This past week Rosie and the team have held a holiday programme called Egypt. The kids learned that the problem facing the people of Israel at the time of Moses was that they were treated as slaves and needed to escape from the Pharaoh. They needed a breakthrough that would cause the Pharaoh to let them go.
Recently, for a bit of fun, we took our family to a locked room activity with an Egyptian theme called The Curse of the Pharaoh. You're put into a room and have one hour to escape by solving puzzles, but as you progressively solve each puzzle with the clock counting down, you don’t know which is the final puzzle, or when you will breakthrough to escape the room.
This past week Rosie and the team have held a holiday programme called Egypt. The kids learned that the problem facing the people of Israel at the time of Moses was that they were treated as slaves and needed to escape from the Pharaoh. They needed a breakthrough that would cause the Pharaoh to let them go. Have you ever felt you were on the verge of a breakthrough or that you needed a breakthrough in some aspect of your life? Have you ever wondered when that breakthrough would come or what it would take to make the breakthrough happen? Just before Christmas, and reflecting on the wonderful ministries in the church, it seemed to me Greyfriars is on the verge of a breakthrough and I felt God move me to pray for a breakthrough in our church ministries.
In the bible God expected his people to obey him and follow all of his laws and commandments, so that they would succeed in his purpose. God ordered Samuel that he needed to appoint a king of Israel among Jesse’s children. The Lord said to Samuel in 1 Samuel 16:7, “Do not consider how handsome or tall he is. I have not chosen him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outside of a person. But the Lord looks at what is in the heart.”
Deuteronomy introduces the sermons of Moses, when God spoke his word to the people of Israel through Moses. Among those sermons, God affirmed that he had delivered the people of Israel from the captivity of Egypt, because they were troubled and wanted freedom from the Pharaoh. Almighty God gave them mercy and set them free. His original plan was to take them to Canaan. However, because of their disobedience, God punished them by letting then wander in the wilderness for 40 years. God wanted the people of Israel to depend upon him and looked to him for guidance.
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