Prayer Works Morning Devotion: August 25, 2025

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

Exodus 15:22-26 "If You Diligently Heed The Voice Of The Lord Your God And Do What Is Right In His Sight, Give Ear To His Commandments And Keep His Statues, I will Put Non Of The Diseases On You Which I Have brought On the Egyptians For I Am The Lord Who Heals You "

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Good morning, Father God, we thank you for this blessed day that you have given us. We thank you because you're such an Abba Father, we praise you Lord, we walk in your word, we walk in your wisdom, your knowledge, and your understanding.  

And we thank you Lord for just being our keeper, for being our corrector, our direction, our perfection, and our protection. This is the day that you have made, and we are rejoicing and being glad in it because of who you are in our lives, no matter what the world around us look like.  

We choose to let not our heart be troubled. We pray first in faith, and because Almighty God is our Father and His Son, Jesus is our Lord and Savior, we choose to trust and rule over all our hearts.  

We will seek His kingdom and His righteousness. All the things we need will be added to us because we are in your covenant. We are in the covenant with the Lord, our God, and we thank you Lord, for this day.  

We heal ourselves as members of your word, your truth, and your understanding, and your guidance. And we ask you Lord, that as we give the Word that you put in our hearts, that it will be a blessing to our brothers and sisters, as they seek your face more in you daily.  

We thank you for this day, Lord, in Jesus' name. My brothers and sisters, we thank you. We are in Exodus again this week, and as we begin, we're going to just give a little backing, getting to chapter Exodus 15, which is where we begin.  

But we're going to start with when the Lord says to Moses, I will put my word in your mouth, as you obey what I say to you. And he says, the Lord says to Moses in Exodus 4:21, when you return to Egypt, see that you performed before Pharaoh, all the wonders I have given you, the power to do.  

But I will harken his boars so that he will not let the people go. And this was what Moses was desiring, that Pharaoh would let the people go, but God had let him know, God Himself had heart and Pharaoh's heart.  

So, when he goes to Pharaoh, for the people to be released, there, he goes through the ten plagues, the first was water turned to blood, the frogs, the gnats, the flies, the plagues of the livestock, boils, hail, locust, darkness.  

And until these came, that's when it was that the first born would die. And in those things that they had gotten, this is when Pharaoh had to go through these things. And as he's going through them, it is when he finally gets to the death of the first born, that he lets them go.  

But as we remember, God said he hardened Pharaoh's heart. So Pharaoh let them go. And as the Israelites are taken on and getting things prepared to leave, Pharaoh is in mourning for his son and the first woman, because it was the first one of the men and the animals. 

As they prepare to go in their leaving, coming upon the red sea, they look back and they see that Pharaoh is pursuing after them. And with this, in chapter 13:18, it says, but God led the people around the way of the wilderness towards the red sea.  

And the Israelites went up out of the land of Egypt. And number 19 says, and Moses took the bones of Joseph, as we remember, but Joseph had died in this time. Or he had strictly sworn that Israelites say, surely God would be with you and you must carry my bones away from here with you.  

So they did take his bones with him. Then it says in 14:15, the Lord said to Moses, as they see the Egyptians coming after me. Why do you cry to me? Tell the people it is or to go forth.  

And at the sea, Moses lifts up his rod and stretched out his hand over the sea and divides it. And the Israelites go across on dry land. 17 says, and I behold, what hardened makes stubborn and strong the hearts of the Egyptians.  

And they shall go into the sea after them. And I will gain over Pharaoh and all his hosts his chariots and his fortunes. So now, as they're gone through the red sea, Pharaoh's coming behind him.  

The Lord gives Moses the instructions to that the people go for. We start in the 29th chapter, I mean, 29th verse of the 14 chapter of the Exodus. And it says, but the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground with the wall of water on their right hand and on their left.  

That day, the Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. And when the Israelites saw that the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put that trust in him and in Moses his servant.  

So we start and begin chapter 15. The song of Moses and Miriam his sister. Then Moses said, then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord. I was sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. 

Both horse and drivers, he is hurled into the sea. The Lord is my strength and my defense. He has become my salvation. He is my God and I will praise him, my Father God, and I will exalt him.  

The Lord is a warrior. The Lord is his name. Pharaoh's chariot in his army, he is hurled into the sea. The best of Pharaoh's officers are drowning in the red sea. The deep waters are covered in them.  

They sank to the deep depths like a stone. Your right hand Lord was majestic in power. Your right hand Lord shouted the enemy in the greatness of your majesty. You threw down those who oppressed you.  

You unleashed your burning anger. It consumed them like stubble by the blast of your nostrils the water piled up. The surging water stood up like a wall. The deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.  

The enemy boasted. I will consume, I will overtake them. I will devour the forge. I will guard them up. I will guard them myself on them. I will draw out my sword and my hand will destroy them.  

But you blew with your breath and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. Who among the daughters like you Lord? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders.  

You stretched your right hand and the earth swallowed your enemies. In your unfailing love, you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength, you will guard them to your holy dwellings.  

The nations will hear and tremble. Anguish will grip the people of Philistia. The chiefs of Eden will be terrified. The leaders of Moab will be seized with trembling. The people of Canaan will melt away.  

Terror and dread fall on them by the power of your arm. They will be as still as a stone until your people pass by. Lord, until the people you brought pass by, you will bring them in the land and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance, the place Lord you made for your dwelling.  

The sanctuary, Lord, your hands establish. The Lord reigns forever and ever. When barrels horses, chariots and horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought the water to see back over them, but the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.  

Then Miriam, the prophet, Aaron, sister took a tambourine in her hand and all the women followed her with tambourine and dancing. Miriam sang to them, sing to the Lord, voice highly exalted, both horse and driver.  

He is hurled into the sea. They gave God praise, Moses and the children of Israel. But in the scripture that I had today was Exodus 15:22-26, this is where we're coming to. Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the desert of Shure.  

For three days they traveled in the desert without bounding water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water because it was bitter. This is why the place is called Marah.  

So the people grumbled against Moses saying, what are we to drink? Then Moses cried out to the Lord and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water and the water became sweet.  

That the Lord issued a ruling instructions for them and put them to the test he said, if you listen carefully to the Lord, your God and do what is right in His eyes. If you pay attention to His commands and keep all His decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought out on the Egyptians, or I'm the Lord who heals you.  

As we listen to this story today, God is hard on Pharaohs heart. The people get to the Red Sea. They walk across on dry land. They see Pharaoh and his army drown. But then three days, three days after the miraculous power of the Almighty God, they began to grumble and complain.  

Do we see ourselves in this today? Do we allow three days to come about? Sometimes it's just right after God's powerful hand has worked in our lives. We forget, we so quickly forget and do the very things that we said Lord, help me in this today.  

I won't do this. I won't say this. I won't act this way. I will do this and so. Three days after they walked across on dry ground, they began to mumble and complain. God's people, Israel.  

He said, they were stiff neck and hard hearts. But yet we have these lessons in our lives and we still want to complain. When I was reading this, I thought about Elijah when he was on Mount Carmel, the great fire came up and consumed the sacrifice that they had been in all that he had placed in his sacrifice and swooped up the water.  

And then one woman, Jezebel, sent word that she was going to kill him because of what had happened with the Prophet. And he feared a woman, the breath in her body that belonged to the Almighty God that gave him the strength that he used to consume the peak of false prophets.  

And he ran away just after the power of God had worked in his life. But oh, how do we look at these things, these stories that God has given up? And yet we become so much so worse because in our lives, we see what God wants to do.  

What he does, our Jehovah Jireh who provides for us, our Jehovah Nissi, our covering, our banner, our Jehovah Rohi, our shepherd, the Lord, who is our shepherd and we lack no good things.  

He leads us besides the still waters, he restores our soul. He leads us in the path of the righteous for his namesake. Ye though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we should not fear evil, for he is always with us. He prepared the table before us in the presence of our enemies.  

The Lord anoints my head with oil and our cup runeth over to the overflow. Ye though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death. We will fear no evil for our art with us. Our rod and our staff be comforted with it.  

If it's our God, he is our El Shaddai. We will say of the Lord, thank you for your provision. Thank you for your grace. Teach us, Lord, how to take the lessons that we read so that we become a lamp around so that people will say, what must we do to be saved?  

So that they will see the goodness of the Lord in our lives so much so that we can say, this day, Lord, I walk in your blessing to be a light to my brothers and sisters, because we will have a time in our lives that we will be able to stand and say, God did this for me. 

So that I could be a testimony to you, because the words of our mouths or to be a blessing to our brothers and sisters, to learn, not to grumble and complain. If he said, study to be quiet, slow to speak, speak to hear, slow to anger, because most of the times if we burst out, we cannot take it back. 

Although we may want to, because best know what I meant is what we will say. But we will hear what we say it, and we want to bless our brothers and sisters. We want to be a light, we want to be a lamp. 

We want to seek the face of God in all that we do, and we want to know that according to his words, that he is leading us, he is guiding us, and he is helping us, as we prepare ourselves to be vessels of the Almighty, truthful God in our lives. 

Because we will come up against things that will make us want to forget, and want us not to remember, but we have to be steadfast in the words, be strong in the power of God in his might, so that as we put on his armor, that we walk in his words, and we will be able to say, we can do all things to Christ who gives us the strength. 

Because he is our God, he is our leader, he is our help, he is our strength, and we will know that we can sing the praises of God so that people will hear, understand, and believe that we serve the truth and Almighty God.  

Father God, we thank you today on the word that we have seen, knowing that Paul has already said in this verse, well, it's no good thing, when we desire to do good, evil is present, that that I desire to do, I don't, and that that I desire not to do, I do.  

So we will see, we will understand, and we will know that we are the children of the living God, and that if he brings us through on dry ground without the situations in our life, that we will know, we will understand and seek its face crying out, thank you all for this day. 

We have been alive, we have been alive, and then my brothers and sisters will be healed, and made to know that we can go through, as I said again, on the dry ground of the word of God, so that we choose and be prosperous and being in good health as our souls prosper in Jesus' name.

We praise him, we worship him, and we desire to walk in his Word, in Jesus' name, be blessed and have a prosperous and a blessed day, Amen.