November 11, 2026

 Happy Wednesday 😊 

It is the last two months in the year 2026. 

Exodus 16

THE MIDDLE OF THE BOOK.

The red sea was not the end. Deliverance from Pharoah was not the end. Life was different but they had to learn how to fish? How to find? How to trust God. How to listen to God. 

1. How do they see God?

What is freedom? 

What does it look like?

What does it feel like?

It is definitely not doing what you want?

HOW DOES GOD TREAT THEM? IS HE WATCHING THEM ALL DAY? DOES HE GIVE THEM RESPECT AND TRUST? HE SET THEM FREE. DO THEY HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES? 

What is their responsibilities!

No ememy chasing and claiming them. Pharaoh was cruel and mean. But they are delivered.

 However when the children of Israel left Egypt Pharaoh followed them. His goal was to bring them right back to Egypt but God had great plans for them. What tries to follow you? Constantly reminding you of who you use to be. Old relationships that you are done with. Bad relationships have to go but people try to hang on to you. 

My best advice is to keep going forward. As you keep going know it is Gods will for you to be delivered from bondage. 

What is bondage? 

Bondage refers to the state of being bound, physically restrained, or under the control of an external force. The word carries three primary definitions depending on the context:

1. Historical & Legal Context

• Slavery or Serfdom: The state of involuntary servitude, captivity, or being owned by another person.

• Debt Bondage: A specific form of forced labor where a person pledges themselves or their services as security for the repayment of a debt.

2. Psychological 

PEOPLE WHO DISRESPECT YOU

PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DESTROY YOU.

THINGS THAT TEAR YOU DOWN. 

YOUR NOT IN BONDAGE TO THEM. 

There is a better life in God. 

When someone wants to control you it is a mental thing. They have to convince you that you are not what God says you are! 

Bondage is anything that controls you. God gives freedom from bondage. I would love to add some examples of miserable bondage later but it is not Gods will for anyone to call you, think of you, or seek to make you anything less than a King or Queen.

The disciples walked with God.

Not equal but he called them friends.

Jesus does the same to us. 

We are not his pet or his slave. 

But God treats you with respect.  

God gives you beauty for ashes.

He gives hope not bondage.

Egypt feed them, clothe them but you better belive he control them. 

There was no freedom to serve God.

Freedom comes from God. As you read highlight freedom activities?

What does it look like?

God delivers us from the enemy.

Exodus 16

Learning the Kingdom 

We NEED JESUS TEACHINGS but Exodus is the beautiful will of God and it all says God provides. God will teach you how to fish and find what you need. There is labor but your labor is for you to build you. Build your home.

Manna and Quail

16 The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. 2 In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”

4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. 5 On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”

6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of Egypt, 7 and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?” 8 Moses also said, “You will know that it was the Lord when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord.”

9 Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’”

10 While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the Lord appearing in the cloud.

11 The Lord said to Moses, 12 “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’”

13 That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was.

Moses said to them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer for each person you have in your tent.’”

17 The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little. 18 And when they measured it by the omer, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little. Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed.

19 Then Moses said to them, “No one is to keep any of it until morning.”

20 However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.

21 Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. 22 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much—two omers] for each person—and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses. 23 He said to them, “This is what the Lord commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.’”

GOD GIVES REST

YOU LABOR FOR YOURSELF NOT SOMEONE ELSE 

GOD DELIVERED THE FOOD TO THEM.

THEY HAVE TO FIND A LAND TO BUILD IN. 

24 So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it. 25 “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a sabbath to the Lord. You will not find any of it on the ground today. 26 Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”

27 Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none. 28 Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commands and my instructions? 29 Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on the seventh day; no one is to go out.” 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

31 The people of Israel called the bread manna.] It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. 32 Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.’”

33 So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put an omer of manna in it. Then place it before the Lord to be kept for the generations to come.”

34 As the Lord commanded Moses, Aaron put the manna with the tablets of the covenant law, so that it might be preserved. 35 The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

36 (An omer is one-tenth of an ephah.)

Have a beautiful day!