78. You're a Moses 03.04.20

Oh how I don’t want to write this one. I’ve been going back and forth with the Lord on this topic for two days now. He’s urging me to write, and as per my usual reaction to big messages like this one, I don’t want to be the one to write it. I don’t want to be the one to talk about something this deep, this necessary. I constantly feel like these messages and visions are too big for me. I hear what I hear or see what I see, and I can’t figure out why or how I’m supposed to reach people with it. I just know that I have to try.

Job 23:10-11 (NIV)
10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
11 My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside.

Isaiah 55:8-9 (NIV)
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

We had wrapped up our first meeting for the mission trip coming up in November and we were all sitting there in prayer. The next thing I know, it’s windy and dark. The air is thin and there’s a new wind, but it’s not a normal wind that blows right by. It felt like it was everywhere blowing in every direction at the same time. I was so consumed by this presence of His power all around me. There wasn’t much grass, there was some, the ground was dusty but the dust was never picked up into the wind. It was settled as if the wind was in the heavens never touching the earth. I looked down and I saw a stone slab. I couldn’t make out the shape of it but it seemed to have been carved. I looked out and I realized that there was no flat land to walk on. It was like I was on top of a mountain looking out across the land. The part I could see and touch with my feet was dusty like dried clay, rocky, inconsistent and unpopulated.

I looked again and in my left hand I saw a chisel and in my right I saw a stone mallet. As I leaned toward the stone, trying to figure out what I was doing, this powerful fire came and blew me back and off my feet. It was the strangest thing to describe, it was almost like a silhouette made of fire that shot a strand of fire outward. The strand went to the stone in a fashion that appeared to look the same way that lightening looks as it travels across the sky. As the strand of fire hit the stone, letters began to appear. They weren’t in English, so I couldn’t read it but it was like watching a laser beam carving, but with fire. It was so powerful but also so direct with the way the letters were burned into the stone. I wish I could find a better way to describe it. Then I heard a phrase repeat over and over again. “You’re a Moses” it was on repeat over and over again. Then the next thing that I know I’m back in my chair getting ready to head home.

Visions like this one scare the pants off of me sometimes. I’ll feel like I can’t breathe or like it’s all too big for me. I sat in my car for a minute and asked the Lord to speak to me regarding what this message was about. It sometimes takes a while for me to understand what it means. I know that I need to convey certain points from the visions and messages I get from the Lord, it’s just waiting for the scriptures and the words to come. On my way home I listened to Acts 28 through Romans 9 and I feel that there are some scriptures that fit right in with this.

Ya’ll probably won’t listen to me. They didn’t listen to Noah. Then the rain came. They didn’t listen to Moses either. While he was on the mountain they built a golden calf. They turned to an idol. They wanted a quick fix. It reminds me of the fact that we are all looking for that same quick fix. Today’s people have turned away from the Lord. We fill our entire day with idol worship. Everything from our phones, to music, to tv, we dive into our work, we use our minds to jump from one racing thought to the next, food, our children, even our sleep can become an idol. Our pastors and mentors can become idols if we turn to them to get our weekly dose of the Lord. We are called to relationship. You don’t get that from listening to other people’s words even if they include scripture. You get that intimacy and relationship by being in the word yourself. Dust off your Bible and read it. We seem to be running on all cylinders, all the time, in every other area of our life. Why not also in our faith? When we get home, cracking open our Bible goes to the back burner and we crack open a beer or open a bag of chips instead.

Christians are quick to hide behind the false grace that is preached. Thinking things like, Jesus loves us, we can sin and just ask for forgiveness later. Jesus understands my heart, so this tiny sin is ok. Everyone is doing it so this sin is ok. If it’s wrong, come judgement day I’ll apologize for it and I’ll be forgiven because Jesus loves me. How twisted have we made Christianity. Jesus isn’t this feel good everything is fine ooey gooey guy. He’s Holy, He’s Righteous. He’s calling us higher. We have lost our fear of the Lord. We have lost respect for the Lord. We treat Christianity like a bumper sticker and a t shirt makes us better people. It comes down to the way you live. It comes down to the way you show people Jesus every day. There has to be a mutual love. You’re called to Love the Lord as He loves you.

I’m not preaching law, I’m here with a message of respect. A message to call Christians to walk in righteousness and in a holy eternal mindset. We don’t obey the word because the Lord wants to take the fun out of everything you do. We obey the word of God, out of a respect for our father. If you go to your parents house and they ask you to take you’re shoes off, I’m sure you would. So why then, if our Heavenly Father gives us an entire instruction manual called the living word, the Bible, would we turn away from nearly everything written in it? We need to step up our respect for the Lord. You don’t want to hear, “I never knew you”. We are obligated to lay down the ways of the flesh and the ways of the world and to live by the spirit. We are not called to be in this world half way and half way in the spirit. We are called to go ALL IN.

Acts 28:25-27
25 They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your ancestors when he said through Isaiah the prophet:
26 “‘Go to this people and say,”You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
27 For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’

Romans 8:5-17
5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.