TOMORROW!
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.’†Exodus 8:1-2
How well do you know the life of Moses? If you read the book of Exodus, you will find Moses was born when Pharaoh was killing all the baby boys of the Hebrew women. But the Egyptian midwives feared God and they did not do what Pharaoh had ordered in killing all the newborn boys. When Moses was born, his mother hid him for three months and then she put him in a basket close to the Nile River and baby Moses was found by Pharaoh's daughter. A coincidence? Never! God knows all our “tomorrows.†After Moses had grown up, he killed an Egyptian who had been beating a Hebrew slave. Pharaoh found out about the killing and tried to kill Moses, but he fled to another country.
All during this time, the Israelites were still in slavery and in bondage to the Egyptians. They kept crying out to God for their deliverance. Meanwhile, Moses married a daughter of a prominent man in Midian. Moses became a shepherd for his father-in-law for 40 years. One day Moses was in the desert near Mount Horeb and he saw a bush burning and he went to see why it was not being destroyed.
“Do not come any closer,†God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.†Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.†At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey . . . So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.†Exodus 3:5-8, 10
All the time Moses had been a shepherd, he was being prepared and trained by God. Imagine how much time Moses was alone with God as a shepherd tending the sheep in the desert for his father-in-law. All those years in the desert were not wasted years, but used to train and prepare Moses for the assignment that God had planned for him to rescue and take His people out of Egypt. Moses had been called to take the Israelites through a desert to go to their promised land for their future “tomorrows.â€
I know you may feel like the days, months or years that you are having marriage problems are being wasted, but may you never forget that God will use these times as nuggets of gold in the future. May you never forget a promise that God has given His children, that He will restore what the enemy has taken from you. (Joel 2:25- 27)
God has a plan and purpose for your entire life. I pray that you will seek the Lord with all your heart, soul and strength. Often when you are going through the hardest days and the darkest nights in your desert, God will speak to you when you cry out to Him with all your heartache and tears. God will change your circumstances in His perfect timing. He is never late. He is wanting you to surrender your life to Him first and follow His plan.
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul… Deuteronomy 10:12
Moses debated with God, telling Him that he was not qualified, as you, I and many others have done for centuries when God gives you an assignment. God is in the equipping business, He wants you to be available and He will work through you. Remember the saying, “Not I, but Christ.â€
So Moses returned to Egypt and did what the Lord told him to do each and every time. God explained to Moses what He was going to do. Moses had a message for Pharaoh, “Let my people go!†Do you remember how God sent the ten different plagues on the Egyptians? May I focus on one for today, the frogs!
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your officials.’†Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’†Exodus 8:1-5
Can you imagine frogs everywhere? What do you think Pharaoh did? He called the magicians and they were able to have frogs invade Egypt also, so he was not impressed. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron to talk to them again.
Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD.†Moses said to Pharaoh, “I leave to you the honor of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile.†“Tomorrow,†Pharaoh said. Moses replied, “It will be as you say, so that you may know there is no one like the LORD our God.†Exodus 8:8-10
Tomorrow! Why would Pharaoh wait until tomorrow living with frogs everywhere? Why would your spouse continue to live in sin day after day when God is speaking to them, using many different ways to give them warnings of their ungodly lifestyle and disobedience to God's Word? Believe that God is trying to get your spouse's attention, but unfortunately your spouse wants one more night with the frogs or the fun or living like a fool as it is written in Proverbs.
Are you living with any frogs in your own house? I know it is easy to point fingers at your spouse, but what about your own frogs of despair, hopelessness, lack of faith, anger, unforgiveness or your lack of commitment to praying and special time with the Lord daily? How many times has the Lord been trying to get your attention and you keep procrastinating or saying “tomorrow?’ Do you and your spouse have something else in common besides being one flesh? Do you both procrastinate in doing what the Lord wants you to do to get victory and freedom in Jesus Christ and restoration of your marriage?
Tomorrow! Imagine how many times we tell the Lord we will call someone tomorrow that the Lord keeps putting on our mind, or send a card, or talk to someone who needs hope and encouragement. Tomorrow! I pray that the Lord will remind you of the frogs and Pharaoh’s answer, “tomorrow†in the future. My prayer for your marriage is that both you and your spouse will stop saying “tomorrow†when the Lord tells you to do something. Instead you will both say, “Yes, Lord, I will do it right now.â€
So, as the Holy Spirit says “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did†. . . But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. Hebrews 3:7-8, 13
Satan lies to each of us in so many ways each day. But one very powerful way he can destroy Christians and so many others is by telling us to say we will do something, “tomorrow.†How many times do we never do it? Please remember to pray specifically that your husband or wife will be obedient to the Lord's voice and wooing today, not tomorrow! God's Word for Pharaoh was, “Let my people go.†That is our heart's cry for all prodigal spouses. Your spouse will be set free from captivity by the Lord and then they will be able to worship the Lord and go to their promised land, their healed marriage TODAY!
Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead. During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested. Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.†Exodus 12:30-32
Have a blessed day,
Charlyne Steinkamp
Rejoice Marriage Ministries, Inc.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.’†Exodus 8:1-2
How well do you know the life of Moses? If you read the book of Exodus, you will find Moses was born when Pharaoh was killing all the baby boys of the Hebrew women. But the Egyptian midwives feared God and they did not do what Pharaoh had ordered in killing all the newborn boys. When Moses was born, his mother hid him for three months and then she put him in a basket close to the Nile River and baby Moses was found by Pharaoh's daughter. A coincidence? Never! God knows all our “tomorrows.†After Moses had grown up, he killed an Egyptian who had been beating a Hebrew slave. Pharaoh found out about the killing and tried to kill Moses, but he fled to another country.
All during this time, the Israelites were still in slavery and in bondage to the Egyptians. They kept crying out to God for their deliverance. Meanwhile, Moses married a daughter of a prominent man in Midian. Moses became a shepherd for his father-in-law for 40 years. One day Moses was in the desert near Mount Horeb and he saw a bush burning and he went to see why it was not being destroyed.
“Do not come any closer,†God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.†Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.†At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey . . . So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.†Exodus 3:5-8, 10
All the time Moses had been a shepherd, he was being prepared and trained by God. Imagine how much time Moses was alone with God as a shepherd tending the sheep in the desert for his father-in-law. All those years in the desert were not wasted years, but used to train and prepare Moses for the assignment that God had planned for him to rescue and take His people out of Egypt. Moses had been called to take the Israelites through a desert to go to their promised land for their future “tomorrows.â€
I know you may feel like the days, months or years that you are having marriage problems are being wasted, but may you never forget that God will use these times as nuggets of gold in the future. May you never forget a promise that God has given His children, that He will restore what the enemy has taken from you. (Joel 2:25- 27)
God has a plan and purpose for your entire life. I pray that you will seek the Lord with all your heart, soul and strength. Often when you are going through the hardest days and the darkest nights in your desert, God will speak to you when you cry out to Him with all your heartache and tears. God will change your circumstances in His perfect timing. He is never late. He is wanting you to surrender your life to Him first and follow His plan.
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul… Deuteronomy 10:12
Moses debated with God, telling Him that he was not qualified, as you, I and many others have done for centuries when God gives you an assignment. God is in the equipping business, He wants you to be available and He will work through you. Remember the saying, “Not I, but Christ.â€
So Moses returned to Egypt and did what the Lord told him to do each and every time. God explained to Moses what He was going to do. Moses had a message for Pharaoh, “Let my people go!†Do you remember how God sent the ten different plagues on the Egyptians? May I focus on one for today, the frogs!
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your officials.’†Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’†Exodus 8:1-5
Can you imagine frogs everywhere? What do you think Pharaoh did? He called the magicians and they were able to have frogs invade Egypt also, so he was not impressed. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron to talk to them again.
Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD.†Moses said to Pharaoh, “I leave to you the honor of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile.†“Tomorrow,†Pharaoh said. Moses replied, “It will be as you say, so that you may know there is no one like the LORD our God.†Exodus 8:8-10
Tomorrow! Why would Pharaoh wait until tomorrow living with frogs everywhere? Why would your spouse continue to live in sin day after day when God is speaking to them, using many different ways to give them warnings of their ungodly lifestyle and disobedience to God's Word? Believe that God is trying to get your spouse's attention, but unfortunately your spouse wants one more night with the frogs or the fun or living like a fool as it is written in Proverbs.
Are you living with any frogs in your own house? I know it is easy to point fingers at your spouse, but what about your own frogs of despair, hopelessness, lack of faith, anger, unforgiveness or your lack of commitment to praying and special time with the Lord daily? How many times has the Lord been trying to get your attention and you keep procrastinating or saying “tomorrow?’ Do you and your spouse have something else in common besides being one flesh? Do you both procrastinate in doing what the Lord wants you to do to get victory and freedom in Jesus Christ and restoration of your marriage?
Tomorrow! Imagine how many times we tell the Lord we will call someone tomorrow that the Lord keeps putting on our mind, or send a card, or talk to someone who needs hope and encouragement. Tomorrow! I pray that the Lord will remind you of the frogs and Pharaoh’s answer, “tomorrow†in the future. My prayer for your marriage is that both you and your spouse will stop saying “tomorrow†when the Lord tells you to do something. Instead you will both say, “Yes, Lord, I will do it right now.â€
So, as the Holy Spirit says “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did†. . . But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. Hebrews 3:7-8, 13
Satan lies to each of us in so many ways each day. But one very powerful way he can destroy Christians and so many others is by telling us to say we will do something, “tomorrow.†How many times do we never do it? Please remember to pray specifically that your husband or wife will be obedient to the Lord's voice and wooing today, not tomorrow! God's Word for Pharaoh was, “Let my people go.†That is our heart's cry for all prodigal spouses. Your spouse will be set free from captivity by the Lord and then they will be able to worship the Lord and go to their promised land, their healed marriage TODAY!
Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead. During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested. Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.†Exodus 12:30-32
Have a blessed day,
Charlyne Steinkamp
Rejoice Marriage Ministries, Inc.
