August 15 – Exodus 8:8-15
August 15 – Exodus 8:8-15
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Heavenly
Father, help me to desire to grow my relationship with You, not just use You to
get my wants. Help me to come to You
each day with the attitude “What do You have for me today, God?” rather than coming with “Here’s what I need
from You today, God!” Help me know You
more each day, love You more each day, understand Your Word better each day, be
more of a light for You each day, and be more obedient each day. I know as I love You more, I will become more
obedient. My love will come from a
better understanding, and understanding You, plus loving You, brings me to
become more obedient.
My life
should be about being used by You and fulfilling Your plan for me, not
fulfilling my own plan for me. You
created me with a purpose, and You know that purpose best. Help me to have a servant’s heart and come to
You with love, respect, and the expectation that You are going to use me, not
the expectation that You are going to do FOR me.
Thank You
for Your patience and kindness as I stumble through this life making mistake
after mistake. Thank You for loving me
when I am so unlovable.
In Jesus’
name.
Amen!
Oh, boy. This
certainly sounds familiar to me. He asks Moses to intervene with God on his
behalf. Moses does. God rids the land of the frogs. Pharaoh responds with a
hardened heart.
How many
times have I attempted to bargain with God? “God, please get me out of this
situation and I promise I will never do this again.” I have prayed those words.
Now that I am older and in closer relationship with God, I realize God is in
control and I need to respectfully live in a manner that honors Him. God is not
my magic lamp. He loves me and wants what is best for me. I can only know what
He wants for me as I spend time with Him daily.
Have you
found this to be true in your own personal walk?
Ask God to
give you spiritual eyes and ears to see and listen only to Him.
Exodus 8:8-15
8 Then
Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, “Plead with the Lord to
take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people
go to sacrifice to the Lord.” 9 Moses said to Pharaoh, “Be pleased to
command me when I am to plead for you and for your servants and for your
people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses and be left only in
the Nile.” 10 And he said,
“Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Be it as you say, so that you may know
that there is no one like the Lord our
God. 11 The frogs shall go
away from you and your houses and your servants and your people. They shall be
left only in the Nile.” 12 So
Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord about the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh. 13 And the Lord did according to the word of Moses. The frogs died out in the
houses, the courtyards, and the fields. 14 And
they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank. 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was
a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as
the Lord had said.
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