Distance for Warfare: Growing Closer to GodSample

A BOLD MOVE

During the COVID-19 global pandemic, I was looking for inspirational content that would help me improve my spiritual and mental health. There were enough talk shows that dwelt on highlighting the tragedies at that time, and I could not find many inspirational platforms that ministered to me. I believe others were in the same boat as me; thereupon, I thought about starting a podcast.

The actions that needed to be performed to produce the podcast seemed insurmountable for the 13-year-old me. I knew God had given me the idea for a specific reason, but I was more worried about what could go wrong and how some people wouldn’t want to listen to me, being a teenager trying to encourage them from my own experiences. Although I had feelings of doubt, I took the bold move of starting my podcast. Through my bold move of obedience, doors that had been presented before me were unlocked, and I started to experience more of the goodness of God in the land of the living. Through my bold move, God gave me all the resources that I needed to help those who were hopeless find a sense of hope. My bold move was bigger than me; my bold move helped others make bold moves as well.

Moses was a Hebrew child who was under attack because of his identity. Due to Moses’s parents desiring to protect him, they placed him in a basket floating on a river, which the Pharoah’s daughter later found. Moses was raised as an Egyptian under the Pharoah's family. In Exodus 3, Moses is contemplating if he would make the bold move of obeying the voice of the Lord that told him to demand Pharoah to let the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt. At first, Moses felt incompetent due to his thoughts that kept him captive, believing that the Israelites couldn't be freed from hundreds of years of slavery in Egypt. God told Moses, “I Am That I Am” (verse 14 KJV) which emphasizes how sef-sustaining God is and how God holds all power in His hands.

Moses was encouraged to boldly lead the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt because God would lead and empower him to accomplish the mission he had been called to do.

If you don’t have the faith to believe that you can make the bold move of doing what God has called you to do, put your faith in the sustaining and self-sufficiency of God. If the mission was made possible for me and Moses to get our God-given tasks completed, the task can be made possible for you, but it first begins with your bold move through Christ Jesus!

Prayer: God, please empower me to make bold moves, not out of fear, but out of faith. In Jesus name, Amen!

Declaration: I will make a bold move for Jesus Christ!