Sunday Chat: Complaining


 During the night Pharaoh 
summoned Moses and Aaron and said, 
“Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites!
 Go, worship the Lord as you have requested. 
Take your flocks and herds, 
as you have said, and go. 
And also bless me.”
Exodus 12:31-32

By day the Lord went ahead of them 
in a pillar of cloud to guide them on 
their way and by night in a pillar 
of fire to give them light, 
so that they could travel by 
day or night. 
Neither the pillar of cloud by day 
nor the pillar of fire by night left its 
place in front of the people. 
Exodus 13:21-22

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,
 and all that night the Lord drove the sea back 
with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land.
The waters were divided, and the Israelites went 
through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of 
water on their right and on their left. 

The Egyptians pursued them, 
and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and 
horsemen followed them into the sea. 

During the last watch of the night the Lord 
looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud 
at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion. 

He jammed the wheels of their chariots so 
that they had difficulty driving. 
And the Egyptians said, “Let’s get away 
from the Israelites! 
The Lord is fighting for them against Egypt.” 

Then the Lord said to Moses, 
“Stretch out your hand over the sea so that 
the waters may flow back over the Egyptians 
and their chariots and horsemen.” 

Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, 
and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. 
The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, 
and the Lord swept them into the sea. 
The water flowed back and covered the 
chariots and horsemen the entire army 
of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites 
into the sea. Not one of them survived. 
Exodus 14:21-26

Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea
 and they went into the Desert of Shur.
For three days they traveled in the desert
without finding water. 

When they came to Marah, 
they could not drink its water 
because it was bitter. 

So the people grumbled against Moses, 
saying, “What are we to drink?” 

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, 
and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. 
He threw it into the water, 
and the water became fit to drink.
Exodus 15:22-25

So the people grumbled against Moses, 
saying, “What are we to drink?” 
Exodus 15:24

In the desert the whole community grumbled 
against Moses and Aaron.
Exodus 16:1

But the people were thirsty for water there, 
and they grumbled against Moses.
Exodus 17:3

They murmured in their tents, 
and did not obey the voice of the Lord. 
Psalm 106:25

 Moses heard all the families standing 
in the doorways of their tents whining, 
and the Lord became extremely angry. 
Moses was also very aggravated.
Numbers 11:10

“How long shall this wicked 
congregation grumble against me? 
I have heard the grumblings 
of the people of Israel, 
which they grumble against me. 
Numbers 14:27  

Nevertheless, some of the people 
went out on the seventh day to gather it, 
but they found none. 
Then the Lord said to Moses, 
“How long will you refuse to keep my 
commands and my instructions? 
Exodus 16:27-28 

But while the meat was still 
between their teeth and 
before it could be consumed, 
the anger of the Lord burned 
against the people, 
and he struck them with a severe plague. 
Numbers 11:33 

The Lord heard you when you wailed, 
“If only we had meat to eat! 
We were better off in Egypt!”
Numbers 11:18

They said to Moses, 
“Was it because there were no graves 
in Egypt that you brought us to the 
desert to die? What have you done 
to us by bringing us out of Egypt?  

Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, 
‘Leave us alone; 
let us serve the Egyptians’? 
It would have been better for us 
to serve the Egyptians than to 
die in the desert!” 
Exodus 14:11-12 

These people are grumblers 
and faultfinders; 
they follow their own evil desires; 
they boast about themselves 
and flatter others for their own advantage. 
Jude 1:16 

Do all things without grumbling or disputing, 
Philippians 2:14  

Do not grumble against one another, brothers,
so that you may not be judged; 
behold, the Judge is standing at the door. 
James 5:9  

Nor grumble, as some of them did 
and were destroyed by the Destroyer. 
1 Corinthians 10:10  

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, 
but only such as is good for building up, 
as fits the occasion, 
that it may give grace to those who hear. 
Ephesians 4:29  

Do all things without grumbling or disputing,
that you may be blameless and innocent, 
children of God without blemish in the midst of 
a crooked and twisted generation, 
among whom you shine as lights in the world, 
holding fast to the word of life, 
so that in the day of Christ 
I may be proud that I did not run in 
vain or labor in vain. 
Philippians 2:14-16  

If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, 
I will change my expression, and smile,’ 
Job 9:27 

Give your burdens to the Lord,
    and he will take care of you.
    He will not permit the godly to slip and fall.
Psalm 55:22

Don’t worry about anything; instead, 
pray about everything. 
Tell God what you need, 
and thank him for all he has done. 
Then you will experience God’s peace, 
which exceeds anything we can understand. 
His peace will guard your hearts and 
minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7

I call on the Lord in my distress,
    and he answers me.
Psalm 120:1

Show me your ways, Lord,
    teach me your paths.
Psalm 25:4

Give thanks to the Lord, 
for he is good; his love endures forever.
1 Chronicles 16:34

Give thanks in all circumstances; 
for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus
1 Thesselonians 5:18

Let them give thanks to the Lord 
for his unfailing love and 
his wonderful deeds for mankind.
Psalm 107:21

Bless the Lord, O my soul, 
and forget not all his benefits,
Psalm 103:2

 For I know the plans I have for you,” 
declares the Lord, 
“plans to prosper you and not to harm 
you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11

And my God will supply every need 
of yours according to his 
riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19

Do not be anxious about anything, 
but in everything by prayer and supplication 
with thanksgiving let your requests be 
made known to God. 
And the peace of God, 
which surpasses all understanding, 
will guard your hearts 
and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-8

“Therefore I tell you, 
do not worry about your life, 
what you will eat or drink; 
or about your body, what you will wear. 
Is not life more than food, 
and the body more than clothes? 
Look at the birds of the air; 
they do not sow or reap or 
store away in barns, 
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. 
Are you not much more valuable than they? 
Can any one of you by worrying 
add a single hour to your life?
Matthew 6:25-34

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