God repays your enemies by giving you favor and respect in their sight.

Throughout history, He has always responded to the cry of humanity (the problems of society or industry) with a leader.

God called us to position and power because a generation or industry cried.  We were called out of our dead end jobs (tasks) or wilderness to confront the Pharaoh (taskmaster and oppressor) that exists in other people's lives.

Moses was a deliverer by instinct.  Yet in Exodus 3:1, he is watching the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian.  As a former Egyptian price of Hebrew descent, Egyptians hated the job of a shepherd.

In Genesis 46:33, Joseph said to his brothers:

"When Pharaoh calls you in and asks, 'What is your occupation?' you should answer, 'Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians."

Yet God's plan was to use a shepherd to confront a Pharaoh.

WHY?  Because He does extraordinary things through ordinary people. 

Moses was an extraordinary person who became ordinary and was later used to do something extraordinary for God.

Sometimes God has to allow us to become ordinary before He can use us.  Moses' life was on hold for 40 years before God changed his profession.  He was a 40 year fugitive wanted for murder when God spoke to the deliverer (or passion) that was still resident in his loins (from youth.)

·        Do you feel ordinary? 

·        Have you settled for less than what God has promised? 

·        Are there still unfulfilled promises in your life? 

·        Is there a passion deep inside, dying to hear God or someone speak to it?

I dropped in your inbox to encourage you that God never forgets or fails in what He has promised you.  I Kings 8:56 says:

"Not one word has failed of all His good promise which He promised through Moses His servant."

Moses went:

·        40 years living in regret for the murder he committed in Egypt. 

·        40 years off the radar in a wilderness leading dumb animals. 

·        40 years without understanding what his purpose and destiny is. 

But now, God was calling Him.

When God sees an industry, region, city or nation in the same (or worse) condition as when He called you to it, He will put urgency in your spirit to respond to a cry that He has heard, but you necessarily have not.

God never forgets. 

Whatever He's called you to do, whoever He's called you to be, Whatever industry He's called you to lead out of captivity; from wandering through life without purpose, He never forgets.  Exodus 11:1 begins:

"THEN THE Lord said to Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more on Pharaoh and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go."

Think about it, it took 10 plagues to liberate the Israelites because Pharaoh was rebellious that number of times to the command of God.

Now, if I were Moses, I would've complained, "Lord, are you kidding me; you could do that?!  Why didn't you do that to Pharaoh?  I went through co-workers wanting to kill me, the bloody Nile, locusts, frogs, lice, all night prayer when the death angel came and you mean to tell me that you could've just opened the ground and swallowed Pharaoh up?  We could've just stayed in Egypt. We built the cities; why not give us those instead of Canaan?"

Because God wants us to participate in the signs and wonders He does on earth.

Moses would've never learned the authority and patience needed to lead millions in the wilderness without the experience in Egypt:

·        He would've missed the 10 plagues

·        He would've missed the Red Sea miracle.

·        He would've missed what was being taught to lead him and others in the wilderness.

·        He would've missed the finger of God writing on stone tablets in the wilderness to give him the law.

Today, your circumstance exists so you don't leave it empty handed.

I cannot promise what the end will bring, but it must be better than the beginning.