Devotions

Hey everybody!!!! I got a brilliant plan!!! I'm going to post my devotions on here!!!! YAY!!!! So I'm on Exodus in the NIV and anyone who wants to read along is welcome.

Love Always
Meagan

Exodus, chapter 9 February 14, 2006
~The plague on Livestock
~The plague of Boils
~The plague of Hail

Their Time
God said that if Pharaoh didn’t let the Israelites go then He was going to kill all the livestock in Egypt. But, He would make a distinction between those of Egypt and those of the Israelites so that their animals wouldn’t get hurt. This would happen the next day if Pharaoh refused. Guess what??? Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites go so all of the Egyptian animals were dead. Pharaoh went to go see//made other people go see if any Israelite animals died. Not one had died. (Hahaha in your face Pharaoh!!!)

Moses took ashes from the fireplace and threw it in the air in front of Pharaoh (E GASP!!!) and “festering boils” broke out on the men and animals. Pharaoh is such an idiot that he still wont listen to Moses and Aaron (even though he covered in icky boils).

God told the people of Egypt (through Moses and Aaron) that the only reason why they were still alive was because He chose to let them live so that they might see just how amazing He is and so His “name will be proclaimed across all the earth. He told them He was going to give them the worst hail storm Egypt had ever seen and to all to run for cover immediately. (Half listened half didn’t). God told Moses to stretch out his staff and when he did it started to hail. It killed everything that wasn’t undercover including all of their harvest. It hailed throughout Egypt with the exception of Goshen where the Israelites were.
Pharaoh talked to Aaron and Moses and told them that they could now go to worship God in the desert if only they made the hail stop. Moses told he would make it stop once he was outside of the city. As soon as the hail stopped, Pharaoh seemed to change his mind and made them come back again.


All Time
God is amazing and uses every situation for the good, even though we don’t know it at the time. God is Sovran. (Yay!!!)

My Time
This story taught me to never lose faith because God will always pull you through. He always there, waiting for you with his arms open. It’s you who is refusing to see that. Satan pulls you farther and farther away from those arms. But you are so much stronger. You have so many more people to help you and Jesus, and the holy spirit. You can just walk right back over to those open arms with the right help. Thanks Kandy, for helping me, for everything.