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The Lord Be With You Today! Exodus 16:11-15 The Lord said to Moses, "I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, 'At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.'" (Even when we express our needs inappropriately, even when we gripe in complaining and grumbling ways, the Lord hears us and chooses to supply our needs because of His great love for us. Like a loving father who sees the needs of his immature and defiant child, so the Lord sees the needs of His immature and disobedient people. Yearning for meat and bread in the desert where they are unable to supply these needs for themselves, the people have complained they have neither. Now the Lord Who Himself has brought them to this place of need chooses to supply their need, a situation of which He has been well aware would emerge long before the people even recognized the need. And His provision will be so extraordinary that the people will be forced to acknowledge the Lord as their source of supply and their God.) That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. (In the exact timing to meet the needs of His people, the annual flight of birds migrating from the Red Sea and the Mediterranean brings them to their landing right at the place of Israel's encampment. The Lord causes natural events to be used for His purposes when He comes to the aid of His people. The Lord also provides manna from heaven, a supernatural event, something never seen before. In His miraculous outreach to us today, He still causes both earth's resources and heaven's wonders to enter and impact the situations of need in our lives.) When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat." ( (To show His people His great power and to draw them to Himself, the Lord does a completely new thing, so new, in fact, that the people didn't know what it was they saw before them. The name for this new bread comes from their questioning among themselves, asking each other in wonder what it was, and that is the meaning of manna, what is it. For us manna is a picture of Christ, coming from heaven representing His heavenly source, small and thin representing His humble and low estate, appearing daily representing His continuous presence. The Lord still provides manna from heaven for us today, both literally and figuratively. Christ is our manna today from Whom we gain provision for all our physical and spiritual needs.) May the Lord richly bless you this day! In Christ's love, Blessings! Sally 513 254 3874

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The Lord Be With You Today! Exodus 19:2b-3 [T]hey entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain. . (The Israelites, having escaped Egypt, arrived at Mount Sinai after about 45 days of travels through the desert. Here, after the Lord having led them to this place, they camped in the presence of the Lord. Even when we have experienced desert travels today, the Lord's presence surrounds us as He leads us to Himself, to a meeting place with Him, and to His purposes for us.) Then Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain and said, (When the Lord leads us to the destination He has for us, to the mountain of His presence, we can be assured that, as He does here with Moses, He will make Himself found and heard, that He will call us to Himself, and that He will commune with us.) "This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel:" (The Lord refers to His people by both names of their patriarch to remind them He was with them before when they were living in disgrace in Egypt as slaves and now when they had become a mighty nation, just as He had been with Jacob when, because of his duplicity, had to flee in disgrace from his brother Esau's wrath and later when Jacob had grown into God's blessing and had been renamed by God and called Israel. The Lord knows who and what we are, both earlier in our immaturity and sin, and later as we grow and mature in strength in Him. The Lord is with us and draws us to Him and speaks to us in the earliest times of our disobedience and need right through the times when we have matured and have been led into a deeper walk with Him.) May the Lord richly bless you this day! In Christ's love, Blessings! Sally 513 254 3874

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The Lord Be With You Today! Exodus 16:6-8 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, "In the evening you will know that it was the Lord Who brought you out of Egypt, and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, (Moses and Aaron as the leaders of God's people told them that the Lord would provide their complete needs from evening through the morning and that the miraculous supply will make it clear to everyone that the Lord had delivered them to this place and that it is He Himself Who gives them what they need. The Lord still assures us today that He knows all our needs, that it is He Himself Who delivers us from our places of enslavement, and that it is He Himself Who is willing and able to abundantly supply us.) because He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?" (Moses reminded the people that he had not been the one responsible for bringing them to this desert place where they needed food. He wanted them to know that he, like they, was following the Lord's commands. This same message is for us today, to remember that the Lord Himself has led us to the places in our lives where we are in need, where we are uncomfortable, and where we have to call on Him to provide for us.) Moses also said, "You will know that it was the Lord when He gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning. . . ." (Now Moses reveals to the people that the Lord has promised He would provide quail for them each evening and manna each morning. And because this provision will be so extraordinary, quail in the desert and bread from heaven, they will know beyond any doubt that the Lord Himself has supplied their need out of His miraculous provision. Today, the Lord still provides the physical, emotional, and spiritual sustenance we need for our days. He calls us to open our eyes to see that it is He Himself and only He Who supplies our needs today. He still gives us the manna from heaven, the very Bread of Heaven, in the Person of Jesus Christ and the meat of His mighty Word.) May the Lord richly bless you this day! In Christ's love, Blessings! Sally 513 254 3874

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The Lord Be With You Today! Exodus 16:4b-5 "The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow My instructions. (The Lord uses the very circumstances based in great need to grow our faith and to strengthen us to trust in Him. When the Lord saw the people's need for food, He provided manna, something completely new under the sun, a food so far beyond what the Israelites could imagine, they could never even have asked for it. The Lord provides for us in ways today we also can't even imagine. Our responsibility is to lay our needs before Him and then allow Him to answer us in ways we couldn't know to ask for.) On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days." (So that the people could keep the Sabbath day, a command that the Lord had given His people as a sign of His covenant with them, He told them to refrain from gathering manna on the Sabbath day because their doubled supply would last them for both the sixth and seventh week days. The people would not need to gather manna on the Sabbath because the Lord had already made provision for their needs on the sixth day. What a powerful picture the Lord gives us here of the connection between what the people needed for food and the Lord's Sabbath day of rest. This sign of His covenant with us is that the Sabbath day of rest first instituted at the seventh day of creation is meant to show us the Lord's complete provision for us. When we follow God's example of resting on the seventh day, not because He needed rest or necessarily because we need rest, and when we see His instructions to His people not to gather bread on the Sabbath, we are declaring to the Lord and to ourselves a reminder that God has made a covenant with mankind that He would provide salvation, that Christ's finished work of salvation is all we need and that, in fact, we can do nothing to add to His completed work.) May the Lord richly bless you this day! In Christ's love, Blessings! Sally 513 254 3874

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