We can apply this principle to many things, not just spiritual life, but physical too. Not just houses, but any kind of investment. There is much evil going on in the financial world and we must beware where we invest even the smallest amount that we might want to save.

Most of us have met people who gave their hearts to Jesus at an emotional moment in a church service or evangelistic campaign. But then they have not found the right church. Or they were not really cared for as baby believers so they quickly went astray or got bored.

God is still the Lord. He still directs the weather patterns. But the devil who sent that storm and ended up being rebuked by Jesus is still alive and trying to bring storms into our lives too. Storms in relationships, storms in our health, and storms in our working environments.

In long ago days it was essential to understand what the weather was going to do. In order to plant the right things at the right time, and to take the right precautions to stop crops being ruined by extreme weather, understanding the message in the sky was very important.

The whole Exodus story seems to me to alternate between God giving the people a miracle, and then the people complaining, so God gives them another miracle! After the manna miracles, they were happy for a while. But then the trouble makers began to complain about their very limited diet.

Moses and Aaron appear before Pharaoh with a threatening promise from The Lord, warning him of a swarm of locusts which would arrive the following day. We can imagine that those listening to this threat did not believe it. Nothing is left once a swarm of insects has passed through.

Moses and Aaron must have got frustrated with this scenario. They had no advance knowledge of what God was doing, or how long before the Israelites finally got out of Egypt. The two brothers went from one individual message to the next one, not knowing how long this would continue.

This is a single chapter story of another battle that did not go as planned because the Lord intervened with natural phenomena. We do not hear much about the Israelite King Joram. He was based in Samaria. Verse 2 of this chapter tells us he was not a good king!

The prophet did not answer the question, but explained to God why he fled as though God knew nothing about it. We all do that sometimes; explain situations to God, as though He sees nothing of what is happening on the earth! Interestingly God just gave Elijah his next assignment!

David, the psalmist, was passionate about the way God treats the wicked. He was convinced that God would do something dramatic to destroy every evil person on earth. The Lord can do that. But He really prefers each one to have a chance to hear the good news of Jesus!