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DAILY DEVOTIONAL

Shut Up and Get Moving

Steven Furtick

When we’re looking for God to do something big. When we’re waiting to see God bring something new and greater into our lives. Be still. Let the Lord fight the battle for you. Let go and let God.

Faith isn’t passive. It’s active. If you don’t believe me, read Hebrews 11.

Faith isn’t passive. It’s active. If you don’t believe me, read Hebrews 11.




Shut Up and Get Moving | Devotional

Moses answered the people, … “The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.”

—EXODUS 14:13–15

Today’s Bible reading: Exodus 14

Exodus 14:14 is one of the most misinterpreted verses in the Bible. Most of us, including me, have looked at it as a faith-infusing verse of what we should do when we need help or a breakthrough.

When we’re looking for God to do something big. When we’re waiting to see God bring something new and greater into our lives.

Be still. Let the Lord fight the battle for you. Let go and let God.

In short, do nothing.

There’s just one problem with that: verse 15.
In verse 14, Moses tells the people that God will fight for them and that they are to be still.

But in verse 15, God comes in and immediately contradicts Moses. He doesn’t tell the people to stand still. He tells them to shut up and get moving. Into the sea.


Moses was wrong. In isolation, verse 14 is wrong. Yes, God’s going to fight for them. But it won’t be while they’re standing there and doing nothing. It’s in the parted sea. It’s while they’re moving that God will be fighting.
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Sometimes it can be easy to mistake passivity for patience, laziness for faith.

Sometimes it can be easy to think we should stand still and cry out when God is actually looking for us to shut up and get moving.

Not to do everything on our own, obviously. But to realize that faith isn’t necessarily sitting and waiting for God to do everything on His own for us. God fights while we move.

For example, if you’re unemployed, it isn’t faith for you to stay at home and watch the Food Network while praying during commercial breaks and expecting God to throw a job into your lap. Faith is updating your résumé.

Getting yourself out the door. And applying for jobs. Letting God fight for you in your job search.

You could apply this to pretty much every area of your life. Relationships. Finances. Major life decisions.

Faith isn’t passive. It’s active. If you don’t believe me, read Hebrews 11. I defy you to find one verse that says, “By faith, they watched.” It’s always by faith, they moved. By faith, they did.

That’s because faith is knowing who God is, acting accordingly, and then watching Him act accordingly.

Prayer Focus: Activate your prayer today by praying while you’re in the midst of doing something to fulfill God’s present call in your life.


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Steven Furtick

Steven Furtick is the founder and senior pastor of the Elevation Church, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Elevation was cited by Outreach magazine as one of the 100 fastest growing churches.


Trust in Him No matter what you are going through in life, you can trust God to be with you.

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Some Positive Thing We Can Look at or Talk

Joyce Meyer
I once read a book that was based entirely on the word. He taught the reader to take each problem in his life, look at it honestly and then say “however,” and find something compensating positive in the individual's life that would put the problem into perspective.
The Bible makes it clear that we need to love each other as God loves us.

DAILY DEVOTIONAL

Learning the Love Languages

Gary Chapman
Many couples earnestly love each other but do not communicate their love in an effective way. If you don’t speak your spouse’s primary love language, he or she may not feel loved, even when you are showing love in other ways.
Why is it important to understand the distinction of the Spirit? Because He’s the one to whom we relate.

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The Voice of the Spirit Within Us

Chris Tiegreen
We don’t understand the mysteries of the relationship between Father, Son, and Spirit, but we do know each has a distinct role in our lives. When Jesus tells His disciples about the work of the Spirit, He explains that the Spirit will hear from Jesus Himself, who in turn has heard from the Father.
If you already know the joy of Jesus, pray now for those who don’t yet understand that God wants them to invite his Son into their hearts.

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Humbly Choosing God

Katie Brazelton
I’m convinced God will do anything for those who are meek, anything at all that’s in their best interest. When we humbly understand who we are in relation to him, our lives begin to make sense with a newfound confidence in him, his power, and his ways.
If you pursue anything in the spiritual realm, pursue a perfect balance of truth and love.

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Truth and Love

John MacArthur
The apostle John was always committed to truth, and there’s certainly nothing wrong with that, but it is not enough. Zeal for the truth must be balanced by love for people.

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