Mensa Otabil - Walking On Dry Ground (10/29/2025)
God is a God of goodness, and this week we are celebrating His goodness in our lives. After we’ve waited on Him for 40 days, I would pray and fast, trusting Him to do greater works in our lives and great things through us. Throughout this week, I’ll be sharing about people whom God used to do great works. Remember, when God does things through us, we are not the ones doing this; He is the Doer through us. We’ll look at all these individuals and what God did through them, with the intention for you to know that God never changes. What He did with those people, He wants to do with you and me. Throughout our lives, He wants us to experience His power in clear ways.
Let’s look at Exodus chapter 14, verses 21 to 22. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. Sometimes we go through difficulties and hardships, and sometimes it continues for a very long time. For the children of Israel, it was over 400 years-430 years-they endured difficulty and hardship. They prayed and cried out to the Lord, and then God raised a deliverer. The deliverance process started with various plagues against Egypt, but that didn’t change their situation. Sometimes it even got worse.
But this was the big moment: when the children of Israel had to leave Egypt and Egypt decided, «We’re not going to let you leave,» they were pursued. In front of them was the Red Sea, and beside them was no way of escape; they were boxed in. God tells Moses to lift up and stretch the rod in his hand, and the sea opens. God is able to do the same for you. Maybe you look at your life and feel that things are pursuing you, and you feel boxed in. But the God of Moses is our God; our Father’s God is our God. We can experience Him as Moses experienced Him.
This miracle that happened through Moses starts when he decides to obey God. This week, you are also going to step in front of serious situations-situations that have never yielded to any intervention. This week, the Red Sea will open for you, and this week, that which has pursued you will be taken away from your life. May the Lord do a similar work in our lives. If you look closely at this miracle, when Moses lifted up his rod, the Bible says that throughout the night, an east wind from the Lord blew over the waters. An east wind is a normal, natural wind, but God was behind the wind and He used the natural elements to work out His supernatural purposes.
So, when we talk about God doing great things, don’t expect that it’s just going to be something heavenly happening. Sometimes God is going to use something that is natural-something you know, something you are familiar with-and then work with it for your deliverance. Don’t ever underestimate God’s ability to use the familiar to do the unfamiliar, to use the known to do the unknown, and to use the normal to do the miraculous. When He comes in, He brings the supernatural into the natural. There may be natural things happening around you, and may God take the natural in your life and cause you to do supernatural things in your life.
Let’s pray. With me, Heavenly Father, You make a way where there is no way. Use my life for greater works. In Jesus' name, Amen and Amen.