FAITH CAPSULE: By seeing, believing is to receive the promises of God.
Exodus 14
Inability not to believe and receive what is in the word of God is the disability to receive the promises in the word of God.
Undeniable manifestation of miracles brought the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years, but they could not see deliverance in their journey to the Promised Land.
At a point in the journey, Pharaoh approached the Israelites, attempting to return Israelites to the bondage of Egypt.
Exodus 14:10 records, “And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold the Egyptians marched after them. So, they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord.”
The Israelites were not able to see the promises of God in His word to deliver them.
In life, the inability to see in the promise in the word of God will provoke fear to become a victim of wicked agenda.
Inability to see promises in the word of God was the reason why Israelites saw fear at the approach of Egyptians with pursuing them with the attempt to return them to Egypt.
What a man sees outside of the word of God will have a direct effect on what man thinks, says to become of man.
The Israelites saw fear and spoke negatively.
The fear made the Israelites speak negatively to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” (Exodus 14:11-12)
The Israelites saw outside of the promise of God to see wrongly, spoke wrongly to end wrong.
In the journey of a year or the journey of life, the grace of God alone brought you this far in life.
Why is it so difficult for you to see that God alone is in control to see you further?
Think, ask to know if you have taken your eyes away from the promises in the word of God that is more than able to lead you through to your expected end?
Whatever a man behold is what a man shall eventually hold to and not become a victim of falling, failing, or faltering in the journey of life.
Moses responds to the negative confession of the Israelites when he states, “Do not be afraid. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” (Exodus 14:13)
God will not leave nor forsake anyone that sees, believe to receive in the word of God to claim the promise of God.
Prayer for today: Ask that by seeing, you believe, receive the promise of God to become of you.