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DIVINE WEAPON

11^TH JANUARY, 2022

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Matthew 24-25

TEXT: Exodus 4:18-26
18 So Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

19 Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return to Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.” 20 Then Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

21 And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

 22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Israel is My son, My firstborn. 

23 So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, indeed I will kill your son, your firstborn.” ’ ”

24 And it came to pass on the way, at the encampment, that the Lord met him and sought to kill him. 

25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a husband of blood to me!”

 26 So He let him go. Then she said, “You are a husband of blood!”—because of the circumcision.

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KEY VERSE: Exodus 4:20

“ And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand .”

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
God's weapons always guarantee victory.

THE MESSAGE:

John F. Kennedy, a former president of the United States, was quoted to have said, "The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us". He was assassinated by a gunman with a rifle fitted with a telescope.

The use of physical weapons by the unregenerate results in unjustified destruction but divine weapons are designed to accomplish God's holy purposes.

From our text, Moses set out on his mission as God's prophet to liberate the Jews from the Egyptian bondage. He was not dressed like a musketeer. Neither did he set up a camp to train an army of liberators; nor was there any need for mercenaries. He went as a family man with his wife and two sons. He only took a rod, rode on an ass, on a journey of faith to confirm the Scripture that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.

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God had given Moses all the assurances. With all questions answered and all excuses and doubts removed, Moses was now ready to ride on in the strength of the Lord. At eighty, he had overcome the immaturity and infirmities of his youth. He now knew better. Never would he run ahead of God again. Though he was convinced all along that he was the chosen one to liberate Israel, he had seen the fire of his youthful exuberance ebb out when he made the first attempt to save Israel forty years earlier.

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We need not hurry but wait for God, follow His method, use only the weapons He prescribes and the way He directs us. It is then that victory is certain.

DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY

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