Because He knew them, the Scripture records that “they lacked nothing.” In 1-2 typed pages, choose and support with Scripture six of Israel’s needs God provided for in the wilderness. Parallel this testimony of God’s provision for Israel in the wilderness with His provision for you.
(1) In the wilderness the children of Israel were never lacking anything or at least for long. The clothes and shoes that they left Egypt in never wore out, after forty years they were still good without any holes. Deuteronomy 29:5 says “And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.” (2) When the children of Israel were leaving Egypt Pharaoh changed his mind, he didn’t want them to go so he went after them. The Egyptians were in chariots and the children of Israel were on foot, there were also a lot more of them so they were slower and the chariots were catching up to them. But God being omniscient put a pillar of the cloud to separate and protect them from the pursuing Egyptians. The Egyptians were in darkness, but the Israelites had light. Exodus 14:19 “And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind …show more content…
God used Moses as a tool to bring the water out of the rock. It says in Exodus 17:6 “Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.” Psalm 78:15-16 says “He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.” When they had no water, God caused water to flow from a rock. The Psalms describe it as flowing like a river—sufficient for the needs of the vast multitude as well as their flocks and