Intercession (Ex 10:16-19)

4/12/2008 10:57 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time           Focus:  Intercession

Bible Reading & Meditation               Reference:  Exodus 10:16-19

            Message of the verses:  “16  Then Pharaoh hurriedly called for Moses and Aaron, and he said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.  17  "Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and make supplication to the LORD your God, that He would only remove this death from me."  18  He went out from Pharaoh and made supplication to the LORD.  19  So the LORD shifted the wind to a very strong west wind which took up the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.”

            This plague shows the awesomeness of God, for when I look at how this plague took place I can see that God, through Moses told Pharaoh what He was going to do, He then made it possible for all of the locusts to be born at this correct time, brought the East wind to bring them into the correct place to do the damage, then He answered Moses’ prayer to have the locusts leave, and did this by turning the wind around and have it come from the West thus driving the locusts into the sea.  By doing this God showed that He was God and the Egyptian god over fertility and crops, Osiris was shown to have no power compared to what God has.

            Pharaoh came up with another story to get God to stop with this plague, and God answered Moses intercession on Pharaoh’s plea, but I think that God was doing this just to show His power and might and to show, not only Egypt, but the whole watching world that He was in control.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I believe that this was said in an earlier SD, but I still think that it goes for this section of Scripture, and that is that I don’t want to make any deals with God after I have sinned against Him, but I always want to truly confess sin and repent from it, even sins that I have committed more that others.

My Steps of Faith for Today:  Trust the Lord to see me through this day which consists of Sandy and I attending the wedding of Janee’ Dozier. I trust the Lord to get me through this day without having any IBS problems and also that He will grant us a good time at this blessed event.