Moses did not want to go to Pharaoh and ask him to let God’s people leave Egypt. Moses argued with God. Moses may have said, in today’s vernacular: Hey, look, I cannot speak well, in fact some people can’t understand me with my speech impediment. Are You sure You want me to go to Pharaoh […]
When life seems unbearable, what to do? Turn to God, listen and learn what He has in mind. Pharaoh made the Hebrew slaves’ lives unbearable, demanding them to gather the materials for making bricks, and expecting the same quota to be met every day. Exodus 5:5-23 The LORD told Moses that only under compulsion would […]
Moses and Pharaoh were frustrated with each other. Moses and Aaron (his brother and spokesman) met with Pharaoh. They told Pharaoh what God said, “Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.” People frustrated with each other. Pharaoh refused! He didn’t know this God they were talking about, “besides, […]
Moses, his family and Aaron went to Egypt. The LORD told Moses what to say to Pharaoh and what to expect how Pharaoh would act. Do all the proofs I showed you – I will harden Pharaoh’s heart and he will not let people of Israel leave Egypt. 1- Moses threw his shepherd’s staff on […]
Moses wanted proof from God that he was to go to Egypt and deliver the sons of Israel from Egyptian slavery. God gave him three proofs, which he was also to show the sons of Israel. Moses would lead them from slavery in Egypt. 1- Moses threw his shepherd’s staff on the ground and it […]
Moses was minding his own business, herding sheep in the wilderness. He saw a bush burning, but not being reduced to ashes. Curious, he went over to look. Sure enough that was a real fire, flaming brightly. The LORD spoke from the middle of that fire. He said to Moses – I have heard the […]
Becoming the person God wants you to be… He uses your circumstances, are you listening? Are you responding to God? There are times I balk. Peer pressures, cultural pressures, my own willful ways, there are many ways to stop listening to the living God and going our own way, aren’t there? Moses became a […]
Moses grew up, raised as an Egyptian, in the royal household. But he knew his people were in slavery to Pharaoh. One day, he went out to where some slaves were working hard! An Egyptian was beating a slave, a relative of Moses, because the slave was a Hebrew, just like Moses. Looking both […]
In the land of Goshen, a section of Egypt in which the sons of Israel lived, a man and a woman from the tribe of Levi married. They had two children, a girl and a boy, then they had a third child, a son. Because the Pharaoh said that all boy babies were to be […]
Many years pass from the times of Joseph as prime minister of Egypt. The families of Jacob-Israel, his father, grew in numbers. Joseph was forgotten by the present Pharaoh. In fact this Pharaoh feared and was intimidated by the number of the Israelites living in the land of Goshen (a part of Egypt). He made […]