How to Recognize God Moving

Unexpected life comes through expected death Exodus 2:1-5

bitumen and pitch

Noah and the Ark

Genesis 6:14 ESV

Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

Abraham and Isacc

Genesis 22:2 ESV

He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

So we could recognize where our salvation comes from --Jesus and the cross unexpected life from death....

Matthew 16:25 ESV

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Romans 6:4 ESV

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Illustration: In trying to present an excellent Image, God can not be found in our over-blown highlights, but in the details of the shadows.

Unexpected help comes through an expected enemy 6-10

Psalm 23:5 ESV

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Romans 8:28–30 ESV

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Illustration: They’ve got to go through the water.

They’ve got to go through the Giant and they found out that he was dressed to die.

Unexpected blessing comes through an expected curse

6-10

Sister goes and Gets Mother and she gets to see her child live and is paid by her enemies to keep the child.

Mark 10:29–30 ESV

Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

God shows up through death, enemies, and curses

How do You recognize him!

If two men showed up and you had to pick which one was he deliverance pick the less-successful one.

If two men showed up and told he was God pick the one that doesn’t have the money.

Slow down your deliverance isn’t in your life, your things, not in your friends, or the things you would call blessing.

He is found in your brokeness, in your pain, in your adversity, and in your

That’s good news, because everyone may not be able to say that they’ve won, but if you can admit that you are a loser, you can find him...

He can be found in a manger