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And
Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I
should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? And he said,
Certainly I will be with thee.
– Exodus 3:11-12
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Have you ever had a Holy
Spirit-inspired dream, a dream of doing something really great for
Jesus? A dream of being so prosperous, for instance, that you can
finance a nationwide revival? A dream of leading thousands of people to
the Lord?
At one time or another, you probably have, but perhaps you backed away from it. You thought, Oh my, I couldn’t do that. Satan’s kept me defeated for so long I have a poor self-image.
If
so, I have some good news for you. If you’ll believe God, even a poor
self-image won’t keep you from success. Look in the book of Exodus and
you’ll see a man who proved that. His name was Moses.
Moses didn’t
have a very good self-image. He’d made a terrible mistake early in his
career. It was a mistake that drove him into the wilderness and kept him
there for 40 years herding someone else’s sheep.
He’d once
dreamed of being a deliverer of God’s people, but no more. As far as he
was concerned, he was finished...a failure...a flop!
But God
didn’t think so. In fact, when God came to Moses in that wilderness, He
didn’t ask for Moses’ credentials. He didn’t mention his shady history.
He just told him to go see Pharaoh and tell him to let God’s people go.
Moses, however, was still wrestling with his poor self-image. “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?” he stammered.
You know what God said in response? He just said, “Certainly, I will be with thee.”
You
see, it didn’t matter who Moses was. What mattered was that the living
God was with him. The same thing is true for you today. You don’t need a
history of successes behind you to answer God’s call. You don’t need a
string of spiritual credentials. All you need is the presence of the
Lord.
Think about that when the devil tells you you’re a failure,
when he says you’ll never be able to do what God has put in your heart
to do. Put him in his place. Tell him it doesn’t matter who you are
because the living God is with you.
Then dare to follow your dream!
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