Being in covenant with God has great advantages!
Exodus 6:5-6, Psalm 105:37
Israel had a covenant with God! Being in covenant with God has great advantages! One advantage is He hears our cries! Exodus 6:5-6 states Israel cried out to God and God heard and responded. It says, “And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. Therefore, say to the children of Israel: ‘I am the Lord; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.’” WHO IS CRYING TO GOD WITH SACRIFICES OF TEARS ON GOD’S TRADING FLOOR FOR THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT TO ANSWER FOR MULTITUDES STILL IN BONDAGE? Did the Israelites cry out to God to be rescued? Yes, they did! Can we ask God to redeem us from decades of neglect, pain, anguish, and great burdens if indeed that is our condition? YES!!
Those with long-standing illness and emotional trauma need to see the Almighty Redeemer work in their circumstances just as God’s family did in Moses’ time! Moses faced three million broken, bruised and bleeding slaves. They had been impoverished and destitute for generations. Who but God could be the hospital, the Redeemer and Transformer of such a group with such a background of hardship? God was for Moses and He was for the Israelites. And we must move forward knowing that He is for us too! He covenanted to do for us exactly what He did for Moses! Psalm 105:37 should be written on the heart of every believer. “He also brought them out with silver and gold, And there was none feeble among His tribes.” Psalm 105:37 is a powerful and often glanced- over portion of Scripture. If we meditate on its layers of meaning, it may prove to have life-changing implications for us too. For many this verse has been under-represented in our past study of the panorama of the exit of God’s people from Egypt. WE MUST CRY OUT FOR DELIVERANCE FROM POVERTY -your personal ‘Egypt.’ And He wants us to do it with our heads held high and faces set like flint toward His eternal purposes.
- The number 7 represents perfection, fullness and completion or completeness. God instituted the Sabbath on the 7th day of the week as a day of rest to signify His perfect and finished work of creation. (Gen 1:31; 2:1-3; Heb 4:4)
- Sabbath means to cease, desist, “rest”. Adam and Eve’s first day on earth was in God’s Sabbath rest, so also is man’s salvation found in “rest” by faith in Christ’s accomplished perfect work of redemption on the cross and not by works of any kind.
Pray that you will get a revelation of and enter into the rest that remains with the people of God. Pray that you will learn to do all things in Sabbath rest. (Exodus 20:8-11, Hebrews 3:7-4:11).