Exodus Extracts 20 – Love in 10 Words

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. (Exodus 20:2) [Worth also checking out the first in the Law & Order: Spiritual Intent series.] Dear Lord God: In the light of your love in rescuing me from slavery … I am yours, […]

Exodus Extracts 19 – Communal Consecrated For A Divine Encounter

You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be […]

Exodus Extracts 18 – Don’t Do It Alone: Sound Advice

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone. (Exodus 18:17-18) Sometimes we conduct business our way and develop and entrench a pattern of behaviour to […]

Exodus Extracts 17 -A Helping Hand

But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. (Exodus 17:12 ESV) The journey […]

Exodus Extracts 16 – Moaning and Mercy

Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’” (Exodus 16:32 ESV) It’s easy to criticise the behaviour of the children […]

Exodus Extracts 15 – Praise & Grumble

And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.” And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” (Exodus 15:21, 24 ESV) People are fickle. You have just witnessed the act of the mighty forces of the super […]

Exodus Extracts 12 – Meal of Deliverance

You shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord ’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshipped. (Exodus 12:27 ESV) The Bible is epic. The first five books of the Bible […]

Exodus Extracts 11 – Final Warning

There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again. (Exodus 11:6 ESV) “Let my people go” is a phrase that must have driven Pharaoh up the wall. It’s a testament to his incredible stubbornness that despite the virtual breakdown of his country, […]

Exodus Extracts 10 – Generational Impact

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them, and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians […]

Exodus Extracts 09 – Set Up On Purpose

For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. (Exodus 9:15-16 ESV) […]