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Exodus chapter 14, verse 14.

The Lord will fight for you and you have only to be silent. That is a great verse. Picture

the scene you've got the people of Israel, they've fled from, been delivered from,

slavery in Egypt. God is leading them the pillar of cloud by day, fire by night, he leads them to the edge of the

red sea, which is interesting because the Egyptian army by now is regretting what they have done

and they're trying to overtake the Israelites and God leads them to basically a dead end.

They've got this massive body and water in front of them and behind them is an Egyptian army that wants to overtake them and so they start to panic.

Say what do we do? We're about to be overtaken. This is going to be worse for us again.

And God says to them, uh... This is going to be worse for us again.

And God says to them, just be silent.

The Lord is going to fight for you.

And what happens after that? God does what only God can do. He splits that sea in half.

So you got a wall of water on two sides and he leads the Egyptians through the Red Sea on dry land, through the sea on land.

How is that possible? That's only possible because of the power of God.

They get to the other side and the Egyptians are like, okay, we're gonna follow after him,

but that was not a good idea because the water comes crashing down over the Egyptians. And indeed what

God had said in Exodus 1414 proved true. Just like his problems has always proved true, the Lord will fight for you.

He fought for his people and all they had to do was be silent.

So think about the struggles that you're facing, the challenges you are walking through,

the things in your life where you don't see a way out, you don't see a way through this or that obstacle.

And this is where I just want to encourage you in prayer today to look to the God who fights for his people and

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