Kingdom EncountersSample

Once Moses responded to God and took off his shoes, God revealed to him who He was. We read this in Exodus 3:6-7.

God makes Himself known to Moses by first identifying who He is: the God of his father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He reminds Moses of His history before He tells Moses of what is to come. Not only that, He also lets Moses know that He has seen the affliction of the Israelites in Egypt, and He is aware of the same atrocities that plagued Moses’s heart some forty years earlier.

Remember that this whole thing started years ago. Moses thought he knew what he was supposed to do, to be used by God to deliver the people. He knew God had a handle on his life. He just hadn’t gone about it God’s way. The calling and purpose were clear. The path just got distorted because Moses had too much Egypt in him at that time, to the degree that he sought to bring about the resolution through his own methods and means. But, by introducing Himself to Moses in this way, God let Moses know that He had not forgotten the covenantal promises He made to Moses’s ancestors or what He had planned to do through Moses. God had not forgotten what He had planned to do for His people either to fulfill those promises.

There may be something God put on your heart to do years ago, but it has yet to be fulfilled. I don’t know how long you may have been struggling as you wait on God. Or perhaps you have gotten to the point where you have given up hope that He will even do anything at all. But I want to encourage you to keep your eyes open for the living Lord. God hasn’t forgotten you. He knows where you are. He knows how you got there. He knows how long you have been there. And like He did with Moses, He can call your name for you to carry out the plan He’s placed on your life, even if you have gotten off the timetable you had once envisioned for your life.