Andy Elmes

Good morning, Champion, and welcome to a whole new week where anything can happen! Faith will turn a dead end into a highway. Hebrews 11:29 (NIV) By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned. Like a jukebox that gets stuck with a favourite record, I too am still stuck in Hebrews 11 and the more I read it the more inspired and fired up I am about placing faith in God. Let’s stay there a little longer together. When we choose to daily live by faith we give God the opportunity to make a way forward for us in the times when we may seem stuck, or where there is no possible way forward. Picture this: the children of Israel had left Egypt under the leadership of Moses, a man who certainly walked a faith walk with God. Their captors, the Egyptians, had changed their minds concerning the freedom they had recently given the Israelites and were coming hard behind them to bring them back into slavery. The Israelites came to the edge of a large body of water called the Red Sea. They could not go left or right, nor could they go back. It looked like they had hit a dead end with no options available. But then God responded to the faith of Moses and performed the impossible. Moses extended his rod over the ocean and the sea parted before them, giving them a brand new option and pathway to freedom. By faith – "believing God" – they passed through the centre of an ocean that was being parted in the middle by seemingly nothing, because there was no physical evidence as to what was holding the water apart. And when the last Israelite had stepped out and the last Egyptian had stepped in, the waters closed, liberating the children of God from their captors once and for all. As the classic song says, "God will make a way where there seems to be no way, He works in ways I cannot see, He will make a way for me." When you walk by faith He will make a way for you, too, and when you feel you have reached a crisis point or a seemingly dead end, extend the rod of your faith, placing it in the promises of God, and watch what happens. Faith creates a route that often no man could have imagined. Walk by faith and not by sight, Andy

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