WOMEN'S BIBLE RETREAT
  • Home
  • What is Salvation?
  • Women’s Bible Study


Women’s ​Bible Study

"...that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings,
being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead
."
 

Philippians 3:8-11 (NKJV)

Not Without You Lord

11/8/2021

0 Comments

 
Not Without You Lord - WomensBibleRetreat.com
"Then he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here."  Exodus 33:15
After the Lord smote the children of Israel for their disobedience and idolatry, the Lord commanded Moses to resume the journey with the children of Israel through the wilderness to the Promised Land. God reiterated that He would drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. The Lord promised that His presence would go with Moses and give him rest, but the Lord told Moses that if He would accompany the children of Israel on their journey, He would destroy them because they were stubborn people.

When the children of Israel became aware of what the Lord had spoken, they went into mourning. Moses interceded on their behalf and pleaded that the Lord’s presence would not only be with him but with the children of Israel as well. Moses went on to say that if the presence of the Lord did not go with them, he did not want them to leave Mount Sinai. Without the presence of the Lord, Moses knew that they would be alone, in great darkness, lost, without hope, and left to their own demise.
Not Without You Lord - WomensBibleRetreat.com
​So often we are in a hurry to exit one season so that we can quickly enter the next in hope of better or more favorable circumstances. Moses and the children of Israel were in the wilderness, which was a place of desolation. Yet, Moses would rather have remained in an uncomfortable, barren, desert if it meant that the Lord’s presence would be with them. Moses knew that in the presence of the Lord there is perpetual fellowship with the Lord, fullness of joy, peace, provision, safety, hope that does not disappoint, and most importantly His love, which nothing can separate us from.

​What is the Lord’s presence worth to you? Would you sacrifice having the Lord’s presence for something menial or temporary? Nothing can compare with the constant presence of the Lord. If it means walking away from what you think you desire that is not in the will of God, choose to remain in the will of God. Our every decision and action should derive from Moses’ earnest plea, not without You Lord.
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Author

    ​"Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,
    But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised." Proverbs 31:30

    I am a woman of God, who by the grace of God, is seeking to know and love Christ more through the study of His Word and I am joyfully walking this journey with others that desire the same.  I thank God for your desire to know and love Him more!  ​

    ​Until He calls us home...

    Categories

    All
    1 Corinthians
    Christmas
    Deuteronomy
    Exodus
    Genesis
    How To Study The Bible
    Isaiah
    James
    Joshua
    Lamentations
    Leviticus
    Matthew
    Mother's Day
    New Year's Day
    Numbers
    Philippians
    Proverbs
    Psalms
    Resurrection Day
    Romans
    Thanksgiving
    Titus
    Valentine's Day

    RSS Feed

© 2021-2022 Women’s Bible Retreat. All rights reserved.
Photos used under Creative Commons from David Paul Ohmer, Gatorgoon, David Paul Ohmer, DrGBB, NathalieSt, inkknife_2000 (12 million views), michaelmueller410, Thomas James Caldwell, Tony Armstrong-Sly, Marian Elizabeth May, CarlH_, G Yancy, James St. John, denisbin, Frank Pickavant, island deborah- New Book "Song of the Sparrow" vig, denisbin, G. Lamar, BLM Oregon & Washington, Nicholas_T, cattan2011, rlanvin, wuestenigel, Onasill ~ Bill - Be Safe, G Yancy, LDELD, G Yancy
  • Home
  • What is Salvation?
  • Women’s Bible Study