Don’t Forget to Remember

SERIES: Pray-ludes to Power

Exodus 17:8-16 NIV

8    The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.

9    Moses said to Joshua,  ”Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.”

10  So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill.

11  As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning,  but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning.

12  When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up–one on one side, one on the other–so that his hands remained steady till sunset.

13  So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.

14  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

15  Moses built an altar and called it The LORD is my Banner.

16  He said, “For hands were lifted up to the throne of the LORD. The LORD will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation.”

Luke 11:1 NIV – One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”

Kinds of People:

1. Type A – ambitious, aggressive, achieving
2. Type B – patient, relaxed, easy going, no sense of urgency

James 5:16b-18 GNV – 16b…The prayer of a good person has a powerful effect. 17 Elijah was the same kind of person as we are. He prayed earnestly that there would be no rain, and no rain fell on the land for three and a half years. 18 Once again he prayed, and the sky poured out its rain and the earth produced its crops.

Deuteronomy 25:17-18 GNV – 17 “Remember what the Amalekites did to you as you were coming from Egypt. 18 They had no fear of God, and so they attacked you from the rear when you were tired and exhausted, and killed all who were straggling behind.

Every miracle in the Bible came as a result of a problem.

(v. 9)

There are no blessings without battles.

(v. 16)

(v. 11)

The intercession affected the interaction.

(v. 13)

(v. 15)

(v. 16)