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Planned Plots

  ” Your hand will find all Your enemies; Your right hand will find those who hate You. For they intended evil against You; They devised a plot which they are not able to perform. “ ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭21‬:‭8‬, ‭11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ If there is always an absolute foreknowledge of the limits of human plots, there will be a decorum with the planning of their schemes and the seriousness they often attract. Particularly, when the enemies are reigning with their wicked schemes, the hands of the righteous are often tied; and the promises of the Lord are mostly considered as delayed, or sometimes denied. But the psalmist, drawing from personal experience, claims the right hands of the Lord will find the enemies. For examples, the planned plots of Pharaoh against the Israelites were aborted at the Red Sea by the right hands of the Lord. Needless to count the myriads of other planned plots against the righteous, like the plots of Haman, Ahithophel, Judas, and Herod. It implies that only the counsel of the Lo...

Wilderness Way

  ” So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.“ ‭‭Exodus‬ ‭13‬:‭18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ The wilderness way in life is always not a fashionable way, because it is difficult, stressful, and long. Notwithstanding, it was God’s choice for the Israelites for its offer of fellowship opportunities. And something great always happens whenever the people of God give all distractions away to gather in fellowship with God. For the Israelites, in the first place, the adopted wilderness way offered a burial ground for the Egyptians in the Red Sea. Likewise, when believers take the, albeit difficult, stressful, and long, wilderness exposure with grace, they open up the opportunities for the manifestation of God’s glory and the declaration of His majesty over all the crafty manipulation of the enemies. And speaking of the privilege of procession in orderly ranks, the wilderness way provides the power of ...