Mar 10, 2024 "Trusting the Unseen: Embracing God's Empowerment in Our Journey" (Exodus 4:12-23)

 

Trusting the Unseen: Embracing God's Empowerment in Our Journey

Exodus 4:12-23

 

Moses killed an Egyptian before he became the leader of Israel. He has to run away from Egypt and found a new life. Later, he met God in a burning bush. God tells him great things and shows him great things.  

 

God calls him to go back to Egypt and free his people from Pharaoh and his tyranny. Moses, despite seeing all the great things God had done, asked God to find someone one else to go. Moses was doubtful God was sending the right person.

 

God prepares much more than what we need. However, we often doubt God when we are called. Many of us doubt God's faithfulness and direction.

 

1.      God will give you the ability and resources needed to complete the tasks you need.

 

With Moses, God had already prepared everything. God was going to teach Moses what to say and to train Aaron.

 

Exodus 4:12 ESV

[12] Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”  

 

God not only gave Moses the words to speak, but also the staff of God to demonstrate God's power through miracles. The staff carried no power, but God channeled his power through this wood.

 

God did not just free one person, He saved all His people from the strongest country at that time. There were 600,000 people who were rescued and Moses was the leader.

 

Exodus 4:20 ESV

[20] So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

 

If we believe God is real and He is faithful, we will find peace and overcome. God will be glorified.

 

2.      God will be able to help you because He is all powerful.

 

Exodus 4:21 ESV

[21] And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.  

 

God is the creator of all things and is the master of all things. He hardened Pharaoh's hearts and demonstrated miracles to show His power and destroy the beliefs of the Egyptians. God showed He was the one true God and sovereign over all things.  

 

Exodus 4:22-23 ESV

[22] Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, [23] and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’”

 

God fights for His sons and daughters. God is our father, and we must remember that God is also our father. God loved His children. He corrected his children but forgave and provided for them again and again.

 

God continues to set us free. God came down in person.

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