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