<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Now, Moses, being called for this purpose... But he was a man; God trained him eighty years before He ever was able to use him: forty years in the palace and forty years in the wilderness. God can train a man, take Him a hundred years for thirty minutes work. God knows how to train. What the schools had put in Moses forty years, it taken forty years to get it out.
But one time in the presence of the anointing, one time in the presence of the burning bush, he knowed more about God than he'd learnt in books in the eighty years of his life. God trains His men then anoints them, gives an experience, takes them through the rigored training, down through the sands of burning punishment, trying, testing. Not only does He do that to His prophets, but He does it to His children. Every son that cometh to God must be chastened and tried, tested by His Word.
See, when the pinch comes, the strong time, when it faces death, are you able to stand there on the Word of God, say, "God said so. That settles it."

L-13 And God had called such a man, and that man was Moses. But Moses, a great deal like us, every time it come a place till something had to be done, Moses called out, "O Lord, what must I do in this place?" Now, isn't that just like we do? God had blessed him and anointed him above his brethren, give him a message and a ministry that had not been on the earth since that day--until that day. And yet every time something taken place Moses run off to God with it. "Lord, what must I do? What must I do in this case?" God got kinda tired of it, I believe. Said, "Why you crying to Me? Speak to the people and go forward."

L-14 My, if any time it ever looked like they ought to retreat, was then. But God has no retreat. There's no place to retreat in God; go forward. The doctor says it's cancer; go forward. If he says it's TB, go forward. If the devil says you can't give this up, go forward. If your home says that you're going to be a fanatic, go forward. The church turns you out, go forward. There's no retreating back; go forward. Speak and go forward. Speak what? His Word and go forward, "THUS SAITH THE LORD," and move on. Cry out to the people.
But the people then rebelled and said, "It'd been better that we died down in Egypt. It'd been better that we had our graves marked then from the hyenas and the vultures to pick our bones in this wilderness. Why did you bring us out here?" After they had seen that God had approved Moses to be His servant...

L-15 God, when God comes into a person, or to persons, into a congregation, into a man or a woman, He a-vindicates His Presence. God proves that He's there. Why, when God comes, supernatural signs begin to appear. This person becomes a changed person. They're not no more like they used to be. Sin has vanished from their life. Fear and doubt has vanished, flusteration. They're solid, stable; live or die, it's Christ. They don't care what comes or what goes; nothing shakes them. They move forward.


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