1048. Aaron's Staff Becomes a Serpent — Exodus 7:1-13

1048.

​1. I Will Stretch Out My Hand

 

Today's Passage: Exodus 7:1-13

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Thank You for meeting me, LORD.
I welcome you into this place.
Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
Thank you for insight.

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• Prepare your heart - that means ask Him to open you to be able to listen well.
• Ask Jesus to bring you into the very presence of God Himself as you read instructions
• Imagine the characters in this passage.
• Are they facing a large enemy? or a challenge? 
• Have they followed God? or have they fled from His guidance?
• Are they trusting God?
• Are they experiencing pain, or loss?
• Imagine them as friends.
• What would you do if you were there beside them?
• Would you be willing to encourage them?
• What would you do if you were experiencing their story?
• Who would you turn to for guidance? God? A mentor? Satan?
• Ask God to show you how to lean on Him in times of attack, or challenge.
• Thank God for His presence with you right now.

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1. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pay close attention to this. I will make you seem like God to Pharaoh, and your brother, Aaron, will be your prophet.
2. Tell Aaron everything I command you, and Aaron must command Pharaoh to let the people of Israel leave his country.
3. But I will make Pharaoh's heart stubborn so I can multiply my miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.
4. Even then Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you. So I will bring down my fist on Egypt. Then I will rescue my forces — my people, the Israelites — from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.
5. When I raise my powerful hand and bring out the Israelites, the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD."

6. So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them.
7. Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three when they made their demands ot Pharoah.
8. Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, 
9. "Pharaoh will demand, 'Show me a miracle.' When he does this, say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down in front of Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.'"

10. So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did what the LORD had commanded them, Aaron threw down his staff  before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent!
11. Then Pharaoh called in his own wise men and sorcerers, and these Egyptian magicians did the same thing with their magic.
12. They threw down their staffs, which also became serpents! But then Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.
13. Pharaoh's heart, however, remained hard. He still refused to listen, just as the LORD had predicted. 
Exodus 7:1-13 NLT

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