God the Helper

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Our helper in every time of need is the Lord God Himself, and every believer can say “the Lord is my helper”. In this brief statement we discover three things:

This help is adequate because it is divine, almighty help. When we are in need friends come to our aid, but often they cannot help us because their resources are inadequate. The Lord’s resources are never inadequate. His name is El-Shaddai (Genesis 17:1), which means that He is “”the Enough God””.

This help is always AVAILABLE because the Lord who doesn’t’ change is always with us. This help is APPROPRIATE to our individual needs because it is personally dispensed to each of us according to our need. Our needs are different from those of everyone else and His help is appropriate.

Various Ways God Helps Us

God protection and provides for the Israelites in the desert. (Exodus 15 – 17)

Moses and the Israelites then went to the wilderness. They travelled through the desert for three days, but they could not find a place where there was water. From there they went to a place called Mara. There was water, but they could not drink it. The water tasted bitter.

Then the people came to Moses to complain; What shall we drink? Moses asked for help from the Lord. The Lord then showed him a piece of wood that he had to throw in the water. After he did, the water became drinkable. It was also there where the Lord gave them ordinances. He wanted to test them to find out if they were willing to listen to Him. On the fifteenth day of the second month, they began to complain to Moses and Aaron about the food; The Lord could only have killed us in Egypt. When we stayed there, there was at least plenty of food to eat. You brought us here to die of hunger.

The Lord then told Moses; I’m going to give you food from above. That night quails came and they sat everywhere in the camp. Then there was meat to eat. The following morning there was dew around the camp. When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other: Manna, what is it? They did not know what it was. Moses said to them; This is the bread that the Lord gives you to eat.

Moses said to them; No one should leave the food until the next morning. But the Israelites did not listen to Moses. They left the food until the next morning. Then worms came into the food, and the food became bad. Moses was very angry with them. Moses told them to pick up manna for six days, but the seventh day is the Sabbath day. Then there will not be manna. On the seventh day some of the people went to pick up manna, but they did not find anything. The Lord said to Moses, How long will you be disobedient and do not what I say? Remember, I gave you the Sabbath day. Therefore, on the sixth day, I give you enough food for two days. The Israelites called the food manna. The manna was white and it looked like coriander seed. It tasted like honey cake. The Israelites ate manna for 40 years, until they came to the land of Canaan.

After leaving the desert they came to a place where there was no water.
They accused Moses and Aaron and said to them; Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die? Moses prayed to the Lord. The Lord said to Moses; Walk in front of the people and take your rod with which you struck the Nile River and hit the rock, and then water will come out for the people to drink. Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and water came out of the rock for the Israelites to drink.

Other ways God helps us include

  • He gives us life
  • He sustains our breathe.
  • He fights our battles.
  • He heals us when we are sick.
  • He instructs and directs us.
  • He guides us.

 

Quiz

  1. Identify various ways God helps us.
  2. Explain how God provided for the Israelites in the desert?

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