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Audrey (00:01):
Hello friends, welcome to Grace for my Home.
I'm Audrey McCracken and I'm soglad to be back with you again
this week.
I hope you're doing well.
Spring has sprung here.
It is just gorgeous outside.
We live in South Carolina, nearthe coast, and it's just the
perfect weather right now.
It's not too hot, not too cold.
The trees are starting to bloom.
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You can just tell Easter isright around the corner.
I have a little walk that I donot daily, but I try to do it a
couple of times a week to a pondthat's not far from our home.
There's a beautiful pond with apier and you can walk out on
the pier and walking there frommy home and back is about a two
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mile walk.
That's something that I do formy physical health, but mostly
for my mental health, becauseit's just very relaxing and gets
me exercise, and I just lovethat, that walk, and right now
is the perfect time, the perfectweather, to do that.
We have had some recentdevelopments in our home and for
so many of you you've become myfriends and I like to let you
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know things, some things thatare going on in our home, in our
lives.
My husband recently resigned aspastor of our church.
He was set in as the pastorthere 16 years ago and it's the
church where he grew up, wherehe was raised, and it's the
church where I came to the Lord,where I became a Christian, and
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so we have deep roots there andit was just something he felt
like it was time.
He felt like his assignmentthere was over.
For you guys who listen to theshow, you know that he is also a
full time principal.
He is the principal at the highschool where my, my sons attend
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, all three of our boys attend,and he's been there several
years and he's working on hisPhD.
He has a lot going on and hefelt like it was time for him to
step down, and so we're justtrying to maneuver through all
of that and what that looks like, you know, trying to find our
place.
We feel like we're still goingto be there to serve, just not
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in the same capacity.
This past weekend we got away.
We went to Savannah just tokind of decompress.
Savannah is one of my favoriteplaces and before we had
children and when our childrenwere small, we would go there on
the weekends and I just I loveSavannah, and so we did that
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this past weekend.
Honestly, I completely forgotthat it was St Patrick's Day
weekend and that's a big deal inSavannah and we're not partiers
, so but it was nice.
It was nice St Patrick's Daywas on Monday.
We left on Sunday, so we didn'tget in, you know, into a lot of
it, but we did stay rightdowntown and the good thing is
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there was a lot of things goingon in the city because of that.
So we just I just enjoyedspending time with him, so that
was.
That was refreshing, that wassuch a blessing and I'm very
thankful for that.
But so, yes, we're trying tofigure out our place there.
I would really appreciate yourprayers as we go through this
transition.
Transitions are always hard.
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Even when they're goodtransitions, they're still hard.
So much of what we do iswrapped up in our identity and
we can say that's identity, andwe can say that's wrong and we
can say, well, you shouldn't dothat.
Well, it's just the facts.
I mean, that's just what we do.
You know, when we do somethingevery day consistently for years
, then that becomes a part ofhow we see ourselves and how
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other people see us, and so whenthat changes, there's always a
transition.
So my prayer is that we wouldtransition.
Well, I'll still be running thechurch's coffee shop, and what
I hope is that this will free meup a little bit to do some of
the things I've been wanting todo online, where I've not really
had an opportunity to do.
I've not really felt like I'vehad the time to commit to it,
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write some more books, thosekinds of things.
So just wanted to let you guysknow that and ask you to please
be praying for us during thistransition time.
And we believe it's the Lord, webelieve that God has good
things in store.
But today I wanted to sharewith you a message that I shared
at my church about three weeksago, and it's about having our
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own encounter with God.
We have to meet God forourselves.
God has to become our God.
He can't just be the God of ourparents or the God of our
pastor, or the God of ourhusband or our wife.
He has to be our God.
And the only way for that tohappen is for us to come face to
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face with God, and not the Godthat everyone tells us about,
but the God that we actuallymeet.
And today's message is aboutthat, and I talk about Moses and
how he had an encounter.
He had a true encounter withthe living God, and God not only
showed him that he was the oneand true and real God, but he
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also showed Moses who he createdhim to be.
And that's what happens when weencounter God we are
transformed and we find clarityin what God has asked of us in
our calling, and so I share thiswith you today.
I hope and pray that it's anencouragement.
God bless you.
Hope you have a great week.
Good morning, it is so good tobe back with you again this
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morning.
I just thank the Lord for theworship this morning.
I just thank Him for Hispresence.
You know the worship, it's forthe Lord, right, we worship him,
it's his worship, but it doessomething in us.
It gets our eyes on him, itgets our heart straight.
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You know he, we worship him,but he does something in us and
I just thank him this morningfor his worship.
I just thank him for worshipthis morning and I'd really
appreciate the opportunity tospeak.
I don't take it for granted.
I'm honored today to speak toyou and hopefully to give you
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some encouragement and somethingto chew on and to think about
for the week, but I want to talkwith you today about Moses, and
you know, moses, I'm just goingto get right into it this
morning.
Moses was a man in two worlds.
Okay, that's how I think aboutMoses.
When I think about him, youknow, we read him and we study
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him and we talk about him.
But Moses was a man of twoworlds and he didn't fit
completely in either one of them.
He was a Hebrew that wassupposed to be killed but was
spared, and so he was never aslave.
But he was brought up asPharaoh's daughter's son.
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But he was brought up asPharaoh's daughter's son so to
the Hebrews he didn't really fitin there because he wasn't a
slave and everybody else was aslave.
There were no other Hebrews hisage because at the time he was
born all the male children werekilled.
So he was unique and he didn'treally fit in with his people.
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And so he's growing up inPharaoh's court and he doesn't
really fit in there andeverybody knows that he doesn't
look like them, he's different,and y'all know, especially young
people, nobody wants to bedifferent, nobody wants to stand
out, right, just want to fit in, just want to find my place.
Most people don't want to standout.
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And Moses had no choice.
He stood out wherever he went.
And I'm sure there was a lot ofconfusion.
And there was a lot ofconfusion on the outside right.
Where do I belong?
Where's my place?
There's a lot of confusion onthe inside too.
Who am I?
And you know he finds himselfrejected by both worlds.
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He I believe his mama prayedover him.
I know his mama prayed over him.
I know she sent him out intothe world, prayed over.
I know she loved him.
She, she was his, she was hisadvocate.
I mean, she saved him from theNile, she brought him into
Pharaoh's court.
She was his advocate, she waspraying for him and I believe
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she taught him.
God has a plan for you, god hasa special plan for you.
You are different.
God has rescued you for apurpose and I believe all of
that little bit of time she hadwith him, she was pouring into
him.
She's praying and she's pouringinto him.
She's telling him who he is andwhat God had for him.
And then he has to live that outand it doesn't quite settle
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with what he sees around him,the reality that he finds
himself in, and so he's rejectedon both sides because when he
tries to rise up and protect hispeople, he ends up killing an
Egyptian.
And then his people said whomade you judge over us?
We didn't ask you to do this.
Who do you think you are?
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That's his own people.
And then Pharaoh's trying tokill him.
So he ends up running into thedesert and he runs and he finds
himself in a place where thereare no Hebrews and there are no
Egyptians.
It's just him.
And he spends 40 years there.
He spends 40 years there andone day something catches his
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eye and it says there was aburning bush, but it wasn't
consumed and it was unusual, itwas something different.
And it caught his eye and hesaid I will turn aside and I
will look at this, I will ponderthis.
In other words, god got hisattention and he listened.
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God got his attention, god wasdoing something different, god
was doing something new and herecognized this is unusual, this
is different, and I will turnaside.
And because he turned aside toGod, god spoke to him.
And that's how it is when Godis speaking.
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We got to have ears to hear andrecognize this is different,
this is God, because if we don'trecognize it's God, then we
don't take it serious, amen.
And he's about to tell ussomething that we need for our
life, and we have to have earsto hear and recognize this is
God.
And so he turns aside and Godspeaks to him, and God tells him
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things he doesn't necessarilywant to hear, but he needs to
hear.
See, not only was there aconfusion over who am I?
Which camp do I land in?
Am I Hebrew?
Am I an Egyptian?
Am I neither?
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But there was confusion over,well, who is God?
Because his mom is telling himthere is a God and he is our God
.
We are his chosen people and hehas chosen you to deliver His
chosen people.
And he is all-powerful and heis all-knowing and he is the God
, the only true God.
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And she's telling him thisright.
And then he's in Egypt and hecan see the gods.
Do you understand that they'regods?
He could touch, he could seethem.
They were huge, they weretaller than this building and
they ruled everything.
And he was taught in theirschools, and he was taught that
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these are the gods, these arethe real gods.
And see, here's the conflict.
If my mama's God is God, thenwhy are we all slaves?
If we're his chosen people,then why are we the ones in
bondage?
If we're serving the right God,then why are we living like
this?
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Amen.
If what she's saying is true,then it doesn't make sense,
because Pharaoh was saying theseare God and he is the one in
charge and he's powerful, and heeven himself claimed to be a
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God and for all of God's peoplehe was the one in charge, and so
he, I imagine, moses.
I'm not trying to read into thescripture, I'm just trying to
think what would be goingthrough a person's mind that has
been raised this way.
He's been taught one thing athome and then, when he goes out
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into the world, somethingcompletely different.
What would be going through hismind?
Not only does he not know whohe is, but who is God, until he
has an encounter with God.
See, we can love our children.
We can love and not just ourchildren the people that we
minister to.
We can love them, we can prayfor them, we can believe for
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them, but until they have theirown encounter with God, until
they have their own day when hemeets them face to face and they
are curious and they draw asideand they give Him their
attention, then he will not betheir God, he will not be real
to them.
They might go through themotions, they might go to church
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, they might say the sinner'sprayer, but until they meet God
face to face and they have anencounter with Him and he draws
them near and they draw near toHim and it's real, then he will
never be their God, amen.
And so in this scene, whenMoses and God come together,
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he's becoming not just the Godof my fathers, not just the God
of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
He's becoming Moses' God.
He's showing Moses.
This is who I am.
I am real and I am the one trueand living God.
But by this time Moses has beenthrough a lot.
He was about 40 when he ranfrom Pharaoh and he ended up in
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the desert, and he's about 80when this has happened.
He's been in the desert for 40years taking care of sheep.
We say he went from hero tozero, right, I mean, he went
from the top to the bottomreally fast.
And now, instead of dressingnice like he lives in Pharaoh's
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court, he's got on the robe of ashepherd and he's carrying
around a piece of wood.
He's carrying around a stick.
And that's where God finds him.
God finds him humbled.
God finds him.
He's not real busy, right, he'sjust taking care of sheep,
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don't have a whole lot going on.
That's where God finds him andthat's where God reveals himself
to him.
Amen.
And that's where God changeseverything, because he comes
into contact, he comes face toface with the God of Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob and he tellshim you're going to go do this,
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this is what you're going to do,and God, in Exodus 3.18, and I
just want to read this realquick God is explaining to him
the mission, the mission that hehas for Moses.
In Exodus 3.18, he tells him.
He says he's saying this.
Actually I'm going to start inverse 16, because it gives a
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little bit more context.
In verse 16, chapter 3 of Exodus, it says Go and gather the
elders of Israel together andsay to them the Lord, the God of
your fathers, the God ofAbraham and Isaac and Jacob, has
appeared to me saying I amindeed concerned about you and
what has been done to you inEgypt.
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So I said I will bring you upout of your affliction, out of
the affliction of Egypt, to theland of Canaan, to the land of
the Canaanite, the Hittite, theAmorite and the Perizzite and
the Hivite and the Jebusite to aland flowing with milk and
honey.
So he's telling Moses what totell the elders of Israel and he
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says they will pay heed, theywill pay attention to what you
say, and you will.
And you, with the elders ofIsrael, will come to the king of
Egypt and you will say to himthe Lord, the God of the Hebrews
, has sent us.
So now, please, let us go threedays journey into the
wilderness that we may sacrificeto the Lord, our God.
So he's telling him go andspeak to the elders.
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They will listen to you.
They will listen to you.
They will listen to you.
But see, he tried that beforeand they didn't listen to him.
His own people said who are you?
Who do you think you are?
You don't rule over us.
Do y'all remember that?
So then, in Exodus 4.1, mosesgives his reply.
Then Moses said what if theywill not believe me or listen to
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what I say?
For they may say the Lord hasnot appeared to you.
So have you ever been burned?
Have you ever stepped out anddone something and you thought
it was what God called you to do?
But you fell flat on your faceand people ridiculed you flat on
your face and people ridiculedyou and it hurt and it burned
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and you were embarrassed and youjust want to go and crawl under
a hole, under a rock and a hole.
Have you ever felt that way?
You?
If you haven't, you should.
You should experience that.
It is a wonderful place to be,and I mean that because it is a
place where you get real withGod.
I thought, obviously I thoughtwrong, but I thought we were in
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this together, lord, sometimesit's the right call, but it's
not the time and you're notdoing it.
You're doing it on adrenaline.
You're doing it thinking I gotthis, I got this, look who I am,
look who God called me to be,and we step out and we fall face
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down and it hurts.
And so when God really calls us, when it's time for the call,
when he's prepared you for 40years in the desert, it's time
for the call, we're gun shy.
I don't know about that, lord.
This seems very familiar.
This seems very familiar.
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I remember the last time Ibelieved what my mama said.
I remember the last time Ibelieved that everything she
said about me was true.
I remember the last time Ibelieved that you had a call me
was true, I believe.
I remember the last time Ibelieved that you had a call on
my life or you asked me to dosomething and I stepped out and
you weren't there and theydidn't listen to me.
And now you're wanting me to godo the same thing, and God's
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already told them they willlisten to you.
Why?
Because God is sending him nowwill listen to you.
Why?
Because God is sending him now.
Amen, it's his time.
So, finally, after he says,they're going to say the Lord
never appeared to you.
That's Moses' fear, that's hisfear.
His fear is I'm going to go tomy people, I'm going to put my
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neck out again.
I'm going to step out and sayI'm going to do this thing and
the same thing is going tohappen.
I'm going to fall again.
And then the Lord says inchapter 4, starting in verse 2,
the Lord said to him what isthat in your hand?
And he said a staff.
We'll read a little bit more.
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And he said throw it on theground.
So he threw it on the groundand it became a serpent and
Moses fled from it.
But the Lord said to Mosesstretch out your hand and grasp
it by its tail.
So he stretched out his handand he called it and it became a
staff in his hand that they maybelieve that the Lord, the God
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of their fathers, the God ofAbraham and Isaac and Jacob, and
that God has appeared to you.
So the Lord gave him a sign,but he said what is that in your
hand?
God knew what was in his hand.
Moses had been through theschool of the Holy Ghost, the
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school of the Holy Spirit.
God has put us in school if weso choose to learn.
He will put us in the school ofthe Holy Ghost if we decide
we're going to do what he'scalled us to do.
And Moses had been in theschool of the Holy Ghost and did
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not know it.
He didn't even know he was intraining.
He didn't even know thateverything that happened to him,
that looked like a big mess,that looked like a big mistake,
that looked like he failed, itwas all part of the process, it
was part of the training becausehe was in the school of the
Holy Ghost, amen.
He didn't realize that hispeople rejecting him, that
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Pharaoh rejecting him, that himfalling flat on his face, that
him being exiled to the middleof nowhere where nobody knew him
and nobody cared about him andnobody was looking for him.
That that was all part of theprocess, because he was in the
school of the Holy Spirit.
Because God cares about you, youknow you can have a great call
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on your life and you can have,you know, dreams and visions of
what God wants to do in yourlife and what things God wants
to do through you powerfulthings that God wants to do
through you.
But God cares more about yourcharacter than he does your
performance.
He cares a bit more about whoyou're becoming than what you're
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going to be doing.
You know, if God used us thatway, we would just be pawns on a
chessboard, moving us where heneeded us at that time.
And there are things andpositions and places and timings
that God wants to get us set upat the right place.
But we're not dispensable tohim.
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He cares about us.
He cares about who we are andwho we're becoming, because
we're his children.
We're not his pawns, amen.
And so God is doing something inMoses bigger than Moses can see
, and it's good.
But it doesn't feel good.
See, the first time he steppedout, he failed it.
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The first time Moses steppedout, he failed it.
He failed it.
It was bubbling up inside ofhim I'm called to do this and I
will do this and I'll showeverybody that this is what I'm
called to do.
But now he didn't want to do it.
See the difference Now, whenGod's actually telling him it's
time to do this, he's like Idon't really want to do this,
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I'd rather not.
Lord Luca, please go findsomebody else.
I'd rather not.
Lord Luca, please go findsomebody else.
I'd rather not.
I'm okay.
I like it here.
Now.
It's peaceful here.
Nobody's expecting a whole lotfrom me, amen.
I've got a family.
Now let's just chill.
Find somebody else.
Find another young buck that'sexcited because I'm not Amen.
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But God said nope, I've justgot you ready now.
Now you're ready.
Now you're ready because I'vedone a work inside of you.
Amen.
And it's not about a feeling.
If it was about a feeling, thenit would be in your power, be
in your ability, be in yourauthority.
But it's not about a feeling,it's about a calling and it's
about obedience.
Amen.
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See, obedience isn't reallyobedient until you don't want to
do it.
You ever thought about that?
If I call my child to eatchocolate cake, it's really not
a hardship, it's a oh.
Okay, I need you to eat thiscake.
Okay, I need you to clean outthe garage.
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It's a whole different spin.
Amen.
Because that's when I got to doit, though I don't want to do
it.
That's obedience, amen.
And so now he doesn'tnecessarily want to do it, but
it's time to do it, amen.
And so he's got to step out andGod says what's that in your
hand right now?
It was a humble stick, it was apiece of wood.
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Do you know, pharaoh?
Had you ever seen pictures ofthe Pharaoh where he's got the
crook and the flail is what theycall it?
You ever seen that?
And in the mummies, the coffinsthat he's holding it like this?
You know what that is?
It's a shepherd's crook andit's a shepherd's flail the
crook for when the shepherd'sout in the field, he can take
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the lamb and pull him back, andthe flail for when he misbehaves
he can give him a little spankand he won't do that again.
And see, the symbolism wasPharaoh is the shepherd of Egypt
, he shepherds Egypt, he's theshepherd of his people.
That was the imagery, with theflail and the crook.
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He is in authority, he is incharge, and so God is sending a
true shepherd back to Egypt witha stick.
Now, pharaoh's stick and hiscrook and his flail was made out
of copper and zinc.
It was golden and beautiful.
Moses' Moses' was a stick.
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It was made out of wood.
And so he's sending Moses backinto Egypt as a true shepherd,
and what he's saying is theseare my people and this is their
shepherd.
You have mistreated my people.
You have not earned the rightto be their shepherd.
I'm pulling my people out andthis is the shepherd that I have
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decided to use.
But see, moses didn't feelqualified because the
instruments that God gave himwere not fancy Amen.
They were very simple, verymodest, very humble, but they
were everything he needed,because if they had been fancy,
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if they had been impressive, ifthey had been bold, then the
glory wouldn't have rested withGod but with Moses.
So you've got everything youneed right now to do what God's
called you to do.
That means that we have to stepout in faith and do it when we
don't feel qualified.
Amen, amen.
See, moses was telling them I'vegiven you all the authority to
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do this.
I've given you Look what's inyour hand.
I've given you everything youneed to do this.
You just got to step out and doit.
Amen, you got to do it.
You got to put it to it, yougot to do it.
I've given you everything youneed to accomplish what I've
asked you to do.
It just doesn't feel like it.
It doesn't look like it becauseit's not what you thought it
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was going to look like.
It's simple, it's humble, butit's powerful.
Amen.
See, the power of Moses' rod wasin God, and God wants you to
take what's in your hand, whathe's equipped you with, and he
wants you to apply it.
Amen.
It might be a simple word, itmight be a humble word, it might
not be much at all, but hewants you to take what you have.
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But you don't feel like it'senough and he wants you to apply
it to the situation.
So he goes, moses goes to hispeople's leader, to the people's
leaders, and they believePharaoh was not as easy to
convince.
But God used that rod, thatsimple rod in his hand, to bring
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about the plagues, to bringabout the hell, to bring about
the locusts, to bring about thedarkness, to part the Red Sea,
to close the Red Sea.
He used what to us would seemlike nothing to do miracles, to
make a way where there seemed tobe no way.
Guys, you've got something.
You don't think you do, butyou've got something and it's
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powerful when you step up to theplate, even when you don't want
to, even when you don't feellike it, even when it's not
burning anymore, even when it'snot exciting anymore, and just
say, if God wants me to do it,I'll do it.
Even if I don't feel like it,even if I'd rather not, I'm
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going to do it.
I'm going to take this.
That doesn't feel like it'senough and I'm afraid I'm going
to fall again like I did lasttime.
But if Jesus wants this of me,I'll give this to him.
Amen.
Here you go, lord.
It's not enough, but it's whatyou've given me, it's what you
put in my hand and I use it.
Amen.
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If God says stretch out your rodstretched out.
If God says place your rod inthe sea, place your rod in the
sea, amen.
If God says hold the rod overyour head, hold the rod over
your head.
If God says take your rod andstrike the rock, you take your
rod and you strike the rock.
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See, because it's not about you, it's about obedience, and when
you obey the things God toldyou to do, when he asked you to
do it, then God moves, it's notyou.
You know they had to hold thatrod.
They had to hold that rod overMoses' head.
He had to have people aroundhim to hold that rod over his
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head because it was the same rod.
But when he held that rod up,they won.
They won the battle.
But when the rod starts to fall, they lose.
But they held it back upbecause the power was in the
authority that God had given him.
Amen, it wasn't in him, it wasin the authority God had given
him.
And, guys, god has given us anauthority to take the land.
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He's given us an authority togo in.
He's given us an authority tolove and to see the power of God
transfer from us to the nextgeneration.
Amen, that's in you.
It's in you, whether you chooseto use it or not.
Amen.
And God wants to do somethingin us.
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You know we are a work inprogress.
We're in the school of the HolyGhost and nothing is wasted.
God knows what he's doing.
You know Moses spent 80 yearsin the desert.
I mean, he spent 40 years fromthe time he fled Egypt to the
time God appeared.
But then he goes back and hegets his people and he spends 40
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more years in the desert.
Poor Moses, he was in thedesert.
80, two-thirds of his life hewas in the desert.
Why, see, sometimes we've got togo through the desert to show
people how to get out of thedesert.
How are you going to helpsomebody get out of the desert
when you've never been there?
And how are you going to getthem out unless you go with them
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to the desert?
See, I want to be in Canaantelling them turn right, turn
left.
That's what I want to be inCanaan.
Telling them turn right, turnleft.
That's what I want to be.
I want to be able to sit on myhigh pedestal and say y'all
shouldn't do it this way.
This isn't going to turn outwell.
You should take a left, youshould take a right.
But see, god wants you withthem, guiding them, listening
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with them.
At the same time, he wants youwith them in the desert.
And see, sometimes we justthink well, why do I have to go
around this mountain again andagain and again?
Well, maybe it's for somebodyelse, maybe there's somebody
behind you, following you thatneeds to know the way out.
And if you're not there to showthem the way.
Yes, god can show them, butyou've been walking with God
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longer.
You know some things and theyneed it.
Guys, there's a wholegeneration.
I get upset.
I get a little upset when Ihear people talk down about the
current generation.
You know the generation warswhere one's talking about how
bad the other one is and one'stalking about how bad this one
is.
Because I see a wholegeneration of very hungry people
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.
They're hungry and they're noteasily fooled.
They can spot a fake and theywant the real thing.
And you've got the real thing.
And your delivery may not bespot on right, we may not be
polished, but what we've got isgood.
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And there's a whole generationout there that's hungry for
something real.
They want something good.
They've heard about it.
They've heard about it.
I want to give out what I havereceived Amen.
If I have to walk in the desertwith them, I'll stay in the
desert, I'll walk around thedesert, I'll walk around the
mountain, but, god, it's soworth it if they can get the
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real thing.
Amen, amen, thank you Lord.
Thank you Lord.
Hello friends, welcome to Grace for my Home.
I'm Audrey McCracken and I'm soglad to be back with you again
this week.
I hope you're doing well.
Spring has sprung here.
It is just gorgeous outside.
We live in South Carolina, nearthe coast, and it's just the
perfect weather right now.
It's not too hot, not too cold.
The trees are starting to bloom.
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You can just tell Easter isright around the corner.
I have a little walk that I donot daily, but I try to do it a
couple of times a week to a pondthat's not far from our home.
There's a beautiful pond with apier and you can walk out on
the pier and walking there frommy home and back is about a two
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mile walk.
That's something that I do formy physical health, but mostly
for my mental health, becauseit's just very relaxing and gets
me exercise, and I just lovethat, that walk, and right now
is the perfect time, the perfectweather, to do that.
We have had some recentdevelopments in our home and for
so many of you you've become myfriends and I like to let you
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know things, some things thatare going on in our home, in our
lives.
My husband recently resigned aspastor of our church.
He was set in as the pastorthere 16 years ago and it's the
church where he grew up, wherehe was raised, and it's the
church where I came to the Lord,where I became a Christian, and
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so we have deep roots there andit was just something he felt
like it was time.
He felt like his assignmentthere was over.
For you guys who listen to theshow, you know that he is also a
full time principal.
He is the principal at the highschool where my, my sons attend
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, all three of our boys attend,and he's been there several
years and he's working on hisPhD.
He has a lot going on and hefelt like it was time for him to
step down, and so we're justtrying to maneuver through all
of that and what that looks like, you know, trying to find our
place.
We feel like we're still goingto be there to serve, just not
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in the same capacity.
This past weekend we got away.
We went to Savannah just tokind of decompress.
Savannah is one of my favoriteplaces and before we had
children and when our childrenwere small, we would go there on
the weekends and I just I loveSavannah, and so we did that
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this past weekend.
Honestly, I completely forgotthat it was St Patrick's Day
weekend and that's a big deal inSavannah and we're not partiers
, so but it was nice.
It was nice St Patrick's Daywas on Monday.
We left on Sunday, so we didn'tget in, you know, into a lot of
it, but we did stay rightdowntown and the good thing is
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there was a lot of things goingon in the city because of that.
So we just I just enjoyedspending time with him, so that
was.
That was refreshing, that wassuch a blessing and I'm very
thankful for that.
But so, yes, we're trying tofigure out our place there.
I would really appreciate yourprayers as we go through this
transition.
Transitions are always hard.
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Even when they're goodtransitions, they're still hard.
So much of what we do iswrapped up in our identity and
we can say that's identity, andwe can say that's wrong and we
can say, well, you shouldn't dothat.
Well, it's just the facts.
I mean, that's just what we do.
You know, when we do somethingevery day consistently for years
, then that becomes a part ofhow we see ourselves and how
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other people see us, and so whenthat changes, there's always a
transition.
So my prayer is that we wouldtransition.
Well, I'll still be running thechurch's coffee shop, and what
I hope is that this will free meup a little bit to do some of
the things I've been wanting todo online, where I've not really
had an opportunity to do.
I've not really felt like I'vehad the time to commit to it,
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write some more books, thosekinds of things.
So just wanted to let you guysknow that and ask you to please
be praying for us during thistransition time.
And we believe it's the Lord, webelieve that God has good
things in store.
But today I wanted to sharewith you a message that I shared
at my church about three weeksago, and it's about having our
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own encounter with God.
We have to meet God forourselves.
God has to become our God.
He can't just be the God of ourparents or the God of our
pastor, or the God of ourhusband or our wife.
He has to be our God.
And the only way for that tohappen is for us to come face to
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face with God, and not the Godthat everyone tells us about,
but the God that we actuallymeet.
And today's message is aboutthat, and I talk about Moses and
how he had an encounter.
He had a true encounter withthe living God, and God not only
showed him that he was the oneand true and real God, but he
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also showed Moses who he createdhim to be.
And that's what happens when weencounter God we are
transformed and we find clarityin what God has asked of us in
our calling, and so I share thiswith you today.
I hope and pray that it's anencouragement.
God bless you.
Hope you have a great week.
Good morning, it is so good tobe back with you again this
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morning.
I just thank the Lord for theworship this morning.
I just thank Him for Hispresence.
You know the worship, it's forthe Lord, right, we worship him,
it's his worship, but it doessomething in us.
It gets our eyes on him, itgets our heart straight.
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You know he, we worship him,but he does something in us and
I just thank him this morningfor his worship.
I just thank him for worshipthis morning and I'd really
appreciate the opportunity tospeak.
I don't take it for granted.
I'm honored today to speak toyou and hopefully to give you
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some encouragement and somethingto chew on and to think about
for the week, but I want to talkwith you today about Moses, and
you know, moses, I'm just goingto get right into it this
morning.
Moses was a man in two worlds.
Okay, that's how I think aboutMoses.
When I think about him, youknow, we read him and we study
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him and we talk about him.
But Moses was a man of twoworlds and he didn't fit
completely in either one of them.
He was a Hebrew that wassupposed to be killed but was
spared, and so he was never aslave.
But he was brought up asPharaoh's daughter's son.
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But he was brought up asPharaoh's daughter's son so to
the Hebrews he didn't really fitin there because he wasn't a
slave and everybody else was aslave.
There were no other Hebrews hisage because at the time he was
born all the male children werekilled.
So he was unique and he didn'treally fit in with his people.
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And so he's growing up inPharaoh's court and he doesn't
really fit in there andeverybody knows that he doesn't
look like them, he's different,and y'all know, especially young
people, nobody wants to bedifferent, nobody wants to stand
out, right, just want to fit in, just want to find my place.
Most people don't want to standout.
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And Moses had no choice.
He stood out wherever he went.
And I'm sure there was a lot ofconfusion.
And there was a lot ofconfusion on the outside right.
Where do I belong?
Where's my place?
There's a lot of confusion onthe inside too.
Who am I?
And you know he finds himselfrejected by both worlds.
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He I believe his mama prayedover him.
I know his mama prayed over him.
I know she sent him out intothe world, prayed over.
I know she loved him.
She, she was his, she was hisadvocate.
I mean, she saved him from theNile, she brought him into
Pharaoh's court.
She was his advocate, she waspraying for him and I believe
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she taught him.
God has a plan for you, god hasa special plan for you.
You are different.
God has rescued you for apurpose and I believe all of
that little bit of time she hadwith him, she was pouring into
him.
She's praying and she's pouringinto him.
She's telling him who he is andwhat God had for him.
And then he has to live that outand it doesn't quite settle
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with what he sees around him,the reality that he finds
himself in, and so he's rejectedon both sides because when he
tries to rise up and protect hispeople, he ends up killing an
Egyptian.
And then his people said whomade you judge over us?
We didn't ask you to do this.
Who do you think you are?
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That's his own people.
And then Pharaoh's trying tokill him.
So he ends up running into thedesert and he runs and he finds
himself in a place where thereare no Hebrews and there are no
Egyptians.
It's just him.
And he spends 40 years there.
He spends 40 years there andone day something catches his
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eye and it says there was aburning bush, but it wasn't
consumed and it was unusual, itwas something different.
And it caught his eye and hesaid I will turn aside and I
will look at this, I will ponderthis.
In other words, god got hisattention and he listened.
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God got his attention, god wasdoing something different, god
was doing something new and herecognized this is unusual, this
is different, and I will turnaside.
And because he turned aside toGod, god spoke to him.
And that's how it is when Godis speaking.
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We got to have ears to hear andrecognize this is different,
this is God, because if we don'trecognize it's God, then we
don't take it serious, amen.
And he's about to tell ussomething that we need for our
life, and we have to have earsto hear and recognize this is
God.
And so he turns aside and Godspeaks to him, and God tells him
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things he doesn't necessarilywant to hear, but he needs to
hear.
See, not only was there aconfusion over who am I?
Which camp do I land in?
Am I Hebrew?
Am I an Egyptian?
Am I neither?
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But there was confusion over,well, who is God?
Because his mom is telling himthere is a God and he is our God
.
We are his chosen people and hehas chosen you to deliver His
chosen people.
And he is all-powerful and heis all-knowing and he is the God
, the only true God.
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And she's telling him thisright.
And then he's in Egypt and hecan see the gods.
Do you understand that they'regods?
He could touch, he could seethem.
They were huge, they weretaller than this building and
they ruled everything.
And he was taught in theirschools, and he was taught that
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these are the gods, these arethe real gods.
And see, here's the conflict.
If my mama's God is God, thenwhy are we all slaves?
If we're his chosen people,then why are we the ones in
bondage?
If we're serving the right God,then why are we living like
this?
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Amen.
If what she's saying is true,then it doesn't make sense,
because Pharaoh was saying theseare God and he is the one in
charge and he's powerful, and heeven himself claimed to be a
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God and for all of God's peoplehe was the one in charge, and so
he, I imagine, moses.
I'm not trying to read into thescripture, I'm just trying to
think what would be goingthrough a person's mind that has
been raised this way.
He's been taught one thing athome and then, when he goes out
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into the world, somethingcompletely different.
What would be going through hismind?
Not only does he not know whohe is, but who is God, until he
has an encounter with God.
See, we can love our children.
We can love and not just ourchildren the people that we
minister to.
We can love them, we can prayfor them, we can believe for
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them, but until they have theirown encounter with God, until
they have their own day when hemeets them face to face and they
are curious and they draw asideand they give Him their
attention, then he will not betheir God, he will not be real
to them.
They might go through themotions, they might go to church
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, they might say the sinner'sprayer, but until they meet God
face to face and they have anencounter with Him and he draws
them near and they draw near toHim and it's real, then he will
never be their God, amen.
And so in this scene, whenMoses and God come together,
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he's becoming not just the Godof my fathers, not just the God
of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
He's becoming Moses' God.
He's showing Moses.
This is who I am.
I am real and I am the one trueand living God.
But by this time Moses has beenthrough a lot.
He was about 40 when he ranfrom Pharaoh and he ended up in
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the desert, and he's about 80when this has happened.
He's been in the desert for 40years taking care of sheep.
We say he went from hero tozero, right, I mean, he went
from the top to the bottomreally fast.
And now, instead of dressingnice like he lives in Pharaoh's
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court, he's got on the robe of ashepherd and he's carrying
around a piece of wood.
He's carrying around a stick.
And that's where God finds him.
God finds him humbled.
God finds him.
He's not real busy, right, he'sjust taking care of sheep,
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don't have a whole lot going on.
That's where God finds him andthat's where God reveals himself
to him.
Amen.
And that's where God changeseverything, because he comes
into contact, he comes face toface with the God of Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob and he tellshim you're going to go do this,
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this is what you're going to do,and God, in Exodus 3.18, and I
just want to read this realquick God is explaining to him
the mission, the mission that hehas for Moses.
In Exodus 3.18, he tells him.
He says he's saying this.
Actually I'm going to start inverse 16, because it gives a
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little bit more context.
In verse 16, chapter 3 of Exodus, it says Go and gather the
elders of Israel together andsay to them the Lord, the God of
your fathers, the God ofAbraham and Isaac and Jacob, has
appeared to me saying I amindeed concerned about you and
what has been done to you inEgypt.
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So I said I will bring you upout of your affliction, out of
the affliction of Egypt, to theland of Canaan, to the land of
the Canaanite, the Hittite, theAmorite and the Perizzite and
the Hivite and the Jebusite to aland flowing with milk and
honey.
So he's telling Moses what totell the elders of Israel and he
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says they will pay heed, theywill pay attention to what you
say, and you will.
And you, with the elders ofIsrael, will come to the king of
Egypt and you will say to himthe Lord, the God of the Hebrews
, has sent us.
So now, please, let us go threedays journey into the
wilderness that we may sacrificeto the Lord, our God.
So he's telling him go andspeak to the elders.
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They will listen to you.
They will listen to you.
They will listen to you.
But see, he tried that beforeand they didn't listen to him.
His own people said who are you?
Who do you think you are?
You don't rule over us.
Do y'all remember that?
So then, in Exodus 4.1, mosesgives his reply.
Then Moses said what if theywill not believe me or listen to
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what I say?
For they may say the Lord hasnot appeared to you.
So have you ever been burned?
Have you ever stepped out anddone something and you thought
it was what God called you to do?
But you fell flat on your faceand people ridiculed you flat on
your face and people ridiculedyou and it hurt and it burned
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and you were embarrassed and youjust want to go and crawl under
a hole, under a rock and a hole.
Have you ever felt that way?
You?
If you haven't, you should.
You should experience that.
It is a wonderful place to be,and I mean that because it is a
place where you get real withGod.
I thought, obviously I thoughtwrong, but I thought we were in
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this together, lord, sometimesit's the right call, but it's
not the time and you're notdoing it.
You're doing it on adrenaline.
You're doing it thinking I gotthis, I got this, look who I am,
look who God called me to be,and we step out and we fall face
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down and it hurts.
And so when God really calls us, when it's time for the call,
when he's prepared you for 40years in the desert, it's time
for the call, we're gun shy.
I don't know about that, lord.
This seems very familiar.
This seems very familiar.
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I remember the last time Ibelieved what my mama said.
I remember the last time Ibelieved that everything she
said about me was true.
I remember the last time Ibelieved that you had a call me
was true, I believe.
I remember the last time Ibelieved that you had a call on
my life or you asked me to dosomething and I stepped out and
you weren't there and theydidn't listen to me.
And now you're wanting me to godo the same thing, and God's
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already told them they willlisten to you.
Why?
Because God is sending him nowwill listen to you.
Why?
Because God is sending him now.
Amen, it's his time.
So, finally, after he says,they're going to say the Lord
never appeared to you.
That's Moses' fear, that's hisfear.
His fear is I'm going to go tomy people, I'm going to put my
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neck out again.
I'm going to step out and sayI'm going to do this thing and
the same thing is going tohappen.
I'm going to fall again.
And then the Lord says inchapter 4, starting in verse 2,
the Lord said to him what isthat in your hand?
And he said a staff.
We'll read a little bit more.
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And he said throw it on theground.
So he threw it on the groundand it became a serpent and
Moses fled from it.
But the Lord said to Mosesstretch out your hand and grasp
it by its tail.
So he stretched out his handand he called it and it became a
staff in his hand that they maybelieve that the Lord, the God
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of their fathers, the God ofAbraham and Isaac and Jacob, and
that God has appeared to you.
So the Lord gave him a sign,but he said what is that in your
hand?
God knew what was in his hand.
Moses had been through theschool of the Holy Ghost, the
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school of the Holy Spirit.
God has put us in school if weso choose to learn.
He will put us in the school ofthe Holy Ghost if we decide
we're going to do what he'scalled us to do.
And Moses had been in theschool of the Holy Ghost and did
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not know it.
He didn't even know he was intraining.
He didn't even know thateverything that happened to him,
that looked like a big mess,that looked like a big mistake,
that looked like he failed, itwas all part of the process, it
was part of the training becausehe was in the school of the
Holy Ghost, amen.
He didn't realize that hispeople rejecting him, that
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Pharaoh rejecting him, that himfalling flat on his face, that
him being exiled to the middleof nowhere where nobody knew him
and nobody cared about him andnobody was looking for him.
That that was all part of theprocess, because he was in the
school of the Holy Spirit.
Because God cares about you, youknow you can have a great call
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on your life and you can have,you know, dreams and visions of
what God wants to do in yourlife and what things God wants
to do through you powerfulthings that God wants to do
through you.
But God cares more about yourcharacter than he does your
performance.
He cares a bit more about whoyou're becoming than what you're
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going to be doing.
You know, if God used us thatway, we would just be pawns on a
chessboard, moving us where heneeded us at that time.
And there are things andpositions and places and timings
that God wants to get us set upat the right place.
But we're not dispensable tohim.
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He cares about us.
He cares about who we are andwho we're becoming, because
we're his children.
We're not his pawns, amen.
And so God is doing something inMoses bigger than Moses can see
, and it's good.
But it doesn't feel good.
See, the first time he steppedout, he failed it.
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The first time Moses steppedout, he failed it.
He failed it.
It was bubbling up inside ofhim I'm called to do this and I
will do this and I'll showeverybody that this is what I'm
called to do.
But now he didn't want to do it.
See the difference Now, whenGod's actually telling him it's
time to do this, he's like Idon't really want to do this,
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I'd rather not.
Lord Luca, please go findsomebody else.
I'd rather not.
Lord Luca, please go findsomebody else.
I'd rather not.
I'm okay.
I like it here.
Now.
It's peaceful here.
Nobody's expecting a whole lotfrom me, amen.
I've got a family.
Now let's just chill.
Find somebody else.
Find another young buck that'sexcited because I'm not Amen.
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But God said nope, I've justgot you ready now.
Now you're ready.
Now you're ready because I'vedone a work inside of you.
Amen.
And it's not about a feeling.
If it was about a feeling, thenit would be in your power, be
in your ability, be in yourauthority.
But it's not about a feeling,it's about a calling and it's
about obedience.
Amen.
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See, obedience isn't reallyobedient until you don't want to
do it.
You ever thought about that?
If I call my child to eatchocolate cake, it's really not
a hardship, it's a oh.
Okay, I need you to eat thiscake.
Okay, I need you to clean outthe garage.
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It's a whole different spin.
Amen.
Because that's when I got to doit, though I don't want to do
it.
That's obedience, amen.
And so now he doesn'tnecessarily want to do it, but
it's time to do it, amen.
And so he's got to step out andGod says what's that in your
hand right now?
It was a humble stick, it was apiece of wood.
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Do you know, pharaoh?
Had you ever seen pictures ofthe Pharaoh where he's got the
crook and the flail is what theycall it?
You ever seen that?
And in the mummies, the coffinsthat he's holding it like this?
You know what that is?
It's a shepherd's crook andit's a shepherd's flail the
crook for when the shepherd'sout in the field, he can take
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the lamb and pull him back, andthe flail for when he misbehaves
he can give him a little spankand he won't do that again.
And see, the symbolism wasPharaoh is the shepherd of Egypt
, he shepherds Egypt, he's theshepherd of his people.
That was the imagery, with theflail and the crook.
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He is in authority, he is incharge, and so God is sending a
true shepherd back to Egypt witha stick.
Now, pharaoh's stick and hiscrook and his flail was made out
of copper and zinc.
It was golden and beautiful.
Moses' Moses' was a stick.
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It was made out of wood.
And so he's sending Moses backinto Egypt as a true shepherd,
and what he's saying is theseare my people and this is their
shepherd.
You have mistreated my people.
You have not earned the rightto be their shepherd.
I'm pulling my people out andthis is the shepherd that I have
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decided to use.
But see, moses didn't feelqualified because the
instruments that God gave himwere not fancy Amen.
They were very simple, verymodest, very humble, but they
were everything he needed,because if they had been fancy,
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if they had been impressive, ifthey had been bold, then the
glory wouldn't have rested withGod but with Moses.
So you've got everything youneed right now to do what God's
called you to do.
That means that we have to stepout in faith and do it when we
don't feel qualified.
Amen, amen.
See, moses was telling them I'vegiven you all the authority to
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do this.
I've given you Look what's inyour hand.
I've given you everything youneed to do this.
You just got to step out and doit.
Amen, you got to do it.
You got to put it to it, yougot to do it.
I've given you everything youneed to accomplish what I've
asked you to do.
It just doesn't feel like it.
It doesn't look like it becauseit's not what you thought it
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was going to look like.
It's simple, it's humble, butit's powerful.
Amen.
See, the power of Moses' rod wasin God, and God wants you to
take what's in your hand, whathe's equipped you with, and he
wants you to apply it.
Amen.
It might be a simple word, itmight be a humble word, it might
not be much at all, but hewants you to take what you have.
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But you don't feel like it'senough and he wants you to apply
it to the situation.
So he goes, moses goes to hispeople's leader, to the people's
leaders, and they believePharaoh was not as easy to
convince.
But God used that rod, thatsimple rod in his hand, to bring
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about the plagues, to bringabout the hell, to bring about
the locusts, to bring about thedarkness, to part the Red Sea,
to close the Red Sea.
He used what to us would seemlike nothing to do miracles, to
make a way where there seemed tobe no way.
Guys, you've got something.
You don't think you do, butyou've got something and it's
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powerful when you step up to theplate, even when you don't want
to, even when you don't feellike it, even when it's not
burning anymore, even when it'snot exciting anymore, and just
say, if God wants me to do it,I'll do it.
Even if I don't feel like it,even if I'd rather not, I'm
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going to do it.
I'm going to take this.
That doesn't feel like it'senough and I'm afraid I'm going
to fall again like I did lasttime.
But if Jesus wants this of me,I'll give this to him.
Amen.
Here you go, lord.
It's not enough, but it's whatyou've given me, it's what you
put in my hand and I use it.
Amen.
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If God says stretch out your rodstretched out.
If God says place your rod inthe sea, place your rod in the
sea, amen.
If God says hold the rod overyour head, hold the rod over
your head.
If God says take your rod andstrike the rock, you take your
rod and you strike the rock.
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See, because it's not about you, it's about obedience, and when
you obey the things God toldyou to do, when he asked you to
do it, then God moves, it's notyou.
You know they had to hold thatrod.
They had to hold that rod overMoses' head.
He had to have people aroundhim to hold that rod over his
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head because it was the same rod.
But when he held that rod up,they won.
They won the battle.
But when the rod starts to fall, they lose.
But they held it back upbecause the power was in the
authority that God had given him.
Amen, it wasn't in him, it wasin the authority God had given
him.
And, guys, god has given us anauthority to take the land.
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He's given us an authority togo in.
He's given us an authority tolove and to see the power of God
transfer from us to the nextgeneration.
Amen, that's in you.
It's in you, whether you chooseto use it or not.
Amen.
And God wants to do somethingin us.
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You know we are a work inprogress.
We're in the school of the HolyGhost and nothing is wasted.
God knows what he's doing.
You know Moses spent 80 yearsin the desert.
I mean, he spent 40 years fromthe time he fled Egypt to the
time God appeared.
But then he goes back and hegets his people and he spends 40
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more years in the desert.
Poor Moses, he was in thedesert.
80, two-thirds of his life hewas in the desert.
Why, see, sometimes we've got togo through the desert to show
people how to get out of thedesert.
How are you going to helpsomebody get out of the desert
when you've never been there?
And how are you going to getthem out unless you go with them
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to the desert?
See, I want to be in Canaantelling them turn right, turn
left.
That's what I want to be inCanaan.
Telling them turn right, turnleft.
That's what I want to be.
I want to be able to sit on myhigh pedestal and say y'all
shouldn't do it this way.
This isn't going to turn outwell.
You should take a left, youshould take a right.
But see, god wants you withthem, guiding them, listening
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with them.
At the same time, he wants youwith them in the desert.
And see, sometimes we justthink well, why do I have to go
around this mountain again andagain and again?
Well, maybe it's for somebodyelse, maybe there's somebody
behind you, following you thatneeds to know the way out.
And if you're not there to showthem the way.
Yes, god can show them, butyou've been walking with God
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longer.
You know some things and theyneed it.
Guys, there's a wholegeneration.
I get upset.
I get a little upset when Ihear people talk down about the
current generation.
You know the generation warswhere one's talking about how
bad the other one is and one'stalking about how bad this one
is.
Because I see a wholegeneration of very hungry people
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.
They're hungry and they're noteasily fooled.
They can spot a fake and theywant the real thing.
And you've got the real thing.
And your delivery may not bespot on right, we may not be
polished, but what we've got isgood.
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And there's a whole generationout there that's hungry for
something real.
They want something good.
They've heard about it.
They've heard about it.
I want to give out what I havereceived Amen.
If I have to walk in the desertwith them, I'll stay in the
desert, I'll walk around thedesert, I'll walk around the
mountain, but, god, it's soworth it if they can get the
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real thing.
Amen, amen, thank you Lord.
Thank you Lord.
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