This morning I was reading through Moses’ interactions with Pharaoh as he was insisting that Pharaoh let God’s people go to serve Him. Time and time again Pharaoh refused and time and time again Moses came back to Pharaoh and insisted they be let go. What an endurance contest! When you look closely at this account in history, it quickly becomes apparent that this exchange between Moses and Pharaoh was over several weeks of time. I don’t know about you, but when I used to read through this story in the Bible it felt like the whole event took place in a couple of weeks time. After seeing what the Scriptures relate regarding the harvest it becomes obvious that this took place over an extended period of time.

Here is what occured to me this morning. . .This exchange between Moses and Pharaoh is the same exchange we must go through for deliverance. This is a picture of a child of God contending with the devil for God’s people to be set free. It’s like when we come and pray for the deliverance of others and maybe we don’t see anything happen OR we begin to see a little happen and then Pharaoh pulls the rug out from underneath us and we feel like we have gotten nowhere.

The reality is that this is the nature of the battle we fight. The key? Keep coming back and dealing with your enemy through prayer like Moses kept coming back. The key? Knowing that God has the victory! There is no way Moses would have endured like he did in this situation if he didn’t know that this is what God had called him to do.

Good stuff!

“‘Give Me to drink.’ How many of us are set upon Jesus Christ slaking our thirst when we ought to be satisfying Him? We should be pouring out now, spending to the last limit, not drawing on Him to satisfy us. ‘Ye shall be witnesses unto Me’ - that means a life of unsullied, uncompromising and unbridled devotion to the Lord Jesus, a satisfaction to Him wherever He places us.”

Approach your next appointment with Him differently. . .Instead of coming to get FROM HIM, come to GIVE HIM. God blesses us, no doubt. But the Scriptures also teach that we are able to bless Him. Bless HIM!!!