Avoid the seven crucial errors that limit possibility

As a matter of fact, there is often no other reason for God to show up in His majesty and power except to meet up with an impossible situation and make it possible.

God will turn an “it cannot be done” into “it is done”.

This very characteristic or nature of God can be seen as you take a look at the miracle of The Red Sea.

The Israelites found themselves trapped between Pharaoh and the Red Sea.

Would the Israelites continue to trust God who had already showed them miracles? Would the Israelites know and understand that God had already set them on a course to possess The Promised Land?

Would the Israelites lift up their voices to God in prayer knowing that God would hear them and come and see about them?

Exodus 14:11 – 12

11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?

12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

No. The Israelites met up with an impossible situation and did not consider that God had already gotten them out before.

Instead they made crucial errors that you must avoid making.

1. They quickly reverted back to a slave mentality. They glanced back and glamourized their days of slavery.

2. They rehearsed a time of bondage and made it to be beautiful when it was anything but beautiful.

3. The more they spoke the more they thought that Egypt and bondage were worth returning to.

4. The Israelites spoke against their leader Moses. Perhaps, they were glad to “use” Moses for freedom, but now they turned against him because their glamorous life of freedom was in jeopardy.

5. They looked by sight and not by faith. The sight of the Red Sea and the raging chariots of Egypt caused them to forget that God had delivered miracle after miracle for them while they were captives in Egypt.

6. They quickly turned freedom talk to funeral talk. The Israelites began to speak death and graves. They figured that death and graves were better in Egypt than in the wilderness. They had the mindset of preferring to die in Egyptian luxury rather than in wilderness poverty.

7. The Israelites were carnally minded and not spiritually minded. Their affections were set toward things and not toward God. Their focus was on Moses who was really the resource, rather than on God who was the Source.

Any time you meet up with your Red Sea, you must see God. If God is no where in your sight and you are in despair, then you are not walking in faith, but in fear. This is the time that you must see God.

Though you do not welcome Red Sea moments, you must always worship and celebrate our God who is Sovereign and who knows how to deal with your every Red Sea. Respice Finem.

Dr. Maria A. Seaman is the pastor of Shekinah Worship Centre, located at 98 North Shore Road, Hamilton Parish CR 01.