Exodus 6-10 [The Message]

Through Moses and Aaron, God presented plagues that were Pharaoh’s penalties for refusing to allow the Children of Israel to leave Egypt to worship in the desert. Actually, this was God’s strategy to take them back to their Promised Land. The acts of God’s judgement were His tools of persuasion. He has a big bag of tricks for the disobedient.

Evidently, Paul getting knocked off his mule and blinded was the straw that broke his back of resistance. When Jesus spoke to him out of heaven, He said, Why do you keep resisting the goads of irritation I’m using to bring you to My purposes?” (my paraphrase) God had obviously been working on him for some time.

When you pray for spiritual activity in someone you love, don’t let up. God is using His persuasion tactics on that person to bring them to Himself. When they break, they may call you up and ask you to help them really SEE.