Mon.’s Devo - Deliverance From Evil

Read: Numbers 32:1-33:39; Luke 4:31-5:11; Psalm 64:1-10; Proverbs 11:22 The tribes of Rueben and Gad observed that the land they had captured from the Amorites and the Moabites was perfect farmland for their animals. They went to Moses with the proposition that if they went over Jordan with the other tribes to help them conquer their land, they could come back and take this land for their inheritance. They would leave their wives and children in this land while they fought for the other tribes. Moses agreed with their proposal when he realized they would help the other tribes first. Half of the tribe of Manasseh joined with Rueben and Gad. Moses wrote down a detailed account of their travel from Egypt to the Jordan. They left Egypt the day after their first Passover and they left defiantly. They realized that they were God’s children who he loved and they had come to see that he was more powerful than any of the gods and evil of Egypt. Egypt had no more control over them and they had been set free by their God. I see this same attitude happening to God’s people all over the world as we realize we have been ruled by an evil regime who has only wanted bad for us. God’s people are going to see a great deliverance that we are going to be able to say it was only the Lord who delivered us because we are his people and he loves us. Moses recorded from the time they left Egypt and went to Rameses, to forty years later when they reached Mount Hor where Aaron died at the age of 123. In Luke, Jesus was in Capernaum teaching at the synagogue on the Sabbath. A man possessed by a demon spoke up demanding to know why he had come to mess up their plan. (It is interesting how the demons knew exactly who Jesus was and the people were so doubtful.) Jesus demanded that the demon come out of the man. The demon threw the man to the floor but then left. The people were amazed and wondered what kind of man he could be that demons would flee in his presence. Jesus went home with Simon Peter to find his mother-in-law very sick with a high fever. Jesus healed her and she got up immediately and served them. People brought their sick and demon-possessed to Jesus after dark and he healed them. He refused to let the demons speak. One day he was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee when the crowd became so great he asked Simon who owned the boats if he could preach from their boats. When he had finished he wanted to bless Simon for letting him use his boats. He told him to go out deeper and let down his nets. Simon explained that they had fished all night and not caught anything. By this time it was well into the morning and fish didn’t usually bite during the day. But, Simon obeyed and brought up so many fish they had to get help from Andrew and his boats. Simon saw the miracle and fell at Jesus feet in repentance. Jesus told him not to be afraid but that from then on he would be fishing for men. Peter and his brother Andrew left everything and began following Jesus. Lord, may we drop everything for you. Thank you that you are delivering us from evil and bringing righteousness and justice to our land.