SCRIPTURE: Exodus (NIV) 33:2 I will send an angel before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 3 Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.”…
13 … “Remember that this nation is your people.”
15 Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. 16 How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
OBSERVATION: Moses had it right! These were God’s people. God had chosen him (Moses) to lead God’s people. This was God’s doings! God was responsible!
Moses realized that it was God’s presence that made God’s people unique from all other nations.
APPLICATION: The same is true with this SOAP ministry. It was God’s idea for me to write SOAPs. My first response was like the first response of Moses Now, after 15 years of SOAPs, I and those now working with the SOAPs recognize God’s hand at work.
We are not working for the Lord; we are working with the Lord! We are not asking Him to bless what we are doing; we are asking for the privilege of being a part of what He is doing!
Like Moses, I have only one requirement of the Lord: I will go where He sends me, I will go when He sends me, on one condition: That HE GOES WITH ME!
PRAYER: Lord, not only for the SOAP ministry, but for every ministry of every reader, we agree to go wherever we can feel your strong hand and sense your presence. We are living with you, walking with you, and working with you. It is our privilege to be a part of what you are doing. Amen
Pastor Leon
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