Hebrews 11: 1- 40 Our lengthy text passage shows us what faith is, it reveals to us the exploits of faith and informs us that it is in faith that God created the world! The passage goes on to show us the exploits of faith that God worked through men like you and I. Those individuals we read about in the passage are examples to us. These are people who have walked before us, people whose stories show their strengths, weaknesses, successes and failures. They are called the cloud of witnesses. They are witnesses who cheer us on from the grand stands of heaven when we please God, do right, walk in love and fulfil our destinies. We need these examples and their stories in the Bible is worth getting acquainted with. We are meant to learn from them, that is what the wise will do. In Mathematics text books, before we get to the sums the students have to solve; there are samples or examples of the topics the students have to study and learn. The wisdom in showing examples is to help ...
Numbers 12:1-15 To be familiar with the right person or people has its benefits and advantages but overfamiliarity can cost us. People carry different graces, people have unique covenants with God, and people have sacrificed to different degrees one from another to operate in certain dimensions and degrees. It is through people God works on the earth in most cases. As a result, the grace on a vessel God is using should be respected. Moses was a prophet of God, specifically handpicked and chosen by God for a purpose; the purpose of delivering and leading God's people. He had the authority, the mandate and commission from God to do what he did- challenge Pharaoh for the freedom of the Israelites. Moses had divine presence with him, he heard clearly from God, and he was obedient to God. Exodus 3 Moses had life's experience, he was elderly when God called him to the assignment of bringing His people out of Pharoah's bondage, he had gone through due preparation. Such a man sh...