Opening Text: Exo. 3:1-5
New Year’s Eve service I said this would be the year we stop just standing at the mountain of God.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, standing and watching God do stuff is great but we can’t do that forever, we have a job to do.
This was not the first time Moses was stuck at a mountain.
In Deut. 1 God spoke to him and said, “You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.”
Then He tells him to “TURN and SEE the land I have for you.”
What made Moses was his willingness to TURN ASIDE.
Now remember, Moses is the one whom God revealed his name,
Moses is the one who stands before Pharaoh and says, “LET MY PEOPLE GO”, he leads the people out of bondage.
Moses is the one whom God gives the 10 Commandments to.
I mean Moses is a giant of the faith.
I wonder …. What if Moses had been talking on his cell phone or texting?
Would he have walked right by the burning bush without even noticing it?
What made him Moses was his WILLINGNESS to TURN ASIDE.
Moses was a long way from home, way out in the boonies at Mt. Horeb, the mountain of God.
By the way, it’s this mountain that he would later receive the 10 Commandments.
So here is Moses, family, ordinary guy. A GUY not leading people but SHEEP.
Was he lonely? Hungry? BORED? We know he was a long way from home.
He was an Israelite raised an Egyptian.
But his life was about to change forever.
All because he chose to TURN and SEE.
Church, we will never SEE what God wants us to SEE until we are willing to TURN!
It’s in turning that you see what God has for you, so you can, like Moses, say, “Here I am”.
When God tested Abraham, he said, “HERE I AM”.
When the Angel of God showed up to Jacob, he said, “HERE I AM.”
When the Lord called Samuel, he said, “HERE I AM!”
Jeremiah said, “HERE I AM.”
In Acts 9 when God called Ananias, he said, “HERE I AM.”
Isaiah said, “HERE I AM.”
All through scripture, when men of God responded to God’s call, Governmental authority came upon them for the ministry God called them to.
God wants a key of authority on you and I but we have got to stop stargazing and standing at the mountain, we must TURN TO SEE!
A boldness came on Moses. A new level of anointing came on him and he delivered a nation.
God has people set up for you to bring you out of the bondage of sin but you must be willing to TURN.
A new level of authority will come on those who TURN.
Psalm 8:3-6
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
You see church, the Governmental authority of Jesus will rise up to command the prophetic promises for healing, financial overflow, Signs and Wonders to be released.
To be ordinary we don’t have to do anything.
We are called to do extra ordinary things for God, all it takes is ordinary people to TURN and SEE!
Will you? Will you now?
Yours for Revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong
