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Day 22 or January 22. Actions speak louder than words. Our thoughts today are focused

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in on Exodus chapter 14 verse 15. Then the Lord said to Moses, Why are you crying out

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to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Now the big picture surrounding this verse. After

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the Passover, the Pharaoh finally agrees to the Hebrews leaving. As they leave Egypt,

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they would normally have turned left and headed north, but they didn't. Instead, they turned

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right and headed south. By taking this route, they miss the land of the Philistines, which

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was approximately the Gaza Strip of today, where the Philistines lived in those days.

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However, this obedience takes them to the Red Sea, for a miracle. God guided His people

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by a pillar of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire at night. Pharaoh soon realized that

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he had set free a vast army of free labor, so he arranged for a chariot army to chase

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after them. Already the Hebrews were moaning and asking why Moses had brought them this

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far only for them to die. Moses took the initiative and told the people not to fear. All is in

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hand and God will rescue us. What follows is one of the Old Testament's best-known

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miracles. The sea opens up before the Hebrews, who safely cross on dry land. As the Egyptian

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army attempts to follow, the sea, which had been standing vertical, creating a pathway

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for the Hebrews to cross on dry land, falls back into place and drowns the whole Egyptian

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army.

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Now our action step for today. At this pivotal moment in history, Moses stands before the

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Red Sea, with the Egyptian army in hot pursuit, and God tells him to stop talking and stop

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moving. Moses obeys and then God does his part. Truly there is a time for words and

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a time for action, a time for praying and a time for doing. It can often be a cop-out

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when we say that we'll pray for a situation, when really we should be doing something.

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Have you ever been praying instead of doing? Have you ever been doing instead of praying?

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Pray when you can't do, but do when you can.