Post by Woody Williams on Jun 20, 2006 8:27:12 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- Exodus 9:13-18
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Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Rise up early in the morning and
present yourself before Pharaoh, and say to him, "Thus says the Lord,
the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, so that they may worship
me. For this time I will send all my plagues upon you yourself, and
upon your officials, and upon your people, so that you may know that
there is no one like me in all the earth. For by now I could have
stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence,
and you would have been cut off from the earth. But this is why I
have let you live: to show you my power, and to make my name resound
through all the earth. You are still exalting yourself against my
people, and will not let them go. Tomorrow at this time I will cause
the heaviest hail to fall that has ever fallen in Egypt from the day
it was founded until now."
Devotional
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God perseveres in his attempts to persuade Pharaoh to let the
Israelites leave to worship in the wilderness and journey to the
promised land. Pharaoh, who claims to be God, resists these plagues
and requests. God continued to press the issue, bringing greater and
greater destructive acts of nature to bear upon the question. Not
until Pharaoh's son dies does Pharaoh agree. God is relentless to
bring God's purpose into being.
Prayer
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Keep me from having a "hard" heart, Lord. Amen
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Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Rise up early in the morning and
present yourself before Pharaoh, and say to him, "Thus says the Lord,
the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, so that they may worship
me. For this time I will send all my plagues upon you yourself, and
upon your officials, and upon your people, so that you may know that
there is no one like me in all the earth. For by now I could have
stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence,
and you would have been cut off from the earth. But this is why I
have let you live: to show you my power, and to make my name resound
through all the earth. You are still exalting yourself against my
people, and will not let them go. Tomorrow at this time I will cause
the heaviest hail to fall that has ever fallen in Egypt from the day
it was founded until now."
Devotional
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God perseveres in his attempts to persuade Pharaoh to let the
Israelites leave to worship in the wilderness and journey to the
promised land. Pharaoh, who claims to be God, resists these plagues
and requests. God continued to press the issue, bringing greater and
greater destructive acts of nature to bear upon the question. Not
until Pharaoh's son dies does Pharaoh agree. God is relentless to
bring God's purpose into being.
Prayer
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Keep me from having a "hard" heart, Lord. Amen