One of the hardest things to do is trust someone when you don’t know their intentions. Moses knew that God’s heart towards the children of Israel was nothing but good. It’s easy to assume that because they had experienced God’s protection, that they would have the faith to trust God for provision. When God is trying to disconnect you from certain things or people who have always been your source, it can be difficult to adapt. God’s people were use to having food, water, clothing, and shelter right at their finger tips. There was no need for faith for provision, it was supplied by their enemies. God is a jealous God when it comes to his children, and he refuses to allow his enemies to be what he exists to be in your life. Egypt’s culture was the norm to the children of Israel although they were slaves to it. As a result of the Egyptians increasing the burdens and intensifying the labor of God’s children, they cried to God, he heard them, and raised up a deliver. How encouraging! God will never ignore the cry of His children. It doesn’t matter the bondage, depression, oppression, sickness, sin, or condition you may be in, God is able and willing to deliver you from the enemy! Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all! God is faithful to get you OUT! I believe that this is your coming out season! You’re coming out of guilt, out of debt, out of depression, out of sickness, out of shame! You're coming out! When God’s children CRIED, he made a CALL!

**note** When God wants to get something done in the earth, he’ll find somebody!

After Moses dealt with his moment of inadequacies and approached Pharaoh numerous times about letting God’s people go, God shows his mighty power and helps his children to escape. I love that God kept instructing Moses to go to Pharaoh, that tells me that God will not give up on getting you out! God won’t give up on your freedom! I feel that today is a day of freedom for somebody who’s reading this right now. God loves you, and he wants what’s best for you!

God brought the children of Israel out not just to bring them out, but so that they could hold a feast and worship him! The greatest response you could give God when he delivers you is worship and communion (fellowship) with the Holy Spirit. The part of this journey I want to focus in on is found in Exodus 16:3 "The Israelites said to them, 'If only we had died by the LORD's hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.’” I can almost sympathize with the children of Israel’s anxiety because they trying to follow a God whom they do not know intimately, but Moses their leader does. Moses knows God’s intentions, but they don’t. God has disconnected them from a system they were dependent on and now they are trying to adapt to a new system. To them this was a crisis, therefore they murmured and complained.

Murmuring and complaining reveals 3 things:

You haven’t learned the heart and intentions of God toward you.
You need to adapt more to God’s system.
You’re allowing what you see/don’t see and feel to determine your response towards God when you don’t understand.

Sometimes God uses a crisis to introduce you to his system. In Egypt, they saw how things were going to be provided, in the wilderness they had to learn the heart of God to trust him by faith that he would provide everything they needed! God’s intention wasn’t that they would die, but that they would live, BY FAITH! Often when we don’t have what we need when we think we need it or can’t see where it’s coming from, it feels like we’re going to “die," like it’s the end of our world and sometimes that’s what we tell ourselves! "It’s over, I’m finished, I knew this was too good to be true, way to go God, etc." I want to encourage you today, it may feel like it, it may look like God isn’t going to come through, but just know, YOU’RE NOT GOING TO DIE! There’s a promise over your life! God ALWAYS keeps his promises!

Are you ready? Let’s take another step! Repeat after me: "God has the best in mind for me! His intentions are good, his ways are good. I choose to be adaptable and trust God for everything I need. I’m not going to die! I choose to live by faith and possess EVERY promise God has for me!