The Exodus is a story for all Believers, Disciples and Followers to take time over. There are more lessons to be learned in this book than in many of the books of the Bible.
If we want to go further we have to be sure of our Call; How the Lord has directed it and where He says it will take us. He may use Brothers and Sister to confirm it but only AFTER He has spoken it to us either through His word or by revelation of His Spirit.
The Call is so important that we need to reflect on our lives, all of it's twists and turns. We need to know in our hearts that we have answered our own call, not tried to mimic others because it looks more fabulous. With the Call comes the anointing and blessing but these are only for the Calling. If we are outside the Call we are outside the anointing and blessing and we are therefore outside the Lord's will for our life. We need to continually reflect on the Call - where have we gone, how the Lord has refined our lives and the ways He has ministered into our lives in order to make the Call relevant for the situations He desires to use us in today.
Yesterday had yesterday's blessing, today will require todays blessing, a fresh in-filling of the Holy Spirit and the Grace of the Lord Jesus to get us through, the Love of the Lord to Minister into the situations we are presented with and the power of the Almighty to fend off the schemes of the evil one as he seeks to keep us from fulfilling what God has already ordained, won in Heaven and desires to see fulfilled and completed on earth for His eternal glory.
The Lord told Moses he would harden Pharaoh's heart because by doing so, by delaying victory "I will get glory". But Moses had to stay in the Calling until the task was completed.
We are called to bring him glory, not to glorify ourselves. That is why when we first hear what the Call is for we may not want it because it means we are out of our depth. The Call will stretch us however in the process we will grow. It's only afterwards, on reflection, that we see and understand this. As with everything the Lord does there is a time for rest, reflection, rebuilding and renewing until He calls us again and we're right back where we started - humbled, being stretched etc.
So if the Lord has called us to a ministry of blessing people through preaching, teaching, playing our instrments, singing, helps etc we should not despise this or look to other ministries. Our blessing is in allowing Him to use us in the way He inteneded since before we were born.
If the Lord is calling or has called us to a ministry which contends with rulers, leaders and law makers then stay in the Calling. The task may be harder but the blessing and anointing is on you. There is no guarantee that the ministry will lead to mass conversion. Even so the Lord is a great God who will glorify His own name. He delights to use us to do so. Stay in the ministry and Calling you are given, He will be faithful in it and lead it to completion for His own name sake.
In 2007 when I received this it was eye opening and jaw dropping. Today I see so many things I missed but it was given to me at a time of great confusion. It was simple and easy to access. Having spent a year studying Genesis (2010) I now know that the situation Moses was born into was prophesied as God called Abraham out of Ur (I'll post more about that later).
Since then I've learned never to jump ahead in scripture in order to understand what I'm reading. Understanding comes from the perspective of what happened yesterday - even when we see Jesus preaching and teaching. We cannot look forward because it hadn't taken place and the poeple were not born.
I've learned never to use scripture to justify any doctrinal or theological perspective, these should justify scripture not the other way round.
The true value of Scripture, as I have learned, is to reveal the God of Jesus Christ who took every opportunity to point upwards to heaven and to His Father.
That I can see Moses as a pre-messianic figure is because the Spirit reveals Him in that context. However, Moses was first and foremost a man of his time called into a situation God had already prophesied would happen at exactly the time Moses got involved (check out Genesis 12, 13, 15 to read the promise and the covenant God made with Abram - it's all written there).
I hope I've whetted your appetite and given you a desire to find out for yourself. If not that's ok. Knowing the Lord is my passion, it's not contagious, you can't catch it from me, it's only going to change your life if you want it to. But I'm glad you stuck with it to the end.
- It shows a forerunner to the Messiah,
- How God calls His people by name;
- The difficulty of taking that stand for Him based on His understanding of who we truly are
- How we need to lean on His arm and trust Him
- Friends and family are not necessarily going to accept the change and the purpose we now have been given as a result of the Lord's Call on our lives
- Our lives will be changed beyond recognition the further we go with the Lord
- There is no backward step with the Lord
- Everything will work for good to those who are CALLED by the Lord according to His purposes
If we want to go further we have to be sure of our Call; How the Lord has directed it and where He says it will take us. He may use Brothers and Sister to confirm it but only AFTER He has spoken it to us either through His word or by revelation of His Spirit.
The Call is so important that we need to reflect on our lives, all of it's twists and turns. We need to know in our hearts that we have answered our own call, not tried to mimic others because it looks more fabulous. With the Call comes the anointing and blessing but these are only for the Calling. If we are outside the Call we are outside the anointing and blessing and we are therefore outside the Lord's will for our life. We need to continually reflect on the Call - where have we gone, how the Lord has refined our lives and the ways He has ministered into our lives in order to make the Call relevant for the situations He desires to use us in today.
Yesterday had yesterday's blessing, today will require todays blessing, a fresh in-filling of the Holy Spirit and the Grace of the Lord Jesus to get us through, the Love of the Lord to Minister into the situations we are presented with and the power of the Almighty to fend off the schemes of the evil one as he seeks to keep us from fulfilling what God has already ordained, won in Heaven and desires to see fulfilled and completed on earth for His eternal glory.
The Lord told Moses he would harden Pharaoh's heart because by doing so, by delaying victory "I will get glory". But Moses had to stay in the Calling until the task was completed.
We are called to bring him glory, not to glorify ourselves. That is why when we first hear what the Call is for we may not want it because it means we are out of our depth. The Call will stretch us however in the process we will grow. It's only afterwards, on reflection, that we see and understand this. As with everything the Lord does there is a time for rest, reflection, rebuilding and renewing until He calls us again and we're right back where we started - humbled, being stretched etc.
So if the Lord has called us to a ministry of blessing people through preaching, teaching, playing our instrments, singing, helps etc we should not despise this or look to other ministries. Our blessing is in allowing Him to use us in the way He inteneded since before we were born.
If the Lord is calling or has called us to a ministry which contends with rulers, leaders and law makers then stay in the Calling. The task may be harder but the blessing and anointing is on you. There is no guarantee that the ministry will lead to mass conversion. Even so the Lord is a great God who will glorify His own name. He delights to use us to do so. Stay in the ministry and Calling you are given, He will be faithful in it and lead it to completion for His own name sake.
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In 2007 when I received this it was eye opening and jaw dropping. Today I see so many things I missed but it was given to me at a time of great confusion. It was simple and easy to access. Having spent a year studying Genesis (2010) I now know that the situation Moses was born into was prophesied as God called Abraham out of Ur (I'll post more about that later).
Since then I've learned never to jump ahead in scripture in order to understand what I'm reading. Understanding comes from the perspective of what happened yesterday - even when we see Jesus preaching and teaching. We cannot look forward because it hadn't taken place and the poeple were not born.
I've learned never to use scripture to justify any doctrinal or theological perspective, these should justify scripture not the other way round.
The true value of Scripture, as I have learned, is to reveal the God of Jesus Christ who took every opportunity to point upwards to heaven and to His Father.
That I can see Moses as a pre-messianic figure is because the Spirit reveals Him in that context. However, Moses was first and foremost a man of his time called into a situation God had already prophesied would happen at exactly the time Moses got involved (check out Genesis 12, 13, 15 to read the promise and the covenant God made with Abram - it's all written there).
I hope I've whetted your appetite and given you a desire to find out for yourself. If not that's ok. Knowing the Lord is my passion, it's not contagious, you can't catch it from me, it's only going to change your life if you want it to. But I'm glad you stuck with it to the end.
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