Exodus 14:16 "Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground." (With the Egyptian army at their heels and trapped with no place to run to escape, God's people were faced with an insurmountable situation, but the Lord had a plan all along, from the very beginning, to bring about the defeat of the enemies of His people. Now in the face of this impending danger and certain enslavement, if not certain death, He gives Moses instructions on what to do. As the Lord begins to execute His plan, He invites Moses to participate in His plan. The Lord God Who is mighty in battle still today always has a plan of escape for us, always has already prepared His path forward for us. Just as He invited Moses to stretch out his hand over the sea in a symbolic act of authority over what lay before him< the Lord also still invites us into the very center of His plans and summons us to be an active participant in walking out His plan, to take authority over what confronts us, as He Himself reveals His plan and implements and performs what He has intended to accomplish on our behalf.)
