Simple Reminders: Step By Step

What keeps you from doing something?

Exodus 3:1-11(NIV)

3 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
And Moses said, “Here I am.”

5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father,[a] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

What is keeping Moses from doing what God is asking him to do?

• Identity
• Past Mistakes
• Fear
• Abilities
  

False Identity- A Shepherd of Sheep
True Identity- A Deliver of Nations

Moses doesn’t always get it .

Exodus 33

Exodus 33:16 

How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

It’s much to go with the Lord’s presence.

Jesus and His Disciples

Matthew 28:16-20 (AMP)‘Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had designated. And when they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted [that it was really He].

Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations [help the people to learn of Me, believe in Me, and obey My words], baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.”’

No More !

His presence is us.

…I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.”’

Psalm 121

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from?

2 My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot slip—he who watches over you will not slumber;

4 indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord watches over you—the Lord is your shade at your right hand;

6 the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

7 The Lord will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;

8 the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

His presence is watching over us.

Matthew 28:17-20 (AMP)

Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations [help the people to learn of Me, believe in Me, and obey My words], baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.”’

His comes with his presence. 

LEARN ABOUT ME.

BELIEVE IN ME.

OBEY MY WORDS.

The kingdom of God is within you. (Luke 11:21)

As the Father has sent me, I am sending you. (John 20:21)

Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it using all its vast resources in the service of God and man. (Genesis 1:28)

(For) the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3:8)

(And) the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord. (Revelation 11:15)

What’s keeping you from doing what the Lord commands you to do?