Emmanuel Okoro (aka MrLift)

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...

No excuse is tenable  "Then Moses answered and said, "But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, "The LORD has not appeared to you."' (Exod.4.1)  Have you ever encountered a child who will look for every and any reason to not carry out an assignment? If you have then you would see through Moses' excuses. He had every excuse imaginable but God kept knocking them off one after the other. That tells you one thing among others, and that is, God believes in you more than you could possibly believe in yourself.  As far God was concerned, no excuse was tenable.  What's your excuse? Really, what is holding you back and holding you down? You can achieve an incredibly tall feats if you apply yourself.  No excuse is tenable. Moses excused himself to the point that God became angry with him.  "So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and He said: "Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak w...

But who am I?  "But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?" (Exod.3.11)  When God cast a vision before you, there is always this sense of inadequacy that overwhelms you. It is interesting that the God of the whole world believes in you. The least you can do is believe in yourself. Great achievement are often accomplished despite self-doubts. That is, despite the inadequacies, you keep acting on what God has told you to do.  Moses had to ask God, "Who am I that I should go before Pharaoh and that I should bring the children to Israel out of Egypt?" That would be the sum total of Moses' assignment yet he felt incapable to the task.  What is your assignment and how has it made you feel small? Know that God gave that assignment to you because He believes you are capable. That reminds me of Gideon, who God called "A might man of valour" yet he saw himself as an intimated sl...

Preconceived notions "Moreover He said, "I am the God of your father--the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God." (Exod.3.6)  Why did Moses hide his face from the God he ought to seek? We see a similar situation when Jacob stumbled on the house of God, once he found out it was God's house he became scared.  "He was terrified. He whispered in awe, "Incredible. Wonderful. Holy. This is God's House. This is the Gate of Heaven." (Gen.28.17)  This simply tells us that there was a preconceived notion that the isreality shared and that is, if you see the face of God you will die. Come to think of it, we all carry these notions in our own lives. Question is, are they in alignment with the word of God?  Most of the things we know about God we were told. As early as the Garden of Eden, when man hid himself because he had sinned and was naked, God asked him, "Who told you ...

Acknowledged by God  "And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them." (Exod.2.25)  What does it mean to acknowledge someone or something?  The wise king Solomon tells us to acknowledge God in all our ways and when we do that, he says that God will direct our path.  "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (Prov.3.6 KJV) So that our direction is premised on acknowledging God. What does it mean to acknowledge someone? It means to defer to Him, to rely on him, to give full and undivided attention. Imagine then tbat the Bible tells us that God acknowledged the children of Israel. The Amplified shared a bit more light on that verse. It reads: "God saw the Israelites and took knowledge of them and concerned Himself about them [knowing all, understanding, remembering all]. (Exod.2.25 AMP) God gave His full attention, knowing all there is to know, understanding all there is to understand, and remembering all there is to rememb...

Surely this thing is known  "Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. And when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, "Why are you striking your companion?" Then he said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" So Moses feared and said, "Surely this thing is known!" (Exod.2.11-14) Moses sets out to stand up for his brothers in slavery and in doing that, he killed an Egyptian who was oppressing an Israelite. This throws up that factor in human nature that thinks, for and against, them versus us.  You would think because so and so is not with us, therefore is against us. You would thin...