WHILE IN EGYPT, GOD SENT HELP

Post date: Nov 30, 2016 1:17:31 AM

“Then He said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God. The Lord said I have in fact seen the affliction, suffering, desolation of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, oppressors; for I know their pain and suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a land that is good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, a land of plenty, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me; and I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them. Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and then bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. But Moses said to God, who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt? And God said, certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve and worship God at this mountain.” Exodus 3:6-12. What is the name, place, and feeling of your present situation?

God said ‘I have seen,’ what did He see before sending help to rescue them? He saw they had overstayed in Egypt, you will not remain in Egypt indefinitely; He saw their afflictions; your affliction will not continue; He saw sufferings because of the afflictions; God had seen your suffering caused by the afflictions; He saw emptiness, anguish, despair, destruction, loneliness, misery, sadness, unhappiness, sorrow, depression, grief, broken-heartedness, wretchedness, dejection, and distress in the lives of His children in Egypt. He also said, ‘I have heard their cry, I know their pains and sufferings’. God will not see all these and know all these and fail to do something. He said ‘I have come down to rescue them’. He did that by sending help to rescue His people. You will not to remain in your mess or continue in your mistakes: you will find help.

God knows our weaknesses; He knows our poor relationships with our children, spouse, friends, colleagues, business associates and family members; He knows the pains in our heart; He knows the cries at night and in the day; He knows our desires to find help; He knows the uncertainties we face each day; He knows where our unintentional mistakes had taken us and where it has left us; He knows our struggles to get out; He knows the prayers from our hearts, and the fasting we have done; He knows our immediate and distant desires; He knows our efforts to get results; He knows our fight for victory and justice, and, another thing He knows well is that we will not remain in those things indefinitely; He will rescue us; He will give us freedom by His power, and He will help us. You will not remain in that situation indefinitely as the children of Israel did not remain in Egypt indefinitely. The children of Israel did not get out from Egypt by their power, though they knew the prophecy concerning their freedom; God sent help to rescue them and to enable them and to quicken their rescue despite the Red Sea and the armies pursuing behind.

God sent help to Israel in Egypt with testimonies of what He had done before and what He will do again; He reminded them of His power to rescue as He did for others. He declared to Moses, tell them I am the one who rescued Abraham and his wife in their trouble times; I am the God who rescued Isaac in his time of famine and confusion, and I am the one who rescued Jacob when he was in trouble with his brother Esau when he was cheated by Laban, that He will be their God in their current afflictions and oppressions in the hands of the Egyptians. There are many things that will not happen unless God sends help, despite what we know, what we confess and what had been prophesied, without help from God it will not come. As Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the children of Israel find help in their time, so will God send you help and you will truly be helped, rescued and set free as others were helped, rescued and set free. For Prayers Click here