Psalms 90:1-12 TLV. A prayer of Moses the man of God. My Lord, You have been our dwelling from generation to generation. Before the mountains were born, or You gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God!
Instead, his final words were filled with hope: “So Israel will live in safety, prosperous Jacob in security, in a land of grain and new wine, while the heavens drop down dew. How blessed you are, O Israel!
Then Moses said, "Now show me your glory." And the LORD said, "I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Ex 8-10); Moses asked the Lord to heal his sister Miriam, afflicted with leprosy (cf. Num 12:9-13); he interceded for the people which had rebelled fearful of what those who had spied out the land would report (cf. Num 14:1-19); he prayed when fire was about to burn down the camp (cf.
According to its title, “A Prayer of Moses the man of God,” Psalm 90 was authored by Moses. Since he lived around 1400 BC, this means Psalm 90 is the oldest of the psalms and Moses is the first composer of sacred hymnody. Moses was called “the man of God” because he mediated between God and the children of Israel.
He was a positive miracle-making machine and could part seas, glean water from a stone and get chocolate stains out of white shirts, with a little help from the Lord, of course. Science, however, is convinced that God wasn't wholly responsible for these events.
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. I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen.
Exodus 17:12 Calls for Strong Leaders in the Church
Then, God, we pray that you would help us to be Aaron and Hur for Moseses around us. Not just leaders, yes, for leaders in the church, but just for people around us. God, give us sensitivity to people around us right now in our families.
The first song that appears is the Song of Moses in Exodus 15. Moses and the Israelites immediately burst into singing upon their safe journey across the Red Sea. In a genuine moment of celebration, Moses recounts the Lord's mighty deeds in delivering his people from the hand of Pharaoh and his army.
Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
Abraham. The first notable prayer whose text is recorded in the Torah and Hebrew Bible occurs when Abraham pleads with God not to destroy the people of Sodom, where his nephew Lot lives. He bargains with God not to destroy the city if there are fifty good men within, and eventually lowers the total to ten.
Exodus 6:6–8 Praises God for His Faithfulness
So all glory be to Your name, the Lord. You are the Lord who makes and keeps all your promises, and in You we trust. We trust You, Lord. Lord, we love You, with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
For thou hast made the LORD who is my refuge, Even the Most High, thy habitation. There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent. For He will give His angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee upon their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
'” God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. ' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
God began his response to Moses with these generous words: “And the LORD said to Moses, I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.” (Exodus 33:17).
God is my strength, and he's my song. He causes me to sing, and he has become my salvation. God, Yahweh. The Lord is the one who has saved me.
Exodus 35:5: Asking God to Give Us Generous Hearts
God, help us to be generous and help us not to be stingy. God, help us not to hoard that which you've given us. And Lord, help us not to store it away in barns in a way that prevents us from you using us right now to accomplish your purposes.
Lord, help us to walk patiently with You. Help us to trust in You, to seek You every day, to do all that You're calling us to do that day, just as You were calling Your people in Exodus 23:29–30 to obey You and little by little to increase and possess that land fully.
When the Israelites reached the Red Sea Moses stretched out his hand and the waters divided, allowing his followers safe passage. The Egyptians followed them but God again commanded Moses to stretch out his hand and the sea engulfed the army. This story is recounted in the Old Testament (Exodus 14: 19-31).
The Red Sea is the saltiest sea of all the seas that connect to the ocean without even one river meeting the sea. A popular hypotheses about the origins of the Red Sea's name is that it contains a cyanobacteria called Trichodesmium erythraeum, which turns the normally blue-green water a reddish-brown.
Its maximum width is 190 miles, its greatest depth 9,580 feet (2,920 metres), and its area approximately 174,000 square miles (450,000 square kilometres). “ The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1992 ed., s.v. —Red Sea. “ Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1973), 2:44-45; Victor P.
Moses Is Called
From that bush, God called on him to deliver the Israelites from the oppression of Pharaoh. Moses was hesitant, but the Lord gave him powerful signs: the ability to turn his staff into a snake, to make his hand appear leprous, and to turn water into blood.
According to Bill Day, the miracle may also be interpreted as the antitype of Moses' first public miracle of changing water (the Nile river) into blood. This would establish a symbolic link between Moses as the first saviour of the Jews through their escape from Egypt and Jesus as the spiritual saviour of all people.
Moses then led them to Mount Saini where God gave Moses the Ten Commandments, as well as the other laws for right living. He also provided the blueprint for building a Tabernacle. God was forming a Holy Nation prepared to live for and serve Him.