Dear Family, 

Today is Sunday, April 26, 2020, Day 15 in our counting toward Pentecost.  This is the 1st day of Week 3, and the beginning of Elim.

The experiences of Marah, the murmuring, the testing, the proving, and the promise of healing to Israel were all part of God’s Master Plan for His people.  During this third week God lifted the cloud and moved forward, taking Israel just 10-12 miles down the journey to an oasis where they found twelve water springs and seventy palm trees.  The waters at Elim were sweet; however, the testing and proving continued.  Lessons abound even when times move from severe testing under hardship to testing under more pleasant conditions.

Exodus 15:27-16:1 (27) And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters. (1) And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. 

Many different experiences happened this week.  It should prove to be an exciting week of studying and learning.

May God bless you with sweetness and a continuing awareness of His covering in your lives as we begin another week.

Ben Faulkner
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