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THE CALL OF MOSES Abide Bible Sleep Talk Down with Calm Relaxing Piano Music to Beat Insomnia - Abide Meditation App · Abide Meditation App

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  Speaker 1: Find rest as you listen to this peaceful bedtime story.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Welcome to this bedtime story on the life of Moses.
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  Speaker 2: In this meditation, I invite you to rest in the
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  Speaker 2: words God said to Moses when he was exhausted, angry
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  Speaker 2: and afraid. God said to Moses, I will be with you,
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  Speaker 2: and tonight, as you turn to sleep, he says this
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  Speaker 2: to you as well, I will be with you. When
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  Speaker 2: God revealed himself to Moses in a burning bush, the
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  Speaker 2: place was holy, sacred ground. So God asked Moses to
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  Speaker 2: take off his shoes here tonight, For you have taken
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  Speaker 2: off your shoes, and as you turn to sleep, I
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  Speaker 2: invite you to also take off your burdens, set them aside,
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  Speaker 2: trusting that where you are right now, God is with you,
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  Speaker 2: and where God is this is holy ground too. So
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  Speaker 2: close your eyes, allow peace into every part of your body.
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  Speaker 2: Slow your breath, breathe in goodness and trust. Exhale, letting
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  Speaker 2: go of anxious thoughts. Breathe in peace and love, and
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  Speaker 2: then breathe out the day's troubles as you settle into
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  Speaker 2: a good night of sleep. I invite you to acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: the nearness of God, no matter how close or distant
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  Speaker 2: you have been to Jesus. Today, turn back into his
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  Speaker 2: presence and sink into his love. Father God. As I
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  Speaker 2: finish this day, I trust that you desire my company
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  Speaker 2: even while I am sleeping. Even while I sleep, you
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  Speaker 2: can heal my hurts. Even while I sleep, You can
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  Speaker 2: restore my exhausted mind and body. Even while I sleep,
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  Speaker 2: you can reveal your love to me and fill me
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  Speaker 2: with grace and mercy. As I have taken off my
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  Speaker 2: shoes for bed, I take off my burdens and hand
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  Speaker 2: them to you. I rest knowing that those things that
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  Speaker 2: are still unfinished today, I trust you will help me
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  Speaker 2: with these things Tomorrow. God speaks the words for you
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  Speaker 2: tonight that he spoke to Moses. I will be with you.
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  Speaker 2: He wants these words to burn bright and clear before you,
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  Speaker 2: like the fire that burned before Moses. He wants his
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  Speaker 2: words to break through your darkness, to penetrate deep into
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  Speaker 2: your inner being, to grow in you confidence and love.
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  Speaker 2: God is a blazing fire of goodness, warmth, and hope.
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  Speaker 2: Yet it is often difficult for us to see him
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  Speaker 2: and to hear his faithful words, I will be with you.
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  Speaker 2: These were words that Moses had trouble hearing and trusting too.
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  Speaker 2: His life before the Burning Bush had been strange and messy.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing about his life made it obvious that God would
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  Speaker 2: choose him to lead his people out of slavery to freedom.
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: He was the baby sent down the river in a basket,
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  Speaker 2: a Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king.
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: Moses was a murderer who hid in the desert. If
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  Speaker 2: there had been a job opening for hero of the Israelites,
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: Moses would not have had a strong resume. To our minds.
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses, he embraces,
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  Speaker 2: he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself, He doubted God too.
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: He was lost in the desert, in the despair of
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: his terrible mistakes, and even still God says to him, Moses,
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: I will be with you, and God will be with
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: you too. God is with you. Your life doesn't need
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: to make sense to you or to others. Your life
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  Speaker 2: can be messy and strange, and even still God says
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: to you, I will be with you. Allow these words
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  Speaker 2: deeper into your heart and mind.
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  Speaker 3: I will be with you.
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  Speaker 2: Rehearse this good news in your breath. Allow the burning
• 6:32
  Speaker 2: fire of God's voice to shine into your darkness. By
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: breathing in in saying to your soul, God is with me,
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again,
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  Speaker 2: God is with me. When I say Moses's life was
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: strange and messy, I mean that his life did not
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: move in a nice, clear, clean straight line. His life's
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: journey had many twists and turns, many layers of confusion
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: and suffering. His mother took a papyrus basket and covered
• 7:33
  Speaker 2: it with tar and pitch so that it would float.
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: She placed Moses as a baby inside and set the
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: basket among the reeds of the Nile, a wide, long river.
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: His mother didn't know where the basket would be found.
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: She sent her daughter to follow it as it floated away.
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  Speaker 2: It was the Egyptian king's daughter who drew him out
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: of the water. The Egyptian king, the Pharaoh, had ordered
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: that all Hebrew baby boys were to be thrown into
• 8:16
  Speaker 2: the Nile, and it was Pharaoh's daughter who drew him
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: out of the water. That is what Moses's name means
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: drew him out of the water. How have you been
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: cast into the waters, left to drown? How have you
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: been lost among the reeds, caught in the perilous current
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: of life? How have you been abandoned, thrust out of
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  Speaker 2: the safety of home. Jesus says to you, I will
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  Speaker 2: be with you. I have been with you. I will
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  Speaker 2: not leave you alone. You are named Moses too. You
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  Speaker 2: are the one I draw out of the water. I
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: will draw you out of the pit, out of the
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: miri clay, and set your feet upon a rock. You
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: have been in the current of today's dangerous rapid waters.
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: Call out to God for help. Allow him to draw
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: you up from the soul numbing currents of busyness, rush,
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: and self dependence. As you allow yourself to go to sleep,
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: give yourself to God's care, become God dependent. In this
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: story of Moses, we have a foreshadowing of what we
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: gain in the waters of baptism. The waters that are
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: meant for death turn out to be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes,
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: our enemy prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: he can devour. Yes, like the Egyptian king, our enemy
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: wants to drown you. He wants you to be covered
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: by the dangerous waters of life. Get through this danger.
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: Through these very same waters, Jesus meets you. He reaches
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: out to rescue you. He draws you out of death
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: into new life. Allow these waters to wash you, ending
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: a day, giving yourself to sleep, resting in God's love.
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: This is sacred, holy, precious. As you are being washed,
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: you are more and more free to be near God,
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: to enjoy his presence, to trust in his watchful care, rest, sleep, believe.
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: Allowing these words deeper into your heart and mind. I
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: will be with you. See the burning bush of God's presence,
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: speaking goodness into your heart. Rehearse this good news in
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: your breath, breathing in, saying to your soul you are
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: with me, and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust,
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: saying again you are with me. Moses's life had been strange, messy,
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: and confusing. When he came of age, he began to
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: sort out the things that mattered most to his life.
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: He understood in deeper ways that he was an alien
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: and a stranger in the house of Pharaoh. He was
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: a Hebrew, one of the oppressed, benefiting from the riches
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: of the oppressor was troubling. How could he enjoy any
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: good thing when his own people were enslaved working tirelessly
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: for the brutal king of Egypt. When he saw an
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: Egyptian beating one of his Hebrew brothers one day, he
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: was given a chance to prove his identity as an Israelite.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: In a fit of rage and vindication, he killed the Egyptian,
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: hid the body in the sand, and then fled into
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: the desert to hide from Pharaoh's wrath. Years later, Moses
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: had married, raised a family, and was working for his
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: father in law, Jethro, tending sheep on the backside of
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Mount Horeb. Moses was no doubt content to be removed
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: and hidden from his previous life as the son of
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: Pharaoh's daughter. He had no expectation that God had any
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: special plans for his life. He had no idea that
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: his life was about to change. There on the backside
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: of Mount Horeb. This was a wilderness place where God
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: spoke to Moses in a burning bush. You likely have
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: not experienced a literal burning bush, but you have had
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: some kind of burning b push experience. This would be
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: that turning point when you came to accept the truth
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: of God in a way that changed the direction of
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: your life. This would be a moment when He especially
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: revealed himself through a person an experience, maybe a worship service,
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: a time when you were serving someone, perhaps a time
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: of prayer, or even a powerful sermon. Something shifted inside
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: of you, and you haven't been the same since. You
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: might protest here, but I haven't taken God as seriously
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  Speaker 2: as I should. My life hasn't changed that much. I
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  Speaker 2: still struggle. I still don't know how to trust God
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  Speaker 2: with my life. I continue to resist him each day.
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  Speaker 2: I live more through my strength than God's love. Moses
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  Speaker 2: protested too. He said, who am I that you would
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  Speaker 2: speak to me? He worried about his weaknesses. I can't
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  Speaker 2: speak for you. I stutter when I open my mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Moses would drift away from God to He would become
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: impatient and angry with the people he was leading. He
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: would continue to struggle with fear and doubt. Even still,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: God says to Moses, I will be with you. And
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  Speaker 2: God still says to you, I will be with you
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  Speaker 2: no matter how much doubt or fear that stir inside
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  Speaker 2: of you. God still says, I will be with you.
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  Speaker 2: No matter how much stubbornness and anger. God still says,
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  Speaker 2: I will be with you once again. Place yourself before
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  Speaker 2: the burning bush of God's presence. Rest sleep, Believe these
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  Speaker 2: words deeper into your heart and mind. I will be
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: with you. Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: saying to your soul, my God is with me, and
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: then also breathing out, pray, Meditate, and trust, saying again,
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  Speaker 2: my God is with me. As we bring this meditation
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  Speaker 2: to a close, I invite you to consider one more
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  Speaker 2: part of Moses's story. God instructs Moses to say to Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 2: let my people go. Moses fusses, but how can I
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  Speaker 2: go back? How can I speak for you? Why would
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  Speaker 2: the king of Egypt listen to me? God replies, tell
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh that I Am sent you. I Am the Great
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  Speaker 2: I Am is with you. The Great i Am sends you.
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  Speaker 2: He is the true, True, He is the real, real
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  Speaker 2: God is being behind and before all other things. He
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  Speaker 2: is the one by whom everything else in the universe
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  Speaker 2: was created. He is the one in whom all things
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  Speaker 2: hold together and have their being. The Great I Am
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  Speaker 2: says to you tonight. I am with you. I am
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  Speaker 2: the being who will always be with you in peace.
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  Speaker 2: Give yourself to sleep. Rest in God's faithfulness, for he
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  Speaker 2: alone can make you dwell in safety. May the Lord
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  Speaker 2: bless you and protect you as you sleep. May His
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  Speaker 2: face shine upon you like the radiance of a burning bush.
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  Speaker 2: May He be gracious and kind, granting you deep, healing sleep.
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  Speaker 2: May you be filled with peace. Continue to allow yourself
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  Speaker 2: to let go of today by rehearsing in your breathing
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  Speaker 2: in and breathing out. My God is with me. My
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  Speaker 2: God is with me. My God is with me. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: God speaks the words for you tonight that he spoke
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: to Moses, I will be with you. He wants these
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: words to burn bright and clear before you, like the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: fire that burned before Moses. He wants his words to
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: break through your darkness, to penetrate deep into your inner being,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: to grow in you confidence and love. God is a
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: blazing fire of goodness, warmth, and hope. Yet it is
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: often difficult for us to see him and to hear
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: his faithful words, I will be with you. These were
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: words that Moses had trouble hearing and trusting too his
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: life before the burning bush. Had been strange and messy.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Nothing about his life made it obvious that God would
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: choose him to lead his people out of slavery to freedom.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: He was the baby sent down the river in a basket,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: a Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Moses was a murderer who hid in the desert. If
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: there had been a job opening for hero of the Israelites,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Moses would not have had a strong resume to our minds.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses, he embraces,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself. He doubted God too.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: He was lost in the desert, in the despair of
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: his terrible mistakes, and even still God says to him, Moses,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I will be with you, and God will be with
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: you too. God is with you. Your life doesn't need
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: to make sense to you or to others. Your life
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: can be messy and strange, and even still God says
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: to you, I will be with you. Allow these words
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: deeper into your heart and mind.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: I will be with you.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: You rehearse this good news in your breath. Allow the
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: burning fire of God's voice to shine into your darkness.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: By breathing in and saying to your soul, God is
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: with me, and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: saying again God is with me. When I say Moses's
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: life was strange and messy, I mean that his life
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: did not move in a nice, clear, clean straight line.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: His life's journey had many twists and turns, many layers
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: of con fusion and suffering. His mother took a papyrus
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: basket and covered it with tar and pitch so that
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: it would float. She placed Moses as a baby inside
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: and set the basket among the reeds of the Nile,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: a wide, long river. His mother didn't know where the
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: basket would be found. She sent her daughter to follow
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: it as it floated away. It was the Egyptian king's
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: daughter who drew him out of the water. The Egyptian king,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: the Pharaoh, had ordered that all Hebrew baby boys were
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: to be thrown into the Nile, and it was Pharaoh's
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: daughter who drew him out of the water. That is
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: what Moses's name means, means drew him out of the water.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: How have you been cast into the waters, left to drown?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: How have you been lost among the reeds caught in
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the perilous current of life. How have you been abandoned?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Thrust out of the safety of home. Jesus says to you,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: I will be with you. I have been with you.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I will not leave you alone. You are named Moses too.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: You are the one I draw out of the water.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: I will draw you out of the pit, out of
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the miri clay, and set your feet upon a rock.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: You have been in the current of today's dangerous, rapid waters.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Call out to God for help. Allow him to draw
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: you up from the soul numbing currents of busyness, rush,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: and self dependence. As you allow yourself to go to sleep,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: give yourself to God's care, become God dependent. In this
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: story of Moses, we have a foreshadowing of what we
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: gain in the waters of baptism. The waters that are
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: meant for death turn out to be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: our enemy prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: he can devour. Yes, like the Egyptian king, our enemy
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: wants to drown you. He wants you to be covered
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: by the dangerous waters of life. Get through this danger
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: through these very same waters, Jesus meets you. He reaches
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: out to rescue you. He draws you out of death
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: into new life. Allow these waters to wash you, ending
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: a day, giving yourself to sleep, resting in God's love.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: This is sacred, holy, precious. As you are being washed,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: you are more and more free to be near God,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: to enjoy his presence, to trust in his watchful care, rest, sleep, believe.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Allowing these words deeper into your heart and mind. I
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: will be with you. See the burning bush of God's presence,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: speaking goodness into your heart. Rehearse this good news in
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: your breath, breathing in, saying to your soul you are
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: with me, and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: saying again you are with me. Moses's life had been strange, messy,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: and confusing. When he came of age, he began to
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: sort out the things that mattered most to his life.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: He understood in deeper ways that he was an alien
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: and a stranger in the house of Pharaoh. He was
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: a Hebrew, one of the oppressed. Benefiting from the riches
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: of the oppressor was troubling. How could he enjoy any
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: good thing when his own people were enslaved, working tirelessly
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: for the brutal king of Egypt. When he saw an
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Egyptian beating one of his Hebrew brothers one day, he
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: was given a chance to prove his identity as an Israelite.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: In a fit of rage and vindication, he killed the Egyptian,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: hid the body in the sand, and then fled into
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: the desert to hide from Pharaoh's wrath. Years later, Moses
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: had married, raised a family, and was working for his
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: father in law, Jethro, tending sheep on the backside of
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Mount Horeb. Moses was no doubt content to be removed
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: and hidden from his previous life as the son of
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Pharaoh's daughter. He had no expectation that God had any
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: special plans for his life. He had no idea that
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: his life was about to change there on the backside
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: of Mount Horeb. This was a wilderness place where God
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: spoke to Moses in a burning bush. You likely have
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: not experienced a literal burning bush, but you have had
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: some kind of burning bush experience. This would be that
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: turning point when you came to accept the truth of
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: God in a way that changed the direction of your life.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: This would be a moment when he especially revealed himself
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: through a person, an experience, maybe a worship service, a
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: time when you were serving someone, perhaps a time of prayer,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: or even a powerful sermon. Something shifted inside of you,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: and you haven't been the same since. You might protest here,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: but I haven't taken God as seriously as I should.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: My life hasn't changed that much. I still struggle. I
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: still don't know how to trust God with my life.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I continued to resist him each day. I live more
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: through my strength than God's love. Moses protested too. He said,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: who am I that you would speak to me? He
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: worried about his weaknesses. I can't speak for you. I
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: stutter when I open my mouth. Moses would drift away
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: from God to He would become impatient and angry with
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: the people he was leading. He would continue to struggle
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: with fear and doubt. Even still, God says to Moses,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I will be with you. And God still says to you,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I will be with you, no matter how much doubt
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: or fear that stir inside of you. God still says,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I will be with you, no matter how much stubbornness
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: and anger. God still says I will be with you
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: once a again, place yourself before the burning bush of
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: God's presence. Rest sleep, Believe these words deeper into your
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: heart and mind. I will be with you. Rehearse this
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: good news in your breath, breathing in, saying to your soul,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: my God is with me, and then also breathing out, pray,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Meditate and trust, saying again, my God is with me.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: As we bring this meditation to a close, I invite
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: you to consider one more part of Moses's story. God
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: instructs Moses to say to Pharaoh, let my people go.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Moses fusses, but how can I go back? How can
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: I speak for you? Why would the king of Egypt
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: listen to me? God replies, tell Pharaoh that I Am
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: sent you. I Am the Great i Am is with you.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: The Great i Am sends you. He is the true, True,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: He is the real, real, God is being behind and
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: before all other things. He is the one by whom
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: everything else in the universe was created. He is the
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: one in whom all things hold together and have their being.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: The Great i Am says to you tonight, I am
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: with you. I AM the being who will always be
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: with you in peace. Give yourself to sleep rest in
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: God's faithfulness, for he alone can make you dwell in safety.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: May the Lord bless you and protect you as you sleep.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: May his face shine upon you like the radiance of
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: a burning bush. May He be gracious and kind, granting
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: you deep, healing sleep. May you be filled with peace.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Continue to allow yourself to let go of today by
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: rehearsing and your breathing in and breathing out. My God
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: is with me. My God is with me. My God
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: is with me. Amen. God speaks the words for you
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: tonight that he spoke to Moses, I will be with you.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: He wants these words to burn bright and clear before you,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: like the fire that burned before Moses. He wants his
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: words to break through your darkness, to penetrate deep into
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: your inner being, to grow in you confidence and love.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: God is a blazing fire of goodness, warmth, and hope.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Yet it is often difficult for us to see him
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: and to hear his faithful words, I will be with you.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: These were words that Moses had trouble hearing and trusting too.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: His life before the Burning Bush had been strange and messy.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Nothing about his life made it obvious that God would
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: choose him to lead his people out of slavery, to freedom.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: He was the baby sent down the river in a basket,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: a Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Moses was a murderer who hid in the desert. If
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: there had been a job opening for hero of the Israelites,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Moses would not have had a strong resume. To our minds.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses, he embraces,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself. He doubted God too.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: He was lost in the desert, in the despair of
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: his terrible mistakes. And even still God says to him, Moses,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I will be with you, and God will be with
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: you too. God is with you. Your life doesn't need
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: to make sense to you or to others. Your life
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: can be messy and strange, and even still God says
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: to you, I will be with you. Allow these words
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: deeper into your heart and mind.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: I will be with you.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Rehearse this good news in your breath, Allow the burning
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: fire of God's voice to shine into your darkness. By
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: breathing in and saying to your soul, God is with me,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again,
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: God is with me. When I say Moses's life was
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: strange and messy, I mean that his life did not
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: move in a nice, clear, clean straight line. His life's
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: journey had many twists and turns, many layers of confusion
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: and suffering. His mother took a papyrus basket and covered
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: it with tar and pitch so that it would float.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: She placed Moses as a baby inside and set the
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: basket among the reeds of the Nile, a wide, long river.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: My mother didn't know where the basket would be found.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: She sent her daughter to follow it as it floated away.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: It was the Egyptian king's daughter who drew him out
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: of the water. The Egyptian king, the Pharaoh, had ordered
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: that all Hebrew baby boys were to be thrown into
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: the Nile, and it was Pharaoh's daughter who drew him
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: out of the water. That is what Moses's name means,
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: drew him out of the water. How have you been
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: cast into the waters, left to drown? How have you
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: been lost among the reeds, caught in the perilous current
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: of life? How have you been abandoned, thrust out of
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: the safety of home. Jesus says to you, I will
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: be with you. I have been with you. I will
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: not leave you alone. You are named Moses too. You
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: are the one I draw out of the water. I
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: will draw you out of the pit, out of the
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Mirie clay, and set your feet upon a rock. You
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: have been in the current of today's dangerous, rapid waters.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Call out to God for help. Allow him to draw
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: you up from the soul numbing currents of busyness, rush,
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: and self dependence. As you allow yourself to go to sleep,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: give yourself to God's care, become God dependent. In this
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: story of Moses, we have a foreshadowing of what we
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: gain in the waters of baptism. The waters that are
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: meant for death turn out to be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: our enemy prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: he can devour. Yes, like the Egyptian king. Our enemy
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: wants to drown you. He wants you to be covered
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: by the dangerous waters of a life life. Get through
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: this danger. Through these very same waters, Jesus meets you.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: He reaches out to rescue you. He draws you out
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: of death into new life. Allow these waters to wash you.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Ending a day giving yourself to sleep, resting in God's love.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: This is sacred, holy, precious. As you are being washed,
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: you are more and more free to be near God,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: to enjoy his presence, to trust and his watchful care, rest, sleep, Believe.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: Allowing these words deeper into your heart and mind. I
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: will be with you. See the burning bush of God's presence,
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: speaking goodness into your heart. Rehearse this good news in
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: your breath, breathing in, saying to your soul, you are
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: with me, and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: saying again you are with me. Moses's life had been strange, messy,
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: and confusing. When he came of age, he began to
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: sort out the things that mattered most to his life.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: He understood in deeper ways that he was an alien
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: and a stranger in the house of Pharaoh. He was
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: a Hebrew, one of the oppressed. Benefiting from the riches
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: of the oppressor was troubling. How could he enjoy any
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: good thing when his own people were enslaved, working tirelessly
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: for the brutal king of Egypt. When he saw an
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Egyptian beating one of his Hebrew brothers, one day, he
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: was given a chance to prove his identity as an Israelite.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: In a fit of rage and vindication, he killed the Egyptian,
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: hid the body in the sand, and then fled into
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: the desert to hide from Pharaoh's wrath. Years later, Moses
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: had married, raised a family, and was working for his
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: father in law, Jethro, tending sheep on the backside of
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Mount Horeb. Moses was no doubt content to be removed
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: and hidden from his previous life as the son of
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: Pharaoh's daughter. He had no expectation that God had any
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: special plans for his life. He had no idea that
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: his life was about to change there on the backside
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: of Mount Horeb. This was a wilderness place where God
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: spoke to Moses in a burning bush. You likely have
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: not experienced a literal burning bush, but you have had
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: some kind of burning bush experience. This would be that
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: turning point when you came to accept the truth of
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: God in a way that changed the direction of your life.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: This would be a moment when He especially revealed himself
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: through a person an experience, maybe a worship service, a
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: time when you were serving someone, perhaps a time of prayer,
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: or even a powerful sermon. Something shifted inside of you,
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: and you haven't been the same since. You might protest here,
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: but I haven't taken God as seriously as I should.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: My life hasn't changed that much. I still struggle. I
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: still don't know how to trust God with my life.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: I continue to resist him each day. I live more
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: through my strength than God's love. Moses protested too. He said,
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: who am I that you would speak to me? He
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: worried about his weaknesses. I can't speak for you. I
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: stutter when I open my mouth. Moses would drift away
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: from God to He would become impatient and angry with
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: the people he was leading. He would continue to struggle
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: with fear and doubt. Even still, God says to Moses,
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: I will be with you. And God still says to you,
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: I will be with you, no matter how much doubt
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: or fear that stir inside of you. God still says,
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: I will be with you, no matter how much stubbornness
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: and anger. God still says, I will be with you.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: Once again. Place yourself before the burning bush of God's presence.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: Rest sleep, Believe these words deeper into your heart and mind.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: I will be with you. Rehearse this good news in
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: your breath. Breathing in, saying to your soul, my God
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: is with me, and then also breathing out, pray, meditate
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: and trust, saying again, my God is with me. As
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: we bring this meditation to a close, I invite you
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: to consider one more part of Moses's story. God instructs
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Moses to say to Pharaoh, let my people go. Moses fusses,
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: but how can I go back? How can I speak
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: for you? Why would the king of Egypt listen to me?
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: God replies, tell Pharaoh that I Am sent you. I
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: Am the Great I Am is with you. The Great
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: I Am sends you. He is the true, True, He
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: is the real, real, God is being behind and before
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: all other things. He is the one by whom everything
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: else in the universe was created. He is the one
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: in whom all things hold together and have their being.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: The Great I Am says to you tonight, I am
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: with you. I AM the being who will always be
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: with you. You in peace. Give yourself to sleep. Rest
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: in God's faithfulness, for he alone can make you dwell
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: in safety. May the Lord bless you and protect you
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: as you sleep. May His face shine upon you like
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: the radiance of a burning bush. May He be gracious
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: and kind, granting you deep healing sleep. May you be
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: filled with peace. Continue to allow yourself to let go
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: of today by rehearsing in your breathing in and breathing out.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: My God is with me. God is with me. My
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: God is with me. Amen. God speaks the words for
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: you tonight that he spoke to Moses, I will be
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: with you. He wants these words to burn bright and
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: clear before you, like the fire that burned before Moses.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: He wants his words to break through your darkness, to
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: penetrate deep into your inner being, to grow in you
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: confidence and love. God is a blazing fire of goodness, warmth,
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: and hope. Yet it is often difficult for us to
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: see him and to hear his faithful words, I will
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: be with you. These were words that Moses had trouble
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: hearing in trusting too. His life before the Burning Bush
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: had been strange and messy. Nothing about his life made
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: it obvious that God would choose him to lead his
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: people out of slavery to freedom. He was the baby
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: sent down the river in a basket, a Hebrew raised
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: in the palace of the Egyptian king. Moses was a murderer,
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: who hid in the desert. If there had been a
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: job opening for hero of the Israelites, Moses would not
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: have had a strong resume. To our minds, Moses was
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: an unlikely leader. Yet God, God blesses, he embraces, he
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself. He doubted God too.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: He was lost in the desert, in the despair of
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: his terrible mistakes. And even still God says to him, Moses,
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: I will be with you, and God will be with
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: you too. God is with you. Your life doesn't need
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: to make sense to you or to others. Your life
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: can be messy and strange, and even still God says
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: to you, I will be with you. Allow these words
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: deeper into your heart and mind.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: I will be with you.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: Rehearse this good news in your breath, Allow the burning
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: fire of God's voice to shine into your darkness. By
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: breathing in and saying to your soul, God is with me,
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again,
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: God is with me. When I say Moses's life was
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: strange and messy, I mean that his life did not
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: move in a nice, clear, clean straight line. His life's
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: journey had many twists and turns, many layers of confusion
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: and suffering. His mother took a papyrus basket and covered
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: it with tar and pitch so that it would float.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: She placed Moses as a baby inside and set the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: basket among the reeds of the Nile, a wide, long river.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: His mother didn't know where the basket would be found.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: She sent her daughter to follow it as it floated away.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: It was the Egyptian king's daughter who drew him out
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: of the water. The Egyptian king, the Pharaoh, had ordered
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: that all Hebrew baby boys were to be thrown into
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: the Nile, and it was Pharaoh's daughter who drew him
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: out of the water. That is what Moses's name means,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: drew him out of the water. How have you been
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: cast into the waters, left to drown? How have you
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: been lost among the reeds, caught in the perilous current
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: of life? How have you been abandoned, thrust out of
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: the safety of home. Jesus says to you, I will
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: be with you. I have been with you. I will
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: not leave you alone. You are named Moses too. You
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: are the one I draw out of the water. I
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: will draw you out of the pit out of the
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: mirie clay and set your feet upon a rock. You
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: have been in the current of today's dangerous rapid waters.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: Call out to God for help. Allow him to draw
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: you up from the soul numbing currents of busyness, rush
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: and self dependence. As you allow yourself to go to sleep,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: give yourself to God's care, become God dependent. In this
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: story of Moses, we have a foreshadowing of what we
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: gain in the waters of baptism. The waters that are
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: meant for death turn out to be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: our enemy prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: he can devour. Yes, like the Egyptian king. Our enemy
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: wants to drown you. He wants you to be covered
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: by the dangerous waters of life. Get through this danger.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: Through these very same waters, Jesus meets you. He reaches
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: out to rescue you. He draws you out of death
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: into new life. Allow these waters to wash you, ending
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: a day giving yourself to sleep, resting in God's love.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: This is sacred, holy precious. As you are being washed,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: you are more and more free to be near God,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: to enjoy his presence, to trust in his watchful, care, rest, sleep, Believe,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: allowing these words deeper into your heart and mind, I
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: will be with you. See the burning bush of God's
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: presence speaking goodness into your heart. Rehearse this good news
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: in your breath, breathing in saying to your soul, you
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: are with me, and then also breathing out, pray, meditate,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: and trust, saying again you are with me. Moses's life
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: had been strange, messy, and confusing. When he came of age,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: he began to sort out the things that mattered most
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: to his life. He understood in deeper ways that he
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: was an alien and a stranger in the house of Pharaoh.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: He was a Hebrew, one of the oppressed. Benefiting from
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: the riches of the oppressor was troubling. How could he
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: enjoy any good thing when his own people were enslaved,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: working tirelessly for the brutal king of Egypt. When he
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: saw an Egyptian beating one of his Hebrew brothers one day,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: he was given a chance to prove his identity as
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: an Israelite. In a fit of rage and vindication, he
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: killed the Egyptian, hid the body in the sand, and
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: then fled into the desert to hide from Pharaoh's wrath.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: Years later, Moses had married, raised a family, and was
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: working for his father in law, Jethro, tending sheep on
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: the backside of Mount Horeb. Moses was no doubt content
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: to be removed and hidden from his previous life as
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He had no expectation that
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: God had any special plans for his life. He had
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: no idea that his life was about to change. There
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: on the backside of Mount Horeb. This was a wilderness
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: place where God spoke to Moses and a burning bush.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: You likely have not experienced a literal burning bush, but
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: you have had some kind of burning bush experience. This
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: would be that turning point when you came to accept
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: the truth of God in a way that changed the
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: direction of your life. This would be a moment when
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: He especially revealed himself through a person an experience, maybe
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: a worship service, a time when you were serving someone,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: perhaps a time of prayer, or even a powerful sermon.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: Something shifted inside of you, and you haven't been the
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: same since. You might protest here, but I haven't taken
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: God as seriously as I should. My life hasn't changed
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: that much. I still struggle. I still don't know how
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: to trust God with my life. I continue to resist
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: him each day. I live more through my strength than
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: God's love. Moses protested too. He said, who am I
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: that you would speak to me? He worried about his weaknesses.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: I can't speak for you. I stutter when I open
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: my mouth. Moses would drift away from God to He
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: would become impatient and angry with the people he was leading.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: He would continue to struggle with fear and doubt. Even still,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: God says to Moses, I will be with you. And
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: God still says to you, I will be with you.
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  Speaker 2: No matter how much doubt or fear that stir inside
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  Speaker 2: of you. God still says I will be with you.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: No matter how much stubbornness and anger. God still says,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: I will be with you. Once again, place yourself before
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  Speaker 2: the burning bush of God's presence. Rest, sleep, Believe these
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  Speaker 2: words deeper into your heart and mind. I will be
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: with you. Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing
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  Speaker 2: in saying to your soul, my God is with me,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust, saying again,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: my God is with me. As we bring this meditation
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  Speaker 2: to a close, I invite you to consider one more
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  Speaker 2: part of Moses's story. God instructs Moses to say to Pharaoh,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: let my people go. Moses fusses, but how can I
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: go back? How can I speak for you? Why would
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: the king of Egypt listen to me? God replies, tell
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh that I Am sent you. I Am the Great
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  Speaker 2: I Am is with you. The Great I Am sends you.
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  Speaker 2: He is the true, True, He is the real, real,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: God is being behind and before all other things. He
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  Speaker 2: is the one by whom everything else in the universe
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  Speaker 2: was created. He is the one in whom all things
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  Speaker 2: hold together and have their being. The Great I Am
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  Speaker 2: says to you tonight, I am with you. I Am
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  Speaker 2: the being who will always be with you in peace.
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  Speaker 2: Give yourself to sleep, rest in God's faithfulness, for he
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  Speaker 2: alone can make you dwell in safety. May the Lord
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  Speaker 2: bless you and protect you as you sleep. May His
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  Speaker 2: face shine upon you like the radiance of a burning bush.
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  Speaker 2: May He be gracious and kind, granting you deep, healing sleep.
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  Speaker 2: May you be filled with peace. Continue to allow yourself
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  Speaker 2: to let go of today by rehearsing in your breathing
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  Speaker 2: in and breathing out, My God is with me. My
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  Speaker 2: God is with me. My God is with me. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: God speaks the words for you tonight that he spoke
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  Speaker 2: to Moses, I will be with you. He wants these
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  Speaker 2: words to burn bright and clear before you, like the
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  Speaker 2: fire that burned before Moses. He wants his words to
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  Speaker 2: break through your darkness, to penetrate deep into your inner being,
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  Speaker 2: to grow in you confidence and love. God is a
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  Speaker 2: blazing fire of goodness, warmth, and hope. Yet it is
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  Speaker 2: often difficult for us to see him and to hear
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  Speaker 2: his faithful words, I will be with you. These were
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  Speaker 2: words that Moses had trouble hearing and trusting too. His
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  Speaker 2: life before the Burning Bush had been strange and messy.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing about his life made it obvious that God would
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  Speaker 2: choose him to lead his people out of slavery to freedom.
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  Speaker 2: He was the baby sent down the river in a basket,
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  Speaker 2: a Hebrew raised in the palace of the Egyptian king.
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  Speaker 2: Moses was a murderer who hid in the desert. If
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  Speaker 2: there had been a job opening for hero of the Israelites,
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  Speaker 2: Moses would not have had a strong resume to our minds.
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  Speaker 2: Moses was an unlikely leader. Yet God blesses, he embraces,
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  Speaker 2: he uses unlikely people. Moses doubted himself, He doubted God too.
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  Speaker 2: He was lost in the desert, in the despair of
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  Speaker 2: his terrible mistakes. And even still God says to him, Moses,
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  Speaker 2: I will be with you, and God will be with
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  Speaker 2: you too. God is with you. Your life doesn't need
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  Speaker 2: to make sense to you or to others. Your life
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  Speaker 2: can be messy and strange, and even still God says
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  Speaker 2: to you, I will be with you. Allow these words
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  Speaker 2: deeper into your heart and mind.
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  Speaker 3: I will be with you.
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  Speaker 2: Rehearse this good news in your breath, Allow the burning
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  Speaker 2: fire of God's voice to shine into your darkness. By
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  Speaker 2: breathing in in saying to you your soul, God is
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  Speaker 2: with me, and then also breathing out, pray, meditate, and trust,
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  Speaker 2: saying again, God is with me. When I say Moses's
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  Speaker 2: life was strange and messy, I mean that his life
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  Speaker 2: did not move in a nice, clear, clean straight line.
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  Speaker 2: His life's journey had many twists and turns, many layers
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  Speaker 2: of confusion and suffering. His mother took a papyrus basket
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  Speaker 2: and covered it with tar and pitch so that it
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  Speaker 2: would float. She placed Moses as a baby inside and
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  Speaker 2: set the basket among the reeds of the Nile, a wide,
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  Speaker 2: long river. His mother didn't know where the basket would
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  Speaker 2: be found. She sent her daughter to follow it as
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  Speaker 2: it floated away. It was the Egyptian king's daughter who
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  Speaker 2: drew him out of the water. The Egyptian king, the Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 2: had ordered that all Hebrew baby boys were to be
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  Speaker 2: thrown into the Nile, and it was Pharaoh's daughter who
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  Speaker 2: drew him out of the water. That is what Moses's
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  Speaker 2: name means, drew him out of the water. How have
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  Speaker 2: you been cast into the waters, left to drown? How
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  Speaker 2: have you been lost among the reeds, caught in the
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  Speaker 2: perilous current of life? How have you been abandoned, thrust
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  Speaker 2: out of the safety of home. Jesus says to you,
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  Speaker 2: I will be with you. I have been with you.
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  Speaker 2: I will not leave you alone. You are named Moses too.
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  Speaker 2: You are the one I draw out of the water.
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  Speaker 2: I will draw you out of the pit, out of
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  Speaker 2: the mirie clay, and set your feet upon a rock.
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  Speaker 2: You have been in the current of today's dangerous rapid waters.
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  Speaker 2: Call out to God for help, Allow him to draw
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  Speaker 2: you up from the soul numbing currents of busyness, rush
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  Speaker 2: and self dependence. As you allow yourself to go to sleep,
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  Speaker 2: give yourself to God's care, become God dependent. In this
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  Speaker 2: story of Moses, we have a foreshadowing of what we
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  Speaker 2: gain in the waters of baptism. The waters that are
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  Speaker 2: meant for death turn out to be instead cleansing, healing waters. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: our enemy prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom
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  Speaker 2: he can devour. Yes, like the Egyptian king. Our enemy
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  Speaker 2: wants to drown you. He wants you to be covered
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  Speaker 2: by the dangerous waters of life. Get through this danger.
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  Speaker 2: Through these very same waters. Jesus meets you. He reaches
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  Speaker 2: out to rescue you. He draws you out of death
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  Speaker 2: into new life. Allow these waters to wash you, ending
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  Speaker 2: a day giving yourself to sleep, resting in God's love.
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  Speaker 2: This is sacred, holy precious. As you are being washed,
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  Speaker 2: you are more and more free to be near God,
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  Speaker 2: to enjoy his presence, to trust in his watchful care, rest, sleep, believe.
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  Speaker 2: Allowing these words deeper into your heart and mind, I
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  Speaker 2: will be with you. See the burning bush of God's presence,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: speaking goodness into your heart. Rehearse this good news in
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: your breath, breathing in saying to your soul you are
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  Speaker 2: with me, and then also breathing out, pray, meditate in trust,
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: saying again you are with me. Moses's life had been strange, messy,
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  Speaker 2: and confusing. When he came of age, he began to
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  Speaker 2: sort out the things that mattered most to his life.
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  Speaker 2: He understood in deeper ways that he was an alien
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  Speaker 2: and a stranger in the house of Pharaoh. He was
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  Speaker 2: a Hebrew, one of the oppressed. Benefiting from the riches
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  Speaker 2: of the oppressor was troubling. How could he enjoy any
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  Speaker 2: good thing when his own people were enslaved, working tirelessly
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  Speaker 2: for the brutal king of Egypt. When he saw an
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  Speaker 2: Egyptian beating one of his Hebrew brothers one day, he
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: was given a chance to prove his identity as an Israelite.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: In a fit of rage and vindication, he killed the Egyptian,
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  Speaker 2: hid the body in the sand, and then fled into
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  Speaker 2: the desert to hide from Pharaoh's wrath. Years later, Moses
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  Speaker 2: had married, raised a family, and was working for his
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  Speaker 2: father in law, Jethro, tending sheep on the backside of
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  Speaker 2: Mount Horeb. Moses was no doubt content to be removed
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  Speaker 2: and hidden from his previous life as the son of
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh's daughter. He had no expectation that God had any
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  Speaker 2: special plans for his life. He had no idea that
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  Speaker 2: his life was about to change. There on the back
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  Speaker 2: side of Mount Horeb. This was a wilderness place where
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  Speaker 2: God spoke to Moses in a burning bush. You likely
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  Speaker 2: have not experienced a literal burning bush, but you have
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  Speaker 2: had some kind of burning bush experience. This would be
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  Speaker 2: that turning point when you came to accept the truth
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  Speaker 2: of God in a way that changed the direction of
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  Speaker 2: your life. This would be a moment when He especially
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  Speaker 2: revealed himself through a person an experience, maybe a worship service,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: a time when you were serving someone, perhaps a time
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: of prayer, or even a powerful sermon. Something shifted inside
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  Speaker 2: of you, and you haven't been the same since. You
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  Speaker 2: might protest here, but I haven't taken God as seriously
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  Speaker 2: as I should. My life hasn't changed that much. I
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: still struggle. I still don't know how to trust God
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  Speaker 2: with my life. I continue to resist him each day.
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  Speaker 2: I live more through my strength than God's love. Moses
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  Speaker 2: protested too He said, who am I that you would
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  Speaker 2: speak to me? He worried about his weaknesses. I can't
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  Speaker 2: speak for you. I stutter when I open my mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Moses would drift away from God to He would become
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  Speaker 2: impatient and angry with the people he was leading. He
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: would continue you to struggle with fear and doubt. Even still,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: God says to Moses, I will be with you. And
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: God still says to you, I will be with you,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: no matter how much doubt or fear that stir inside
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: of you. God still says I will be with you.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: No matter how much stubbornness and anger. God still says,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: I will be with you. Once again, Place yourself before
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: the burning bush of God's presence. Rest, sleep, believe these
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: words deeper into your heart and mind. I will be
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: with you. Rehearse this good news in your breath, breathing in,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: saying to your soul, my God is with me, and
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: then also breathing out, Pray, Meditate, and trust, saying again,
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: my God is with me. As we bring this meditation
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: to a close, I invite you to consider one more
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: part of Moses's story. God instructs Moses to say to Pharaoh,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: let my people go Moses fusses, but how can I
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: go back? How can I speak for you? Why would
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: the king of Egypt listen to me? God replies, Tell
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: Pharaoh that I Am sent you. I Am the Great
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: I Am is with you. The Great i Am sends you.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: He is the true, True, He is the real, real,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: God is being behind and before all other things. He
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: is the one by whom everything else in the universe
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: was created. He is the one in whom all things
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: hold together and have their being. The Great I Am
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: says to you tonight, I am with you. I Am
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: the being who will always be with you in peace.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: Give yourself to sleep. Rest in God's faithfulness, for he
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: alone can make you dwell in safety. May the Lord
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 2: bless you and protect you as you sleep. May His
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: face shine upon you like the radiance of a burning bush.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: May He be gracious and kind, granting you deep, healing sleep.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: May you be filled with peace. Continue to allow yourself
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: to let go of today by rehearsing in your breathing
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: in and breathing out. My God is with me. My
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: God is with me. My God is with me. Amen.
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