Author: MFM Kubwa
Mount Up With Wings As Eagles
Mount Up With Wings As Eagles Israel stood at the edge of the promised land, and the report of the spies came back heavy. Cities were walled up to heaven, sons of Anak walked the land, and the people saw themselves as grasshoppers beside the giants. They wept through the night and spoke of returning…
When The Lord Turned Again The Captivity Of Zion
When The Lord Turned Again The Captivity Of Zion Zion sat in Babylon. The temple lay in ashes behind her, and the years of exile stretched ahead with no end in sight. Songs of the Lord hung on the willows by the rivers, and captors demanded mirth from a people whose mouths had forgotten how…
Where Is The God Of Elijah? The God Who Answers By Fire
Where Is The God Of Elijah? Elijah stood on Mount Carmel before the whole nation of Israel. The people had limped between two opinions for three years while the land lay dry under the drought he had declared. Ahab and his household ate at the table of Jezebel, and four hundred and fifty prophets of…
Years The Locust Has Eaten
Years The Locust Has Eaten The prophet Joel stood among a people who had watched their fields stripped bare. A nation of locusts came up upon the land, strong and without number, with teeth like the teeth of a lion. They left the vine waste and the fig tree barked. The field was laid waste,…
He Sent Forth His Word
He Sent Forth His Word Psalm 107 tells of a people who wandered in the wilderness, hungry and thirsty, with no city to dwell in. Their soul fainted within them, and they cried unto the Lord in their trouble. He delivered them out of their distresses, and He led them forth, that they might go…
Can These Dry Bones Live Again?
Can These Dry Bones Live Again? The hand of the Lord came upon Ezekiel, and the Lord carried him out in the spirit and set him down in the midst of a valley. The valley was full of bones. The Lord led him around among them on all sides, and he saw a great many…
Aaron and Hur Holding Up the Arms Until Sunset
The water had flowed from the rock at Rephidim, and the people had drunk their fill. The thirst that had made them murmur against Moses and the Lord was quenched, but a new danger was approaching. The Amalekites had come to fight against Israel in Rephidim. The descendants of Esau, the tribe of warriors who…
Water Pouring from the Rock When Moses Struck It
The people thirsted again. The wilderness of Sin was behind them, and the manna still fell each morning on the desert floor, but now they had camped in Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink. The children of Israel had seen the Nile turn to blood and the Red Sea divide…
Manna Falling Like Frost on the Desert Floor
The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The water of Marah had been made sweet, and the twelve wells of Elim had refreshed their bodies, but the memory of provision was already fading. The people looked at the barren wilderness around them and longed for the…
The Bitter Water Turning Sweet at the Touch of the Tree
The tambourines had fallen silent. The dancing on the far shore was over, and the children of Israel had marched into the wilderness of Shur. The song of Moses and the song of Miriam still echoed in their ears, but the sound of their own voices was being replaced by a new sensation. Thirst. The…
