Let us pray. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river. Then her maidens walked along by the riverside. And when she came and saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. Exodus 2:5. Heavenly Father, when the enemy tries to attack my life, my family, my business, and my purpose, I will praise you, because like the baby Moses in Exodus 1:2-10, You've prepared me a basket of redemption. You have prepared away from me when there seems to be no way out. I praise you for your divine protection as I move and float down the Nile River called Life. And as I move, I thank you that the current of your favor is leading me to a place only you can grant me access to. Thank you, Jesus that when I arrive at the destination of my destiny, you have already chosen the right people to help guide and grow me. I declare that, like Moses, living in two worlds, I, too, am multifaceted. I declare that I have been called to break the status quo. I declare I can walk in any room and know that because your anointing is on my life, I belong at the table of success.

My steps have been ordered by the Lord, and I will lift up a shout of praise because with you in my life, I can't lose. In Jesus' name, Amen. Thank you for praying with us today. Continue your time with God by listening to today's Bible story, brought to you by bibleinayear. Com.

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Baby from the Nile. In our last story, we finished the stories inspired by the Book of Genesis and Joseph's tragedy that God turned into victory. His brothers had sold him into slavery to Egypt. However, he became a great and mighty governor and was able to save his family from famine. Now we will begin stories inspired by the Book of Exodus. In this story, we will learn how the Israeli were prospering in Egypt, but a new Pharaoh felt threatened by them, forced them into slavery, and commanded that their baby boys be killed.

Hello, I'm Pastor Jack Graham with today's episode of the Bible in a Year podcast. In our previous episode, we concluded the Book of Genesis. And as we closed out the story of Joseph, he was revered by both Egyptians and Hebrews as a great man of God and a deliverer, a rescuer of the people. Today, we begin the Book of Exodus and find a very different reality for the descendants of Jacob. Years have passed, and the new Pharaoh does not see the prosperous Hebrew people as a reminder of how God rescued Egypt, but rather as a threat to his kingdom. The Hebrew people find themselves now enslaved and forced to endure hard labor and eventually watch powerlessly as Pharaoh murders and scores of their infant sons. In the midst of unbelievable wickedness and sorrow, we will still see God's faithfulness. That faithfulness will be shown through a baby boy who is delivered to one day lead the people to freedom. Let's listen now to today's reading.

The family of Jacob was delivered from the famine and brought to Egypt. There, under Joseph's guidance and God's provision, 70 people grew into thousands. Scattered throughout all Egypt, Hebrews thrived and multiplied. Joseph and the 12 brothers of Israel had long passed, but their descendants had grown into a strong, independent independent and healthy nation, just as God promised they would. A new Pharaoh had emerged, and the memory of Joseph's influence had long passed. He looked down at the Hebrew people, multiplying into a great nation right under his nose. He feared that if they continued to multiply, they would leave Egypt and join their enemies. So the heavy hand of Pharaoh descended upon the Hebrew people. To squash their hope and fruitlessness, he enslaved them. Under the mighty boot of Egypt, the sons and daughters of Israel were made slaves and tortured. Pharaoh oppressed them with hard labor, yet there was a blessing still upon them. Just as their ancestor Joseph had thrived under slavery, so did the Hebrew people. They multiplied even greater under the crucible of Pharaoh's cruelty. They were forced to build cities, but ended up occupying them with their numbers. Pharaoh, becoming more calloused and afraid, took his cruelty to a new level.

He gathered the Hebrew midwives, those responsible for helping the Hebrew women with labor. While you are aiding them in labor, allow the girls to live but kill any baby boy you see, ' he said. Pharaoh would punish the midwives if they disobeyed. Luckily, the midwives feared God more than Pharaoh. They would not do as he commanded. When Pharaoh saw that the boys were still being born, he gathered the midwives and asked, Why have you disobeyed me? ' The midwives, with a quiet confidence of someone who knows they did the right thing, simply said, The Hebrew are not like the Egyptian women. They are strong and vigorous and have their babies so quickly that we cannot get there in time. They lied. Yet God blessed them. Pharaoh, determined to give in to the darkness and pride gripping his heart, used his power to enact a law God would never forgive. Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile, Pharaoh decreed. And soldiers scattered throughout the city, pulling screaming children from their mother's arms. The Nile had engulfed hundreds of babies. The screams of children, mothers and fathers, echoed throughout all Egypt. Pharaoh's brutality acted as a dark cloud, shrouding over all the land.

Tears and blood filled the streets, and the heart of Pharaoh grew darker and darker. Meanwhile, a Hebrew woman was concealing her baby boy for three months. She nursed him in secret, knowing that eventually he would be discovered. She wove a basket of papyrus reeds and waterproofed it with tar and pitch. With the diligence of Noah and his ark, she crafted a vessel of redemption for her son and sent him down stream towards the palaces. The baby boy's sister trailed the basket down the river, keeping close watch from afar as the basket traveled miles downstream. Soon, Pharaoh's daughter came to the riverbank to bathe. She and her attendance played in the water and relaxed in the sun. The princess saw a basket floating along and sent her maid to go fetch it. The princess peered into the basket to find a baby boy swaddled and crying. Pity overcame the princess, for she knew that the baby must have been Hebrew. She fell in love with him and was determined to care for him, but the baby needed a nurse. Suddenly, the baby's sister emerged from the reeds by the river. Excited, yet scared, she suggested that her mother could take care of the child until he was grown.

The princess agreed. Thus, the baby was raised by both his Hebrew biological mother and his Egyptian adopted mother. He would grow up in two worlds, never feeling fully part of one or the other. The princess looked upon her son and gave him the name Moses, for he was delivered out of the water. Moses, now a Prince of Egypt, would soon realize what it truly means to be delivered.

As the Book of Exodus opens, the Hebrew nation is grown from Israel's family, numbering 70, into a prosperous and thriving people scattered throughout the land of Egypt. It was just as God had promised Jacob, that his descendants would grow and be a great and mighty nation. Though living far from Canaan, now living in a foreign land, God did just as he promised, Israel was a mighty nation. But there's a new Pharaoh on the throne, one who knows nothing about Joseph or what God did through Joseph. All he sees are the threats of the Hebrews, foreigners, multiplying his kingdom and growing into very wealthy people. So fear seizes him, and he seizes the Hebrews, entslaving them and forcing them to work to build cities in his empire. But God's blessing remains upon his people, and their numbers increase all the more. So the Pharaoh realizes that if this continues in this way, the Hebrews will outnumber his people, and they could overtake his land by force. A deep, dark evil, devilish evil creeps into the heart of this man, and he orders the mass slaughter of male Hebrew babies. He orders the midwives to perpetrate this heinous act, but they fear God more than they fear Pharaoh, so they choose to disobey the Pharaoh.

These midwives certainly acted courageously. They feared God more than they feared man. So they did what they could to protect the lives of innocent babies. God, in turn, chose to bless them because they did the right thing, the godly thing. And the Hebrew population increased despite Pharaoh's order of infanticide. Now, Pharaoh is really mad, enraged, in fact. So he enlist his army to tear babies from their mother's arms and throw them into the Nile. As the Egyptian sold soldiers tear through Hebrew homes. One mother conceives a plan to hide her boy and to save his life. She bravely places her baby in a basket and floats him down the Great Nile River to be discovered by an Egyptian woman. She trusted God to protect her son and rescue him. And none other than Pharaoh's daughter discovers the child and has compassion on him. And God's faithfulness and trustworthiness does not stop there, of course. He provides for this child's mother to nurse her baby and to be with him until he's old enough to go to the palace. His adoptive mother names the boy Moses because she rescued him from the waters. Moses will be raised in two worlds, close to his biological family, a Hebrew, but protected by the Pharaoh's hand because his adoptive mother was herself an Egyptian princess.

But it seems that he grows up really not fitting into either world. And yet God will work through Moses and use him, one of the mightiest man who ever lived, to rescue the enslaved Hebrews and take them to the land God had promised. Before he gets there, though, Moses will experience the sting of rejection in both his worlds, and it will send him on a journey far from Egypt and the suffering of his people, till God shows up once again and changes his life forever. We'll learn more about that the next time. Dear God, we're often stunned by the evil and the wickedness of humanity. And in today's story, we have seen the worst kinds of evil that men are able to commit. And yet, through it all, we see your protection, we see your provision, and your promises fulfilled. Lord, like the midwives, may we fear you more than we fear men. May we be courageous always in our faith and act in ways that please you. In Jesus name, amen. Thank you for listening to today's Bible in a Year podcast. I'm Pastor Jack Graham from Dallas, Texas. Download the pray. Com app and make prayer a priority in your life.

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