Tag - Pharaoh

What Will It Take?

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Exodus 14:31 And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant. O-bservation: The Lord had hardened Pharaoh's heart after the Exodus so that he chased after the Israelites. But once they got to the Red Sea the Lord split it and Israel walked across on dry ground while the Egyptians, when they chased after them, were drowned by the same waters. The Bible says the Israelites then feared the Lord, and Moses...

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The Threat Of New Leadership

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Exodus 1:8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. O-bservation: Joseph, the Israeli who had saved the entire Egyptian nation and the world, had died some time earlier. The new Pharaoh had no desire to continue to promote the Israelis in any way, because he had no connection to Joseph. Immediately the lives of all Israelis were in peril. A-pplication: The story of the captivity of the Israelites under the domination of Egypt is played out in nearly every walk and category of life. In business, when a new...

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The Sinner Who Wasn’t Sorry

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Exodus 10:17 Now forgive my sin once more and pray to the Lord your God to take this deadly plague away from me. O-bservation: These are the words of the Pharaoh of Egypt to Moses and his brother Aaron were being used of God to wrest the people of Israel from his control. This was now the eighth plague that God had brought upon Egypt as punishment for what they had done to God's people. Finally, like had happened the previous seven plagues, Pharaoh said, “I beg you, I have sinned against your God...

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The Leader Always Takes The Hit

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Exodus 5:21 And they said, “May the Lord look on you and judge you! You have made us obnoxious to Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.” O-bservation: These are the words of the Israeli supervisors who led their people in making bricks for the Pharaoh and the Egyptians. The words were directed to Moses and Aaron, who were pleading for the cause of their fellow Israelites at God’s command. Pharaoh had grown weary of Moses in his face and so told the Israeli supervisors that...

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God Will Be Praised!

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Exodus 9:16 But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. O-bservation: These are the words of the Almighty through His servant Moses to the Pharaoh of Egypt. There was more than one Pharaoh of Egypt, but this was the Pharaoh who refused to let the children of Israel go. The Lord said to Pharaoh, “I raised you up so YOU could see my power, and I’m going to use YOU and this story to...

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