When God Acts

When God Acts Exodus 7.1-7 Moses was listening to the LORD. He was going to go before Pharaoh with his staff in his hand. God brought him back to the staff, his humble beginnings as a shepherd, to Israel’s beginnings, to his 40 years taking care of his father-in-law’s sheep. That was quite a descent for Moses, 40 years old in the palace. Now he is 80, a shepherd, ready to do God’s will. Jesus descended from Heaven to Earth, the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world. The Good Shepherd, Who lays down His life for the sheep. God is a Shepherd. God works through shepherds, from the Old Testament to the Birth of Jesus… announced His birth to shepherds. Came to worship before the wisemen. The church is led by shepherds. They are to follow the Great Shepherd of the sheep. The Bible is about the Great Shepherd and shepherds from Abel on… Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Jesus and His church, the sheep of His pasture, his pastors. Nothing more beautiful than a shepherd with the sheep. To the so called “wise” in the church (some of them listen to our Livestream), you were shepherds before you became so wise. Return to your first love! Take care of the sheep. Feed the flock, the sheep. They are not giraffes. Live among the sheep not above them. You left the fields for the business world, fleecing the flock! You who have enriched yourselves off the sacrifices of others over the years! Some of you “wise” have enriched your own pockets off the church. Repent! Return the money. Perhaps God will have mercy on you. God was bringing Moses back, back to the time He called to him from the burning bush. Let Him bring you back today! Now to what God was doing in Moses’ day/ and in our day. The Egyptians will realize that I am God when I step in and take the Israelites out of their country. The LORD is ready to act. * He Lets His Servants In On His Plan Usually this is through His Written Word When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way. Then the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. Genesis 18.17-19 Sometimes God speaks to our hearts. Go there. He puts things in front of us, three times. He speaks through others. My friend, Helen Wilke Dr. McKoy pages 48-49 Friend of my grandparents and Mom Pastored here on Long Island Spoke at the Bay Shore Assembly of God years ago. I was at his Memorial Service in Oyster Bay. 71 became a missionary for Jesus. This is a spiritual battle. Satan tries to bring confusion. God is working. He let Charles McKoy in on it. God gave Moses His Word. God has given us His Word. His Word for this hour: Acts 3. 19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the LORD, 20 and that He may send the Messiah, Who has been appointed for you—even Jesus. 21 Heaven must receive Him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as He promised long ago through His holy prophets. 22 For Moses said, ‘The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything He tells you. * When God Acts, He Acts Decisively. vs.3-5 Psalm 119:126 It is time for the LORD to act, for they have broken Your law. I love this verse. Because the Psalmist has come to a place in his life where he believed in in his heart that God has had enough. God has placed this verse in the heart of the Psalmist for us and for him. I believe that He was going to act very soon after the Psalmist pray this prayer. Don’t you feel that? It shows that God understands the difference in his timetable and ours. We are in this space time continuum. He is not bound by it nor is He in it completely He is in eternity. One day we will enter that realm. The Eternal Day. Time will be swallowed up by eternity. So what may appear delay on God’s part from our perspective is Him acting decisively when the time on earth is right. Lazarus is an example of this. In John 11 He let Lazarus die! He didn’t rush to Bethany. He never rushed anywhere. He still doesn’t. In His Time He Makes All Things Beautiful. Ecclesiastes 3.11 This part of Him working all things together for our good. The Birth of Jesus was in His Time. Galatians 4.1 What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. 2 The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. 3 So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world. 4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. God has set times. It was His set time for sending Jesus. In Heaven and on Earth. The conditions were ripe for the Messiah and the spread of the Gospel The nation of Israel was occupied territory. Rome had unified the world so there were no "boundaries" set up to stop the Gospel. A century earlier this would not have been the case. Roman Roads, 50,000 miles of them had been built. Many had street light lanterns. The Roman engineering was aimed at bringing Caesar's legions to every corner of his dominion but on those imperial lines of communications the missionaries marched with the message of the Gospel. Paul letters were carried on them! Evangelists traveled them to bring the Good News to the whole world. The Romans had cleared the Mediterranean of pirates, making travel by ship much safer. Greek had become the universal language. The Gospel could be spoken and God's Word written in a language that all could understand. This hastened the spread of the gospel. There was no language barrier to contend with. God is working. He gave man the wisdom to build the internet. People are hearing the Word in great numbers around the world… from this little church! He is working through the greatest debtor nation in the world. We are hearing that we may be on the precipice of nationwide pain. And yet Jesus is our Hope. He was working through the pandemic. Setting things up for this time of prayer and calling out to Him. God is All Powerful. He is with us today. And when He is ready… It will be His set time when Jesus returns. Acts 1. 6 Then they gathered around him and asked him, “LORD, are You at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by His own authority. So we don’t know the times or the dates the Father has set. Yet He lets us in on His plan. We see similar things in 2025. No peace in the Middle East. The internet Livestreaming to souls here and around the world. No boundaries with this. The ability to work through Faith Missions like never before. People open to God out of fear of survival, mental and emotional needs. Keep praying and do not give up. Your Kingdom Come * God hardened Pharaoh’s Heart As Pharaoh was hardening His Own Heart. In his heart of hearts, Pharaoh did not want his “free” labor force leaving. His heart was hard. God firmed it up. I am going to put Pharaoh’s back up and follow it up by filling Egypt with signs and wonders. Pharaoh is not going to listen to you, but I will have my way against Egypt and bring out my soldiers, my people the Israelites, from Egypt by mighty acts of judgment. When God acts, hearts open to Him and many others harden their hearts. Romans 1. 18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. (Car, House, Wealth) 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. This goes back to the Genesis account of God letting Abraham know about the destruction of Sodom. Through the prophesy of Scripture… II Peter 1. 19 We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Morning Star rises in your hearts. 20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. 21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. Some will have Hard hearts. How to avoid that: Walk in the light as He is in the Light. Keep a tender heart… break up the fallow ground. Steve describing the rain in Palm Springs. It runs of the top of the soil. Pray * When God Acts Nations Will Know Israel Exodus 7. 6 “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. Egypt Exodus 7. 5 And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it. Haiti Ukraine Russia China The United States of America Let’s continue to be a House of Prayer for all nations To obey the LORD To see His Kingdom come, His will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. To be found faithful until that Day!