“So it was, whenever the ark set out, that Moses said: "Rise up, O Lord! Let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee before You. And when it rested, he said: Return, O Lord, to the many thousands of Israel.'' (Numbers 10:35-36)

March 15, 2010 as I was reading my daily devotion and meditating on what God was saying to me as I read this passage of scripture. The children of Israel had been in the wilderness for over two years according to verse 11. Now the cloud of the Lord was moving them again and this is the prayer of Moses as they started to depart for a new territory. Lord go before us as we travel and rest with us as we arrive from the journey.

This must be the prayer of each of us as we move on the journey the Lord has sent us on in this wilderness. Rise up Lord and go before us on this journey. As we prayer walk our streets may the Lord rise up and go before us. The enemy is certainly in front of us and seeking to stop us. Lord go before us and protect us from our enemy.

Then as we come to rest in Your house be with us that we might worship you. Return Lord to Your people that we might find rest in You. Protect us from the enemy in the house that we might worship You in spirit and in truth.

Let this be our prayer so we might honor Him who is with us, goes before us and delivers us from the enemy of our Lord.