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I want to welcome you tonight to the prayer meeting.
Tonight I want to begin by spending a few minutes reflecting back on this past Sunday morning.
If you weren’t with us Sunday, we started our Christmas series, “The Reason for the Season”.
And what we learned is, while there are many reasons people celebrate Christmas, there are some key biblical reasons that we should celebrate Christmas.
So, what are those reasons?
Well the first reason we looked at on Sunday was that Christmas is a season of promise.
In other words, Christmas is a reminder of a promise made and a promise kept.
A promise that God made in following the fall of mankind.
The promise was that one day God would send a savior to redeem mankind and save him from his sin.
A promise that God kept and fulfilled through the birth of God’s Son, Jesus Christ.
And that’s why we should celebrate Christmas.
We celebrate because our God is a promise keeper.
We celebrate Christmas because when we failed to keep our word, God kept HIs.
The Apostle Paul puts it like this:
Aren’t you thankful for a God tonight?
Aren’t you thankful that we serve a promise keeper?
But the truth is, God has made and kept more than the promise of Christmas.
The truth is, God has made a lot of promises that he continues to keep and will keep.
For example, when Jesus ascended into heaven, He promised that one day He would return.
He promised He would come back.
He said, “I’ll be back”.
Now, we haven’t experienced that promise yet, but we know God has an amazing track record of keeping promises.
So, here’s what I want to do tonight.
For the next few minutes I want to look at another promise of God.
Another promise God, and another promise we can count on.
And the reason I want to do this, is because as we learned on Sunday, the enemy has a way of trying to trick us into thinking that God isn’t a God of promise.
That God doesn’t keep His Word.
The enemy wants us to doubt God.
Tonight, I want us all leaving here with certainty and confidence, knowing that whatever we are facing, whatever is going on in our lives, that we serve a God of promise, a God we can count on.
So, here’s the plan.
For the next few moments, we’re going to walk through another promise, I’m going to share some thoughts, and then we are going to end tonight in our prayer groups praying for this promise to come to fruition in our lives.
Because the fact is, God not only makes promises, He keeps them as well.
With that said, here’s the promise I want us to consider.
The promise is found in .
The promise comes as God is leading the Israelites out of their captivity in Egypt and their backs are against the wall.
Because as the Israelites are fleeing Egypt, the Egyptians are hot on their tale.
But that’s not their only problem.
Because not only are the Egyptians behind them, there is a sea in front of them, and now they are trapped.
Listen to how the Bible describes it:
Let me ask you something, “Have you ever felt that way?
Have you ever been in a situation where you felt like your back was against he wall?
Where you felt like enemy was bearing down on you, trying to take you out.
Trying to take your family out.
Trying to take your marriage out.
Trying to take your kids out.
Have you ever felt trapped with nowhere left to go?”
Maybe that’s where some of you are tonight.
And if that’s you, here’s the good news.
We serve a God of promise.
Because in the midst of their trouble, listen to how Moses responds to their cry:
As the people stand terrified by the edge of the sea, through the prophet Moses, God makes a promise.
Here’s the promise, “Fear not!
Stand firm!
See the salvation of the LORD.
The LORD will fight for you, you have only to be silent.”
Let me simplify that for you with one statement:
The Promise - Stand back, and let me work.
That’s God’s promise.
And it’s a promise He kept.
Listen to what happens next:
In the midst of their trouble, God not only made a promise, but He kept it.
In a miraculous turn of events, God parted the sea in front of them so that the Israelites could go forward on dry ground.
But not only that, God defeated their enemies as God turned the sea back on them.
In verse 26 we read:
God did exactly what He said He would do.
He promised the Israelites He would take care of the problem.
He told them to stand back, and let Him work, and He did.
Now, you might be thinking, “Ok pastor, that’s great.
Good for the Israelites.
But how does this relate to my situation?
How is God going to help me?”
How about this, in the exact same way.
How do I know?
Becaause while the circumstances may be different, the situation is the same.
Because the truth is, there are just some battles we are not equipped to fight or win.
Some battles only God can win for us.
Especially when it comes to the attack of the enemy.
Because our enemy isn’t of flesh and blood.
The Apostle Paul writes:
So, like the Isaelites, we have to be willing to trust God.
We have to be willing to let Him fight the battle for us.
The question then is, “How do we do that?”
Honestly, it’s really simple.
All you have to do is walk into the promise.
Listen again to what God tells Moses.
Apparently, after God makes the promise, the people are still crying out for help.
And what’s revealing is the word for “cry” here means, “to shout or scream loudly.”
In other words, these are cries of panic.
Cries of fear.
Cries of uncertainty.
And isn’t that just how most of us respond in our trouble despite the promises of God.
Even though God has made a promise, then we doubt and continue to have a melt down.
So God says, “Why do you cry to me? Go forward.
Walk into the promise so I can work.”
You see the challenge for most of us isn’t that we don’t know the promises of God.
The problem is, in the midst of our fear and panic, we fail to walk into the promise.
We keep freaking out about our marraige and fail to give our marriages over to God.
We keep freaking out about our kids and fail to give them to God.
We keep freaking out about our financial situation, and fail to give it over to God.
And it’s in that moment that God says, “Settle down!
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