Stand - When you feel like retreating

Exodus 14: 10- 14 NLT 10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. 11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”

13 Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

Fear magnifies the devil while faith exalts God

TRUTH: If God brought you to this, He will bring you through it.

God will purposefully lead you to places where trusting in Him is required.

1. Don’t Be Afraid

Exodus 13 NLT 21 The Lord went ahead of them. He guided them during the day with a pillar of cloud, and he provided light at night with a pillar of fire. This allowed them to travel by day or by night. 22 And the Lord did not remove the pillar of cloud or pillar of fire from its place in front of the people. 

In the place you find yourself- There will always be two realities. 

1) Pharaoh and he represents Satan, demons, darkness
2) The Red Sea represents natural circumstances on this broken earth
3) And what’s the third enemy.. It’s the sneaky one in all of us- Israel’s slave mentality

2. Stand Firm

2 Chron 20:12b NIV We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”