Episode 103: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 69

Episode Summary:

And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. (Exodus
14:19-22)

27 Look, here’s what they had done. They had left the garlic pots of Egypt to eat Angel’s food and was complaining. Could you think of it? Yes, we see it. They had also; they had left the muddy waters of Egypt to drink from that spiritual Rock, still complaining about it. They had left the boasting physicians of Egypt, that boasted how great they were, to be with the great Physician that there wasn’t—even their clothes didn’t get threadbare, and there wasn’t a feeble one among them when they come from the wilderness, still complaining. And then they had left the—they’d also left the people that said the days of miracles is past, to be with the people that’s got signs following the believers.

Now, isn’t that just the same today. You come up out of that old cold formal stuff, got the Holy Ghost, and God fills you with goodness, and you’re drinking from that Fountain that never runs dry, and all them things there, joy unspeakable and full of glory, and then go to complaining. Just the same thing. First thing you know, you’re bypassed off out into the desert. That’s the way God does it. It’s just that way. It… The pe… God doesn’t do it; the people does it themselves. Their own carnal thinking does it.

28 They had seen ten powerful miracles performed down in Egypt: flies, lice, fire, death angel. All they had seen in Egypt. All these great miracles that they’d seen God do, and were still carnal thinkers. And then they saw the Red Sea, that was laying in the path of duty. They were on their road marching then, come out, there was a Pillar of Fire before them, and they marched on to the Red Sea. And when they got there, right in the line of duty laid an obstacle. And first thing you know, fear struck them, and they didn’t know what to do.

That’s the way people does today. When fear strikes them when they’re right in the path of duty… Listen, brother, let me say this: If you’re walking in the light, having fellowship with God, with His people, and the Holy Spirit is upon you, and you meet an obstacle right in the path of duty, don’t stop, just keep pressing on. God will make a way through it. That’s one of the greatest experiences of my life, is to see God. When I can’t get over it, get under it, get around it, or anyway, God opens up a way and I go through it. Somehow or another His grace is sufficient to carry us through it.

60-0723 – “Speak To The Rock And It Shall Give Forth His Water”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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