MY FRIENDS, LOOK FORWARD TO WHERE GOD IS TRYING TO TAKE YOU AND THEN LOOK BACK AT WHERE HE HAS BROUGHT YOU FROM AND THEN PAUSE!!

Jan. 3, 2014

MY FRIENDS, LOOK FORWARD TO WHERE GOD IS TRYING TO TAKE YOU AND THEN LOOK BACK AT WHERE HE HAS BROUGHT YOU FROM AND THEN PAUSE!!

“I’ve got too much behind me to let this world blind me. To some he’s a name, but to me, he’s my everything” So my friends, we must look forward to where God is trying to take us and then we must look back at where God has brought us from and then we must pause and in the midst of every storm ask,

“Are You telling me to go? Are You telling me to stay? Are You telling me to hold on to You for another day? Cause I got nothing left And I’m hanging by a thread” My friends do you sometimes just want to let God have it, you are so upset with Him you can hardly see straight.

Well, God can handle it, He is our creator, He can take our heartfelt criticisms and make it work in His behalf. God tells Moses. “I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.

Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they……..” Moses responds “O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin, lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.

” Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.” Deuteronomy 9:13-29 (NKJV)

My friends, this is where I need you to focus today, a place where I am personally trying to get too and I pray that each of you will have that same desire. 40 years earlier, Moses an Israelite, living in Egypt as the son of the future heir to the throne of Pharaoh killed a fellow Egyptian.

In addition, seemingly with no conscious, continued His daily routine until finding out Pharaoh was aware of the incident and seeked to kill him. But God had other plans for Moses life and Moses went into exile for 40 years.

And it was during those 40 years that he looked forward to where God was trying to take him and then he looked back at where God had brought him from and then he paused and in the midst of his storm somewhere he found the presence of God and where He was leading and never looked back.

My friends 40 years of exile before God could use him, 40 years tending sheep, 40 years of heartfelt prayer and supplication, 40 years of never leaving the presence of God until God spoke to him and said Moses, Moses!”……for the place where you stand is holy ground.”

My friends, this is the destination on this earth I seek, to here my named called, Michael, Michael and for others maybe it is Mary, Mary or Bob, Bob or Shanika, Shanika whatever one’s name may be, we must never stop looking forward to where God is trying to take us and then look back at where God has brought us from and then pause.

And in the midst of every situation and circumstances of our life, seek the presence of God and don’t leave, hold on, wait to hear His voice, remember our God is in the midst of the “burning bush.

”He has “surely seen [our] oppression……and have heard our cry, He knows our sorrows and he will come down personally and deliver us out of the hands of Satan and the forces of evil.

In addition, He will bring us up from where we are, to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to a land “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man” 1 Cor. 2:9 (NKJV) My friends, Faith, endurance and never leaving the presence of God, and one day soon, one day soon.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY