Got Moses?

What do you think of when you hear Moses? Burning bush, Ten Commandments, plaques, a sea divided, Ark of Covenant, staff turned to serpent, first five books of the Bible.

Faithfulness and obedience.
That is what is prevalent.


As recorded in Exodus, God said, and Moses did!! God spoke and Moses obeyed.

Egyptians will know I am Lord.
"So Moses and Aaron did it, as the Lord commanded them, thus they did." Exodus 7:6

Rod becomes serpent.
"And thus they did just as the Lord had commanded." Exodus 7:10

Water turned to blood.
"So Moses and Aaron did even as the Lord commanded." Exodus 7:20

God gave Moses power. He told him to do, Moses did, and power was released.

Many times we see the words: "Then the Lord said to Moses" followed immediately by "pass, go, stretch, tell, rise, say, take."

What a privilege to be told by God explicitly what to do and then an honor to follow as Moses did.
Words spoken by the Lord several times in the beginning of Exodus are: "Stretch out your hand" and "Let My people go that they may serve Me."

Let us look out of the box and see the application for us today just in these two statements.

STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND
God is asking us to stretch out our hands. Let go of what we are clutching. Reach to the Father. Ask for His help. Pass your burdens to Him. Tell Him your troubles. Raise your hand and heart to Him. Go to Him in prayer with everything. Seek His face and will. Take His providential plan. Give Him your fears. Step out in faith.

LET MY PEOPLE GO THAT THEY MAY SERVE ME
Just as He cared for the Egyptians and their release, he too cares for us. He cares for us to be released from our past, from our guilt and shame, from our fears, from our pain. While we are held captive by things of this world, we cannot fully serve Him. He not only wants to release us from such pains from our own good but for His glory and to serve Him. Fear, emotional pain, physical pain, unworthiness, guilt, shame, and much much more inhibit our work for God's Kingdom. The troubles of this world can be very paralyzing. The Lord is saying: "Let My Julie go." "Let My Sammy go." "Let My Sarah go." Can you hear Him standing on His throne assertively saying "let her go"? My heart wants to insert many precious people's names, but refrain for their privacy. (Know that you are in my prayers.)

Are you stretching out your hand to God? Are you fully stretched? Do you need to extend your hand further? Reach full. Reach hard. Reach longer. The Father is waiting with abundant loving kindness!

Do you know the depths of His concern for you? do you know the longing of His heart for you to be "let go" from what takes you captive?

My heart has been heavy for many lately. I cried out to the Lord today begging Him to give me a word, a word to ease the pain, to lighten the load of many. So many places where I thought the Lord would lead and it turned into something I hadn't even considered. Something I long will bring blessing and encouragement to many.

I want to remind you of Moses' experience with the burning bush. "The bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. So Moses said 'I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up.' " Exodus 3:2-3

This indeed is you, my friend. You may be feeling the fire, you may feel your situation is consuming you. But remember, the bush was not "burned up" and you are not "burned up." Recall God's words in Exodus 3:7-8. "I have surely seen the affliction of My people...I am aware of their sufferings. So I have come down to deliver them...and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey."

My friend, He is aware of YOUR affliction and suffering. He WILL bring you from that land, whatever it may be for you, and bring you into a land of goodness and sweetness.

Stretching to Him,