February 17

Exodus 1:10-11 (NIV)
Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.” So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

This is a great revelation! The Pharaoh and the Egyptians wanted to stop the Israelites from having more children and becoming too numerous. Their plan was to work the Israelites so much that they were too tired and too discouraged to multiply. They not only wanted to wear them out so they had no strength or time to procreate, they wanted to discourage and depress them so they wouldn’t have the mental capacity to procreate nor would they want to bring up offspring in this type of slavery. Are you getting this application? The enemy of our souls and our God uses this very ploy in America today! He keeps us so busy with all of life so we have no time to multiply and advance the Kingdom of God. Heck, most people are too busy to come to church once or twice a week, let alone share Christ with people over a meal! If our lives are not filled up with work, they are filled up with activities of some sort so that we just don’t have the time or the energy to multiply the Kingdom! The mental and emotional aspect of this is just as real today as it was back then, but it is a little different. The enemy has got us chasing our own tail of mental health between depression and anxiety so much so, that we are occupied with being healthy and therefore have no strength or conviction to reach out to others to heal them!

Ask the Lord right now if you have been sucked into to these traps! Make the change dear ones!