In Exodus 2, a Levite woman married a Levite and became pregnant, she gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said. Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?” Then they went and got his mother to nurse him. This was the story of Moses.
I recently unpacked this story and preached on this woman of virtue because many people share the story of Moses but has never shared about his mother, Jochebed. I often wonder what Jochebed must have felt like after going through hours of labor to birth her baby only to hide him for three (3) months. So while other mothers showed off their babies she had to hide her “promise”. You see, Moses was a promise child, he was the deliverer who would set God’s people, the Israelites free from Egypt’s system of slavery. But King Pharaoh had sent out a decree to kill all baby boys born in that era so his mother had to hide him.
What is that promise that God gave you that the enemy has sent out a decree to kill?
I want to encourage you today, don’t lose hope, hold on to your promise, hide that word in your heart. I promise you, if you hide the promise He will make the very enemy who sought to annihilate you, bless you. Moses was raised by the same man who wanted to kill him, he was raised as royalty, he was schooled by the best and grew up next in line for the throne. Joseph in Genesis 50 told his brothers, “you meant it for evil but God meant it for my good”. You don’t have to fight what God has already won!
Do not let anyone speak negatively over your promise you must guard it with all that is within you. Surround yourself with other promise keepers who can help you pray over, and nurture your promise. You don’t need everybody with you because, while some people were called to your past and your present they may not be called to your future, so break the tradition of soul ties that does not serve your purpose. It’s not time to be surrounded with high opinion but low committed people. So the next time you feel to prematurely boast about a promise God gave you, WAIT!!! patiently (Not everything good fi eat good fi talk).
Hold on to your promise, hide that promise but be prepared to let it go when God says so, if Jochebed hadn’t muster up the courage to let Moses down the river, Pharaoh’s daughter would not have found him, and his enemy would not have become his footstool.
Do not fall away or compromise who you are in Christ, God wants to make your name great, He want’s when people come in contact with you, like Moses, the bondage they struggle with, they’ll be delivered and set free!
Get back in position and hold on to the promise!
This feature was written by Joan Wright-Good and appeared in our 1st Issue of TheBeyondWoman Magazine
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