MIGHTY WARRIOR
Exodus 14: 21-31

As days roll into days weeks, and weeks into months, it is worth it to look back and acknowledge God for where He has brought us. Above all, God is worthy of all praise for where He is taking us. He is a faithful God and He has a good plan for His children. He once said to the children of Israel while in captivity, “ For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:10-11) What the Lord has said to one stands for all. He is not a partial God, but a faithful God. Is He taking you through a passage of deliverance or breakthrough, and it seems like there is no end in sight? Do not pay attention to what is on ground, but He who is above. Once in the passage of deliverance after the bondage of over four hundred years, God made a passage of escape for the children of Israel, in the middle of Red Sea. A passage in the middle of the sea is nothing, but the power of God and it’s a doubtless passage of deliverance. “So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. ” (Exodus 14:22) Have you entered into a kind of salvation passage like that of the Red Sea where dry ground took the place of water? One will think in this kind of safe passage, the enemy would give up and turn back. This was not the case for the children of Israel and the same can possibly happen to anyone. The Egyptians did not stopped in their pursuit, “And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. ” (Exodus 14:23) Do not lose focus. When you look back and see that your Egyptians are still charging and chasing, He will not leave you or forsake you. The fact that He has brought you this far is evidence that He wants to see you get through for His name to be glorified. Ask for your morning watch to come quickly because when it came for the children of Israel the pursuit that the Egyptians put up was permanently terminated. Exodus 14:24-25, “Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, that the LORD looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians. 25 And He took off their chariot wheels, so that they drove them with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians.” ” God will not stop fighting our battle if we do not stop trusting Him.

MIRACLE
Acts 12: 1-25

Among many definitions for a miracle is, God waiting to make His move when every breakthrough possibility appears to be mired. (Mired is to be in a disadvantage or difficult condition). Are you in a position that shows no way out to a breakthrough? God is the only One that can deliver you, and He will not slumber nor sleep. Counting on the works of His hand is enough to give rest when there is trust in place. Can you imagine Daniel in the den of lions without any wrongdoing? Is your case worse than that of Daniel’s? Daniel was sentenced into the den of hungry lions, instead un-attending lions received him, “…So Daniel was taken out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him because he believed in his God.” (Daniel 6:23) Among many other miracles that were recorded, are those of Peter. He was set for death by King Herod who had earlier killed James the brother of John and with all indications. Peter was supposed to be his next victim. Acts 12:3-5, “And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also. Now it was during the Days of Unleavened Bread. 4 So when he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after Passover. ” Peter was asleep when death was lingering upon his life. When miracles happen it is not because we know how to make it happen, but because God knows what He wants to do for His name to be glorified. In the case of Peter, the prayers of brethren received the attention of heaven. Acts 12:6-8 says, “And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison. 7 Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, “Arise quickly!” And his chains fell off his hands. 8 Then the angel said to him, “Gird yourself and tie on your sandals”; and so he did. And he said to him, “Put on your garment and follow me.” ” Peter walked into salvation and he was delivered from the hand of sudden and untimely death. Miracles could be prayer provoked or grace in place. Miracles don’t happen because of luck, neither is it because of work. God is still in the business of miracles. God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Is there any area of life that seems like every possibility of breakthrough has been mired? Remind God, concerning the works of His hands, and He will not relent concerning your confronting issues.

MIX IN THE MIDST
Genesis 26

Seeing through the word of God in the midst of mixed up situations will set us up for God’s blessing. Isaac saw through the word of God when he demonstrated no evidence of complaints or frustration in all confronting situations that he encountered. When there was famine in Gerar, God appeared to Isaac to dwell in the land and not to run to Egypt. Genesis 26:6, So Isaac dwelt in Gerar. 7 And the men of the place asked about his wife, and he said, “She is my sister”; for he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” because he thought, “lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to behold.” The land where God had him stay was becoming a challenge. After a while it was discovered by Abimelech, the King of Gerar, that Rebekah was Isaac’s wife. With the discovery, “So Abimelech charged all his people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.” _” (Genesis 26:11)  After being delivered by God through Abimelech charge, Isaac now entered into a season of sowing and reaping in hundred fold Prosperity became his portion. As a result of his blessing, “…Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”(Genesis 26:16) Isaac did not have any choice, but to move forward. The Bible said, “Then Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.” (Genesis 26:17)At his departure he encountered another challenge, but the word of God that asked him not to move could not fail. In Isaac’s new territory, twice they founded a running well, but he was not able to lay hold of his claim on the well because of the people of Gerar. Isaac and his servants finally found another well, “…Called its name Rehoboth, because he said, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”(Genesis 26:22) In the mix of all of Isaac’s ups and downs the word of God could not be misplaced. When everything looks bad and like there no way, God repeatedly showed up. After he had been pushed from one ground to another, and from one well to another well, the hand of God was evident in his life. Abimelech eventually came for Isaac, “And Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?” 28 But they said, “We have certainly seen that the LORD is with you. So we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a covenant with you.” (Genesis 26:27-28) In the mix of all confrontations and challenges, hold on to the word of God, see through His word, and He will not fail in seeing you through.

NEED HELP?
Luke 9:12-17

This is how the Bible described Jesus Christ, the living Word of God, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” (John 1:1-3) If these verses could be received with understanding, there would be knowledge that Jesus is everywhere all the time, and nothing is beyond His knowing. This also testifies that anyone that has accepted Him as Lord and Savior does not have anything to worry about, Have you truly accepted Him as your Lord and Savior? It is not just a mouthful declaration, but also a heartfelt confession. Have you been caught up on an unfamiliar ground or are you in a place, or situation, that can be considered wrong? With Jesus everywhere, with Him on your side or you turning to Him, your story will change for good. It does not matter how deep you are in a mess, or the cause of the mess   Jesus is the only one that can change your story from stagnation to motion; from mockery into miracle; last to first, lateness to earliness. Luke 9:12, “When the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to Him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding towns and country, and lodge and get provisions; for we are in a deserted place here.” This is not different from your situation that has landed you in an unbearable situation. The difference from your case is that the multitudes were looking for the Word of God to touch them while; your reason was not of God. However, Jesus is everywhere, and if you will turn to Him, He will change you from the inside out and every other thing will not matter to you but Jesus. This is not to encourage a conscious or deliberate act of evil, but to encourage how God can move when we get ourselves caught up in a situation that does not glorify God or when end up in a deserted area of life. God is a merciful God and if we can look up to Him and ask for His forgiveness He will not look away from us. At the deserted time, at a time where there was no way to turn to or run from, with Jesus on ground and His intervention, “So they all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them.” (Luke 9:17) Believe or not, Jesus is the only one that will help without sorrow, turn to Him in your situation and He will return to you for your deliverance.

STRENGTH AND COURAGE
Joshua 1:1-9

After the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord spoke to Joshua, “No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you.” (Joshua 1:5) Christians often quote this by personalizing it to themselves “The Lord will not live me nor forsake me”. Indeed and in truth, God will never leave His own, except if His own disown Him by living outside of His promise. It is a great blessing to have God on our side; however, God’s blessing is rooted in conditions that have to be met before the blessing manifests itself. It would not have happened for Joshua if he had failed to operate under the conditions that were laid down for the manifestation of the promise of God’s blessing not to leave him or forsake him. The sixth verse came with conditions that will make God not leave him or forsake him. Joshua 1:6, “Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.” Without being strong and courageous, Joshua would not have been able to observe what the law requested him to. One can only be strong when the joy of the Lord is in place in one’s life. Nehemiah 8:10, “…For the joy of the LORD is your strength.” Having joy in the Lord is the evidence of fully trusting Him regardless of any confronting situation. Courage is to have no fear. Courage is to shut fear down and open up to faith. Faith is what provokes the move of God’s hand not to fear. God constantly reminded Joshua not to fear at every move that was made by Joshua. Joshua 10:8, “And the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear them…”” Joshua 11:6, “ But the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid because of them…” God wanted to have Joshua succeed and He was constantly reminding Joshua, because when fear is able to block out faith, faith will be shut down, and God is not pleased without faith. Joshua was able to succeed in the calling of his life because he was able to do all that the Lord had told him. With strength and courage, the grace to observe the word will lead to doing what the Lord had said. The word that He spoke to Joshua is also speaking to us to, “Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:7)