Prayer Works Morning Devotion: August 20, 2025

Thus Says The Lord-Who God Says He Is, His Commandments and Promises

Exodus 4:10-17 "So the Lord Said To Him 'Who Has Made Man's Mouth? Or Who Makes The Mute, The Deaf, The Seeing, Or The Blind? Have Not I The Lord? "

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Good morning, family, welcome. God bless you and I pray that you've all had a wonderful night's rest and are refreshed and ready to take on today and to walk in the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus and with the peace that surpasses our understanding.  

Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Heavenly Father, we come before you. Thank you for this day. Thank you for your mercies which are many, your grace which is plentiful for us. We thank you that you have woken us from sleep, given us yet another day to recognize you and to give you all honor and glory.  

We thank you, Father, that you have given us the confidence to know and walk with your truths knowing that you go before us, you make our crooked ways straight and you lead us on the path of righteousness for your namesake.  

And thank you, Father, for the privilege and honor once again to come before your children and give a word that you've given to me. And I pray, Father, at this point that you move me aside and you take control through Holy Spirit. 

Let Holy Spirit lead this call so that all on this call and all who will hear the recording will understand your topic and understand what it is that you are expecting of each of us. So I give you all honor and glory and I thank you, Father, for this day and it's in Jesus' name that we pray, Amen.  

Alright, family, today we are in the book of Exodus and just a recap for those that are only joining us today. We have started in the month of August, a theme that is called, thus says the Lord, who God says He is, His commandments and His promises.  

And this is just a reminder that God does not change. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. And so yesterday our sister, Vicky, eloquently brought forth the history of Moses, which is where we are right now.  

We're discussing Moses and his journey, journey from birth and how he was raised in the Egyptian palace and how knowing that he was Hebrew and having an affinity for the Hebrews that one day he came across a guard, an Egyptian guard that was beating a Hebrew and he killed the Egyptian guard.  

And then the next day he happened to see two Hebrews arguing and one said, who made you Lord over us? Are you going to kill us as you kill the Egyptian? So now knowing that as we like to say, the jig is up, that he was called out, Moses fled.  

And so for all the years that he ran from Egypt out into the desert, he lived the life pretty much on what we would say is the lamb. He was on the run. But he came upon some shepherd girls and he ultimately was brought into their home and he married the Zipporah, I believe. 

And one day he went out into the mountains of Sinai and he came upon a burning bush. And the bush again was something that spoke to him because the bush itself wasn't being consumed by fire as food or any type of material that's of earthly designation would be consumed.  

It was just there and the fire was around it. And so it intrigued him and he went and we know the story that God told him to take his shoes off because the place that he was standing is holy ground.  

Here we speed up and God was trying to get Moses to go to save his people, to bring his people out. He wanted to use him to bring his people out. And so we pick up from where God yesterday was speaking to him in our verse yesterday and asking him to go forward to Egypt to bring his people out.  

And so today we start with verses 10. We are an Exodus 4:10 -17. And so I'm going to read and it says, then Moses said to the Lord, oh my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.  

So the Lord said to him, who has made man's mouth or who makes the mute the deaf the seeing or the blind have not I the Lord. Now therefore go and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.  

But he said, and this is Moses, oh my Lord, please send by the hand of whom ever else you may send. So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, is not Aaron the Levite your brother?  

I know that he can speak well and look, he is also coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and I will teach you what you shall do.  

So he shall be your spokesman to the people and he himself shall be as a mouth for you and you shall be to him as God. And you shall take this rod in your hand with which you shall do the science.  

So let's break down what's going on here. Moses has doubts about his ability to do what God is asking him to do and isn't that something that we tend to do? God calls us to do certain things for him, for his kingdom.  

He calls this out. Remember, he gives us all kinds of gifts that are buried inside of us that sometimes we don't even realize we have. But we still tend to make the excuses, well why me?  

Is this really what God wants? Why is he asking me to do this? So here we can see that Moses is also going through this same dilemma. He is making excuses for the fact that he is not an eloquent speaker and he also is saying that he is slow of tongue and that he would prefer that God sends somebody else instead of him.  

So here what does God do? God says, well wait you have a brother and he's on his way to you and I am going to use his mouth and I'm going to tell you what to say to him and he will be your spokesman and it says here that he will be glad in his heart when he sees you because he's coming from Egypt to look for you.  

So he will do what you say in other words and also that the rod that Moses had in his hand is what he is going to use to show the signs that God will display. So we ask the question why would someone be born with speech impediment?  

Why would someone have a problem being able to speak or having any kind of disability at all? If God is omnipotent then the question is how does he allow somebody to be born disabled or handicapped? 

This is something that falls under sin. When a person is disabled or handicapped, whatever the degree of their handicapped is, it's a symptom of original sin and what came into the world when Adam and Eve sinned.  

Man's disobedience to God by interpretation has brought with it sickness and imperfection and disease. We can look that up in Romans 5:12. The world became less man or blemished when sin entered the world.  

And the reason that God allows people to be disabled or handicapped is that such conditions themselves are a result of man's rebellion against God. So we live in a world where it's what we like to term as cause and effect.  

And it is a fallen world that we live in. Jesus has said that this world in this world you will have trouble. So if you have trouble that would include disabilities and handicaps because we know when Jesus walks the earth, that there were many people that he had to hear because of imperfection.  

Now for us, if you look on social media, you know, you can see what I like to term as perfect people. Everyone tends to want to put their best foot forward. Everyone wants to show themselves as looking great and always being their best in front of the camera.  

But you know, sometimes when you think about it and I'm not knocking anyone, don't misunderstand me, but you know, sometimes you would see someone who is absolutely beautiful out in the world, but you wouldn't want to wake up next to them the next morning. Just saying it takes a lot to get people to cover over the imperfections. And so again, all of this comes from original sin. Another reason also that God allows handicapped or disabled individuals is because he does mighty works in them.  

And like in the case of Lazarus, Lazarus was sick and he fell asleep and Jesus came and restored him and it brought God glory and it brought Jesus glory. So Lazarus through his death and resurrection, if you will, brought glory to God.  

And so when we look at Moses, and what Moses ultimately was being tasked with, just imagine this person who was not eloquent, who admitted he had slow speech, slow tongue would be the one that we see even at the precipice of the red sea thing.  

Saying behold your salvation and being confident in what God had asked him to do. I mean, how difficult is it to lead millions and millions of people out of bondage and have to be subjected to the kinds of taunts that the Israelites put him through.  

And so again, all this to bring glory to God. Also another reason that God sometimes allows disability or handicapped is for his plan. Sometimes as we know in 1 Corinthians 1:27-29, God chooses the weak things of this world for his special purpose.  

God chooses the foolish things of the world to shame the wise. So God chooses the weak things of the world to shame the strong and he also chooses the loley things of this world, the despised things, the things that are not to nullify the things that are so that no one can boast in him.  

We know that God doesn't need us. He doesn't need our human might or our skill or our fitness to accomplish his work. He can use any disability, any handicapped just as well. He can use children through the praise of children and infants.  

You have established a stronghold against your enemies to silence the foe of the avenger and the avenger and that's in Psalms 8:2. He can use anyone remembering this truth can help handicapped believers to maintain focus on who God is.  

It's easy to curl up in a ball and have pity parties when life makes no sense but Christ's power is made perfect in weakness. So in a sense when Jesus came into the world he became voluntarily disabled.  

Just think about that for a minute. Let that let that resonate that Jesus became voluntarily disabled. And why do I say that? Because Jesus is God. Jesus came down. He emptied himself and made himself small to be with man to save us.  

He handicapped himself, if you will, as he left the perfection of heaven to live among us sinners on earth. He laid aside his glory to wrap himself in an inglorious humanity. Jesus took on human flesh in all its frailty and vulnerability.  

He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant on as his cloak. The Son of God took in our human condition and suffered on our behalf. And that's why we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses as it says in Hebrews 4:15. 

Rather we have an intercessor who understands our weaknesses, relates to our disabilities and identifies with our pain. God also promises that disabilities and handicaps are temporary. 

Why? Because those conditions are a part of this fall and world. Not the world to come. For God's children, those who by faith in Christ are made children of God have a bright and glorious future.  

When Jesus first came, he gave us a taste of good things yet to come. People brought to him all who were ill, with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, and demon possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them all.  

When Jesus comes the second time, then will the eyes of the blind be open and the ears of the deaf unstopped? Then will the lame leap like a deer and the mute tongue shout for joy. And you can read that in Isaiah 35:5-6.  

So when we look at Moses and where he came from and what he became, we give God glory because it's only through God's hand, God's guidance, and God putting the words into Moses' mouth that Moses and Aaron were able to lead millions of Egyptians out of bondage.  

And although those Israelites that wandered in the wilderness for 40 days weren't able to see the Promised Land because of their lack of faith, we today family have the Bible and that we are able to look back at all of the adventures, if you will, of the Israelites, the examples of their disbelief. 

The examples of their doubts, and see where it got them, and in our own lives work to believe, work to trust, work to understand what God has in store for us each and every day. And so this is a lesson for us, not to shy away when God calls us out.  

Maybe God is tugging at your heart, asking you to do something, maybe it's to be a part of the Bible study, maybe it's to do a morning devotion, maybe it's to pray on Friday. Don't shy away.  

Don't worry about whether or not you can speak well. Don't worry about whether or not you have a disability because in the end, God doesn't call those that are equipped as much as he equips those that he calls.  

And so if you feel that you are lacking, pray for your lack to be covered and God will give you what you need to do the work that he's calling you out to do. There's a few scriptures this morning that kind of touched me that I want to leave you with that are also in relation to this theme this morning.  

And the first one is number 23:19. If God is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should repent, has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken and will he not make it good?  

And then James 1:17, every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. And then Hebrews 13:8, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.  

And Psalms 91:4, he will cover you with his feathers and under his wings you may seek refuge. His faithfulness is a shield and a bulwark. Hebrews 6:17-18, in the same way God desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise, the unchangeableness of his purpose, interposed with an oath. 

So that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope that is set before us.  

Then Deuteronomy 7:9, know therefore that the Lord your God, he is God and faithful God and the faithful God who keeps his covenant and his loving kindness to a thousandth generation with those who love him and keep his commandments.  

Psalm 25:10, all the paths of the Lord are loving kindness and truth to those who keep his covenant and his testimonies. And finally, Psalm 146:5-6, how blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob whose hope is in the Lord his God.] 

Who made heaven and earth the sea and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever. Let's pray, family. Gracious and loving heavenly Father, thank you for this word. Thank you for filling our hearts today with confidence. 

Not just confidence, but peace in our hearts, Father, when there is so much turmoil in this world, so many things to upset our nature and so easily can we be shifted because we are sinful creatures, but we look to the hills, Father, because this is where our help comes from.  

We look to you knowing that you see us, you even know our names. And so we thank you, Father, for being our Abba Father. We give you all praise, honor and glory this day and in the days to come, because you walk with us, you lead us, you guide us, you comfort us.  

And even though we may walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we will fear no evil because your rod and your staff, they comfort us. Thank you, Father, for being so faithful.  

Thank you for being so loving. Thank you for being so kind. Thank you for blessing us with your word. Thank you, Father, that we have in your word the steps that we need to take, the comfort and the peace that we can receive if we believe and if we come to you in faith.  

Help us, Father, each and every day to walk by faith and not by sight. Help us to continue on this path of righteousness that you have let us down, that you have brought us to because we are all on this call on the daily devotion because we like to devote our mornings to you and keep you in the forefront of our day.  

Why? Because you lead us and guide us. So we thank you, Father, for the peace that surpasses our understanding. We thank you for Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, and we thank you that through him we are reconciled to you and that you see us as your children.  

Now as we go forth in this day, we praise your holy name. We thank you that you are going to lead us and protect us. Bless the works of our hands as we go about our day. Give us the words to speak to those that we may come in contact with.  

Help calm our hearts and our spirits from the things that may frighten us because you say to be anxious for nothing. And so we are praying to be anxious for nothing. But in all things, bring forth prayer and supplication to you who can be the one that gives us the peace and the comfort that we need.  

So thank you, Father, again, for this day. Now as we leave your presence this day, and we leave this call, I should say we plan not to leave your presence, Father, but we leave this call knowing that you are going to lead us not into temptation. 

But deliver us from the evil one because yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever in Jesus' name, we pray, Amen.  

Amen, family, I pray that you will have a blessed day in the Lord and pray that you allow the Lord to order your steps in all that you will do this day. Give him honor, give him glory, and allow him to do the work in you.  

Allow him to use you according to his will so that he will receive glory from the works that he is commissioning you to do. Thank you and have a blessed day family, go and peace. We love you.