Thursday, December 14, 2006

Who am I? Who are you?

Who am I? Who are YOU? I started writing this to encourage others to find out who God is,and then to ask God the question. Who am I? My motivation wascompletely external with no thoughts about myself or my calling orministry. I had the title and what is written below to my question.Just who is that? (Read to there.)
Exo3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth My people, the Israelites, out of Egypt. Exo 3:11 And Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? Moses asked the question. What good thing is in me that I should be able to do this? He was hearing the voice of doubt and unbelief. Moses didn't need the devil to remind him that at his best he was a hired Shepard. He didn't even own the sheep. Is it any wonder that he doubted? God reassured Moses. Exo 3:12 God said, I will surely be with you... Exo 3:13 And Moses said to God, Behold, when I come to the Israelites and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they say to me, What is His name? Moses gets around to asking the real question. I know who I am (and that's not much), but who are YOU? Exo 3:14 And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM and WHAT I AM, and I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE; and He said, You shall say this to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you! We can ask the question who am I until we are blue in the face, and not find the answer until we have answered the question who is God? Once we know that we can find out who God says we are and get the answer to the first question. Who am I that I should do these great things? Of course the answer from God is YOU ARE WHO I SAY YOU ARE! Just who is that? I asked. At this point I stopped to make a phone call to a man of God whom I met at Daytona, a man whom God had usedt o speak to me before. He talked almost rambled and preached at the same time. He spoke of responsibility for your own actions. Not blaming the Devil but looking in the mirror and accepting it. He spoke a word of knowledge and said that God had called me to be a/an______. I had heard it before in my spirit, but rejected it out ofhand, and out of fear, and almost without further question. Here I was tonight hearing it again. He got his bible out and read these passages to me to reinforce the Call. Earlier today I had a run-in with the Lord and I was greatly impressed to accept myself as who Hes ays I am.Isa 41:9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. Isa 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for Iam thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, Iwill uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.Isa 41:11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall beashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. Isa 41:12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be asnothing, and as a thing of nought. Isa 41:13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.Then my friend Joe began to preach again from Eze 33:2=9Eze 33:2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, when I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: Eze 33:3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Eze 33:4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. Eze 33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning;his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. Eze 33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. Eze 33:7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. Eze 33:8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way,that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will Irequire at thine hand. Eze 33:9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turnfrom it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. It wasn't an hour earlier that I encouraged the Visitation Pastor from my church with the same message. Isn't it funny how the messages that God wants to give us He causes us to preach? What's all this about? Ask your self this question. Who is God? Who does God say I am? The bible says in the mouths of two or three witnesses a thing will be established. If you really hear from God, and if you dare, fill in the blank to be another witness. But first answer the questionfor yourself. Who am I? Who does God say I am?

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