One of things that I ask God for in my prayer time is the
ability to be able to hear Him. I want to hear God clearly when He speaks to
me. I don’t want to drown out His voice which is easy for me to do because I
have a tendency to be easily distracted. When God has shown us something, we
cannot allow ourselves to get off task. We have to be able to listen to God and
we have to be able to envision what He is saying to us. For the past few
nights, the word see has been jumping
out to me as I read my bible. Before God gave certain people instructions, He
told them to see first. Sometimes the
personal words that God has for me can be hard to believe because they are things
that I don’t see in myself. Life can sometimes have a way of making us not
believe the things that God is saying to us, but we have to be able to see His
promises mentally before we actually see them tangibly.
Despite what may be going on around you, all you need to do
is see. Sometimes you have to see whatever
your “it” is in the spiritual before you see “it” in the natural. God told
Moses to see and then He told Him
what He was going to do. How many times does God have to tell us to see before
we believe Him? Moses had a few issues with his own abilities in the midst of being
used in his purpose. He was worried about his speech. The cool thing about God
and Moses’ relationship is that as you read, you will see that God had already
given Moses everything that he needed to go forth in the assignment that he was
given. He had the encouragement, he had the signs but he couldn’t see. He couldn’t see past his own
ability to get the job done despite God already doing it through him.
It looks like a mess in your life right now, but you need to
see. You need the word of the Lord to be worked out in your life right now. In
Exodus 7:1 God tells Moses “see, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your
brother Aaron will be your prophet. Not
only did God give Moses the command to see, but he also followed that up with “I
made you”. God knows everything about us. He knows where we fall short. He
knows our imperfections. He knows our beginning and our end so why do we have
such a time with seeing? God told Moses such awesome things after He commanded
him to see, but it was up to Moses to receive the blessing after that. It was up
to Moses to believe that God would bring everything that He promised him to
pass. Moses was insecure about his speech, what insecurity are you allowing to
hinder you from your calling? God knew what He was getting when He choose you,
stop asking Him to send someone else and you go! You are beautifully and wonderfully
made. You are made in God’s image. Stop allowing your idea of a perfect vision
to get in the way of the one that God already has. In Exodus 4 after Moses
tells God about his inabilities, God in turn says to him “Who
has made man’s mouth? Who makes a man not able to speak or hear? Who makes one
blind or able to see? Is it not I, the Lord? So
go now. And I will be with your mouth. I will teach you what to say.”
As the chapter goes on God also tells Moses that Pharaoh
would not listen to him and that his heart would be hardened. The interesting
thing about Pharaoh was that I never read that pharaoh did not believe Moses,
but it does say that he would not listen. For many of us, it is not that we
don’t believe in God, but we just don’t listen. Faith comes by hearing and
hearing by the word of God. If God tells us to see, how can we ever receive the
rest of what he has to say to us if we don’t listen? Moses had to listen. God
told him to see the promise. After the promise, God told Moses that pharaoh
would not listen, but Moses was in charge of his own belief despite what it
looked like.
Through this story we see the consequences that can come as
a result of listening. Are you listening to the word of the Lord? Can you see?
You have to see the vision come to pass before it actually comes to pass.
Today check your hearing. What are you believing God for and
what has He told you about it? Are you listening to Him? Do you believe what He
has told you? If so, see it!!!!!!!!!!
When God speaks a word to you, see it mentally as He speaks.
Envision the vision that God has for you. What is the point of being able to
hear God if we don’t believe what He is telling us? You have to have an “I see
myself in……” mentality. Envision yourself in the place that God has said that
He will take you. Wait for the instructions that He will give you on how to get
there. You can’t leave God out of His own plan. Stop trying to make dreams that
God has given you come to pass on your own.
Recommended Reading:
Exodus 7: 1-4; Joshua 6:1-20; Jeremiah 1:4-10; Exodus 4:10-12
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