Key Passage: Exodus 8: 1

And the LORD spoke to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘thus says the LORD: "Let My people go, that they may serve Me …”’”

God created mankind as vessels for His praise, and His desire is that we do continually give Him our best in worship and service all the days of our lives. When we give God our best, He is glorified, and the purpose for our lives is fulfilled. It is then that His blessings are released upon us without inhibition and our heritage in Him is established. However, when we find ourselves under Satan’s bondage, we are frustrated from being the best we could and giving God all He deserves from our lives. A person in bondage is held back from living the life he is meant to live. He is rendered incapable of actualizing his visions and realizing his dreams. He is hindered from giving God his best in worship and service, and that affects his relationship with God and the release of God’s blessings to him.

The people of Israel are God’s covenant people. God chose them to serve and worship Him in fulfillment of His promise to Abraham. Their progenitor, Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, led his family into Egypt in the day of their distress. They found relief in Egypt, and settled in the rich part of the land. There, they multiplied and grew into a great nation, but lost the vision of their Promised Land and forsook the God of their fathers. Against their expectation, there arose kings over Egypt who did not recognize the understanding their fathers had with Egypt, and who had no respect for their God. They turned the entire Israelites into slaves, and subjected them to cruel and gruesome bondage. At the height of their travail, the Israelites turned to God and cried unto Him for deliverance, and God anointed Moses, and sent him to Egypt to deliver them.

God is grieved whenever His people are in bondage and He desires to set them free. His primary purpose in delivering His people is that they would be able to give Him their best in worship and service (Lk 1:74-75). Turn to God today and determine to give Him your best in worship and service, and call upon Him to deliver you from all bondages, and He surely will. His promise of deliverance is part of His divine contract with Abraham, and every true believer in Christ Jesus is a partaker of it (Lk 7:71-73; Rom 4: 16).

Pray, Lord, stretch out Your hand on me and set me free from every bondage that I may worship and serve you without fear, in holiness and righteousness all the days of my life.

Written by – Evangelist Oguazi Onyemobi