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I_WILL_BE_WITH_YOU_[Abide_Bible_Sleep_Talk_Down___Relaxing_Music_to_Beat_Ins · Abide Meditation App

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  Speaker 1: To this bedtime story on the life of Moses. In
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  Speaker 1: this meditation, I invite you to rest in the words
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  Speaker 1: God said to Moses when he was exhausted, angry and afraid.
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  Speaker 1: God said to Moses, I will be with you, and tonight,
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  Speaker 1: as you turn to sleep, he says this to you
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  Speaker 1: as well, I will be with you. When God revealed
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  Speaker 1: himself to Moses in a burning bush, the place was holy,
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  Speaker 1: sacred ground, so God asked Moses to take off his shoes.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight, after you have taken off your shoes and as
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  Speaker 1: you turn to sleep, I invite you to also take
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  Speaker 1: off your burdens, set them aside, trusting that where you
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  Speaker 1: are right now God is with you. And where God
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  Speaker 1: is this is holy ground too. So close your eyes,
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  Speaker 1: allow peace into every part of your body. Slow your breath,
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  Speaker 1: Breathe in goodness and trust. Exhale, letting go of anxious thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Breathe in peace and love, and then breathe out the
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  Speaker 1: day's troubles. As you settle into a good night of sleep,
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  Speaker 1: I invite you to acknowledge the nearness of God, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how close or distant you have been to Jesus today,
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  Speaker 1: turn back into his presence and sink into his love.
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  Speaker 1: Father God, As I finish this day, I trust that
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  Speaker 1: you desire my company even while I am sleeping. Even
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  Speaker 1: while I sleep, you can heal my hurts. Even while
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  Speaker 1: I sleep, You can restore my exhausted mind and body.
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  Speaker 1: Even while I sleep, you can reveal your love to
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  Speaker 1: me and fill me with grace and mercy. As I
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  Speaker 1: have taken off my shoes for bed, I take off
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  Speaker 1: my burdens and hand them to you. I rest knowing
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  Speaker 1: that those things that are still unfinished today, I trust
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  Speaker 1: you will help me with these things tomorrow. God speaks
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  Speaker 1: the words for you tonight that he spoke to Moses,
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  Speaker 1: I will be with you. He wants these words to
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  Speaker 1: burn bright and clear before you, like the fire that
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  Speaker 1: burned before Moses. He wants his words to break through
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  Speaker 1: your darkness, to penetrate deep into your inner being, to
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  Speaker 1: grow in you confidence and love. God is a blazing
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  Speaker 1: fire of goodness, warmth, and hope. Yet it is often
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  Speaker 1: difficult for us to see him and to hear his faithful.
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  Speaker 2: Words, I will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: These were words that Moses had trouble hearing and trusting, too,
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  Speaker 1: as life before the burning bush had been strange and messy.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing about his life made it obvious that God would
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  Speaker 1: choose him to lead his people out of slavery to freedom.
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  Speaker 1: He was the baby sent down the river in a basket,
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  Speaker 1: a Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king.
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  Speaker 1: Moses was a murderer who hid.
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  Speaker 2: In the desert.
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  Speaker 1: If there had been a job opening for hero of
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites, Moses would not have had a strong resume
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  Speaker 1: to our minds. Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses,
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  Speaker 1: he embraces, he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself. He
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  Speaker 1: doubted God too. He was lost in the desert, in
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  Speaker 1: the despair of his terrible mistakes. And even still God
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  Speaker 1: says to him, Moses, I will be with you, and
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  Speaker 1: God will be with you too. God is with you.
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  Speaker 1: Your life doesn't need to make sense to you or
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  Speaker 1: to others. Your life can be messy and strange, and
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  Speaker 1: even still God says to you, I will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Allow these words deeper into your heart and mind. I
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  Speaker 1: will be with you. Rehearse this good news in your breath.
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  Speaker 1: Allow the burning fire of God's voice to shine into
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  Speaker 1: your darkness. By breathing in and saying to your soul,
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  Speaker 1: God is with me, and then also breathing out pray, meditate,
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  Speaker 1: and trust, saying again, God.
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  Speaker 2: Is with me.
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  Speaker 1: When I say Moses' life was strange and messy, I
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  Speaker 1: mean that his life did not move in a nice, clear,
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  Speaker 1: clean straight line. His life's journey had many twists and turns,
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  Speaker 1: many layers of confusion and suffering. His mother took a
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  Speaker 1: papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch so
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  Speaker 1: that it would float. She placed Moses as a baby
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  Speaker 1: inside and set the basket among the reeds of the Nile,
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  Speaker 1: a wide, long river. His mother didn't know where the
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  Speaker 1: basket would be found. She sent her daughter to follow
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  Speaker 1: it as it floated away. It was the Egyptian king's
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  Speaker 1: daughter who drew him out of the water. The Egyptian king,
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  Speaker 1: the Pharaoh, had ordered that all Hebrew baby boys were
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  Speaker 1: to be thrown into the Nile, and it was Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 1: daughter who drew him out of the water. That is
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  Speaker 1: what Moses's name means, drew him out of the water.
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  Speaker 1: How have you been cast into the waters, left to drown?
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  Speaker 1: How have you been lost among the reeds, caught in
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  Speaker 1: the perilous current of life. How have you been abandoned,
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  Speaker 1: thrust out of the safety of home. Jesus says to you,
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  Speaker 1: I will be with you.
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  Speaker 2: I have been with you.
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  Speaker 1: I will not leave you alone. You are named Moses too.
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  Speaker 1: You are the one I draw out of the water.
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  Speaker 1: I will draw you out of the pit, out of
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  Speaker 1: the miri clay, and set your feet upon a rock.
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  Speaker 1: You have been in the current of today's dangerous rapid waters.
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  Speaker 2: Call out to God for help.
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  Speaker 1: Allow him to draw you up from the soul numbing
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  Speaker 1: currents of busyness, rush, and self dependence. As you allow
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  Speaker 1: yourself to go to sleep, give yourself to God's care,
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: become God dependent. In this story of Moses, we have
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: a foresh atawa of what we gain in the waters
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  Speaker 1: of baptism. The waters that are meant for death turn
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: out to be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes, our enemy
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  Speaker 1: prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he can devour. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: like the Egyptian king, our enemy wants to drown you.
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  Speaker 1: He wants you to be covered by the dangerous waters
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  Speaker 1: of life. Get through this danger. Through these very same waters.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus meets you. He reaches out to rescue you. He
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: draws you out of death into new life. Allow these
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  Speaker 1: waters to wash you, ending a day, giving yourself to sleep,
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  Speaker 1: resting in God's love. This is sacred, holy, precious. As
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  Speaker 1: you are being washed, you are more and more free
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  Speaker 1: to be near God, to enjoy his presence, to trust
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  Speaker 1: in his watchful care, rest, sleep, believe. Allowing these words
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  Speaker 1: deeper into your heart and mind. I will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: See the burning bush of God's presence, speaking goodness into
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  Speaker 1: your heart. Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in,
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  Speaker 1: saying to your soul, you are with me, and then
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  Speaker 1: also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again you
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  Speaker 1: are with me. Moses's life had been strange, messy, and confusing.
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  Speaker 1: When he came of age, he began to sort out
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  Speaker 1: the things that mattered most to his life. He understood
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: in deeper ways that he was an alien and a
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  Speaker 1: stranger in the house of Pharaoh. Hebrew, one of the oppressed,
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  Speaker 1: benefiting from the riches of the oppressor was troubling. How
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  Speaker 1: could he enjoy any good thing when his own people
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  Speaker 1: were enslaved, working tirelessly for the brutal king of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: When he saw an Egyptian beating one of his Hebrew brothers.
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  Speaker 1: One day, he was given a chance to prove his
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: identity as an Israelite. In a fit of rage and vindication,
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: he killed the Egyptian, hid the body in the sand,
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  Speaker 1: and then fled into the desert to hide from Pharaoh's wrath.
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  Speaker 1: Years later, Moses had married, raised a family, and was
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  Speaker 1: working for his father in law, Jethro, tending sheep on
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  Speaker 1: the backside of Mountain Horib. Moses was no doubt content
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  Speaker 1: to be removed and hidden from his previous life as
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  Speaker 1: the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He had no expectation that
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: God had any special plans for his life. He had
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: no idea that his life was about to change. There
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: on the backside of Mount Horeb. This was a wilderness
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  Speaker 1: place where God spoke to Moses in a burning bush.
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  Speaker 1: You likely have not experienced a literal burning bush, but
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: you have had some kind of burning bush experience. This
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: would be that turning point when you came to accept
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: the truth of God in a way that changed the
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: direction of your life. This would be a moment when
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: He especially revealed himself through a person an experience, maybe
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  Speaker 1: a worship service, a time when you were serving someone,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps a time of prayer or even a powerful sermon.
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  Speaker 1: Something shifted inside of you, and you haven't been the
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  Speaker 1: same since. You might protest here, but I haven't taken
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  Speaker 1: God as seriously as I should. My life hasn't changed
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  Speaker 1: that much. I still struggle. I still don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to trust God with my life. I continue to resist
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  Speaker 1: him each day. I live more through my strength than
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  Speaker 1: God's love. Moses protested too. He said, who am I
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  Speaker 1: that you would speak to me? He worried about his weaknesses.
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  Speaker 1: I can't speak for you. I stutter when I open
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  Speaker 1: my mouth. Moses would drift away from God to He
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  Speaker 1: would become impatient and angry with the people he was leading.
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  Speaker 1: He would continue to struggle with fear and doubt. Even still,
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  Speaker 1: God says to Moses.
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  Speaker 2: I will be with you. And God still says to you.
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  Speaker 1: I will be with you, no matter how much doubt
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  Speaker 1: or fear that stir inside of you. God still says,
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  Speaker 1: I will be with you, no matter how much stubborn
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  Speaker 1: and anger. God still says, I will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, Place yourself before the burning bush of God's presence.
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  Speaker 1: Rest sleep, Believe these words deeper into your heart and mind.
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  Speaker 2: I will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in, saying
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  Speaker 1: to your soul, my God is with me, and then
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  Speaker 1: also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again, my
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  Speaker 1: God is with me. As we bring this meditation to
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  Speaker 1: a close, I invite you to consider one more part
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  Speaker 1: of Moses's story. God instructs Moses to say to Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: let my people go. Moses fusses, but how can I
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  Speaker 1: go back?
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  Speaker 2: How can I speak for you?
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  Speaker 1: Why would the king of Egypt listen to me? God replies,
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  Speaker 1: tell Pharaoh that I Am sent you. I Am the
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  Speaker 1: Great I Am is with you. The Great i Am
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  Speaker 1: sends you. He is the true, True, He is the real, Real,
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  Speaker 1: God is being behind and before all other things. He
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  Speaker 1: is the one by whom everything else in the universe
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  Speaker 1: was created. He is the one in whom all things
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  Speaker 1: hold together and have their being. The Great i Am
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  Speaker 1: says to you tonight, I.
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  Speaker 2: Am with you.
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  Speaker 1: I AM the being who will always be with you.
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  Speaker 2: In peace.
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  Speaker 1: Give yourself to sleep rest in God's faithfulness, for he
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  Speaker 1: alone can make you dwell in safety. May the Lord
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  Speaker 1: bless you and protect you as you sleep. May His
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  Speaker 1: face shine upon you like the radiance of a burning bush.
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  Speaker 2: May He be.
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  Speaker 1: Gracious and kind, granting you deep, healing sleep. May you
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  Speaker 1: be filled with peace. Continue to allow yourself to let
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  Speaker 1: go of today by rehearsing in your breathing in and
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  Speaker 1: breathing out. My God is with me. My God is
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  Speaker 1: with me. My God.
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  Speaker 2: Is with me. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God speaks the words for you tonight that he spoke
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  Speaker 1: to Moses, I will be with you. He wants these
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  Speaker 1: words to burn bright and clear before you, like the
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  Speaker 1: fire that burned before Moses. He wants his words to
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: break through your darkness, to penetrate deep into your inner being,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: to grow in you confidence and love. God is a
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: blazing fire of goodness, warmth, and hope.
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  Speaker 2: Yet it is often difficult.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: For us to see him and to hear his faithful words,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. These were words that Moses
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  Speaker 1: had trouble hearing and trusting too. As life before the
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  Speaker 1: burning Bush had been strange and messy. Nothing about his
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: life made it obvious that God would choose him to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: lead his people out of slavery to freedom. He was
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the baby sent down the river in a basket. A
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king. Moses
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: was a murderer who hid in the desert. If there
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: had been a job opening for hero of the Israelites,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Moses would not have had a strong resume. To our minds.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses, he embraces,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself, He doubted God too.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: He was lost in the desert, in the despair of
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: his terrible mistakes. And even still God says to him, Moses,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I will be with you, and God will be with
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: you too. God is with you. Your life doesn't need
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  Speaker 1: to make sense to you or to others. Your life
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: can be messy and strange, and even still God says
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to you, I will be with you. Allow these words
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  Speaker 1: deeper into your heart and mind. I will be with you.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Rehearse this good news in your breath. Allow the burning
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: fire of God's voice to shine into your darkness. By
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: breathing in in saying to your soul, God is with me,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again, God.
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  Speaker 2: Is with me.
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  Speaker 1: When I say Moses's life was strange and messy, I
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: mean that his life did not move in a nice, clear,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: clean straight line. His life's journey had many twists and turns,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: many layers of confusion and suffering. His mother took a
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch so.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: That it would float.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: She placed Moses as a baby inside and set the
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: basket among the reeds of the Nile, a wide, long river.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: His mother didn't know where the basket would be found.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: She sent her daughter to follow it as it floated away.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: It was the Egyptian king's daughter who drew him out
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  Speaker 1: of the water. The Egyptian king, the Pharaoh, had ordered
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: that all Hebrew baby boys were to be thrown into
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the Nile, and it was Pharaoh's daughter who drew him
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: out of the water. That is what Moses's name means,
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  Speaker 1: drew him out of the water. How have you been
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: cast into the waters, left to drown? How have you
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: been lost among the reeds, caught in the perilous current
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  Speaker 1: of life? How have you been abandoned, thrust out of
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the safety of home. Jesus says to you, I will
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  Speaker 1: be with you. I have been with you. I will
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  Speaker 1: not leave you alone. You are named Moses too. You
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  Speaker 1: are the one I draw out of the water. I
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  Speaker 1: will draw you out of the pit, out of the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Miri clay, and set your feet upon a rock. You
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  Speaker 1: have been in the current of today's dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: Rapid waters.
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  Speaker 1: Call out to God for help. Allow him to draw
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  Speaker 1: you up from the soul numbing currents of busyness, rush
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: and self dependence. As you allow yourself to go to sleep,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: give yourself to God's care, become God dependent. In this
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: story of Moses, we have a foreshadowing of what we
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: gain in the waters of baptism. The waters that are
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: meant for death turn out to be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: our enemy prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: he can devour. Yes, like the Egyptian king, our enemy
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: wants to drown you. He wants you to be covered
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: by the dangerous waters of life. Get through this danger.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Through these very same waters, Jesus meets you. He reaches
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: out to rescue you. He draws you out of death
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: into new life. Allow these waters to wash you, ending
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: a day giving yourself to sleep, resting in God's love.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: This is sacred, holy, precious. As you are being washed
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  Speaker 1: are more and more free to be near God, to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: enjoy his presence, to trust in his watchful care, rest, sleep, Believe,
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  Speaker 1: Allowing these words deeper into your heart and mind, I.
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  Speaker 2: Will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: See the burning bush of God's presence, speaking goodness into
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: your heart. Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: saying to your soul, you are with me, and then
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again you
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: are with me. Moses's life had been strange, messy, and confusing.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: When he came of age, he began to sort out
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the things that mattered most to his life. He understood
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: in deeper ways that he was an alien and a
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: stranger in the house of Pharaoh.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: He was a Hebrew, one of the oppressed.
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  Speaker 1: Benefiting from the riches of the oppressor.
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  Speaker 2: Was troubling.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: How could he enjoy any good thing when his own
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: people were enslaved, working tirelessly for the brutal king of Egypt.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: When he saw an Egyptian beating one of his Hebrew brothers,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: When he was given a chance to prove his identity
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: as an Israelite, in a fit of rage and vindication,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: he killed the Egyptian hid the body in the sand
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: and then fled into the desert to hide from Pharaoh's wrath.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Years later, Moses had married, raised a family, and was
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: working for his father in law, Jethro, tending sheep on
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the backside of Mount Horeb. Moses was no doubt content
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: to be removed and hidden from his previous life as
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He had no expectation that
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: God had any special plans for his life. He had
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: no idea that his life was about to change there
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: on the backside of Mount Horeb. This was a wilderness
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: place where God spoke to Moses in a burning bush.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: You likely have not experienced a literal burning bush, but
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: you have had some kind of burning bush experience. This
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: would be that turning point when you came to accept
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the truth of God in a way that changed the
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: direction of your life. This would be a moment when
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: He especially revealed himself through a person an experience, maybe
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: a worship service, a time when you were serving someone,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: perhaps a time of prayer or even a powerful sermon.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Something shifted inside of you, and you haven't been the
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: same sense. You might protest here, but I haven't taken
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: God as seriously as I should. My life hasn't changed
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  Speaker 1: that much. I still struggle. I still don't know how
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: to trust God with my life. I continue to resist
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: him each day. I live more through my strength than
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: God's love. Moses protested too. He said, who am I
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: that you would speak to me? He worried about his weaknesses.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I can't speak for you. I stutter when I open
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: my mouth. Moses would drift away from God to He
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: would become impatient and angry with the people he was leading.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: You would continue to struggle with fear and doubt. Even still,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: God says to.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Moses, I will be with you. And God still says
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: to you.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: I will be with you, no matter how much doubt
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: or fear that stir inside of you. God still says,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I will be with you, no matter how much stubbornness
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: and anger. God still says, I will be with you.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Once again, Place yourself before the burning bush of God's presence.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Rest sleep, Believe these words deeper into your heart and mind.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. Rehearse this good news in
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: your breath, breathing in saying to your soul, my God
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: is with me. And then also breathing out, pray, meditate,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: and trust, saying again, my God is with me. As
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: we bring this meditation to a close, I invite you
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: to consider one more part of Moses's story. God instructs
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Moses to say to Pharaoh, let my people go. Moses fusses,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: but how can I go back?
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: How can I speak for you?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Why would the king of Egypt listen to me? God replies,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: tell Pharaoh that.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: I Am sent you. I Am.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: The Great I Am is with you. The Great I
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Am sends you. He is the true, True, He is
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: the real, real, God is being behind and before all
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: other things. He is the one by whom everything else
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: in the universe was created. He is the one in
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: whom all things hold together and have their being. The
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Great i Am says to you tonight, I am with you.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I Am the being who will always be with you.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: In peace.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Give yourself to sleep, rest in God's faithfulness, for he
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: alone can make you dwell in safety. May the Lord
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: bless you and protect you as you sleep. May His
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: face shine upon you like the radiance of a burning bush.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: May He be gracious and kind, granting you deep healing sleep.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: May you be filled with peace, continue to allow yourself to.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Let go of today.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: By rehearsing in your breathing in and breathing out. My
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: God is with me. My God is with me. My God.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Is with me. Amen.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: God speaks the words for you tonight that he spoke
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: to Moses, I will be with you. He wants these
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: words to burn bright and clear before you, like the
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: fire that burned before Moses. He wants his words to
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: break through your darkness, to penetrate deep into your inner being,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: to grow in you confidence and love. God is a
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: blazing fire of goodness, warmth, and hope.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Yet it is often difficult for us to see.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Him and to hear his faithful words, I will be
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: with you.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: These were words.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: That Moses had trouble hearing and trusting too. His life
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: before the Burning Bush had been strange and messy. Nothing
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: about his life made it obvious that God would choose
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: him to lead his people out of slavery to freedom.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: He was the baby sent down the river in a basket,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: a Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Moses was a murderer who hid in the desert. If
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: there had been a job opening for hero of the
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Israelitesesus would not have had a strong resume. To our minds.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses, he embraces,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself, He doubted God too.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: He was lost in the desert, in the despair of
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: his terrible mistakes, and even still God says to him, Moses,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: I will be with you, and God will be with
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: you too. God is with you. Your life doesn't need
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: to make sense to you or to others. Your life
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: can be messy and strange, and even still God says to.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: You, I will be with you.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Allow these words deeper into your heart and mind. I
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: will be with you. Rehearse this good news in your breath,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Allow the burning fire of God's voice to shine into
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: your darkness.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: By breathing in.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: And saying to your soul, God is with me, and
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again, God.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Is with me.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: When I say Moses's life was strange and messy, I
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: mean that his life did not move in a nice, clear,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: clean straight line. His life's journey had many twists and turns,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: many layers of confusion and suffering. His mother took a
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch so
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: that it would float. She placed Moses as a baby
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: inside and set the basket among the reeds of the Nile,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: a wide, long river. His mother didn't know where the
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: basket would be found. She sent her daughter to follow
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: it as it floated away. It was the Egyptian king's
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: daughter who drew him out of the water. The Egyptian king,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: the Pharaoh, had ordered that all Hebrew baby boys were
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: to be thrown into the Nile, and it was Pharaoh's
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: daughter who drew him out of the water. That is
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: what Moses's name means, drew him out of the water.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: How have you been cast into the waters, left to drown?
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: How have you been lost among the reeds, caught in
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: the perilous current of life? How have you been abandoned,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: thrust out of the safety of home. Jesus says to you,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I will be with you.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: I have been with you.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Not leave you alone. You are named Moses too. You
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: are the one I draw out of the water. I
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: will draw you out of the pit, out of the
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: mirie clay, and set your feet upon a rock. You
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: have been in the current of today's dangerous rapid waters.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Call out to God for help. Allow him to draw
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: you up from the soul numbing currents of busyness, rush,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: and self dependence. As you allow yourself to go to sleep,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: give yourself to God's care, become God dependent. In this
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: story of Moses, we have a foreshadowing of what we
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: gain in the waters of baptism. The waters that are
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: meant for death turn out to be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: our enemy prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: he can devour. Yes, like the Egyptian king. Our enemy
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: wants to drown you. He wants you to be covered
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: by the dangerous waters of life. Get through this danger.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Through these very same waters. Jesus meets you. He reaches
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: out to rescue you. He draws you out of death
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: into new life. Allow these waters to wash you, ending
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: a day giving yourself to sleep, resting in God's love.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: This is sacred, holy precious.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: As you are being washed, you are more and more
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: free to be near God, to enjoy his presence, to
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: trust in his watchful care, rest, sleep, Believe, allowing these
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: words deeper into your heart and mind. I will be
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: with you see the burning bush of God's presence speaking
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: goodness into your heart. Rehearse this good news in your breath,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: breathing in, saying to your soul you are with me,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: again you are with me. Moses's life had been strange, messy,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: and confusing. When he came of age, he began to
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: sort out the things that mattered most to his life.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: He understood in deeper ways that he was an alien
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: and a stranger in the house of Pharaoh. He was
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: a Hebrew, one of the oppressed. Benefiting from the riches
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: of the oppressor was troubling. How could he enjoy any
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: good thing when his own people were enslaved, working tirelessly
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: for the brutal.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: King of Egypt.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: When he saw an Egyptian beating one of his Hebrew
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: brothers one day, he was given a chance to prove
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: his identity as an Israelite. In a fit of rage
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: and vindication, he killed the Egyptian, hid the body in
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: the sand, and then fled into the desert to hide
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: from Pharaoh's wrath. Years later, Moses had married, raised a family,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: and was working for his father in law Jethro, tending
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: sheep on the backside of Mount Horeb. Moses was no
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: doubt content to be removed and hidden from his previous
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: life as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He had no
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: expectation that God had any special plans for his life.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: He had no idea that his life was about to change.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: There on the backside of Mount Horeb. This was a
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: wilderness place where God spoke to Moses in a burning bush.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: You likely have not experienced a literal burning bush, but
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: you have had some kind of burning bush experience. This
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: would be that turning point when you came to accept
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: the truth of God in a way that changed the
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: direction of your life. This would be a moment when
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: He especially revealed himself through a person an experience, maybe
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: a worship service, a time when you were serving someone,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: perhaps a time of prayer, or even a powerful sermon.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Something shifted inside of you, and you haven't been the
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: same since. You might protest here, but I haven't taken
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: God as seriously as I should. My life hasn't changed
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: that much. I still struggle. I still don't know how
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: to trust God with my life. I continue to resist
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: him each day, I live more through my strength than
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: God's love. Moses protested too, He said, who am I
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: that you would speak to me? He worried about his weaknesses.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: I can't speak for you.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: I stutter when I open my mouth. Moses would drift
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: away from God to He would become impatient and angry
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: with the people he was leading. He would continue to
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: struggle with fear and doubt. Even still, God says to Moses,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. And God still says to you,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. No matter how much doubt
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: or fear that stir and sight of you. God still says,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: HI will be with you. No matter how much stubbornness
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: and anger. God still says, I will be with you.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Once again, Place yourself before the burning bush of God's presence. Rest, sleep,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: believe these words deeper into your heart and mind.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: I will be with you.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in saying
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: to your soul, my God is with me, and then
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: also breathing out, pray, meditate and trust, saying again, my
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: God is with me. As we bring this meditation to
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: a close, I invite you to consider one more part
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: of Moses's story. God instructs Moses to say to Pharaoh,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: let my people go. Moses fusses, but how can I
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: go back? How can I speak for you? Why would
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: the king of Egypt listen to me? God replies, tell
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh that I Am sent you. I Am the Great
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: I Am is with you. The Great i Am sends you.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: He is the true, True, He is the real, real,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: God is being behind and before all other things. He
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: is the one by whom everything else in the universe
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: was created. He is the one in whom all things
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: hold together and have their being. The Great i Am
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: says to you tonight, I am with you. I Am
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: the being who will always be with you.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: In peace.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Give yourself to sleep. Rest in God's faithfulness, for he
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: alone can make you dwell in safety. May the Lord
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: bless you and protect you as you sleep. May his
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: face shine upon you like the radiance of a burning bush.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: May He be gracious and kind, granting you deep, healing sleep.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: May you be filled with peace. Continue to allow yourself
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: to let go of today by rehearsing in your breathing
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: in and breathing out. My God is with me, My
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: God is with me. My God is.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: With me.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: Amen, God speaks the words for you tonight that he
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: spoke to Moses, I will be with you. He wants
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: these words to burn bright and clear before you, like
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: the fire that burned before Moses. He wants his words
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: to break through your darkness, to penetrate deep into your
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: inner being, to grow in you confidence and love. God
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: is a blazing fire of goodness, warmth, and hope.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: Yet it is often difficult for us to see him.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: And to hear his faithful words, I will be with you.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: These were words that Moses had trouble hearing and trusting too.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: His life before the Burning Bush had been strange and messy.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Thing about his life made it obvious that God would
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: choose him to lead his people out of slavery to freedom.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: He was the baby sent down the river in a basket,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: a Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Moses was a murderer who hid in the desert. If
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: there had been a job opening for hero of the Israelites,
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Moses would not have had a strong resume. To our minds,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses, he embraces,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself. He doubted God
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: to he was lost in the desert, in the despair
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: of his terrible mistakes. And even still God says to him, Moses,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: I will be with you, and God will be with
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: you too. God is with you. Your life doesn't need
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: to make sense to you or to others. Your life
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: can be messy and strange, and even still God says to.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: You, I will be with you.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Allow these words deeper into your heart and mind. I
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: will be with you. Rehearse this good news in your breath.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Allow the burn fire of God's voice to shine into
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: your darkness. By breathing in and saying to your soul,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: God is with me, and then also breathing out, pray, meditate,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: and trust, saying again, God.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: Is with me.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: When I say Moses's life was strange and messy, I
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: mean that his life did not move in a nice, clear,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: clean straight line. His life's journey had many twists and turns,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: many layers of confusion and suffering. His mother took up
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: papyrus back and covered it with tar and pitch so
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: that it would float. She placed Moses as a baby
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: inside and set the basket among the reeds of the
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: nile a wide, long river. His mother didn't know where
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: the basket would be found. She sent her daughter to
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: follow it as it floated away.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: It was the Egyptian king's.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Daughter who drew him out of the water. The Egyptian king,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: the Pharaoh, had ordered that all Hebrew baby boys were
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: to be thrown into the Nile, and it was Pharaoh's
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: daughter who drew him out of the water. That is
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: what Moses's name means, drew him out of the water.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: How have you been cast into the left to drown?
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: How have you been lost among the reeds, caught in
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: the perilous current of life? How have you been abandoned,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: thrust out of the safety of home. Jesus says to you,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. I have been with you.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: I will not leave you alone.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: You are named Moses too. You are the one I
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: draw out of the water. I will draw you out
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: of the pit, out of the miri clay, and set
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: your feet upon on a rock. You have been in
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: the current of today's dangerous rapid waters. Call out to
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: God for help. Allow him to draw you up from
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: the soul numbing currents of busyness, rush, and self dependence.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: As you allow yourself to go to sleep, give yourself
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: to God's care, become God dependent. In this story of Moses,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: we have a foreshadowing of what we gain in the
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: waters of baptism. The waters that are meant for death
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: turn out to be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes, our
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: enemy prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: can devour. Yes, like the Egyptian king. Our enemy wants
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: to drown you. He wants you to be covered by
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: the dangerous waters of life. Get through this danger through
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: these very same waters. Jesus meets you. He reaches out
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: to rescue you. He draws you out of death into
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: new life. Allow these waters to wash you, ending a
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: day giving yourself to sleep, resting in God's love.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: This is sacred, holy precious.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: As you are being washed, you are more and more
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: free to be near God, to enjoy his presence, to
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: trust in his watchful care, rest, sleep, Believe. Allowing these
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: words deeper into your heart and mind. I will be
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: with you. See the burning bush of God's presence speaking
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: goodness into your heart. Rehearse this good news in your breath,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: breathing in, saying to your soul you are with me,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: and then also breathing out pray, meditate, and trust, saying
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: again you are with me. Moses's life had been strange, messy,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: and confusing. When he came of age, he began to
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: sort out the things that mattered most to his life.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: He understood in deeper ways that he was an alien
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: and a stranger in the house of Pharaoh. He was
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: a Hebrew, one of the oppressed.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: Benefiting from the riches of the oppressor was troubling.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: How could he enjoy any good thing when his own
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: people were enslaved working tirelessly for the brutal king of Egypt.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: When he saw an Egyptian beating one of his Hebrew
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: brothers one day, he was given a chance to prove
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: his identity as an Israelite. In a fit of rage
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: and vindication, he killed the Egyptian, hid the body in
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: the sand, and then fled into the desert to hide
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: from Pharaoh's wrath. Years later, Moses had married, raised a family,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: and was working for his father in law, Jethro, tending
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: sheep on the backside of Mount Horeb. Moses was no
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: doubt content to be removed and hidden from his previous
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: life as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He had no
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: expectation that God had any special plans for his life.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: He had no idea that his life was about to change.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: There on the backside of Mount Horeb. This was a
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: wilderness place where God spoke to Moses in a burning bush.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: You likely have not experienced a literal burning bush, but
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: you have had some kind of burning bush experience. This
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: would be that turning point when you came to accept
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: the truth of God in a way that changed the
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: direction of your life. This would be a moment when
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: He especially revealed himself through a person an experience, maybe
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: a worship service, a time when you were serving someone,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: perhaps a time of prayer, or even a power a
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: full sermon. Something shifted inside of you, and you haven't
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: been the same since. You might protest here, but I
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: haven't taken God as seriously as I should. My life
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: hasn't changed that much. I still struggle. I still don't
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: know how to trust God with my life. I continue
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: to resist him each day. I live more through my
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: strength than God's love. Moses protested too. He said, who
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: am I that you would speak to me? He worried
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: about his weaknesses. I can't speak for you. I stutter
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: when I open my mouth. Moses would drift away from
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: God to He would become impatient and angry with the
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: people he was leading. He would continue to struggle with
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: fear and doubt. Even still, God says to Moses, I
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: will be with you. And God still says to you,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. No matter how much doubt
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: or fear that stir inside of you. God still says,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. No matter how much stubbornness
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: and anger. God still says, I will be with you.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: Once again, Place yourself before the burning bush of God's presence. Rest, sleep,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: Believe these words deeper into your heart and mind.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: I will be with you.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in, saying
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: to your soul, my God is with me, and then
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again, my
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: God is with me. As we bring this meditation to
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: a close, I invite you to consider one more part
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: of Moses's story. God instructs Moses to say to Pharaoh,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: let my people go.
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  Speaker 2: Moses fuss's.
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  Speaker 1: But how can I go back? How can I speak
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: for you? Why would the King of Egypt. Listen to me,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: God replies, Tell Pharaoh that I Am sent you. I
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Am the Great. I Am is with you. The Great
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: I Am send you. He is the true, True, He
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: is the real, Real, God is being behind and before
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: all other things. He is the one by whom everything
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: else in the universe was created. He is the one
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: in whom all things hold together and have their being.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: The Great I Am says to you tonight, I am
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  Speaker 1: with you. I AM the being who will always be
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  Speaker 1: with you.
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  Speaker 2: In peace.
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  Speaker 1: Give yourself to sleep. Rest in God's faithfulness, for he
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: alone can make you dwell in safety. May the Lord
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: bless you and protect you as you sleep. May his
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: face shine upon you like the radiance of a burning bush.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: May He be gracious and kind, granting you deep, healing sleep.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: May you be filled with peace. Continue to allow yourself
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: to let go of today by rehearsing and your breathing
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: in and breathing out. My God is with me, My
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: God is with me. My God.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: Is with me. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God speaks the words for you tonight that he spoke
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: to Moses.
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  Speaker 2: I will be with you.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: He wants these words to burn bright and clear before you,
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: like the fire that burned before Moses. He wants his
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: words to break through your darkness, to penetrate deep into
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: your inner being, to grow in you do confidence and love.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: God is a blazing fire of goodness, warmth, and hope.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: Yet it is often difficult for us to see him
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: and to hear his faithful words, I will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: These were words that Moses had trouble hearing in trusting too,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: as life before the burning bush had been strange and messy.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: Nothing about his life admite it obvious that God would
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: choose him to lead his people out of slavery to freedom.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: He was the baby sent down the river in a basket,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: a Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: Moses was a murderer who hid in the desert. If
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: there had been a job opening for hero of the Israelites,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: Moses would not have had a strong resume. To our minds.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses, he embraces,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself. He doubted God too.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: He was lost in the desert, in the despair of
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: his terrible mistakes, and even still God says to him, Moses,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: I will be with you, and God will be with
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: you too.
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  Speaker 4: God is with you.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: Your life doesn't need to make sense to you or
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: to others. Your life can be messy and strange, and
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: even still God says to you, I will be with you.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: Allow these words deeper into your heart and mind. I
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: will be with you. Rehearse this good news in your breath.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: Allow the burning fire of God's voice to shine into
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: your darkness.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: By breathing in.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: And saying to your soul, God is with me, and
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: God is with me. When I say Moses's life was
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: strange and messy, I mean that his life did not
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: move in a nice, clear, clean straight line. His life's
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: journey had many twists and turns, many layers of confusion
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: and suffering. His mother took a papyrus basket and covered
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: it with tar and pitch so that it would float.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: She placed Moses as a baby inside and set the
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: basket among the reeds of the Nile, a wide, long river.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: His mother didn't know where the basket would be found.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: She sent her daughter to follow it as it loaded away.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: It was the Egyptian king's daughter who drew him out
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: of the water. The Egyptian king, the Pharaoh, had ordered
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: that all Hebrew baby boys were to be thrown into
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: the Nile, and it was Pharaoh's daughter who drew him
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: out of the water.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: That is what.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: Moses's name means, drew him out of the water. How
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: have you been cast into the waters, left to drown?
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: How have you been lost among the reeds, caught in
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: the perilous current of life? How have you been abandoned,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: thrust out of the safety of home. Jesus says to you,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: I will be with you.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: I have been with you.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: I will not leave you alone.
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  Speaker 1: You are named Moses too. You are the one I
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  Speaker 1: draw out of the water.
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  Speaker 2: I will draw you.
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  Speaker 1: Out of the pit, out of the Miri clay, and
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  Speaker 1: set your feet upon a rock. You have been in
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: the current of today's dangerous rapid waters.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: Call out to God for help.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: Allow him to draw you up from the soul numbing
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: currents of busyness, rush and self dependence. As you allow
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: yourself to go to leap, give yourself to God's care,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: become God dependent. In this story of Moses, we have
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  Speaker 1: a foreshadowing of what we gain in the waters of baptism.
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  Speaker 1: The waters that are meant for death turn out to
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes, our enemy prowls around
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: like a roaring lion, seeking whom he can devour. Yes,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: like the Egyptian king, our enemy wants to drown you.
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  Speaker 1: He wants you to be covered by the dangerous waters
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: of life. Get through this danger through these very same
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: Jesus meets you. He reaches out to rescue you. He
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: draws you out of death into new life. Allow these
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: waters to wash you, ending a day, giving yourself to sleep,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: resting in God's love. This is sacred, holy, precious. As
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: you are being washed, you are more and more free
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: to be near God, to enjoy his presence, to trust
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: in his watchful care, rest, sleep, believe, allowing these words
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: deeper into your heart and mind. I will be with you.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: See the burning bush of God's presence speaking goodness into
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: your heart. Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: saying to your soul, you are with me, and then
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again you
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: are with me. Moses's life had been strange, messy.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: And confuse.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: When he came of age, he began to sort out
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: the things that mattered most to his life. He understood
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: in deeper ways that he was an alien and a
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: stranger in the house of Pharaoh. He was a Hebrew,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: one of the oppressed. Benefiting from the riches of the
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: oppressor was troubling. How could he enjoy any good thing
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: when his own people were enslaved, working tirelessly for the
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: brutal king of Egypt. When he saw an Egyptian beating
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: one of his Hebrew brothers one day, he was given
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: a chance to prove his identity as an Israelite. In
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: a fit of rage and vindication, he killed the Egyptian,
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  Speaker 1: hid the body in the sand, and then led into
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: the desert to hide from Pharaoh's wrath. Years later, Moses
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: had married, raised a family, and was working for his
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: father in law, Jethro, tending sheep on the backside of
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: Mount Horeb. Moses was no doubt content to be removed
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  Speaker 1: and hidden from his previous life as the son of
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's daughter. He had no expectation that God had any
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: special plans for his life. He had no idea that
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: his life was about to change. There on the backside
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: of Mount Horeb. This was a wilderness place where God
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: spoke to Moses and a burning bush. You likely have
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: not experienced a literal burning bush. I have had some
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: kind of burning bush experience. This would be that turning
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: point when you came to accept the truth of God
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  Speaker 1: in a way that changed the direction of your life.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: This would be a moment when He especially revealed himself
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: through a person an experience, maybe a worship service, a
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: time when you were serving someone, perhaps a time of prayer,
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: or even a powerful sermon. Something shifted inside of you,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: and you haven't been the same since. You might protest here,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: but I haven't taken God as seriously as I should.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: My life hasn't changed that much. I still struggle. I
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: still don't know how to trust God with my life.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: I continue to resist him each day. I live more
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: through my strength than God's love. Moses protested too. He said,
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: who am I that you would speak to me? He
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: worried about his weaknesses. I can't speak for you. I
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: stutter when I open my mouth. Moses would drift away
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: from God to He would become impatient and angry with
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: the people he was leading. He would continue to struggle
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: with fear and doubt. Even still, God says to Moses,
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. And God still says to you,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: I will be with you, no matter how much doubt
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: or fear that stir inside of you. God still says,
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. No matter how much stubbornness
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: and anger. God still says, I will be with you.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: Once again, Place yourself before the burning bush of God's presence. Rest, sleep,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: believe these words deeper into your heart and mind.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: I will be with you.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in, saying
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: to your soul, my God is will me, and then
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: also breathing out, pray, meditate and trust, saying again, my
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: God is with me. As we bring this meditation to
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: a close, I invite you to consider one more part
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: of Moses's story. God instructs Moses to say to Pharaoh,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: let my people go.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: Moses fusses, but how can I go back? How can
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: I speak for you?
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: Why would the king of Egypt listen to me? God replies,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: tell Pharaoh that I Am sent you. I Am the
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: Great I Am is with you. The Great I Am
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: sends you. He is the true, True, he is.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: The real, real.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: God is being behind and before all other things.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: He is the.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: One by whom everything else in the universe was created.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: He is the one in whom all things hold together
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: and have their being. The Great I Am, says to
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: you tonight, I am with you. I am the being
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: who will always be with you.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: In peace.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: Give yourself to time sleep, rest in God's faithfulness, for
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: he alone can make you dwell in safety. May the
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: Lord bless you and protect you as you sleep. May
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: his face shine upon you like the radiance of a
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: burning bush. May He be gracious and kind, granting you deep,
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: healing sleep. May you be filled with peace. Continue to
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: allow yourself to let go of today by rehearsing and
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: your breathing in and breathing out. My God is with me.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: My God is with me. My God.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: Is with me. Amen.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: When God revealed himself to Moses in a burning bush,
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: the place was holy, sacred ground. So God asked Moses
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: to take off his shoes. Here tonight, after you have
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: taken off your shoes, and as you turn to sleep,
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: I invite you to also take off your burdens, set
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: them aside, trusting that where you are right now, God
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: is with you and where God is. This is holy
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: ground too. So close your eyes, allow peace into every
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: part of your body. Slow your breath, breathe in goodness
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: and trust. Exhale, letting go of anxious thoughts. Breathe in
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: peace and love, and then breathe.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: Out the day's troubles.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: As you settle into a good night of sleep, I
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: invite you to acknowledge the nearness of God. No matter
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: how close or distant you have been to Jesus today,
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: turn back into his presence and sink into his love.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: Father God, As I finish this day, I trust that
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: you desire my company even while I am sleeping. Even
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: while I sleep, you can heal my hurts. Even while
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: I sleep, You can restore my exhausted mind and body.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: Even while I sleep, you can reveal your love to me.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: And fill me with grace.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: And mercy.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: As I have.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: Taken off my shoes for bed, I take off my burdens.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: And hand them to you. I rest.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: Knowing that those things that are still unfinished today, I
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: trust you will help me with these things tomorrow. God
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: speaks the words for you. Tonight, he spoke to Moses,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. He wants these words to
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: burn bright and clear before you, like the fire that
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: burned before Moses. He wants his words to break through
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: your darkness, to penetrate deep into your inner being, to
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: grow in you confidence and love. God is a blazing
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: fire of goodness, warmth, and hope. Yet it is often
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: difficult for us to see him and to hear his
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: faithful words, I will be with you. These were words
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: that Moses had trouble hearing and trusting too. His life
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: before the Burning Bush had been strange and messy. Nothing
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: about him his life made it obvious that God would
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: choose him to lead his people out of slavery to freedom.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: He was the baby sent down the river in a basket,
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: a Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: Moses was a murderer who hid.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: In the desert.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: If there had been a job opening for hero of
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: the Israelites, Moses would not have had a strong resume.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: To our minds. Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: he embraces, he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself. He
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: doubted God too, lost in the desert and the despair
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: of his terrible mistakes, and even still, God says to him, Moses,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: I will be with you, and God will be with
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: you too. God is with you. Your life doesn't need
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: to make sense to you or to others. Your life
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: can be messy and strange, and even still, God.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: Says to you, I will be with you.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: Allow these words deeper into your heart and mind. I
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: will be with you. Rehearse this good news in your breath.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: Allow the burning fire of God's voice to shine into
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: your darkness. By breathing in and saying to your soul,
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: God is with me, and then also breathing out, pray, meditate,
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: and trust, saying again, God.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: Is with me.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: When I say Moses's life was strange and messy, I
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: mean that his life did not move in a nice, clear,
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: clean straight line. His life's journey had many twists and turns,
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: many layers of confusion and suffering. His mother took a
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: papyrus basket, covered it with tar and pitch so that
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: it would float. She placed Moses as a baby inside
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: and set the basket among the reeds of the Nile,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: a wide, long river. His mother didn't know where the
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: basket would be found. She sent her daughter to follow
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: it as it floated away. It was the Egyptian king's
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: daughter who drew him out of the water. The Egyptian king,
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: the Pharaoh, had ordered that all Hebrew baby boys were
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: to be thrown into the Nile, and it was Pharaoh's
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: daughter who drew him out of the water.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 2: That is what.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: Moses's name means, drew him out of the water. How
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: have you been cast into the waters, left to drown?
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: How have you been lost among the reeds, caught in
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: the perilous current of life? How have you been abandoned,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: thrust out of the safety of home. Jesus says to you,
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. I have been with you.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: I will not leave you alone. You are named Moses too.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: You are the one I draw out of the water.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: I will draw you out of the pit, out of
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: the Miri clay, and set your feet upon a rock.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: You have been in the current of today's dangerous rapid waters.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: Call out to God for help. Allow him to draw
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: you up from the soul numbing currents of busyness, rush
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: and self dependence. As you allow yourself to go to sleep,
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: give yourself to God's care, become God dependent. In this
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: story of Moses, we have a foreshadowing of what we
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: gain in the waters of baptism. The waters that are
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: meant for death turn out to be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes,
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: your enemy prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: he can devour. Yes, like the Egyptian king, our enemy
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: wants to drown you. He wants you to be covered
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: by the dangerous waters of life. Get through this danger
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: through these very same waters. Jesus meets you. He reaches
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: out to rescue you. He draws you out of death
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: into new life. Allow these waters to wash you, ending
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: a day, giving yourself to sleep, resting in God's love.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: This is sacred, holy, precious. As you are being washed,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: you are more and more free to be near God,
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: to enjoy his presence, to trust in his watchful care, rest, sleep, believe.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: Allowing these words deeper into your heart and mind. I
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: will be with you, see the burning bush of God's presence,
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: speaking goodness into your heart. Rehearse this good news in
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: your breath, breathing in, saying to your soul you are
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: with me, and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust,
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: saying again you are with me. Moses's life had been strange, messy,
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: and confusing. When he came of age, he began to
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: sort out the things that mattered most to his life.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: He understood in deeper ways that he was an alien
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: and a stranger in the house of Pharaoh.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 2: He was a.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: Hebrew, one of the oppressed. Benefiting from the riches of
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: the oppressor was troubling. How could he enjoy any good
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: thing when his own people were enslaved working tirelessly for
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: the brutal king of Egypt. When he saw an Egyptian
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: beating one of his Hebrew brothers one day, he was
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: given a chance to prove his identity as an Israelite.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: In a fit of rage and vindication, he killed the Egyptian,
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: hid the body in the sand, and then fled into
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: the desert to hide from Pharaoh's wrath. Years later, Moses
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: had married, raised a family, and was working for his
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: father in law, Jethro, tending sheep on the backside of
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: Mount Horeb. Moses was no doubt content to be removed
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: and hidden from his previous life as the son of
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's daughter. He had no expectation that God had any
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: special plans for his life. He had no idea that
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: his life was about to change. There on the backside
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: of Mount Horeb. This was a wilderness place where God
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: spoke to Moses in a burning bush. You likely have
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: not experienced a literal burning bush, but you have had
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: some kind of burning bush experience. This would be that
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: turning point when you came to accept the truth of
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: God in a way that changed the direction of your life.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: This would be a moment when He especially revealed himself
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: through a person an experience, maybe a worship service, a
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: time when you were serving someone, perhaps a time of prayer,
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: or even a powerful sirmon. Something shifted inside of you,
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: and you haven't been the same since. You might protest here,
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: but I haven't taken God as seriously.
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 2: As I should.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: My life hasn't changed that much. I still struggle. I
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: still don't know how to trust God with my life.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: I continue to resist him each day. I live more
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: through my strength than God's love. Moses protested too. He said,
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: who am I that you would speak to me? He
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: worried about his weaknesses. I can't speak for you. I
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: stutter when I open my mouth. Moses would drift away
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: from God to He would become impatient and angry with
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: the people he was leading. He would continue to struggle
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: with fear and doubt. Even still, God says to Moses,
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: I will be with you.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 2: And God still says to you.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. No matter how much doubt
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: or fear that stir in sight of you. God still says,
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: I will.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 2: Be with you.
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: No matter how much stubbornness and anger. God still says,
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. Once again, Place yourself before
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: the burning bush of God's presence. Rest sleep, Believe these
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: words deeper into your heart and mind.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 2: I will be with you.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in, saying
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: to your soul, my God is with me, and then
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again, my
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: God is with me. As we bring this meditation to
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: a close, I invite you to consider one more part
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: of Moses's story. God instructs Moses to say to Pharaoh,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: let my people go.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: Moses fusses, but how can I go back? How can
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 2: I speak for you?
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: Why would the king of Egypt listen to me? God replies,
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: tell Pharaoh that I am sent you, I am the Great,
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: I am is with you the Great i Am sends you.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: He is the true, True, He is the real, real,
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: God is being behind and before all other things. He
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: is the one by whom everything else in the universe
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: was created. He is the one in whom all things
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: hold together and have their being. The Great i Am
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: says to you tonight, I am with you. I Am
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: the being who will always be with you.
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 2: In peace.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: Give yourself to sleep. Rest in God's faithfulness, for he
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: alone can make you dwell in safety. May the Lord
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: bless you and protect you as you sleep. May his
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: face shine upon you like the radiance of a burning bush.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 2: May He be.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: Gracious and kind, granting you deep, healing sleep. May you
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: be filled with peace. Continue to allow yourself to let
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: go of today by rehearsing in your breathing in and
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: breathing out. My God is with me. My God is
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: with me. My God is with me. Amen. God speaks
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: the words for you tonight that he spoke to Moses.
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. He wants these words to
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: burn bright and clear before you, like the fire that
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: burned before Moses. He wants his words to break through
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: your darkness, to penetrate deep into your inner being, to
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: grow in you, confide, evidence, and love. God is a
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: blazing fire of goodness, warmth, and hope. Yet it is
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: often difficult for us to see him and to hear
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: his faithful words, I will be with you. These were
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: words that Moses had trouble hearing and trusting too. His
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: life before the Burning Bush had been strange and messy.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: Nothing about his life made it obvious that God would
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: choose him to lead his people out of slavery to freedom.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: He was the baby sent down the river in a basket,
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: a Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king.
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: Moses was a murderer who hid in the desert. If
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: there had been a job opening for hero of the Israelites,
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: Moses would not have had a strong resume. To our minds.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses, he embraces,
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself. He doubted God too.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: He was lost in the desert, in the despair of
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: his terrible mistakes, and even still God says to him, Moses,
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: I will be with you, and God will be with
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: you too. God is with you. Your life doesn't need
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: to make sense to you or to others. Your life
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: can be messy and strange, and even still, God says
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: to you, I will be with you. Allow these words
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: deeper into your heart and mind. I will be with you.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: Rehearse this good news in your breath. Allow the burning
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: fire of God's voice to shine into your darkness. By
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: breathing in and saying to your soul, God is with me,
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again, God.
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 2: Is with me.
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: When I say Moses's life was strange and messy, I
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: mean that his life did not move in a nice, clear,
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: clean straight line. His life's journey had many twists and turns,
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: many layers of confusion and suffering. His mother took a
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch so
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: that it would float. She placed Moses as a baby
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: inside and set the basket among the reeds of the Nile,
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: a wide, long river. His mother didn't know where the
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: basket would be found. She sent her daughter to follow
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: it as it floated away. It was the Egyptian king's
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: daughter who drew him out of the water. The Egyptian king,
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: the Pharaoh, had ordered that all Hebrew baby boys were
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: to be thrown into the nile, and it was Pharaoh's
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: daughter who drew him out of the water. That is
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: what Moses's name means, drew him out of the water.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: How have you been cast into the waters, left to drown?
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: How have you been lost among the reeds, caught in
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: the perilous current of life? How have you been abandoned,
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: thrust out of the safety of home. Jesus says to you,
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: I will be with you.
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 2: I have been with you.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: I will not leave you alone. You are named Moses too.
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: You are the one I draw out of the water.
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: I will draw you out of the pit, out of
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: the mirie clay, and set your feet upon a rock.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: You have been in the current of today's dangerous, rapid waters.
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: Call out to God for help. Allow him to draw
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: you up from the soul numbing currents of busyness, rush
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: and self dependence. As you allow yourself to go to sleep,
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: give yourself to God's care, become God dependent. In this
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: story of Moses, we have a foreshadowing of what we
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: gain in the waters of baptism. The waters that are
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: meant for death turn out to be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes,
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: our enemy prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: he can devour. Yes, like the Egyptian king. Our enemy
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: wants to drown you. He wants you to be covered
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: by the dangerous waters of life. Get through this danger.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: Through these very same waters. Jesus meets you. He reaches
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: out to rescue you. He draws you out of death
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: into new life. Allow these waters to wash you, ending
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: a day, giving yourself to sleep, resting in God's love.
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: This is sacred, holy, precious. As you are being washed,
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: you are more and more free to be near God,
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: to enjoy his presence, to trust in his watchful care, rest, sleep, Believe.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: Allowing these words deeper into your heart and mind. I
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: will be with you. See the burning bush of God's presence,
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: speaking goodness into your heart. Rehearse this good news in
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: your breath, breathing in, saying to your soul you are
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: with me, and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust,
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: saying again you are with me. Moses's life had been strange, messy,
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: and confusing. When he came of age, he began to
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: sort out the things that mattered most to his life.
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: He understood in deeper ways that he was an alien
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: and a stranger in the house of Pharaoh. He was
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: a Hebrew, one of the oppressed. Benefiting from the riches
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: of the oppressor was troubling. How could he enjoy any
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: good thing when his own people were enslaved, working tirelessly
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: for the brutal king of Egypt. When he saw an
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: Egyptian beating one of his Hebrew brothers one day, he
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: was given a chance to prove his identity as an Israelite.
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: In a fit of rage and vindication, he killed the Egyptian,
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: hid the body in the sand, and then fled into
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: the desert to hide from Pharaoh's wrath. Years later, Moses
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: had married, raised a family, and was working for his
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: father in law, Jethro, tending sheep on the backside of
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: Mount Horeb. Moses was, no doubt content to be removed
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: and hidden from his previous life as the son of
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's daughter. He had no expectation that God had any
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: special plans for his life. He had no idea that
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: his life was about to change there on the backside
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: of Mount Horeb. This was a wilderness place where God
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: spoke to Moses in a burning bush. You likely have
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: not experienced a literal burning bush, but you have had
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: some kind of burning bush experience. This would be that
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: turning point when you came to accept the truth of
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: God in a way that changed the direction of your life.
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: This would be a moment when He especially revealed himself
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: through a person an experience, maybe a worship service, a
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: time when you were serving someone, perhaps a time of prayer,
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: or even a powerful sermon. Something shifted inside of you,
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: and you haven't been the same since. You might protest here,
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: but I haven't taken God as seriously as I should.
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: My life hasn't changed that much. I still struggle. I
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: still don't know how to trust God with my life.
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: I continue to resist him each day. I live more
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: through my strength than God's love. Moses protested too. He said,
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: who am I that you would speak to me? He
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: worried about his weaknesses.
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 2: I can't speak for you.
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: I stutter when I open my mouth. Moses would drift
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: away from God to He would become impatient and angry
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: with the people he was leading. He would continue to
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: struggle with fear and doubt. Even still, God says to Moses,
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. And God still says to you,
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. No matter how much doubt
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: or fear that stir inside of you, God still says,
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. No matter how much stubbornness
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: and anger. God still says, I will be with you.
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: Once again. Place yourself before the burning bush of God's presence. Rest, sleep,
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: Believe these words deeper into your heart and mind.
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 2: I will be with you.
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in, saying
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: to your soul, my God is with me, and then
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again, my
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: God is with me. As we bring this meditation to
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: a close, I invite you to consider one more part
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: of Moses's story. God instructs Moses to say to Pharaoh,
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: let my people go. Moses fusses, but how can I
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: go back?
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 2: How can I speak for you?
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: Why would the king of Egypt listen to me? God replies,
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: tell Pharaoh that I Am sent you. I Am the
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: Great I Am is with you. The Great I Am
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: sends you. He is the true, True, He is.
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 2: The real, real.
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: God is being behind and before all other things. He
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: is the one by whom everything else in the universe
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: was created. He is the one in whom all things
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: hold together and have their being. The Great I Am,
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: says to you tonight, I am with you. I Am
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: the being who will always be with you.
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 2: In peace.
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: Give yourself to sleep, rest in God's faithfulness, for he
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: alone can make you dwell in safety. May the Lord
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: bless you and protect you as you sleep.
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 2: May His face.
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: Shine upon you like the radiance of a burning bush.
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: May He be gracious and kind, granting you deep, healing sleep.
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: May you be filled with peace. Continue to allow yourself
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: to let go of today by rehearsing in your breathing
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: in and breathing out. My God is with me. My
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: God is with me. My God.
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 2: Is with me. Amen.
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: God speaks the words for you tonight that he spoke
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: to Moses.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 2: I will be with you.
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: He wants these words to burn bright and clear before you,
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: like the fire that burned before Moses. He wants his
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: words to break through your darkness, to penetrate deep into
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: your inner being, to grow in you confidence and love.
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: God is a blazing fire of goodness, warmth, and hope.
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: Yet it is often difficult for us to see him
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 1: and to hear his faithful words, I will be with you.
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: These were words that Moses had trouble hearing and trusting too.
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: His life before the Burning Bush had been strange and messy.
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 1: Nothing about his life made it obvious that God would
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 1: choose him to lead his people out of slavery to freedom.
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: He was the baby sent down the river in a basket,
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: a Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king.
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: Moses was a murderer who hid in the desert. If
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: there had been a job opening for hero of the Israelites,
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: Moses would not have had a strong resume. To our minds.
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses, he embraces,
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself, He doubted God too.
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: He was lost in the desert, in the despair of
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: his terrible mistakes. And even still God says to him, Moses,
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: I will be with you, and God will be with
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: you too.
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 4: God is with you.
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: Your life doesn't need to make sense to you or
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: to others. Your life can be messy and strange, and
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: even still God says.
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 2: To you, I will be with you.
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: Allow these words deeper than to your heart and mind.
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 2: Will be with you.
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: Rehearse this good news in your breath, allow the burning
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 1: fire of God's voice to shine into your darkness. By
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: breathing in and saying to your soul, God is with me,
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again, God.
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 2: Is with me.
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: When I say Moses' life was strange and messy, I
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: mean that his life did not move in a nice, clear,
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: clean straight line. His life's journey had many twists and turns,
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: any layers of confusion and suffering. His mother took a
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch so
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: that it would float. She placed Moses as a baby
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: inside and set the basket among the reeds of the Nile,
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 1: a wide, long river. His mother didn't know where the
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: basket would be found. She sent her daughter to follow
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: it as it floated away.
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 2: It was the.
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: Egyptian king's daughter who drew him out of the water.
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: The Egyptian king, the Pharaoh, had ordered that all Hebrew
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: baby boys were to be thrown into the Nile, and
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 1: it was Pharaoh's daughter who drew him out of the water.
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: Moses's name means drew him out of the water. How
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: have you been cast into the waters, left to drown.
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: How have you been lost among the reeds, caught in
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 1: the perilous current of life? How have you been abandoned,
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: thrust out of the safety of home. Jesus says to you,
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. I have been with you.
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 3: I will not leave you alone.
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: You are named Moses too. You are the one I
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: draw out of the water. I will draw you out
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: of the pit, out of the Miri clay, and set
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: your feet upon a rock. You have been in the
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: current of today's dangerous rapid waters.
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 2: Call out to God for help.
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: Allow him to draw you up from the soul numbing
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 1: currents of busyness, rush and self dependence. As you allow
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: yourself to go to sleep, give yourself to God's care,
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 1: become God dependent. In this story of Moses, we have
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: a foreshadowing of what we gain in the waters of baptism.
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: The waters that are meant for death turn out to
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 1: be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes, our enemy prowls around
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 1: like a roaring lion, seeking whom he can devour. Yes,
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: like the Egyptian king, our enemy wants to drown you.
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: He wants you to be covered by the dangerous waters
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: of life. Get through this danger. Through these very same waters,
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: Jesus meets you. He reaches out to rescue you. He
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 1: draws you out of death into new life. Allow these
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: waters to wash you, ending a day, giving yourself to sleep,
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: resting in God's love. This is sacred, holy, precious. As
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: you are being washed, you are more and more free
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 1: to be near God, to enjoy his presence, to trust
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: in his watchful care, rest, sleep, Believe, allowing these words
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 1: deeper into your heart and mind, I will be with you.
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: See the burning bush of God's presence, speaking goodness into
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 1: your heart. Rehearse this goodness news in your breath, breathing in,
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: saying to your soul you are with me, and then
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 1: also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again you
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: are with me. Moses's life had been strange, messy, and confusing.
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: When he came of age, he began to sort out
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 1: the things that mattered most to his life. He understood
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: in deeper ways that he was an alien and a
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 1: stranger in the house of Pharaoh. He was a Hebrew,
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 1: one of the oppressed, benefiting from the riches of the oppressor.
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: Was troubling how could he enjoy any good thing when
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 1: his own people were enslaved, working tirelessly for the brutal
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 1: king of Egypt. When he saw an Egyptian beating one
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: of his Hebrew brothers one day, he was given a
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: chance to prove his identity as an Israelite. In a
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 1: fit of rage and vindication, he killed the Egyptian, hid
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: the body in the sand, and then fled into the
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: desert to hide from Pharaoh's wrath. Years later, Moses had married,
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 1: raised a family, and was working for his father in law, Jethro,
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: tending sheep on the backside of Mount Horeb. Moses was
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: no doubt content to be removed and hidden from his
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: previous life as the son of Fiharaoh's daughter. He had
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 1: no expectation that God had any special plans for his life.
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 2: He had no.
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 1: Idea that his life was about to change. There on
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: the backside of Mount Horeb. This was a wilderness place
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: where God spoke to Moses in a burning bush. You
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 1: likely have not experienced a literal burning bush, but you
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 1: have had some kind of burning bush experience. This would
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: be that turning point when you came to accept the
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: truth of God. In a way that changed the direction
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: of your life. This would be a moment when he
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 1: especially revealed himself through a person an experience, maybe a
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: worship service, a time when you were serving someone, perhaps
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: a time of prayer, or even a powerful sermon. Something
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: shifted inside of you, and you haven't been the same since.
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 1: You might protest here, but I haven't taken God as
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 1: seriously as I should. My life hasn't changed that much.
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 1: I still struggle. I still don't know how to trust
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: God with my life. I continue to resist him each day.
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 1: I live more through my strength than God's love. Moses
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: protested too.
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 2: He said, who am I that you would speak to me?
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: He worried about his weaknesses. I can't speak for you.
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 1: I stutter when I open my mouth. Moses would drift
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: away from God to He would become impatient and angry
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 1: with the people he was leading. He would continue to
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: struggle with fear and doubt. Even still, God says to Moses,
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. And God still says to you,
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: I will be.
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 2: With you.
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: No matter how much doubt or fear that stir inside
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: of you. God still says, I will be with you,
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: no matter how much stubbornness and anger. God still says,
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: I will.
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 2: Be with you once again.
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: Place yourself before the burning bush of God's presence. Rest sleep,
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: Believe these words deeper into your heart and mind.
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 2: I will be with you.
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 1: Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in, saying
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 1: to your soul, my God is with me, and then
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again, my
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: God is with me. As we bring this meditation to
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: a close, I invite you to consider one more part
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 1: of Moses's story. God instructs Moses to say to Pharaoh,
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: let my people go. Moses fusses, but how can I
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 1: go back? How can I speak for you? Why would
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 1: the king of Egypt listen to me? God replies, tell
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh that I am sent you. I am the Great
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: I Am is with you. The Great I Am send you.
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 1: He is the true, true, He is the real, real,
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: God is being behind and before all other things. He
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 1: is the one by by whom everything else in the
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 1: universe was created. He is the one in whom all
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: things hold together and have their being. The Great I
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: Am says to you tonight, I am with you. I
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 1: am the being who will always be with you.
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 2: In peace.
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 1: Give yourself to sleep, rest in God's faithfulness, for he
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 1: alone can make you dwell in safety. May the Lord
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 1: bless you and protect you as you sleep. May His
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: face shine upon you like the radiance of a burning bush.
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: May be gracious and kind, granting you deep, healing sleep.
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: May you be filled with peace. Continue to allow yourself
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: to let go of today by rehearsing and your breathing
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: in and breathing out. My God is with me. My
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 1: God is with me. My God.
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 2: Is with me. Amen.
• 2:26:40
  Speaker 1: God speaks the words for you tonight that he spoke
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: to Moses, I will be with you. He wants these
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: words to burn bright and clear before you, like the
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: fire that burned before Moses. He wants his words to
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: break through your darkness, to penetrate deep into your inner being,
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: to grow in you confidence and love. God is a
• 2:27:13
  Speaker 1: blazing fire of goodness, warmth, and hope. Yet it is
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: often difficult for us to see him and to hear.
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 2: His faithful words, I will be with you.
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 1: These were words that Moses had trouble hearing and trusting too.
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: His life before the burning Bush had been strange and messy.
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 1: Nothing about his life made it obvious that God would
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: choose him to lead his people out of slavery to freedom.
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: He was the baby sent down the river in a basket,
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: a Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king.
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: Moses was a murderer who hid in the desert. If
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 1: there had been a job opening for hero of the Israelites,
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: Moses would not have had a strong resume. To our minds.
• 2:28:23
  Speaker 1: Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses, he embraces,
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 1: he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself. He doubted God too.
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 1: He was lost in the desert, in the despair of
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: his terrible mistakes. And even still God says to him, Moses,
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 1: I will be with you, and God will be with you. You too,
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 1: God is with you. Your life doesn't need to make
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 1: sense to you or to others. Your life can be
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 1: messy and strange, and even still God says to you,
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 1: I will be with you. Allow these words deeper into
• 2:29:29
  Speaker 1: your heart and mind. I will be with you. Rehearse
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 1: this good news in your breath. Allow the burning fire
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: of God's voice to shine into your darkness. By breathing
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 1: in and saying to your soul, God is with me,
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 1: and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again, God.
• 2:30:15
  Speaker 2: Is with me.
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: When I say Moses's life was strange and messy, I
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 1: mean that his life did not move in a nice, clear,
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 1: clean straight line. His life's journey had many twists and turns,
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: many layers of confusion and suffering. His mother took up
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 1: papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch so
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 1: that it would float. She placed Moses as a baby
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 1: inside and set the basket among the reeds of the Nile.
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 2: A wide, long river.
• 2:31:01
  Speaker 1: His mother didn't know where the basket would be found.
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: She sent her daughter to follow it as it floated away.
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: It was the Egyptian king's daughter who drew him out
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 1: of the water. The Egyptian king, the Pharaoh, had ordered
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: that all Hebrew baby boys were to be thrown into
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: the Nile, and it was Pharaoh's daughter who drew him
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 1: out of the water. That is what Moses's name means,
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 1: drew him out of the water. How have you been
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 1: cast into the waters, left to drown? How have you
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: been lost among the reeds, caught in the perilous current
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: of life? How have you been abandoned thrust out of
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 1: the safety of home. Jesus says to you, I will
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 1: be with you. I have been with you. I will
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: not leave you alone. You are named Moses too. You
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 1: are the one I draw out of the water. I
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 1: will draw you out of the pit, out of the
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: Miri clay, and set your feet upon a rock. You
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: have been in the current of today's dangerous, rapid waters.
• 2:32:51
  Speaker 2: Call out to God for help.
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 1: Allow him to draw you up from the soul numbing
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 1: currents of men, busyness, rush, and self dependence. As you
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: allow yourself to go to sleep, give yourself to God's care,
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 1: become God dependent. In this story of Moses, we have
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 1: a foreshadowing of what we gain in the waters of baptism.
• 2:33:31
  Speaker 1: The waters that are meant for death turn out to
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes, our enemy prowls around
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 1: like a roaring lion, seeking whom he can devour. Yes,
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 1: like the Egyptian king, our enemy wants to drown you.
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 1: He wants you to be covered by the daydangerous waters
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 1: of life. Get through this danger. Through these very same waters.
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 1: Jesus meets you, He reaches out to rescue you. He
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 1: draws you out of death into new life.
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 2: Allow these waters to wash.
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 1: You, ending a day, giving yourself to sleep, resting in
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: God's love. This is sacred, holy, precious. As you are
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 1: being washed, you are more and more free to be
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 1: near God, to enjoy his presence, to trust in his
• 2:35:03
  Speaker 1: watchful care, rest, sleep, believe. Allowing these words deeper into
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 1: your heart and mind. I will be with you. See
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: the burning bush of God's presence, speaking goodness into your heart.
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 1: Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in, saying
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 1: to your soul, you are with me, and then also
• 2:35:47
  Speaker 1: breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again you are
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 1: with me. Moses's life had been strange, messy, and confusing.
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 1: When he came of age, he began to sort out
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 1: the things that mattered most to his life. He understood
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 1: in deeper ways that he was an alien and a
• 2:36:21
  Speaker 1: stranger in the house of Pharaoh.
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 2: He was a.
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 1: Hebrew, one of the oppressed. Benefiting from the riches of
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 1: the oppressor. Was troubling.
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 2: How could he.
• 2:36:36
  Speaker 1: Enjoy any good thing when his own people were enslaved,
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 1: working tirelessly for the brutal.
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 2: King of Egypt.
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 1: When he saw an Egyptian beating one of his Hebrew brothers.
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: One day he was given a chance to prove his
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 1: identity as an Israelite. In a fit of rage and dedication,
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: he killed the Egyptian, hid the body in the sand,
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 1: and then fled into the desert to hide from Pharaoh's wrath.
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 1: Years later, Moses had married, raised a family, and was
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: working for his father in law, Jethro, tending sheep on
• 2:37:24
  Speaker 1: the backside of Mount Horeb. Moses was no doubt content
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 1: to be removed and hidden from his previous life as
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 1: the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He had no expectation that
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 1: God had any special plans for his life. He had
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 1: no idea that his life was about to change. There
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 1: on the backside of Mount Horeb. This was a wilderness
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 1: place where God spoke to Moses in a burning bush bush.
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: You likely have not experienced a literal burning bush, but
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 1: you have had some kind of burning bush experience. This
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 1: would be that turning point when you came to accept
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 1: the truth of God in a way that changed the
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 1: direction of your life. This would be a moment when
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 1: He especially revealed himself through a person an experience, maybe
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 1: a worship service, a time when you were serving someone,
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 1: perhaps a time of prayer or even a powerful sermon.
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 1: Something shifted inside of you, and you haven't been the
• 2:38:50
  Speaker 1: same since. You might protest here, but I haven't taken
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 1: God as seriously as I should. My life hasn't changed
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 1: that much. I still struggle. I still don't know how
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 1: to trust God with my life. I continue to resist
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 1: him each day. I live more through my strength than
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 1: God's love. Moses protested too.
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 2: He said, who am I that you would speak to me?
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 1: He worried about his weaknesses. I can't speak for you.
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 1: I stutter when I open my mouth. Moses would drift
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 1: away from God to He would become impatient and angry
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 1: with the people he was leading. He would continue to
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 1: struggle with fear and doubt.
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 2: Even still, God says.
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 1: To Mos, I will be with you.
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 2: And God still says to.
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 1: You, I will be with you, no matter how much
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 1: doubt or fear that stir inside of you. God still says,
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: I will be with you, no matter how much stubbornness
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 1: and anger. God still says, I will be with you.
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 1: Once again. Place yourself before the burning bush of God's presence.
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 1: Rest sleep, believe these words deeper into your heart and mind.
• 2:40:53
  Speaker 2: I will be with you.
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 1: Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in, saying
• 2:41:04
  Speaker 1: to your soul, my God is with me, and then
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 1: also breathing out, pray, meditate and trust, saying again, my
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 1: God is with me. As we bring this meditation to
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 1: a close, I invite you to consider one more part
• 2:41:32
  Speaker 1: of Moses's story. God instructs Moses to say to Pharaoh,
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: let my people go. Moses fusses, but how can I
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 1: go back? How can I speak for you? Why would
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 1: the king of Egypt listen to me? God replies, tell
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh that.
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 2: I Am sent you. I Am.
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 1: The Great I Am is with you. The Great i
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 1: Am sends you. He is the true, True, He is
• 2:42:22
  Speaker 1: the real, real, God is being behind and before all
• 2:42:29
  Speaker 1: other things. He is the one by whom everything else
• 2:42:36
  Speaker 1: in the universe was created. He is the one in
• 2:42:41
  Speaker 1: whom all things hold together and have their being. The
• 2:42:48
  Speaker 1: Great i Am says to you tonight, I am with you.
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 1: I AM the being who will always be with you.
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 2: In peace.
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 1: Give yourself to sleep rest in God's faithfulness.
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  Speaker 2: For he alone.
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  Speaker 1: Can make you dwell in safety. May the Lord bless
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  Speaker 1: you and protect you as you sleep. May his face
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  Speaker 1: shine upon you like the radiance of a burning bush.
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  Speaker 1: May He be gracious and kind, granting you deep healing sleep.
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  Speaker 1: May you be filled with peace. Continue to allow yourself
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  Speaker 1: to let go of today by rehearsing in your breathing
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  Speaker 1: in and breathing out. Why God is with me. My
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  Speaker 1: God is with me, My God is with me. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God speaks the words for you tonight that he spoke
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  Speaker 1: to Moses, I will be with you. He wants these
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  Speaker 1: words to burn bright and clear before you, like the
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  Speaker 1: fire that burned before Moses. He wants his words to
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  Speaker 1: break through your darkness, to penetrate deep into your inner being,
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  Speaker 1: to grow in you confidence and love. God is a
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  Speaker 1: blazing fire of goodness, warmth, and hope. Yet it is
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  Speaker 1: often difficult for us to see him and to hear
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  Speaker 1: his faithful words, I will be with you. These were
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  Speaker 1: words that Moses had trouble hearing in trusting too, As
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  Speaker 1: life before the burning Bush had been strange and messy,
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  Speaker 1: Nothing about his life made it obvious that God would
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  Speaker 1: choose him to lead his people out of slavery to freedom.
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  Speaker 1: He was the baby sent down the river in a basket,
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  Speaker 1: a Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king.
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  Speaker 1: Moses was a murderer who hid in the desert. If
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  Speaker 1: there had been a job opening for hero of the Israelites,
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  Speaker 1: Moses would not have had a strong resume. To our minds,
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  Speaker 1: Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses, he embraces,
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  Speaker 1: he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself, he doubted God too.
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  Speaker 1: He was lost in the desert, in the despair of
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  Speaker 1: his terrible mistakes, and even still God says to him, Moses,
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  Speaker 1: I will be with you, and God will be with
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  Speaker 1: you too.
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  Speaker 4: God is with you.
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  Speaker 1: Your life doesn't need to make sense to you or
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  Speaker 1: to others. Your life can be messy and strange, and
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  Speaker 1: even still God says to you, I will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Allow these words deeper into your heart and mind. I
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  Speaker 1: will be with you. Rehearse this good news in your breath,
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  Speaker 1: Allow the burning fire of God's voice to shine into
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  Speaker 1: your darkness. By breathing in and saying to your soul,
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  Speaker 1: God is with me, and then also breathing out, pray, meditate,
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  Speaker 1: and trust, saying again, God.
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  Speaker 2: Is with me.
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  Speaker 1: When I say Moses's life was strange and messy, I
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  Speaker 1: mean that his life did not move in a nice, clear,
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  Speaker 1: clean straight line. His life's journey had many twists and turns,
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  Speaker 1: many layers of confusion and suffering. His mother took a
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  Speaker 1: papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch so
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  Speaker 1: that it would float. She placed Moses as a baby
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  Speaker 1: inside and set the basket among the reeds of the Nile,
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  Speaker 1: a wide, long river. His mother didn't know where the
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  Speaker 1: basket would be found. She sent her daughter to follow
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  Speaker 1: it as it floated away. It was the Egyptian king's
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  Speaker 1: daughter who drew him out of the water. The Egyptian king,
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  Speaker 1: the Pharaoh, had ordered that all Hebrew baby boys were
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  Speaker 1: to be thrown into the Nile, and it was Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 1: daughter who drew him out of the water.
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  Speaker 2: That is what.
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  Speaker 1: Moses's name means, drew him out of the water. How
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  Speaker 1: have you been cast into the waters, left to drown?
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  Speaker 1: How have you been lost among the reeds, caught in
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  Speaker 1: the perilous current of life? How have you been abandoned,
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  Speaker 1: thrust out of the safety of home. Jesus says to you,
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  Speaker 1: I will be with you.
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  Speaker 2: I have been with you.
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  Speaker 1: I will not leave you alone. You are named Moses too.
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  Speaker 1: You are the one I draw out of the water.
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  Speaker 1: I will draw you out of the pit, out of
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  Speaker 1: the miri clay, and set your feet upon a rock.
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  Speaker 1: You have been in the current of today's dangerous, rapid waters.
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  Speaker 2: Call out to God for help.
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  Speaker 1: Allow him to draw you up from the soul numbing
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  Speaker 1: currents of busyness, rush, and self dependence. As you allow
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  Speaker 1: yourself to go to sleep, give yourself to God's care,
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  Speaker 1: become God dependent. In this story of Moses, we have
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  Speaker 1: a foreshadow of what we gain in the waters of baptism.
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  Speaker 1: The waters that are meant for death turn out to
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  Speaker 1: be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes, our enemy prowls around
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  Speaker 1: like a roaring lion, seeking whom he can devour. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: like the Egyptian king, our enemy wants to drown you.
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  Speaker 1: He wants you to be covered by the dangerous waters
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  Speaker 1: of life. Get through this danger. Through these very same waters,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus meets you. He reaches out to rescue you. He
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  Speaker 1: draws you out of death into new life. Allow these
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  Speaker 1: waters to wash you, ending a day giving yourself to sleep,
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  Speaker 1: resting in God's love. This is sacred, holy, precious. As
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  Speaker 1: you are being washed, you are more and more free.
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  Speaker 1: To be near God, to enjoy his presence, to trust
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  Speaker 1: in his watchful care, rest, sleep, Believe. Allowing these words
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  Speaker 1: deeper into your heart and mind, I will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: See the burning bush of God's presence, speaking goodness into
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  Speaker 1: your heart. Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in,
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  Speaker 1: saying to your soul you are with me, and then
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  Speaker 1: also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again you.
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  Speaker 2: Are with me.
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  Speaker 1: Moses's life had been strange, messy, and confusing. When he
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  Speaker 1: came of age, he began to sort out the things
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  Speaker 1: that mattered most to his life. He understood in deeper
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  Speaker 1: ways that he was an alien and a stranger in
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  Speaker 1: the house of Pharaoh. He was a Hebrew, one of
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  Speaker 1: the oppressed. Benefiting from the riches of the oppressor. Was troubling.
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  Speaker 1: How could he enjoy any good thing when his own
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  Speaker 1: people were enslaved, working tirelessly for the brutal king of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: When he saw an Egyptian beating one of his Hebrew
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  Speaker 1: brothers one day, he was given a chance to prove
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  Speaker 1: his identity as an Israelite. In a fit of rage
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  Speaker 1: and vindication, he killed the Egyptian hid the body in
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  Speaker 1: the sand, and then fled into the desert to hide
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  Speaker 1: from Pharaoh's wrath. Years later, Moses had married, raised a family,
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  Speaker 1: and was working for his father in law, Jethro, tending
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  Speaker 1: sheep on the backside of Mount Horn. Moses was no
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  Speaker 1: doubt content to be removed and hidden from his previous
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  Speaker 1: life as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He had no
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  Speaker 1: expectation that God had any special plans for his life.
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  Speaker 1: He had no idea that his life was about to
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  Speaker 1: change there on the backside of Mount Horeb. This was
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  Speaker 1: a wilderness place where God spoke to Moses in a
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  Speaker 1: burning bush. You likely have not experienced a literal burning bush,
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  Speaker 1: but you have had some kind of burning bush experience.
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  Speaker 1: This would be that turning point when you came to
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  Speaker 1: accept the truth of God in a way that changed
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  Speaker 1: the direction of your life. This would be a moment
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  Speaker 1: when He especially revealed himself through a person an experience,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a worship service, a time when you were serving someone,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps a time of prayer or even a powerful sermon.
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  Speaker 1: Something shifted inside of you, and you haven't been the
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  Speaker 1: same since. You might protest here, but I haven't taken
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  Speaker 1: God as seriously as I should. My life hasn't changed
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  Speaker 1: that much. I still struggle. I still don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to trust God with my life. I continue to resist
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  Speaker 1: him each day. I live more through my strength than
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  Speaker 1: God's love. Moses protested too. He said, who am I
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  Speaker 1: that you would speak to me? He worried about his weaknesses.
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  Speaker 1: I can't speak for you. I stutter when I open
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  Speaker 1: my mouth. Moses would drift away from God to He
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  Speaker 1: would become impatient and angry with the people he was leading.
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  Speaker 1: He would continue to struggle with fear and doubt. Even still,
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  Speaker 1: God says to Moses, I will be with you. And
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  Speaker 1: God still says to you, I will be with you,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how much doubt or fear that stir inside
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  Speaker 1: of you. God still says, I will be with you,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how much stubbornness anger.
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  Speaker 2: God still says I will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, Place yourself before the burning bush of God's presence. Rest, sleep,
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  Speaker 1: Believe these words deeper into your heart and mind.
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  Speaker 2: I will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in, saying
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  Speaker 1: to your soul, my God is with me, and then
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  Speaker 1: also breathing out, Pray, meditate, and trust, saying again, my
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  Speaker 1: God is with me. As we bring this meditation to
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  Speaker 1: a close, I invite you to consider one more part
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  Speaker 1: of Moses's story. God instructs Moses to say to Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: let my people go. Moses fusses, but how can I
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  Speaker 1: go back?
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  Speaker 2: How can I speak for you?
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  Speaker 1: Why would the king of Egypt listen to me? God replies,
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  Speaker 1: tell Pharaoh that I Am sent you.
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  Speaker 2: I Am.
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  Speaker 1: The Great I Am is with you. The Great i
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  Speaker 1: Am sends you. He is the true, True, He is
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  Speaker 1: the real, real, God is being behind and before all
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  Speaker 1: other things. He is the one by whom everything else
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  Speaker 1: in the universe was created. He is the one in
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  Speaker 1: whom all things hold together and have their being. The
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  Speaker 1: Great i Am says to you tonight, I am with you.
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  Speaker 1: I AM the being who will always be with you.
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  Speaker 2: In peace. Give yourself to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: Rest in God's faithfulness, for he alone can make you
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  Speaker 1: dwell in safety. May the Lord bless you and protect
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  Speaker 1: you as you say.
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  Speaker 2: May his face shine upon you.
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  Speaker 1: Like the radiance of a burning bush. May He be
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  Speaker 1: gracious and kind, granting you deep healing sleep. May you
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  Speaker 1: be filled with peace. Continue to allow yourself to let
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  Speaker 1: go of today by rehearsing in your breathing in and
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  Speaker 1: breathing out. My God is with me. My God is
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  Speaker 1: with me. My God.
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  Speaker 2: Is with me. Amen.
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