The Usual Path

Good morning brethren. God turns the usual path to an unusual way. I mean places that we are accustomed to, they are like that because God is not in them. When God is present, the usual turns into the unusual. Meaning to say, even yourself ,people see you as usual and ordinary because God is not visible in your life. In the narrative of the triumph entry Of Jesus into Jerusalem, Jesus rode onto a colt, and immediately the out look of the colt was transformed. The multitudes broke into song and celebration.Now this morning make Christ Jesus the desire of your heart and he will transfigure every thing usual about you to unusual,impossible to possible. In the presence of God ,God makes everything so beautiful.The bible says “Though your sins are like scarlet,they shall be as white as snow. Though they are as red as crimson,they shall be like wool.With God ,all things are possible.Just be willing and obedient and you will eat the best from the land.To the Lord obedience is better than sacrifices.Our core reading comes from Exodus 3:1-10.This Morning we minister about the compelling hand of the Lord.The hand that delivers Masses from slavery. The people of God must be set free from all forms of slavery and bondage.Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father in law,the priest of Median,and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb,the mountain of God.Shepherds have a defined or usual route or path that they follow day in day out tending the flocks.They do not go any how.They have usual watering points ,pastures and resting points.At Horeb 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 said ,”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 .”Do not come any closer,”God said .”Take off your sandals,for the place where you are standing is holy ground…The Lord said ,”I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt ,I have heard them crying out because of their slave “drivers”,and I am concerned about about their suffering.So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land ,a land flowing with milk and honey.Life in the spirit is full of mysteries.Usual natural phenomena is turned into a very unusual scene. Bushes are on fire yet they do not burn up.Moses wanted to experience the unusual first hand, but he was deterred from going any closer to the holy ground. But rather should take off his sandals. Brethren,the bush is burning all the time but most of the time we get closer to the burning bush with our “Sandals”. Moses had left Egypt running away from the sin of killing an Egyptian. That sin had not been atoned for, but he just wanted to get closer to see the burning bush as he was .Seeing and experiencing are two different worlds. Those who remove their “sandals” and then get closer to the mystery of the burning bush will experience the power of the burning bush in their lives yet those who just get any closer ,will just see and end of story. The “bush” does not just burn, it signals the presence of God. God has come to set his people from bondage, that is the beauty of experiencing the mystery of the burning bush. For some of us it has become usual to work hard and get nothing, to be in want all days, to be sick and name called. Now because of the burning bush mystery the ” usual” scene will be turned unusual. Someone must be set free from slavery this morning because the Lord God has heard the cry of his people and for that reason has come from heaven. The Cannanites, Hittites ,Amorites, Prizzites, Hivites and Jebusites who have taken the places of residence of the people of God will be deposed by the power of the burning bush. This morning I pray that you be restored in Jesus name. May the usual be unusual in his presence. May God bless his word.