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WE MUST TEACH our CHILDREN about STANDING

The 40 years in the wilderness was not God's choice but the outcome of not waiting and obeying.

Then they turned against Moses and complained, "Why did you bring us out here to die in the wilderness? Weren't there enough graves for us in Egypt? Why did you make us leave? Didn't we tell you to leave us alone while we were still in Egypt? Our Egyptian slavery was better than dying out here in the wilderness!"

But Moses told the people, "Don't be afraid. Just stand where you are and watch the Lord rescue you. The Egyptians that you see today will never be seen again. The Lord himself will fight for you. You won't have to lift a finger in your defense!"

Exodus 14:8-14

Bearing down

Whatever your worries are today, they probably do not top the 600 Egyptian war chariots bearing down on the children of Israel! Trapped between the mountains and the sea, the people forgot the God who had delivered them from the Pharaoh's hand, and they cried out in despair. But Moses, who focused on the promise of God, stood firm in his hope. When we face our "chariots," it is quite normal to feel anxiety and fear. But when we remember God's faithfulness and his ability to bring good out of any situation, we find our fears calmed and our confidence renewed.

Why is there so many children taking their life? Because they move so fast that when the chariots of life come against them they don't know how to Stand and trust. WIthout a cell phone, video game, microwave, and car they seem to be lost. The BIBLE has been replaced by HARRY POTTER books and the HERO of the past replaced by the fantasy of Game cube and computer games.

How many of our children could go through a depression like our parents or grandparents? Standing and trusting is something that is taught not born into our children. The lie in the Garden of YOU yourself, can be, is still being taught today more than ever. The one time hero has been replaced with the type of car they drive, the cloths they wear, the things they own. The world teaches our children to depend upon what THEY can do and the principle of TRUST and DEPENDANCE upon GOD is now caught up in the world of the Old lie just renamed the NEW AGE.

In todays world our children have become consumed with the FAST pace of the world. Wanting things right now, today. The days of our parents that worked hard for material things have now become a want and desire of the day. Family dinners and time have been replaced with microwave dinners and each child having a car and going off in their own little direction. When trouble comes we turn to God and expect a result and answer NOW!. God makes all thing's beautiful in HIS time not ours. We must teach our children what it really is like to STAND when the chariots of the world bring the storms against us. It is by teaching that they will learn the TRUST and FAITHFULNESS of our Lord. We have created this in our children by giving them what we did not have and where our parents worked, waited, and depended upon God to see them through and provide. Our children must be taught to PRAISE GOD in all things and give HIM the blessings rather then the BLESSING all coming to us and our children expecting without waitning, for then they will discover the will of God.

In music each note receives a beat or count before you move on. Some notes get one count, others two, three and four. It is like the notes we play in music that we can show children in everything there is a season, and a time before we move on. When playing the notes as the Time signature sets the song is in unity and flows, by not holding or waiting on the proper value the song becomes out of time and is no longer in harmony with the set beat. When we choose to do things out of God's time we become like a song out of time.

According to Jewish tradition, Moses' 'real' name, the name given to him at birth by his parents was Tov, which means 'good'. His parents saw in him a specialness that radiated and therefore gave him this special name. The rabbis tell us that the shechina, the holy spirit of God, was with Moses from the time that he was an infant.

During the first 10 weeks of the program the children are taught the 10 commandments in many ways including an exercise called up and down the mountain.

Many years after Joseph invited his fathers and his brothers to live with him in Egypt, God had kept the promise to the Children of Israel that he would increase the children of Israel. Soon Egypt was overcrowded with the Hebrew people and the King of Egypt started to fear the Israelites. So he decided to make them slaves to him and take away their freedom. He sent people called "Taskmasters" that carried whips and if a slave was slow he would strike him. Whole cities did the Israelite slaves build for the king. Pharaoh was an evil person and he decided to have all the small baby boys that were born put to death. He figured if there were no more boys then the Israelites would not grow in numbers. So in these violent times a mother took a small basket and placed her son inside it and placed it into the Nile River. She made sure the basket was coated with tar so it would be watertight and covered her baby. The Pharaoh had a daughter that found Moses floating in the river and fell in love with this small baby boy. So she took it into her house as her own child and called him "MOSES."
THE name MOSE's was given because it was said to mean " I drew him out of the water"

Picture from CCI

Moses grew into manhood in an Egyptian house and was educated by them also. Moses was surrounded by riches and was a free man. One day Moses was walking among his own people and was brought to tears to see how they were treated and had to live. As Moses passed along he saw a Taskmaster whipping an Israelite. Moses went into fury and killed the taskmaster. The next day Moses fled the land of his upbringing and went to Midian where he lived and was a shepherd for many years. Over the years Pharaoh died and another took his place.

Moses lead a peaceful quit life as a shepherd but one day on the side of a mountain, Moses saw a single bush burning. The Lord spoke to Moses and wanted Moses to Go back to Pharaoh to demand that the Israelites be released. Finally Moses listened and obeyed God and traveled back to Egypt.

There Moses tried to get the Pharaoh to listen, but he would not. So God punished the Egyptians. Then one last time Moses pleaded with them and still they would not let the people go. So all the First born children died that very night. Pharaoh let Moses take the people out of Egypt after that. As they traveled away the Pharaoh sent his army to kill them, but God made a way for the Israelites to escape and the Pharaohs army perished in the Red Sea.

Moses lead the people in the desert for years, as he was to take them to the land promised to them by God. God gave Moses certain rules, which we call laws for the people to obey because they needed guidance. God showed Moses one day on the top of a mountain that the Israelites would find the promised land. Then Moses was called home to be with God.

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