…Moses
I've set you apart in this
place to focus on Me, get ready for your ministry by licking the Devil,
like I did in the wilderness. Remember? 'If you don't get alone with
the Lord & lick the Devil first, you might as well forget it.' I
was in the wilderness for 40 days & nights. Moses spent 40 years in
the wilderness to prepare for his ministry of leading My children out
of Egypt. He had to be so strongly connected to Me that he wouldn't be
too disappointed by what he saw among his brethren.
You're like Moses running away
from a very hectic, active, stressy & busy life in Egypt &
coming to the wilderness to learn to do nothing but tend sheep for 40
years... I had to get Egypt out of him first, see?
If Moses, a mighty prince of Egypt didn't make it without Me, be sure, your chances are less than less!
You never wanted to be a
prophet? Welcome to the club! Moses, Jeremiah, and a lot of others
never wanted to, either, but like this whatever they had to say at
least wasn't just their own idea.
You have to be so sure it's Me
you're even willing to suffer & die for it, you know? That's the
conviction of 'Here I stand, I can do no other!'
The drastic thing that got
Moses out of Egypt was the big mess he made of things in killing the
Egyptian & having to run for his life... What will it be with you?
What will be your big mess to get you running out of Egypt?
Moses' walk out into the desert on his own was the only way to get him to My holy mountain.
How can I use those in such
ways who close themselves to anything supernatural as being witchcraft?
What if Moses had said, "No, Lord! Don't have me do that magic trick
with the staff & the snake: they'll think that's witchcraft!" After
all, the Egyptians were able to do the same thing. But in the end, My
serpent ate up theirs & I proved that My power was greater than
theirs... So, or similar to that it will be during the Endtime. The
Devil will have a lot of power, but yours will be greater! It already
is! I'm just in the process of teaching you how to use it!
All you've got is My Word, and a desire to obey Me. Now, what will you do with that challenge? What is that in thy hand?
None of My prophets was ever
really enthusiastic & thrilled about giving My message to the
people. Moses, Jeremiah, Jonah, they all had to be persuaded &
sometimes even tricked by Me to get them to do what I wanted. To become
an undesirable, one of those outrageous religious fanatics that spread
those controversial truths, messages of doom... extremely unpopular.
But what can I say? "Hold fast that which thou hast lest any man take thy crown!"
Remember that Moses was 80 by the time he was ready for the Exodus.
The breaking process: Moses had
to go & become a nobody for 40 years after having been quite an
important somebody. It nags on your pride, but that's exactly what I'm
after: the dismantling of your pride. I know it hurts. And your pride
resists it, like a tough beast you're trying to kill but that won't
give up so easily. It resists & fights.
But only the humble can truly
bring refreshment to the thirsty souls of others. Only the humble gain
their trust to really be able to reach down into their hearts and to
lead them to Me, the Answer to all their pains & heartaches. "God
resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble." Only the humble
can fully walk in God's grace, and overflow with it. Humility and grace
walk hand in hand.
Look at the kind of mob Moses
had to work with. Only 2 of them inherited the kingdom, the rest
perished, and the fulfillment of the promise was inherited by their
children!
The words that I gave to Moses
were never as appreciated by his own immediate generation as they were
by the generations to follow later. That's just the way it has always
been with most of My saints: during their life-times, they were
rejected, and only later, in most cases, after their deaths, were they
recognized as the saints & great men they were. The first Jews
rejected Moses, in spite of the great miracles I performed through him.
He had his faithful few who supported him, but the majority resisted
him and provoked him to anger. But because he allowed them to provoke
him, he also missed out on the blessing of entering the Promised land
together with them, so, let this be a warning to you: if you don't want
to miss the blessing, don't let them provoke you!
Regardless of whether it's
going to get better or worse, don't let it provoke you. Don't let
anyone provoke you. If you see something going on that you think is
wrong, just carry it before Me, and see if it will provoke Me to anger,
and I will deal with it accordingly. But don't disappoint Me by taking
matters into your own hands. There's a greater lesson to be learned
here, from Moses' anger, than meets the eye. He failed the test to let
Me handle the situation... Having begun all this great work not by his
might nor his power but by My Spirit and miracle-working hand, was he
going to complete it in the flesh now, and was that going to be the
bottom line: a man's wrath?
It's never your own personal
affair, what concerns My kingdom! If My people are failing Me in some
ways, even if you feel it's manifested in the way they're treating you
personally, never take it personal, never deal with it on your own
terms (for that's how you made the whole thing worse in the first
place), but hand it to Me, and let Me deal with it! It's My affair.
Make sure you're being a good sample, a good representative of Me, and
stand back and get out of the limelight & let Me deal with it on My
terms!
It's no use, taking the rod of wrath into your own hands & to lash out words of anger, just commit it to Me!
In order to get a man out of
Egypt, I've always had to stop the flow of business as usual. Moses
wouldn't have left for the wilderness if he hadn't killed the Egyptian,
if everything would have continued on the way it had been...
You have to fight for your
freedom meekly. The way Moses did. He knew he was in the minority,
& that he could have easily been wiped out by Pharaoh, so he had to
make sure that it was indeed I fighting for him. There was no way on
earth he could have won that battle by himself, in his own strength,
power or wisdom. It had to be Me.
It took Moses 40 years in the
wilderness to learn not to care about his own concerns anymore, to
become indifferent toward them... to get to the point where he couldn't
care less about his own life anymore, whether he lived or died, where
all his former & youthful ambitions were forgotten, and only one
thing counted: the will of his Creator. That's when he was ready to
hear My voice & see My Holy Fire & experience My presence, and
to carry out his job for Me.
Getting Egypt out of Moses was precisely what took so long: the worldly attitudes toward things, & their viewpoints...
Moses was useless to Me when he
was strong & powerful & respected, but that I was able to
greatly use him when he thought of himself as nothing.
This life wasn't meant to be
altogether pleasant, as much as you seek pleasure in it. Look how and
where Moses died: in the wilderness, unable to enter the promised land,
as a result of his own mistake. The valuable thing to have gained out
of this both for himself and untold generations to follow is the
lesson. It's more important and valuable than the pleasure - the
temporary, fleeting pleasure he might have experienced, had I granted
him to enter the promised land. The real Promised Land is not in this
world. Your real and final and ultimate satisfaction, fulfillment,
peace or goal, whatever you may be trying to achieve, won't be found in
this world or life. This life will always be imperfect, because I want
you to continue to seek the truly Perfect. I don't want you to be
satisfied with anything this temporal world has to offer. This world is
not your home. I want you to continue seeking a better place, and ever
striving toward that one, ever following the heavenly vision I give,
the fulfillment of which can simply never be found in this world. So
you shouldn't keep seeking it here, either.
There was a time for Moses to
be ready for the Exodus, but there was also a time when he wasn't ready
yet. There's a time of definite, visible anointing, and there's a time
of preparation, of finding out where it's not at, how not to do it,
which mistakes not to make.
Moses did lead the children out
of Egypt successfully, eventually. Although it did take them a lot
longer to get to the Promised Land than most of them were prepared for.
Are you prepared for the long haul?
It also took 40 years until the
Israelites were desperate enough to finally call Moses back. It got to
the point where they saw him as their only hope, and then they were
finally ready for what he had to say. As long as they're still pampered
and spoiled by the riches of Egypt, they'll never listen to you! They
don't even realize that they're in bondage and slaves of their own sins…
If you're going to anyone in
the opposite direction of the System, then you'd better know where
you're guiding them, or at least that they can fully trust the One Who
is guiding you, like Moses, when they walked out into the wilderness
and toward the Red Sea.
At first there was still lots
of doubt, but once they had crossed the Red Sea on dry ground, they
knew they had witnessed an authority unequalled, and that this
Authority was very likely to guide them safely into the Promised Land.
Let Moses be an encouragement
to you, since he didn't think or feel he had very much authority when
he started out. He was very unsure of himself and felt somewhat like a
failure for having lost his former position and having wound up as
nothing more than a shepherd.
But it had to be absolutely My
authority and My power alone on which his was based and founded. It
wasn't Moses leading them, it was Me through Moses.