GIG222 The Battles that Follow Deliverance

Web Description: Often after deliverances or breakthroughs or answers to prayer, we experience spiritual warfare that seems diametrically opposed to what we are believing for. But we need to see that God is doing something greater than what we assume. We must be careful that our prayers and speaking the Word of God are not limited by our own minds because God is able to do abundantly beyond our limited ability to imagine.

 

Show Notes: The Lord sent Moses to tell the children of Israel that the God of their fathers would deliver them from Egypt. But as the deliverance unfolded, the people became very upset with Moses because their lives got worse every time he spoke. It seemed that God was doing the opposite of what Moses said He would do. Moses himself had to hold in his mind what God told him at the beginning: “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders will be multiplied.”

 

God was looking for something beyond Egypt. He was going to deliver His people out of Egypt, but He was also going to multiply His signs and wonders and magnify Himself to pharaoh and the people of Egypt. After their deliverance at Passover, it seemed to Israel that God was trying to destroy them by Pharaoh’s army at the Red Sea. But God was doing far more in His deliverance than the people understood. He was completely destroying Pharaoh’s army and bringing down the power of Egypt.

 

We need to hold this in our minds as we voice or re-speak the promises of God in the Scriptures. The spiritual warfare will come to make us feel like the exact opposite of what God promised is happening. So it is important that we set aside our expectations for a situation and reach into what God is wanting. What is the spiritual warfare really about? It is telling us that God’s deliverance will be greater than anything we can believe for or even imagine.

 

Key Verses:

 

•       Exodus 11:9–10. “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders will be multiplied.”

•       1 Corinthians 13:12. “Now I know in part.”

•       Isaiah 55:8–9. “My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways.”

•       Exodus 12:42. “It is a night to be observed … by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.”

•       Exodus 14:10–13. “Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the LORD.”

•       Ephesians 3:20. “To Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think.”

 

Quotes:

 

•       “Satan can't take anything from you. He can only try to talk you into letting go of what you've received.”

•       “It's always good to remember what God is looking for because we tend to get so consumed in what we're looking for.”

•       “It’s never about what the enemy is doing. It's always about what God is doing in fulfilling His purpose.”

•       “We can't even bring ourselves to imagine how great is the release that God is going to bring. How great is His Kingdom. How great and abundant are His promises and His deliverances and His answers to our prayer.”

 

Takeaways:

 

1.    After God promised to deliver Israel at Passover, the people became discouraged and angry because the judgments on Pharaoh made their lives worse. But God had told Moses that Pharaoh would not listen so that His wonders would be magnified.

2.    At Tabernacles we experience great victories and receive directions for new hope and promises from the Lord. Then after such times of great victory, we often find that we are plunged into spiritual warfare that makes it appear as though our deliverance failed.

3.    What is really happening may lie in the fact that this new spiritual battle is being brought by the Lord, who is in the process of giving us a greater victory and deliverance than what we had originally been promised or could even imagine.