Grand Sweep Daily
Exodus 9:13-14 (NIV)
13 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, 14 or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.’
Exodus 9:34-35 (NIV)
34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials hardened their hearts. 35 So Pharaoh’s heart was hard and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the Lord had said through Moses.
Psalm 29:9 (NIV)
9 The voice of the Lord twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”
Good morning!
The Lord God Almighty wasn’t kidding around when He sent plague after plague upon Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Don’t you wonder how humanity becomes so hard-hearted that they cannot see the hand of God at work? It must have been quite the show – God turns the river to blood and Pharaoh’s magicians find a way to duplicate the act with their sorcery. People are dying from lack of clean water. The fish have spoiled and are rotting in the river. The stench is making everyone ill. How can Pharaoh remain unmoved?
Frogs, gnats and flies come, and Pharaoh begins to waver. He thinks that maybe it is time after all to let the Hebrew people go to worship the Lord. However, he keeps changing his mind when each plague is lifted. Why do people fall to their knees when life is scary, only to jump up and forget about Him once their time of testing ends?
The cattle are dying, the people are boiling (with boils and infection), and a great hail storm pummels the land. The Egyptian people are dying everywhere. Pharaoh’s heart has not changed. The more God acts, the less impressed Pharaoh is. The Lord hovers over the earth today. The Holy Spirit is filling people with His Word, His life and His hope. Sons and daughters are seeing visions, and prophesying. The Word is being spread throughout the earth. Why are we not paying attention? Why do we refuse to believe when the evidence is clear?
The voice of the Lord is powerful. With one word, He can topple the largest cedar. The Lord God Almighty can strike the earth with flashes of lightening, and shake the desert with the tip of His finger. He can call His people to worship, confession and repentance, or He can take unrepentant sinners and harden their hearts. The voice of the Lord cries out in the darkness, saying “Get up early! Get up! Let my people go so they may come and worship me.” Do you hear the voice of the Lord calling you early in the morning? What keeps you from getting up to worship Him? What do you need to let go of so that you can hear God’s voice each day? Have you prepared your heart for Him to enter in? Is your heart hard, cold and untouchable?
The Hebrews received supernatural strength and peace from the Great I Am. His blessing is available for you and me. Will you hear His voice when He cries out to you? Will you choose to get up and worship the Lord?
Grace and peace,
Deb Spaulding
www.songofdeborah.com
Pray for: a heart that God can use. Invite Him into your life today. He will soften the hardest heart and heal our sin sick soul when we sincerely cry out to Him. Now is the time to get up and worship!
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