
“And the Lord said, “I have certainly seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their outcry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.” —Exodus 3:7-8 NASB2020
“And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.”” —Exodus 3:10 NASB2020
“But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?” And He said, “Assuredly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain.” Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “This is what you shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ” God furthermore said to Moses, “This is what you shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is the name for all generations to use to call upon Me.” —Exodus 3:11-15 NASB2020
“Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has appeared to me, saying, “I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.” —Exodus 3:16 NASB2020
“So I said, I will bring you up out of the oppression of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’” —Exodus 3:17 NASB2020
“Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I extend My hand over Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.”” —Exodus 7:5 NASB2020
“Then they said to Moses, “Is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you dealt with us in this way, bringing us out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness!”” —Exodus 14:11-12 NASB2020
3 Things Needed:
1. Perspective. We need the right perspective to
where God’s calling us.
“Then the whole community of Israel set out from Elim and journeyed into the wilderness of Sin, between Elim and Mount Sinai. They arrived there on the fifteenth day of the second month, one month after leaving the land of Egypt. There, too, the whole community of Israel complained about Moses and Aaron.” —Exodus 16:1-2 NLT
- They had sung a song of deliverance in Exodus 15, and
““If only the Lord had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.”” —Exodus 16:3 NLT
Godly perspective helps you see:
a) Where He’s brought you
b) Where He’s taking you to.
“But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. And no one, after drinking old wine wants new; for he says, ‘The old is fine.’ ”” —Luke 5:38-39 NASB2020
- Leave the
“But Lot’s wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.” —Genesis 19:26 NASB2020
2. Faith
“But My righteous one will live by
; And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.” —Hebrews 10:38 NASB2020
“Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.” —James 1:2-3 NASB2020
3. Endurance.
“For you have need of
, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.” —Hebrews 10:36 NASB2020
“rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer,” —Romans 12:12 NASB2020
“I can dothings through Him who strengthens me.” —Philippians 4:13 NASB2020