LEAVING ONE PLACE...GOING TO ANOTHER...

Leaving one place and going to another....Where are you headed? What direction are you going? What are you taking with you as you go? Those questions are simple questions that apply to any trip that we may take.

Upon telling Moses that the Israelites could leave Egypt, Pharaoh had his own demands in order to let them go… one was for the men only to leave without their families and go and worship their God. When that didn’t work, he said that they could leave, but without their flocks and herds… and Moses responded to that demand by saying, “… that there shall not a hoof be left behind…” Exodus 10:26…Pharaoh’s final demand was for them to leave, but not to go very far….just far enough for them to worship their God, yet close enough for Pharaoh to continue his control over them in the future if he so chose.

Those are the same demands that the devil gives us. When he sees that our level of commitment to the Lord involves a true commitment, he says to us…go ahead if you must, worship your God….but don’t bother trying to get your friends and family to go along with you. Then he sees that our level of commitment to the Lord involves surrendering our jobs, business and earthly possessions; and he gets bent out of shape, because he knows that when that happens, we are most serious about our commitment. You see, Moses realized that the Israelites must take it all, or nothing when they left the land of bondage and headed off to the promised land that God was about to give them. For God had given Moses the instructions on what to do and he could do nothing less than follow every one of them.

Decide this day, God’s Word says to us…..Whom you will serve….Joshua 24:15

Be sure that you know what your spiritual plans are, for you, your family and all that you have. God has given you His directions in His Word, but you must get in there… and find it out for yourself, leaving no foothold for the devil to bring you back to the land that you will leave….because I can promise you that anytime you leave the land of bondage, the devil sits and waits for your return and will try, as he did with the Israelites, to bring you back. But, if you are in God’s will, going His direction, hell itself can not bring you back. God is a Strong Tower and we can run to Him when we need Him… he can thwart and destroy the evil plans against us.  There is no safer place to be than on the other side, where God tells us to go… for there, the enemy can not touch us!

Loving you and praying for your Victory!

Bren