God's Prophetic People - A People of Passion, Purpose And Power

God's Prophetic People

looked this way and that way. I believe it was an inner drive or passion for justice and for his people. It was a sense that he was to be the deliverer, only this time he did it in natural strength, not in the power of the Lord and His Spirit. Moses was a murderer, a heathen Egyptian. Thankfully, the story doesn’t end there. It goes on to inform us that He flees to Midian. He became a wanderer and fugitive in a land he did not know. After a period of forty years working as a shepherd for Jethro (Exodus 2:15-25), he had his divine encounter with the Great I Am. The results of this divine encounter changed his life completely. He was inflamed with a holy passion to deliver God’s people by the power of almighty God. This passion gave him boldness to: • Confront the most powerful ruler in the world (Pharaoh) and proclaim “Let my people go.” • Endure opposition and murmurings (Exodus 15:24) • Declare many miraculous deeds in delivering God’s people • Lead thousands of people through the desert • Serve a people of little faith for forty years • Prepare/mentor the next up-and-coming leader 3. Paul Next to Jesus, Paul is the most prominent character of the New Testament. He was the one responsible for writing the majority of the New Testament and was the great apostle to the Gentiles. He was the one who endured flogging and imprisonment, survived storms and shipwrecks, escaped treacherous crowds, and lived through people throwing stones at him. Yet he didn’t start off this way. He was just the opposite. Paul’s life began in the city of Tarsus, a Roman colony. His father was a Roman citizen which later on would play a very significant role in his life. Paul was a Pharisee, and after • Overcome his past failures • Overcome his present situation

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