SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH DEVOTIONAL FOR CHILDREN: “Faith Step”

*DAILY BREAD – A DEVOTIONAL FOR CHILDREN*

EASTERN NIGERIA UNION CONFERENCE CHILDREN’S MINISTRIES

*THEME* : I WILL GO

Friday, July 30, 2021

Topic: Faith step

_It was by faith that Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born. They saw that Moses was a beautiful baby. And they were not afraid to disobey the king’s order. (Heb. 11:23, ICB)_

Pharaoh had ordered that all boy babies be thrown into River Nile. Jochebed was not going to have her baby, Moses, thrown into the river. Her love for her child was greater than the fear she had for the king’s command. She had a plan. She placed Moses in the river in a floating basket. Pharaoh’s daughter found Moses and asked for a nurse. Do you know who got to care for the baby? Jochebed! Jochebed had faith. God rewarded her faith by giving her baby back to her. When Jochebed hid her son for three months regardless of the consequences, she made a decision to exercise her faith. When she made a basket to put Moses in, she showed the strength of her faith.
She had no way of knowing that anyone was going to intervene to save her son. She did not know that God had already made provisions for his care and protection. All she knew at that time was that she didn’t want her son to be killed. She took a risk and put him in God’s hands.
Jochebed demonstrated self control when she stood in front of Pharaoh’s daughter and accepted the care – and wages – for the very son whom Pharaoh wanted to destroy? It takes a certain presence of mind to exhibit grace under pressure and Jochebed had it. She raised her son as another woman’s child and then, at the appointed time, she handed him over to her care. That took a lot of self-control and discipline.

The lessons we learn from Jochebed are love, faith and self-control. When faced with her greatest fear, she didn’t panic. She made a plan and boldly executed it. Jochebed had a connection with Jesus and it was this connection that caused her to go forward in faith.
Jochebed knew as long as she trusted God, she had nothing to fear. Likewise, we have nothing to fear when we learn to rely on God. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us – including overcoming our greatest fears.

*Song*
Encamped along the hills of light,
Ye Christian soldiers, rise,
And press the battle ere the night
Shall veil the glowing skies.
Against the foe in vales below,
Let all our strength be hurled;
Faith is the victory, we know,
That overcomes the world.
*Refrain*
Faith is the victory!
Faith is the victory!
Oh, glorious victory
That overcomes the world.

*Prayer*
Dear Father, thank you for the testimony of Jochebed. I pray that you help me to trust you enough to step out that I may overcome the fears within me. Amen