Emmanuel Okoro (aka MrLift)

The Lord says speak, speak  "That the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "I am the LORD. Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you." But Moses said to the Lord, Behold, I am of deficient and impeded speech; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me? (Exod.6.29 AMP) We are prone to see our deficiency instead of our efficiency. We see and concentrate on the things we do not have but fail to see the ones we have. And in most cases, the ones we have are usually more than the ones we do not have but because we focus on what we do not have, we amplify them and as such increase their ability to hold us down and hold us back.  This was the case of Moses in our text. God had instructed him to speak to Pharaoh and had told him what to say. So it was not an issue of him not knowing what to say. But instead of speaking Moses complained to God that he is of deficient and impeded speech.  But we must realize that God will not ask us to do something He know we cannot do. He knows we can...

Speak to Pharaoh but first speak to yourself  "Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a command for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt." (Exod.6.13)  If you look closely at our text, it implies that for the children of Israel to come out of the slavery of Egypt, Moses would need to not only speak to Pharaoh the enslaver but first speak to the children of Israel, the enslaved. The command to Moses and Aaron is to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. But for that to happen, they must first speak to the children of Israel and then to Pharaoh.  Why was this important?  Moses had reported back to God that the children of Israel did heed his message. These were supposedly the ones who knew God talk less of the Pharaoh that doesa not know nor have a relationship with God.  This implies that you have to first believe God's word to you before you can speak to the ...

Yahweh "I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty [El-Shaddai], but by My name the Lord [Yahweh - the redemptive name of God] I did not make Myself known to them [in acts and great miracles]. (Exod.6.3 AMP) The knowledge of God we all have, when aggregated still does not sum up to the totality of Who God is. God is so great, so vast we cannot phantom the entity of the person of God.  God told Moses that He appeared to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by the name God Almighty or El-Shaddai as seen in our text. They related with Him thus. But there were many sides or aspects of God that they did not encounter. He say but now, I am appearing or relating with you, Moses, not just as God Almighty or El-Shaddai but as the Lord or Yahweh. That is , the God Who is mighty in great acts and great miracles. God needed to be Yahweh in order to deliver Israel from the slaveryy of Pharaoh.  The God that shows up for you is the God that He wants you to encounter or engaged with. ...

For the word sake...  "So the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying, "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves." (Exod.5.6 -7)  Has it occurred to you that once you received the word of God, the word is tried in order to ascertain the veracity of that word? Jesus told the parable of the sower, and in that parable informed us that tribulations arises for the word sake. In other word, the word heard and received causes trials and tribulation to arise.  "But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. (Mark.4.17 NIV) This was the situation in our text. Moses and Aaron had spoken the word of God to the children of Israel and to Pharaoh and because of this word, Pharaoh increase their workload and made working condition stringent. All of these he did to make them disbel...

Let my people go...  "Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness."' (Exod.5.1)  The bible is replete with types and shadows. Pharaoh speaks of taskmaster that held the children of Israel in a captivity for 400 years. Pharaoh was so powerful Moses was scared to go before him. When God told him to go before Pharaoh he asked God, "Who am I that I should go before Pharaoh? Pharaoh was  like the number one citizen of the world, he was powerful.  But after Moses gained insight into who he truly was, he went before Pharaoh and demanded the release of his people from Egyptian slavery. We see him in our text, in the company of his brother Aaron. He did not speak his own words but God's word. He spoke God's word to the Pharaoh of slavery "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Let My people go"  I don't know what Pharaoh has held you down...

Reevaluation "So the LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod." (Exod.4.2)  In Marketing we are told that "There are two fools in the market, one who overprices himself and the other who underprises himself".  The story of Moses in our text teaches us to properly evaluate or reevaluate ourselves. Moses had a rod in his hands and with this rod he already had, he was going to deliver the children of Israel but because he did not properly evaluate his asset, he did not know how to value himself. And as such doubted and second guessed himself. So that even when God was showing him all that was possible, he wasn't able to see them. God had to help him see what his rod could do through diverse signs and wonder. May be, you too needs a reevalution.  God is asking you today, "What is that you have in your hands?" Are your properly evaluating yourself? Do you really know who God say you are? If the answer is yes, then you mu...