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Exodus chapter 17 verse 12.

But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it while

Aaron and Herr held up his hands one on one side and the other on the other side.

So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. You may or may not

know the context behind this passage is the people of Israel are in the middle of

battle and as long as Moses' hands are

lifted to God in prayer on this mountain then the people of God are experiencing success in battle.

But then when his hands come down, the people of God are struggling in battle.

So Aaron and her alongside Moses make it possible for those hands to stay up.

They give him, make it possible for him to sit and then this picture Aaron on one side, on the other and they keep his hands steady and

up so that the people of God experience victory and in this picture oh there's so many great things about this picture, but I want to encourage us to think specifically in our lives about the fact that we need help from others.

So ultimately, yes, we need help from God.

And yet God ordains that we lean on others in order to help us in our relationship with God.

And in the battles, so to speak, that we face in this world none of us is called to live the

Christian life in isolation.

We need people around us, people of God, people in whom the spirit dwells, who are

spurring us on in the battle, who are helping us in the battle, who are holding

our arms up in the everyday battles we face with sin and temptation around us.

Christian community, specifically in the church as we see in the New Testament is non-negotiable, essential for every single one of us.

So let that inform your praying today in multiple ways, so we pray, God, we pray for other followers of Christ around us

that you would use them to spur us on toward you that you would use other

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