Sing Into Your Storm

But the Lord had hardened the heart of Pharaoh, so much so that Pharaoh regretted letting the Israelites go, so he sent all of his horses, chariots and armies to pursue them! The armies of Pharaoh surrounded Israelites at their encampment by the sea. The stage was being set! There was nowhere for them to go! The impassible sea was in front of them and the angry Egyptian army encircled all of the other side. They had three choices… Surrender, fight or trust God. But the children of Israel decided to trust their eyes and not their God. Suddenly now gripped with great fear and panic (what happened to the boldness ), they forgot about the great deliverance that the Lord had just brought through by His Mighty Power , or the powerful miracles of the ten plagues God had brought upon Egypt. They forgot about carrying out the wealth of Egypt, and being delivered out of Egypt by the very Glory Presence of God in a cloud by day, fire by night! In an instant, the Israelites underwent a massive change of heart. Now consumed with fear, they:

“…Cried out unto the Lord.” (Exodus 14:10).

But their cry was not a heart cry of faith or expectancy in their God. Blinded from even the thought of breakthrough, they then turned on Moses with insolence and contemptuous rage:

“Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us out of Egypt?” For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than we should die in the wilderness.” (Exodus 14:11-12)

This was the very point, place and time where God revealed His intention in bringing them to this place of encounter .

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