JESUS - THE WAY MAKER 

" I am the LORD, your Holy One,

The Creator Of Israel, your King."

Thus says the LORD, who makes a way

in the sea

And a path through the mighty waters,

Who brings forth the chariot and the horse,

The army and the power

(They shall lie down together, they shall not rise;

They are extinguished, they are quenched like a wick):

Do not remember the former things,

Nor consider the things of old.

Behold, I will do a new thing,

Now it shall spring forth;

Shall you not know it?

I will even make a road in the wilderness

And rivers in the desert.

The beast of the field will honor Me

The jackals and the ostriches,

Because I give waters in the wilderness

And rivers in the desert,

To give drink to My people, My chosen.

This people I have formed for Myself;

They shall declare My praise. Isaiah 43:15-21. NKJV

The first few verses of the passage above brings to mind the mighty deliverance of the children of Israel from Egypt, where they had endured four hundred years of cruel slavery with taskmasters, under the cruel edicts of the godless pharaohs. God had raised up Joseph to be a Deliverer for the people of Egypt when there was severe famine in the land. Because he had found favor in the eyes of the pharaoh at the time, his family was saved from starvation and death, as they came from Canaan and settled in the land of Goshen.

The Bible tells us that, after Joseph died, and when the pharaoh had died, that the children of Israel so multiplied in the land, that the new pharaoh had no appreciation for the deliverance that Joseph had wrought for the people, and set about to bring the children of Israel into slavery in harsh bondage to taskmasters who required of them gruelling work regimens.

The Book Of Exodus relates the details of the deliverance from Egypt of the children of Israel under the leadership of Moses, as they crossed the Red Sea on the journey to the Promised Land, Canaan.

Egypt in Bible typology is a picture of the place where non-Christians dwell spiritually in bondage to sin and in a state of relentless oppression of the enemy, satan.

The GOOD NEWS of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is that Jesus came to set the oppressed totally free from demonic bondage and oppression, and to provide a way of freedom from the penalty and power of sin - and to restore us to fellowship with Father God. The Bible tells us in Romans 3:23 that: all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. The Greek word for sin 'hamartia' means to miss the mark. In our own strength and in our own efforts to be good, we can never attain to God's standard of righteousness.

Romans 6:23 tells us: The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Jesus said of Himself in John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

Jesus also said in John 8:12 "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life."

He also said that whoever comes to Him, He will in no way cast out. Like the father in the parable of the Prodigal son in Luke 15, with open arms, our Father God waits with open arms to receive back those who come to Him humbly renouncing their sin, and acknowledging Jesus' death on the cross in their place, taking upon Him the sin of the world - in order to be restored to fellowship with God.

In Hebrews 13:8, the Bible tells us that: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. 

He is totally trustworthy. Numbers 23:19 says:

God is not a man, that He should lie,

Neither a son of man, that He shiould repent.

Has He said, and will He not do?

Or has He spoken, and wil He not make it good?

Psalm 145:13 says: The LORD is faithful to all His promises and loving toward all He has made.

Psalm 33:4 For the word of the LORD is right,

And all His work is done in truth.

JESUS IS OUR WAY MAKER!

Psalm 119:105 tells us: Your word is a lamp to my feet,

and a light to my path.

Jesus is the personification of the Word of God. As it says in John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it [or extinguish it].

As we put our full confidence in the Lord God, He will make a way for us where there seems to be no way, because He IS the Way Maker.

This day, let your trust be fully in the Lord God who loves you, and desires to lead you in His perfect will for your life. 

Psalm 23, one of best known psalms in the Old Testament says: 

The LORD is my shepherd;

I shall not want.

He makes me to lie down in green pastures;

He leads me beside the still waters.

Jesus, the Miracle Worker is still confirming His Word through signs and wonders - healings, miracles and freedom-producing deliverance from demonic oppression as the Holy Spirit makes Jesus real in the lives of those who avail themselves of His life-giving, transforming love and power. Increasingly, God is anointing ordinary committed, Spirit-filled Christians to display His love and power to change and free lives from bondage to satan's lies and torment - into the liberty of the sons and daughters of God.

This coming Sunday night, 16th April, you are invited to attend a special outreach meeting at Mt Stuart Memorial Hall at 7a Raymont, Terrace, Mount Stuart Hobart. The time: 6-9pm Healing Evangelist, Joshua Sawiris from Glory City Church in Brisbane will be ministering the Word of God. Joshua has an amazing testimony of being gloriously saved and transformed by the love and power of God.

He has a healing ministry with significant healings and miracles marking his ministry in the love and power of the Holy Spirit. He has seen tumors disappear, blind eyes see and cancers healed. Joshua has ministered powerfully in Africa, Cambodia, Brazil and here in Australia, with healings and miracles following his ministry of the Word of God

He has a heart full of God's compassion for the hurt and broken, with a desire to see lives fully restored and made whole by the Holy Spirit as they come to the Lord.

Outreach Healing meetings will also be conducted at the Mount Stuart Memorial Hall, 

7a Raymont Terrace, Mount Stuart on Sunday 23rd April and 30th April from 6-9pm, led by Pastor AnthonyRay Castro. ALL ARE WELCOME! 

God is moving by His Spirit! Lean in for all the Lord has for you in this exciting season.