Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
It was impossible for the Israelites to escape Pharaoh’s bondage in Egypt because they were being enslaved. They groaned under Pharaoh’s bondage. They had no experience in war and physically speaking, they were malnourished because they ate slave food. Although they were many in numbers, they were weak. Pharaoh’s order was to kill any newborn baby boys. They were surrounded by Pharaoh’s entire army. It would be impossible to flee Egypt with so many weak women and children. And if that wasn’t enough, between Egypt and the land of Canaan was a vast desert, full of scorpions, snakes, no water and no food. How would they feed and give water to so many people?
They had the Red Sea and the Jordan River as barriers and heavily armed enemies angry and ready to strike. Death was imminent; it was impossible to get out of Egypt.
But the GOD OF THE IMPOSSIBLE remembered His people and came down on MOUNT SINAI, promising Moses He’d do the impossible: deliver them from their bondage in Egypt. God had one condition; they’d have to serve Him in Mount Sinai with all of their strength. That would be the door that would lead them to a new life. And so it happened, God's promise was fulfilled. The Pharaoh’s power, the drought in the desert’s power, the hunger in the desert’s power and the powerful armed enemies all had to bow before Moses’ faith. The Red Sea and the Jordan River had to subject themselves to Moses’ faith because he put it into practice over God's Word. They went from being poor, to carrying great wealth with them during their exodus.
The same spirit that possessed Pharaoh back then still acts out today, manifesting the same destructive power. It enslaves people to hunger, incurable diseases, loneliness, poverty, broken homes, drug addicted youths, bankruptcies, etc. Apparently, it’s impossible for those living under the same conditions as the Hebrews did in the past, to be set free from this twenty-first century Egypt.
The same God who made a promise on Mount Sinai has been hearing His people’s groans and that promise hasn’t expired, it’s still effective and just like He used Moses, by giving him a staff that symbolized faith, He’s also given us His Spirit and that faith. That’s why we, The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, are going to take a strand of your hair up to Mount Sinai. Your life is going to be represented by that strand of hair, so that God may do the impossible, giving new life to those who believe and this belief will be seen when you place all your strength on the altar.
The God of the Impossible waits for you on Mount Sinai, "where the Lord himself will live forever." (Psalms 68: 16)
Bishop Romuald