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Day 22 or January the 22nd. Actions speak louder

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than words. Our thoughts today are focused in

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on Exodus chapter 14 verse 15. Then the Lord

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said to Moses, Why are you crying out to me?

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Tell the Israelites to move on. Now the big picture

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surrounding this verse. After the Passover, the

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Pharaoh finally agrees to the Hebrews leaving.

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As they leave Egypt, they would normally have

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turned left and headed north, but they didn't.

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Instead, they turned right and headed south.

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By taking this route, they miss the land of the

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Philistines, which was approximately the Gaza

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Strip of today, where the Philistines lived in

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those days. However, this obedience takes them

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to the Red Sea, for a miracle. God guided his

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people by a pillar of cloud by day, and a pillar

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of fire at night. Pharaoh soon realized that

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he had set free a vast army of free labour, so

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he arranged for a chariot army to chase after

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them. Already the Hebrews were moaning and asking

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why Moses had brought them this far, only for

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them to die. Moses took the initiative and told

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the people not to fear. All is in hand, and God

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will rescue us. What follows is one of the Old

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Testament's best known miracles. The sea opens

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up before the Hebrews, who safely cross on dry

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land. As the Egyptian army attempts to follow,

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the sea, which had been standing vertical, creating

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a pathway for the Hebrews to cross on dry land,

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falls back into place and drowns the whole Egyptian

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army. Now our action step for today. At this

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pivotal moment in history, Moses stands before

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the Red Sea with the Egyptian army in hot pursuit

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and God tells him to stop talking and start moving.

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Moses obeys and then God does his part. Truly

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there is a time for words and a time for action,

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a time for praying and a time for doing. It can

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often be a cop -out when we say that we'll pray

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for a situation, when really we should be doing

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something. Have you ever been praying instead

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of doing? Have you ever been doing instead of

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praying? Pray when you can't do, but do when

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you can.