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“Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation…” (1 Peter 2:2, NASB95) I know that I’ve done a devotion on this verse before, but I think it is important to raise it up again. This verse was one of my earliest memory…
“Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. ” (Proverbs 15:22, NIV) We once hit on the verse that says, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end, it leads to folly and death.” Solomon, throughout the book of Proverbs, tells us that just because we…
“That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, ‘What is it?’ For they did not…
“Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. ‘This time I have sinned,’ he said to them. ‘The Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong. Pray to the Lord, for we have had enough thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don’t have to stay any longer.’ Moses…
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, confront Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me, or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against…
“So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on men and animals. The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would…
“The Lord set a time and said, ‘Tomorrow the Lord will do this in the land.’ And the next day the Lord did it: All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died. Pharaoh sent men to investigate and found that not even one of the animals of…
“Pharaoh said, ‘I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the Lord your God in the desert, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.’ Moses answered, ‘As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the Lord, and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his…
“Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, ‘Go, sacrifice to your God here in the land.’ But Moses said, ‘That would not be right. The sacrifices we offer the Lord our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. And if we offer sacrifices that are detestable in their eyes, will they not stone us?’”…
“I will make a distinction between my people and your people. This miraculous sign will occur tomorrow.” (Exodus 8:23 NIV84) The first few plagues affected everyone. Egyptians and Hebrews experienced water turned to blood, frogs invading their homes, and gnats agitating their very existence. But not anymore! From now on, the Lord was going to…