daily devotionals for july 22nd today's scripture reading will be exodus 14 verses 19 and 20.
and the angel of god and that's really the angel of his presence who went before the camp of israel
moved and went behind them and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them
so it came between the camp of the egyptians and the camp of israel thus it was a cloud and
darkness to the one and it gave light by night to the other so that they did not come near
all the others that night so you see where god was guiding them by the uh
the pillar by day and the cloud uh the fire by night now he's using that remember he said stand
still and see the salvation of of god so he moses you know he told moses to stretch forth his his
rod and to part the sea he basically told moses what are you doing here standing and doing nothing
stretch forth your rod you know you do something he had the power within him
by speaking the word the same way we do today and moses spoke stretched forth his rod and
the sea parted and the children of israel went through the red sea on dry land think about that
the waters receded and the wind came and blew uh upon that the bottom of the sea
and made it can you imagine if you had to walk in that it would be like muck
well no it was dry land that was a powerful thing that took place so now so the children
of israel are going through and here come the egyptians god said i want to show myself strong
he hardened their hearts also as the scripture said he hardened their hearts also
and they come through but he now moves he changes position the angel of his presence
he stood as a pillar of fire between the children of israel so now where they
he always led before giving them guidance now he stood against their enemy because
they could not they could not come near that fire so the fire kept the
the egyptians away while the israelites were able to make it clear the whole way through the red sea
so you see that's what i was saying the other day god will fight our battles for us we need to stand
still and trust him he is that fire he is that cloud and he is all-powerful and he is all-knowing
we need to trust him and he will fight our battles for us
it may not look you know real pleasant at the time we may not understand but if we are
i'm going to say we may not understand but if we are standing under the anointed one and receiving
from him we will gain wisdom and understanding and we will stay in alignment with him and receive our
daily manna and go forward in him in spirit and in truth and like the children of israel we will be
guided by his divine presence by the angel of his presence okay children till next time be blessed