Prayer - The Miraculous Ministry of Mercy
I have enjoyed reading back through the Torah lately. What a great, and unchanging God we serve! How precious it is to follow Jesus’ footsteps on each page of this ancient text. One of the many devotional thoughts that jumped out at me this time was the way God used the prayers of imperfect fallen individuals. Think of Moses. You know that God demonstrated His power in a unique way by plundering Egypt with the ten plagues. But what jumped out at me this time was not the frogs, but how God used imperfect Moses, multiple times to pray for God to stay His hand. God wanted Moses to pray in order to placate His plans for destruction in at least four out of the ten plagues. Read the locust incident. “Then Pharaoh hurriedly called for Moses and Aaron, and he said, ‘I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and make supplication to the LORD your God, that He would only remove this death from m