"The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still"

Exodus 14: 10-18 (NIV)

¹⁰ As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD. ¹¹ They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? ¹² Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”

¹³ Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. ¹⁴ The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

¹⁵ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. ¹⁶ Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. ¹⁷ I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen. ¹⁸ The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.”

This is an amazing principal that God showed me today. I am in awe as to how amazing and great He is and the way He blesses me and my family. God reminded me once again that this is not my battle, but His battle that I`m going through, and all I need to do is to be “still”, so the Lord could fight for me. One of the main ways to find out of you are following the Lord`s will and His truth is if you bear fruit. As I was looking around my apartment and at all the gift certificates that we received from the church that we don`t even know, we see how God multiplies His blessings upon us and gives us everything that we need in a most miraculous way. we`ve been getting gifts from people whom we don`t know, and God just brings them into our lives through different acquaintances. It is amazing to know that although it`s a tough going, but I am on the right way seeking His will and searching to follow His truth.

What I`m going through right now is a literal Exodus out of “Egypt”—that slavery that I placed myself in the past 8 years of my relationships with my husband. I submitted to that sinful life on my own accord, and I lived in sin in the past 8 years regardless of how many times I tried to get free. I got to the point when I started to find out more and more lies about my husband and the way he chooses to live in sin when I chose to depart from sin and live for God once and for all.

As we see in this scripture: Israelites complained to God that He brought them into the desert and they thought they would just be left there to die, but when God does something, He finishes it to the end and He brings His glory into circumstances. As I go through this "desert" of trials, He continues to provide for me and miraculously apply enough grace and mercy to sustain me through each day.

In the last week and a half, not only did I get a really nice apartment in the area where I wanted to be, but I got free furniture, pots, pans, all the necessary kitchen appliances, dishes, and yesterday hundreds of dollars in gifts certificates from one church that I never even heard of from the area. The mother of my cousin`s classmate told her church`s our situation, and they decided to bless us with hundreds of dollars in groceries, clothes, department stores, etc. It`s been amazing the way God has provided for us through all sorts of people whom we don`t even know. His blessings are just being poured upon us to sustain us in our trials.

Every day I pray to be grateful and praise the Lord for everything that He does, so I don`t act like one of these Israelites, who lacked faith in God to preserve them throughout desert, before He brought them into the Promised Land. I believe what God is doing is leading me out of “Egypt”—this slavery of sin, and He hardens my husband`s heart (that Pharaoh) in order to reveal His glory in the end. My husband continues to harden his heart, and he hardly lets me see our daughter, but I know that God has a reason for everything. He is going to pour out His judgment at the right time and bring out His glory in my circumstances just like He did with Israelites when He parted the Red sea for them and delivered them out of the hand of the Pharaoh.

I keep reminding myself to be still and to trust in the Lord, so He could bring out His deliverance and fight for me. I am very afraid to loose custody, but the Lord is Almighty, and He will protect me and my daughter out of the hand of my enemies and all the evildoing.

I think the following important principals that I keep reminding myself are the following:

-          Satan will also try to entrap and enslave those who trust in the Lord

-          Satan will also attempt to scare those who believe the Lord is the deliverance and a Strong Tower

          It is important not to blasphemy the name of the Lord or to complaint, but to trust He will bring the outcome of the circumstances for the better. He`s done it throughout the Bible examples, and His character testifies to us of His faithfulness in that

-          My job is to be “still” and not to be afraid, and He will deliver me out of the hand of the “Pharaoh” although it seems like an endless desert to me now.

-          God is faithful to grant victory to those who rely upon Him.

I choose to trust in the Lord and to testify of His glory because everywhere I look in my house, I see His hand on me and on my family. It`s a tough going, but God has a reason for the timing, and He will do everything in the right time. It is excruciatingly painful for me to drop off my daughter at my husband`s house every time I get a glimpse of time with her, but I know that God will restore all this missing time with her and He will bond me with her regardless of what satan is trying to do now.