
02/03/2025
MOSES HAD A REASON TO BE HUMBLE:
IN HIS ENGAGING GOD, HE DISCOVERED HIMSELF.
MSG TITLE: Engaging, Experiencing and Exploring God
To engage God. These people ask questions. They are not passive. I want to say to you that A GENUINE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE WITH GOD IS NOT PASSIVE, IT IS AN ACTIVE INTERACTION AND IT'S AN INTERACTION THAT ALLOWS FOR QUESTIONS. God is not looking for people that when God said, “I am God”. And they will say Yes, Sir.
God appeared to Moses and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham, of Isaac. I have come to deliver my people. Moses said, Thank you. But excuse me, what is your name?
Now I'm asking you, do you know that we have Christians nowadays that don't ask questions. These brothers that experienced God in their lives, they did so because they engaged Him.
“What is your name? If I get there, and they said who is he that appeared to you? Who would I say appeared to me? What if they don't believe that you appeared to me. What do I say?” Do you understand that? You may say, maybe that was unbelief. No, that's not unbelief at all. God enjoys that. He loves it. He gives allowance in our experiencing him, he gives allowance for us to express ourselves and say, excuse me, who are you?
That's why the present-day preacher baffles me a lot. Even God will allow me to ask him questions; “Who are you?” But the modern-day preacher says, obey your prophets that you may prosper. I preached and you are asking question, who are you? I told you that it was by revelation from the spirit, and you are asking question. If you do this next time, I will deal with you by the anointing.
You see, but the God, the God of all universes allows room for men like me to do what? To engage him, to ask him questions and say, excuse me, please, “who are you?”
Moses said, excuse me, “who are you Sir?” I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. But they will ask me what is his name? Is that your name?
Now, Oh God, are you understanding what I'm talking about here? Here are men; in order to experience God, they engaged him. Do you know what God had to do that day? He had to bring out from his archives His special name, because this boy will not go.
He said OK, when you go there, tell them. I AM; I AM that I AM has appeared to you and he is the one who sent me to you? If you read your Bible from Genesis to that Exodus, chapter 3, that name has never come out. Somebody brought it up. Who brought it out? Moses. A man who is willing to engage God.
Do you know that our own generation is very poor? There is no originality with us. Most of what I see our modern-day preachers do is copycat. If they heard that somebody is doing something in America, next week, they will start doing the same kind of thing here. They're just copycats. They are not bold enough to step into God's presence and say, father, what is it that you are doing? And why are you doing this? And let's have authentic revelation of God coming to us. Hallelujah.
And you know, we thank God for men like Moses that allowed us to know that the God we serve is the I AM that I AM. Nobody would have known. It will have remained inside God.
Moses said, well, because I can't go. “I am the God of Abraham”, please what is his name? Anybody can say I am the God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Israel. It’s a common talk.
He said excuse me, Sir. I know, but what if they don't believe me? What do I do? Do you know that it's engagement that brought forth all that Moses got from God?
Can I remind you? God asked, what is in your hand? That's my Rod. You know the reason why that came out was simply because he wouldn't go without an authentic experience. I know for some of us, fear, God has spoken, who am I to query him? So, we must go. Even when there is nothing authentic in our spirit. Are you hearing what I'm talking about?
So, when you go, there's nothing you are going with. What is your hand, he said it’s my rod? And he said, drop it. When he dropped it, his rod, the thing became snake. He began to run.
God said now pick it, pick it from the tail. How many of you have caught Snake before? I have caught snake before. Where, if you were to catch snake, what is the best place to catch snake? It's on the neck and you must hold it properly so that the thing doesn't do like this. How can you go and catch snake by the tail? Do you want to die? Moses said God, really you want to kill me today.
So, God said pick it, take it by the tail and as he stretched forth his hand and he took it. It became the rod again. Do you know from that day? As far as Moses is concerned, what did he call that rod now? THE ROD OF GOD.
You know, he wouldn't know what was in that rod except he had asked questions. Do you know that for so many of us, we yet have not discovered the value of what God has placed in our lives. All because we are passive. We've never asked. We've never engaged him.
HOW WILL YOU EXPERIENCE GOD? HOW WILL YOU BRING A TRANSMISSION OF THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD INTO OUR LOCAL SITUATION? EXCEPT SOMEBODY IS WILLING TO SAY; OH GOD, HOW IS IT?
The Bible said, as he carried that rod. I imagine the way he carried it as he was going home now. He carried it with a different sense. Do you know that he carried it with a difference sense? Now he knew; When he got to the house; usually before when he returned from his normal moving up and down with the sheep, what does he do with the rod? He would just drop it anyhow. This time he knew that if you drop it anyhow, something may come out.
So how did he carry it now? His wife said why don't you drop it? He said no, this is the Rod of God. This is what God has asked me to carry back to Egypt. IT REALLY PLEASED ME THAT MOSES MET GOD.
Whereas, when Jacob was returning from his father-in-law; he carried cattle, he stole gods and all of those. BUT THE DAY MOSES WAS GOING BACK. HE ONLY WENT WITH THAT ROD. NO CATTLE, NOTHING. EVEN HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN, HE LEFT THEM BEHIND. HE HAD GOT SOMETHING SUFFICIENT TO FACE EGYPT. HOW DID HE GET IT? HE ENGAGED GOD.
Brothers, some of us, we are in ministry. That's wonderful. But why are we so weak in what we are doing? Why do we call the name of God? And yet in our heart we tremble because we don't know whom we call. We've never engaged him.
I FOUND SOMETHING THAT MEN THAT EXPERIENCE GOD, THEY WERE NOT AFRAID TO DO WHAT? TO ENGAGE HIM, TO ENGAGE HIM IN DISCUSSIONS, TO ENGAGE HIM IN QUESTION AND ANSWER, TO ENGAGING BY CHALLENGING WHAT HE SAID, CHALLENGING THE INTEGRITY OF HIS WORD. AND YET YOU SAY NO, NO, NO, NO, YOU DON'T DO THAT. GOD IS WILLING TO BE ENGAGED.
And I thank God as he carried Rod; He was with the Rod, he knew that there's something here. But God didn't allow him to go yet because if he went only with that understanding of what is in the rod; He may, he may misbehave. So, because I stretch out your hand, he did. God said put it here (under your armpit), and he did. God said bring it out. What did he discover? Complete leprosy. You see? You mean? I thought I was a handsome young man.
What? Prince Moses!!!
So under my armpit is what is leprosy? My God, Oh. God said put it back. Then everything was restored.
What Almighty God you are.
What a mighty God you are!
As he went, I noticed that all through the Ministry of Moses, there is something he never did. HE NEVER PUT HIS HAND UNDER HIS ARMPIT. You know when you read, Moses was meek and that he was humble. You thought it was arbitrary; he had a reason to be humble. He knew that to beat his chest is to become a l***r.
IN HIS ENGAGING GOD, HE DISCOVERED HIMSELF. Brothers, we can't experience God in reality, if we are passive believers. In fact, God loves you to engage him, please take note of that. God is not going to kill you because you ask questions. God is not going to punish you because you dared to ask him and say, why is this? this is not unbelief. God loves to give answers to your questions. Hallelujah.
But you know that is strange in Africa. Do you know that is strange in our culture? What is in our culture? When elders speak, what do you do? You keep quiet. Whether you believe or not, what do you say? Yes. That's our culture. And I'll tell you a secret, that looks good because we easily believe. But because it has no root in ourselves, that belief is not for us to commit ourselves onto something serious.
Now, that kind of thing is good for and on certain things, but it's not good enough for experiencing God. To experience God and to bring down the glory of his power into our generation, we must be men that are bold to say Father, why is this? Why is this?