It is amazing how we could look at Moses and even ourselves and begin to attribute all of the struggles, hardaches and misery of ministry solely on ourselves. We tend to put a lot of pressure on ourselves. We oftentimes focus on our inadequacies and our ineffectiveness as leaders as well as our limitations in sustaining the journey that we are on.
However, we must be reminded that we are only His vessels that He uses to go into Egypt (the world) to tell Pharaoh to "Let God's people go". God's Word says that signs and wonders will accompany those who believe and are doing the work of ministry. Just like Moses, we are to just go and say what God tells us to say and we are to do what God instructs us to do. BUT when the journey of bringing the people out of bondage and oppression begins, it is not Moses (or us) who are leading them out; NO, it's The Lord who is leading them out!
Let me encourage someone today by reminding you that your ministry will ALWAYS be effective when we let God lead the people out. We are to tell them that our God has made a way out. We are to tell them know that God has already defeated the enemy. We need to tell them to trust and believe in God and that Jesus is the Savior of all who calls upon His name.
It's rather simple, we tell them about the salvation of The Lord and it is The Lord that Saves them. We point them to God and God will LEAD THEM OUT...just like He led us out!
"And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people." (Exodus 13:21-22 NKJV)
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