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DON'T MURMUR

Text : Exodus 15:26.

He said, “If you will carefully obey the LORD your God, do what he sees to be right, listen to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then I won’t inflict on you all the diseases that I inflicted on the Egyptians, because I am the LORD your healer.”

I believe the Israelites' journey from the land of slavery to the promised land was recorded so we could learn from their errors and avoid committing same.

Just three days after God performed a miraculous deed that no one has heard of before, the Israelites  encountered another challenge. (Exodus 15:22-23).

Prior to that time, it was never heard in human history that the sea can divide into two to pave way for a road where over two thousands people can cross over to the other side. They couldn't swim through, there was no bridge to pass through and they couldn't turn back. Their enemies were just right behind them and will be too eager to finish them.

Three days after God parted the sea for them, they began to murmur against Him because they were thirsty and seriously in need of water. _And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?_ (Exodus 15:24).

The people murmured against Moses in chapter fifteen but in chapter sixteen, God said that they murmured against Him. At times, murmuring against man is tantamount to murmuring against God.

God is not oblivion to your needs or challenges, but He doesn't expect you to murmur them to Him. No good parents will appreciate a murmuring child. *God expects you to talk to Him about your needs and not to murmur about them.* 

It's just three days into the new year, chances are that you are already experiencing some challenges. Yes, God knows about them. Don't murmur about them, (either to man or to God,) be like Moses, cry to God about them and He will show you the way.

Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree, which he threw into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD presented to them a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested them._ (Exodus 15:25).

This year, the Lord is set to show you how to navigate through every situation if only you will cry out to Him.

 *Bible reading:*

 Exodus 14:1-25.

 *PRAYER FOCUS*

Father, I receive the grace to carry all my burdens to you in prayers and never to murmur in Jesus name.

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