Based on Exodus 14 (New King James Version)
“Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon; you shall camp before it by the sea. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are bewildered by the land; the wilderness has closed them in.’ Then I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, so that he will pursue them; and I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord.’ And they did so. Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people; and they said, ‘Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?’ So he made ready his chariot and took his people with him. Also, he took six hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt with captains over every one of them. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; and the children of Israel went out with boldness. So the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon. And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. Then they said to Moses, ‘Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.’ And Moses said to the people, ‘Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.’ And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. And I indeed will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. So I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen. Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gained honor for Myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.’ And the Angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them. So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darkness to the one, and it gave light by night to the other, so that the one did not come near the other all that night. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, that the Lord looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians. And He took off their chariot wheels, so that they drove them with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, ‘Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.’ Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.’ And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained. But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. So the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses.”
In this passage we see something very clear, that there must be a spiritual leader for God to manifest Himself in power and glory here on earth. God obviously does all things, but with the complement of a person who decides to truly believe God, seek after God, and urge others to do the same. That is the type of person that is necessary to find that complement to see God work. God will not work otherwise if there is not such faith, such desire to follow and urge others to follow.
I was once asked, “Why don't we see the miracles that there were before?” And the answer was: “Because of the abundance of sin.” It is a sin not only to do the immoral things that the Bible talks about, but also to lack faith, to lack obedience to the Word of God, and of course, for following things and beliefs that are not in line with the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. All of this is a sin too, and many times, even more serious than those that others consider bad or ugly, because although all sin is injustice, before the eyes of God there are differences in consequences and offense. We all continue to sin, even when we are in Christ, because we are imperfect beings, but there are differences between one sin and the other. But the greatest sins before God are lack of faith and cowardice; two things that were totally absent in the life of Moses when God was visibly working.
When Moses had his encounter with God, there was something that happened within him, something that transformed him, a faith that was born that was unshakable. From then on, through his faith, God did great things through Moses. And Moses, by his faith, confronted entire nations, from Pharaoh and the Egyptians to the rebels within the people of Israel. Moses was not a coward. And his faith was not based on his desires, as many false prophets and teachers teach today. Moses' faith was rooted in the will of God, in God design. Moses never tried to make God his servant as is very commonly done today. But on the contrary, he sought to fulfill God's will and obey it. That is true faith, believing God and obeying Him, and urging others to do so. Moses never bowed to Pharaoh, not because he was a rebel, but because his trust and obedience were totally subject to God. But Moses submitted to God under his own will, he decided through his free will to follow the Lord God as his God, and to follow Him and do as he was commanded, no matter what it cost him. That's what being a spiritual leader is all about. It is not men who choose these leaders. These leaders mainly emerge on their own when they decide for the Lord. Those are the ones we need today more than ever. Another leader also said this: “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15. So then, have you decided to be a leader where you are so the glory of God can be manifested? Lord bless! John. Support Israel. Pray for Israel. God will bless those that bless Israel.