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From despair to repair
Restored identity
Intro
If you were to ask a group of people if they believed that God could use them to begin a revival, probably few would raise their hands.
What do you suppose would be the reason for their refusal?
Many, if not all those who are asked believed that they are saved, healed, and delivered, and called by God to do great things.
But yet when it comes time to actually step out and do those things, many people shrink from the responsibility of the opportunity.
Moses faced a similar situation at the beginning of his ministry and relationship with God.
Moses represents every person with a destiny in God, yet they are damaged by life.
In this section, we will see how God heals Moses of his past, encourages him for the present, and motivates him for the future.
Pain of the Past
Moses’ heart was hurt by the rejection of his own people
Moses was also afraid that his past would catch up with him.
Moses was shellshocked to the point of stuttering.
Perplexed by the present
Moses must have also been disappointed that things did not turn out as he thought.
He was raised in a palace, taught by the brightest intellects of the day.
Yet now he is surrounded by sheep who cannot even talk to him.
Frustrated for the future
As a result, Moses felt inadequate to the point of making excuses of why he could not answer God’s call.
Fear and feelings of inadequacy are personal mountains that must be overcome to achieve our high calling in God.
Let’s follow Moses to the top of Mount Sinai and receive our personal healing and restoration.
As we will find out, God needed Moses to experience personal revival to be a living Burning bush to set his hurting nation on fire for revival.
I want to talk to that Moses in the wilderness.
The Moses who spent 40 years I’m a first-class world power that now has little to nothing.
The Moses who spent his second 40 years and I wilderness tending someone else’s sheep.
The Moses who is now 80 years old – wearing tattered clothes instead of a royal robe,
The Moses was born in Hebrew and an heir according to Abraham’s promise yet living far beneath his rights and privileges.
The Moses who is carrying a shepherd’s staff instead of a scepter
The Moses who is walking around in the wilderness instead of kneeling in God’s house and helping God’s people.
A – Revival Restores IDENTITY
– Jethro’s son in law to God’s friend
Jethro = the SETTLED PEOPLE
Jethro’s son in law vs God’s spiritual son
A broken identity says “ I don’t deserve it”
Because Moses was a broken, and damaged individual,
He was having an “identity crisis”
Moses seemed to “identify” as “Jethro’s son in law”
Moses SETTLED DOWN by marrying into his uncle’s family instead of his father’s family.
Moses married into Jethro’s family
Moses lived in Jethro’s CITY
Moses took care of Jethro’s SHEEP =
Settle is always down, never up
The result of these choices could possibly display outwardly how Moses felt about himself inwardly.
Don’t Settle your identity!
See yourself how God sees you, instead of how people may see you.
How we see ourselves affect how we see others.
Let’s first look at Moses natural and spiritual relationships.
Moses’ father-in-law, seemed to be an imitation of Aaron, God’s coming high priest
Life lesson: Don’t settle for less than God’s VIEW of you.
Naturally speaking, it seems that Jethro, who was Moses’ father-in-law was an imitation of God the Father by how Moses looked up to him for direction, counsel, and guidance
Although we should honor and respect our elders, we must never let them take the place of our heavenly Father.
Spiritually speaking, It seems that Jethro, who was a priest of Midian, was an imitation of God’s High Priest who was to come through Moses’ brother, Aaron.
Perhaps Moses didn’t think that he could do any better or deserve any better.
Moses’ identity was being formed in the wrong way.
Before Moses met God, he could be known as Moses of the Midianites rather than Moses of the Israelites.
Without a strong sense of personal identity, we also could easily settle for imitations and substitutions.
Moses’ real problem was not the desert, Pharoah, the sheep or the Israelites
Moses’s real problem was Moses!
How He saw himself
A revived soul will not settle for imitations!
Personal application.
Your real limitations are not your spouse, your kids, your job, the government, or the church.
Your real limitation is you!
We limit out altitude by our attitude – our self-worth
We will never do more than we think we can
It’s time to get healed of our past hurts and move on as the army of God!
The Blood of Jesus is stronger than your sins!
A revived soul will not settle for imitations.
B – Revival Restores SECURITY
= MIDIAN – man vs God
Midian = the “settled” place.
Or location Midian vs Mt.
Sinai
Before the first revival came to Israel, their future leader settled INTO a foreign land
Insecurity says “I can’t DO THAT”
40 years earlier before seeing God’s burning bush of revival, Moses fled from Egypt settled in a land called Midian.
Midian was far enough away from Egypt for safety and remote enough to provide privacy.
The term settle means to accept something less and the best.
Here are some examples of individuals who “settled”, leading up to the time of Moses.
Although he was the first person called by God to go to the land of Canaan, Abraham’s father settled in the land of Ur.
Ur represents convenience.
The result was that Abraham’s father never saw the promised land.
Our lesson is that God is our direction.
Later, Abraham’s grandson Jacob (also known as Israel) family settled in Egypt.
Egypt represents security from the famine.
The result was that Israel became enslaved the very people who used to bless them.
Our lesson is that God is our protection.
Now many years later, it is Moses that settled in the land of Midian.
Midian represents security.
Our lesson is that God is our provision.
Midian also represents the wilderness of man’s efforts,
Instead of the land flowing with milk and honey, land of Midian was dry and barren.
Are you settling today for less than God’s best?
Midian was close to Mount Sinai, illustrating the presence provision and power of God.
Mt.
Sinai
· the place where the Ten Commandments were given to the Israelites
· Identity – a critical location in the history of Israel and a key component of their national identity.[1]
What are the chances that Moses would one day find himself right next door to God?
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