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Presidential Prayer Team

Presidential Prayer Team; G.C. – Survival

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According to the “Top Ten Tips for Surviving a Zombie Outbreak,” the key to survival is building a fortress. Construction can be tricky in emergency situations, so you are encouraged to use what is immediately available. Make sure you stock the area with useful supplies and, if you have time, leave notes for others to find. Then comfort yourself in remembering that zombies aren’t classically swift.

For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.

Psalm 59:16

Does life ever feel like zombies are hot on your trail? In Exodus 14, God’s people found themselves in a comparable situation, standing at the edge of the Red Sea, caught between rushing water and an advancing army that was quite alive and anything but fictitious. Surely, they were more than antsy when they were told, “The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” (Exodus 14:14)

If you believe death or destruction is at your door, there is no need to panic. God sees you! Humbly pray about what is troubling you, and then turn your attention towards helping others find their way to the fortress. Instead of fearing what is behind you, take refuge in God’s provisions and rest in His freedom from the anxieties of life, real or imagined.

Recommended Reading: II Corinthians 1:2-7

Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon – The Exodus

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“And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the self same day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.” Exodus 12:41

Suggested Further Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:1-11

It is our firm conviction and increasing belief, that the historical books of Scripture were intended to teach us spiritual things by types and figures. We believe that every portion of Scripture history is not only a faithful transcript of what did actually happen, but also a shadow of what happens spiritually in the dealings of God with his people, or in the dispensations of his grace towards the world at large. We do not look upon the historical books of Scripture as being mere rolls of history, such as profane authors might have written, but we regard them as being most true and infallible records of the past, and also most bright and glorious foreshadowings of the future, or else most wondrous metaphors and marvellous illustrations of things which are verily received among us, and most truly felt in the Christian heart. We may be wrong—we believe we are not; at any rate, the very error has given us instruction, and our mistake has afforded us comfort. We look upon the book of Exodus as being a book of types of the deliverances which God will give to his elect people; not only as a history of what he has done, in bringing them out of Egypt by smiting the first-born, leading them through the Red Sea, and guiding them through the wilderness, but also as a picture of his faithful dealings with all his people, whom by the blood of Christ he separates from the Egyptians, and by his strong and mighty hand takes out of the house of their bondage and out of the land of their slavery.

For meditation: Are you getting as much out of the Old Testament as you should? It is full of the Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 24:27)! While it may be wrong and confusing to see types in every verse or action, if you major on the types which are identified and applied in the New Testament you cannot go far wrong.

Sermon no. 55

9 December (1855)

Joyce Meyer

Joyce Meyer – Know God’s Character

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And my God will liberally supply (fill to the full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

—Philippians 4:19

I believe Jesus tries to get us to sow a good seed by making a statement that He is first in our lives. I believe if we do that, we will receive more than we give up. I am tested in this way all the time.

There have been many times when God has asked me to give my last, my only, and my all. But every time I have done so, I have ended up better off than I was before.

Offer up your best to God today, and you will see His character, that He is El-Shaddai—the God of more than enough (See Exodus 6:3).