Hi Prayer Chaplains, Henrietta would like to share some pictures of Greg being sworn in as President-elect of the Grosse Pt. and Harper Woods NAACP. Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garret administered the oath. Henrietta shares that it was a wonderful ceremony and we continue to lift Greg in prayer and affirm blessings over him in his serving. Blessings, Shirley
They forbed the Israelites from praying to God. God was not happy about how his people were being mistreated, so assigned Moses to demand that the Pharaoh let his people go.
Another thing we can learn from God and Moses relationship is obedience. Moses obeyed God in everything that God told him to fulfill. When God told Moses to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt, Moses did not stop until he led the Hebrews out of Egypt.
If his rivals could create a different god, one that favored themselves instead of Moses and was more palatable for the people, they could now become the chosen leader, and cast out Moses. This would allow them to gain control of a vast number of people, that now that Moses has done the extremely difficult work of
Do you remember Moses Gunn? He appeared in several films and TV sitcoms. Most people remember him from best for his role, the atheist, Carl Dixon, on Good Times. Moses was born on October 2, 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the son of Mary and George Gunn.
He was the 7th child of 13 children. His dad Moses also known as “Cap” he owned 80-acres of farmland. His dad used his farmland to grow many foods like corn, cotton, and many other foods. Moses was as strong old man and an independent patriarch. He refused to be treated as a second-class status by the whites that lived in the south.
God makes a covenant with Moses called the Mosaic covenant, which is the covenant between God and the nation of Israel. The covenant was made at Mount Sinai, where God makes Moses the leader of Israel. This covenant is conditional because its organized in the form of blessings and curses. God states “I will set my Dwelling among you, and will not disdain you.
Robert Parris Moses became a math teacher at Horace Mann, a prestigious private high school, which began his activism in the civil rights for African Americans. While working at Mann in 1960, African Americans in the south began sit-ins, and demanded to be seated and served alongside whites at lunch counters. Moses recollected what he was thinking at the time in an interview, “Before, the Negro in the South had always looked on the defensive, cringing. This time they were taking the initiative” (Encyclopedia). Moses felt compelled to do something because he said “I had been troubled by the problem of being a Negro and at the same time being an American” (Encyclopedia).
Without the plagues cast over the Egyptians, the Israelites will never be relieved. Each plague is cast out and ordered by the Lord God, while Moses is effortlessly able to throw his hand out, and make the advancement. Moses developes into a well-rounded leader, but only when God is at his side, and leading him through every
He was born into slavery, saved by his sister and a princess of Egypt, raised in the palace as the brother of Ramses, the prince of Egypt, and ultimately directed by God to give it all up to lead them to the Promised Land. He was given abundant privilege and education, (Arnold & Beyer, 2008, p. 105) however, Moses came to feel the pain of the Hebrews, and sought to help them. Moses was not trusted, and they turned
After God gives Moses the task of freeing the Hebrews, he travels back to Egypt with Zipporah and their son. During the journey God attempts to kill Moses, but she ends the conflict by circumcising her son. If it were not for her, the journey would have been over before it had started. Though the women are greatly responsible for the success of Moses’s task, the men are the ones who show leadership. Leadership is an important theme in Exodus.
In the Book of Exodus God calls Moses up into the mountains for a different reasons than that of Abraham. Scripture says, “On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. And when they set out from Reph′idim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain. And Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my own possession among all peoples; for all the earth is mine, and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
Despite being appointed as God’s chosen liberator of the Israelites, Moses is a person incapable of effectively leading his people. Moses’s lack of charisma, confidence, and determination are his greatest flaws as a leader which are demonstrated when he initially fails to stop his fellow Hebrews from fighting. His critical flaws as a leader initiates a chain of failures that will befall the Israelites during their journey and their eventual punishment of never reaching the Promised Land. One of Moses’s greatest shortcomings as a leader is his lack of charisma. He is unable to make the people naturally follow him and his words.
But Moses feels unworthy and is reluctant to be God's spokesperson. In Exodus 3:13-18, God gives Moses two names - first, He is the God of the Patriarchs, Abraham,
Around 1300 BCE, the Jews were slaves in Egypt, and their leader was the prophet Moses. Then God guided them through this trouble and Moses lead them out of slavery and to the Holy land of Canaan. God gave another covenant when the Jewish people reached Mount Sinai, reinforcing the covenant that God had given to Abraham. God promised again that the Jewish people are his chosen people, and will never give up on them. God told the Jews that they must pledge to serve God forever and obey his rules to make the world a better and holier place.
