God is Not Done with You Yet

Do you think you’re too old or too poor or too powerless to make a difference? You’re wrong. God is not done with you yet. 

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Our message comes from the book of Exodus. Exodus chapter three. And we're going to be reading the first four verses and then verses nine and ten. This is what the Word of God says from Exodus chapter three, beginning at verse one from the New King James Version. It says, Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire, it did not burn up. So Moses thought, I will go over and see this strange sight, why the bush does not burn up. When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush Moses Moses and Moses said here I am and skipping to verse nine and now the cry of the Israelites has reached me. This is God talking, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. Verse ten, so now go I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites out of Egypt. Exodus three, verses one through four and verses nine and ten. Our subject today comes from verse ten, which says, So now go, I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites out of Egypt. So our subject this afternoon is God is not done with you yet. God is not done with you yet. The story of Moses is one of my favorites in all of the Bible. It is uplifting to read about how God used Moses from an infant. He was born during a time when the king of Egypt had instructed the midwives to kill at birth any male Hebrew child which was born. But the midwives, Shipra and Puah, feared God and did not kill Moses. Not only that, but when Moses was too old to hide, his mother Jacobed put him in a basket in the Nile River. Imagine that a baby in a basket put in the Nile River, and he floated to safety, where he was discovered by Pharaoh's daughter, which was part of the plan who took him in. But Moses' very own sister offered her Pharaoh's offered Pharaoh's daughter to get her a Hebrew woman to nurse the child. So she agreed, get her and I will pay her to take care of him, and then bring him to me when he's older. So by God's miraculous providence, Moses' sister Miriam called their very own mother, whom Pharaoh's daughter went to and charged her to nurse and care for Moses and then to bring him to her. So Moses' mother continued to nurse him and teach him who he was. And when he was older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he was brought up in Pharaoh's house. But then as a grown man, middle age, by now he's age forty, knowing that he was a Hebrew, he was upset about the Egyptians' treatment and oppression of his people. He killed an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew and hid him in the sand. When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled to the land of Midian and dwelt on the backside of the mountain for forty years. But then he encountered God. God was not done with him yet. What about you? Have you been in limbo about something in a dry place, in a place of discontentment because deep down in your soul you too know that God is not done with you yet? That your purpose has not been fulfilled, then you wake up every day, God gives you another opportunity. God is not done with you yet. Ask yourself, when did the doubt creep in? When was it when I started, ask yourself, when was it when I started to think that the dreams I had, the goals I once had could not be fulfilled? When did I start feeling sorry for myself or feeling that I was too old to accomplish this or that? Too poor, too unknown, too whatever. Moses had killed an Egyptian guard who was beating one of his brethren. And the next day when he saw two Hebrews, two of his people, fighting among themselves, he tried to talk to them and talked to the one who had caused the problem. And that Hebrew brother pushed back against Moses' interference. He said to him, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill us too? Like you did the Egyptian? Yeah, sometimes it's your own people that fight against you. So at that point Moses realized how widespread the news was, and he ran. Why have you run? What is it that you're running away from? Has difficulty and hard times squashed your dreams? Has fear of the enemy caused you to think that God is not sufficient? Have you talked yourself out of seeing miracles? You know what? God is not done with you yet. There's a lot more work for you to be done. That's why you're still here. That's why you wake up every morning. Moses lived among the Midianite shepherds and herdsmen for forty years. Jethro gave him Zipporah, one of his seven daughters, to be Moses' wife. She bore him a son. Moses named him Gershem, because he said, I have been a stranger in a foreign land. And over time Moses grew somewhat content where he was. That happens to us. We start to think, this isn't so bad. Maybe I can take this, maybe I can deal with this in spite of that knot in your stomach and that feeling in your chest that God wants more. But things happened. The king of Egypt died, and the new Pharaoh was even harsher on the children of Israel. They cried out to God because of their bondage. And at the age of eighty, God called out to Moses from the burning bush. Is God calling out to you? I heard a quote the other day that said, When we see our purpose as serving God and his people, growing in whatever season we're in, whether we're young or old or middle age, then we begin to be the most fruitful, creating everlasting fruit, because our purpose is really secure in Him. Our purpose is not just raising our children and then when they're grown we have no purpose. Our purpose is not our job, and when we retire from that career we have no purpose. Our purpose is secure in God and serving him and his people. Moses' purpose was tied up in God, and God was not done with him yet, not even at eighty years of age. In fact, the time was now ripe for Moses to do his best work, to be his most fruitful. Yes, he led the children out of Israel, and for forty years in the wilderness he led them until they came upon the edge of the Jordan to enter in the promised land. But he died, having seen the promised land, but not able to enter into it. The story of Moses is quite compelling, and the word says that God himself buried Moses, who was his friend, whom he talked to face to face. So number one is to know when you stop believing that God was God and doubt set in. Go back to remembering that God is God and He can do whatsoever he will. And the second thing is that you need to believe that anything is possible. When God told Moses what he wanted him to do, he tried to get out of it by making excuses. But God was unyielding. So I'm sure that when Moses realized that he was gonna have to go back to Pharaoh, he started thinking back on his birth, how his parents told him, that they hid him from Pharaoh, that he was not killed at birth like many male children, that he was put in a reed basket and sent down the Nile River where the snakes and other creatures could have gotten him, he could have drowned, but yet he ended up in the arms of Pharaoh's daughter, raised by his own mother, and then brought up in Pharaoh's house. And when he thought of those things, he probably said to himself, Yes, I should be the one to approach Pharaoh on behalf of my people. So what has God prepared you for that was meant for you and you alone to do? Because the word says that God has a work for each one of us. He gives us hope and a future. And we are his hands and feet. So with God all things are possible. Just because it has never been done before, you haven't seen it in your lifetime doesn't mean it can't be done. Perhaps you're called to be the first. We've seen many firsts in our lifetime. Things that we now take for granted. The Wright brothers were the first to fly motorized aircraft. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call. Thurgood Marshall was the first black man on the Supreme Court. And of course, Barack Obama was the first black president. The list goes on and on. And so finally, we have to remember that faith is what makes it possible. It takes faith to make things happen. What is faith? Faith is trusting God to the point that we're sure of the things we hope for, that we can be sure in our hearts and our minds, even if we cannot see it physically right now, that it can and will happen. This is the faith of the Hebrews who were in bondage. This was the faith of our forefathers and our enslaved ancestors, confident that one day our people would see freedom. It was with this faith that Moses left Midian and confronted Pharaoh at eighty years of age and brought his people out of bondage. So right now, I want us to stop doubting God and succumbing to the fact that the world is falling apart and there's nothing we can do about it. Yes, we can do something, and we must do something. For he is more than able. Nothing is too hard for him. He's not done with you yet. Let him work in your life. Let him work through you. God bless it. God bless you. Let us pray. Lord, we thank you for your word today. That reminds us that no matter what season in life we find ourselves, that you have a work for us, that you can work through us, that you desire to do so. And that all you ask is that we have the faith and yield ourselves to you. And you can make things happen. We thank you, Lord, for what you're doing in the midst of us. We thank you that we're able to pray, to bring your intervention and your interference from heaven to earth, to change things, to make things right, to change hearts and minds. We can't do it, Lord, but we know you can. And so we we stretch our hands out to you. We make ourselves available to you. Because we know, Lord, that you're not done with us yet. We thank you for what you have done, what you are doing, and what you will do in our lives. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us today. I hope the word has inspired you to know that great things will come through your life, and you will leave a legacy of spiritual inheritance to those behind you. We thank you for what you're doing. We thank you, and we ask that you would continue to be salt and light and influential to all those you encounter. Now unto him who's able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before his presence with exceeding joy, to the only wise God, our Savior be glory, majesty, dominion, and power, both now and forevermore, let us all say Amen. Now go and be great for God and go to church on Sunday. God bless you.