QT on 16th March 2012

Today's Word is taken from Exodus 7:1-13 (NIV)

Then the Lord said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. [2] You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. [3] But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt, [4] he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites. [5] And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it." [6] Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded them. [7] Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh. [8] The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, [9] "When Pharaoh says to you, `Perform a miracle, ' then say to Aaron, `Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,' and it will become a snake." [10] So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. [11] Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: [12] Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. [13] Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.


1. Have you every knowingly sinned and persisted in that sin? Did you notice that your hearts gets used to that sin and you become hard hearted to it? Let's be humble and quick to repent when it comes to sin.


2. As Moses was to Pharoh, so are we to the world.We are Christ's ambassadors, and the power of the living and resurrected Christ goes with us as surely He does. Let's be unafraid and bold.


Closing prayer:
Dear God, use me as Your servant. Send me wherever You want, and be with me as I go. Help me be humble as I live a repentant life. Give me strength to be bold in proclaiming who You are. In His matchless name. Amen.


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