

Because of God’s favor, Esther an orphan girl found favor with the King more than all the others and was crowned Queen.  Also due to God’s favor on her, her people the Jews are spared from Haman’s command of destruction.

Daniel in a foreign land Babylon found favor with the Kings and was made an official. Of course his journey wasn't easy; being forced to worship idol gods! But Daniel was faithful to God all through. God granted him wisdom to solve issues and also to interpret dreams and visions. Daniel served in the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar, King Cyrus and King Belshazzar.

HE WILL GO BEFORE YOU.

Moses received a great commission from God after being in the wilderness for forty years. I believe that after such a long period of time Moses must have forgotten about going back to Egypt.  Having grown up in the palace, he had the knowledge of the king’s affairs.

He grew up in the palace but knew his true identity as a Hebrew. One day while in the field he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew man for forced labor and because of this, Moses killed the Egyptian and buried him in the sand. When he discovered that the King knew what he had done and wanted to kill him, he fled for his life and settled in Median.

It was then that God revealed himself to him. While taking care of Jethro’s flock Moses saw a burning bush and the Lord revealed to him his great commission of delivering the Israelite's out the land of Egypt. But Moses doubted his calling. He gave God excuses of how he was not a great man to go before Pharaoh. God assured him that He would be with him. He asked God, ‘Whom should I tell the Israelite's sent me?’ Then God replied “I Am Who I Am.” Tell them ‘I Am sent you.’- The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

But Moses told God he stammered; he wasn’t eloquent in speech. Again God sent him Aaron his brother to speak for him in front of Pharaoh. This shows that God had already gone before him. He had spoken to Aaron his brother to meet up with Moses and planned how they would present themselves to Pharaoh. Aaron was to act as Moses mouthpiece to the people. God told Moses that he would be as God to Aaron telling him what to say to King Pharaoh as the Lord guided him.

His first instruction was to gather the elders of Israel and to tell them that the Lord cared about them and had seen their sufferings and promised to take them out of their troubles in Egypt and lead them to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites a fertile land flowing with milk and honey.

God assured Moses that the elders would listen to him and that they would accompany him to the King of Egypt. God had already gone before Moses and prepared the hearts of the elders of Israel to be of great assistance to this great commission.

When God commissions you to do something, do be afraid, just trust him! He already has put in place along your path people to favor you and to be of great assistance to your calling. As He did for Moses. He also used Moses staff to perform great miracles in the presence of Pharaoh so that he would recognize His mighty power and authority. Remember the Red sea? Yea, God will manifest his great wonders to his chosen whenever the need arises. His got your back!! 

GOD SEND’S HELP.

In Exodus 1 a new King comes to rule in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph’s accomplishments. The Israelite's had multiplied greatly in Egypt that it posed a great threat to this new King. He ordered the Israelite's to be oppressed with hard labor. He put slave masters over them who forced them to build Pithom and Rameses as storage cities for the King. But the harder they afflicted them the more they multiplied. So the Egyptians demanded even more of them. They forced them to work hard and make brick and mortar and to do all kinds of work in the field. The King went further and asked the mid wives to kill the baby boys at birth. Seeing that the Hebrew midwives did not consent to this, the King commanded his people to throw all the Hebrew boys born into the Nile River.

The people of Israel groaned because of the slavery. They called upon God to deliver them from the hands of the Egyptians. God heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God planned for the birth of Moses and arranged for Pharaoh’s daughter to take care of him as his own son. Later on Moses realized his true identity and fled to Midian were after a long period of time he encountered God in a burning bush while taking care of the flock of his Father in law.

The Lord said to him, “I have seen the affliction of my people and I have heard their cries when the Egyptian slave masters hurt them. I have come down to save them from the Egyptians”. God sent Moses to deliver his people. He commissioned him to go before the King to get them out and lead them to a good land, a fertile land flowing with milk and honey.

When you study this scripture, it shows that many years had passed by after Joseph Egypt’s governor died and the reigning Pharaoh. We only see the descendants of Jacob who had greatly multiplied in the land, just as the Lord had promised Jacob that his descendants would be numerous. The Israelite's had lived in the land for four hundred years. Time had much passed by that Joseph’s family was long forgotten. The Israelite's had become slaves in the land, that years ago had enjoyed living securely because of Joseph. Things had greatly changed for them. And the Egyptians started oppressing them. They remembered the stories told of their Father’s and how God favored them, and started crying out to God for help. God heard their cry and saw the sufferings they went through and sent them help.

God is always concerned for his children. He hears them when they call on Him with a sincere heart. He is concerned about their pain. He does not leave his children to suffer on their own. All you need to do is exercise patience. Wait on God’s deliverance. Keep on praying and believing and surely you shall see God’s hand; as the Israelite's did while in Egypt. He created us, so he knows us and will always send us the help we need.