Fences {part 3} - Sep 22, 2019

fences {part 3}
Speaker: Pastor Patrick Kelley
Originally Recorded: Sep 22, 2019

Exodus 3:5-14
“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Then he said, “I am the God of your father, 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. 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. 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. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “ I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘ I am has sent me to you.’ ”

It is vital importance to not let the disappointments of your past domesticate your faith for the future. -Kelly Stickel

Excuses justify staying where you are.
Excuses validate mediocrity.
Excuses strip you of authority and power to problem solve.
Excuses are self focused.
Excuses champion a defeated mentality and outcome.
Excuses put success out of reach.

God will use what you have to overcome your excuses

Exodus 4:8-9
Then the Lord said, “If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second. But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.”

You will always rise or fall to the level in your life that your heart sees yourself at.

Big Idea:
Testing always precedes promotion. (promotion in your thinking)

Prophetic Word:
Some erect fences thinking they are protection when in reality they are prisons.

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