Does God ever get frustrated with us? Is there ever a point where our loving heavenly Father gets angry with his girls? Yes – but it’s likely not over the things you’ve been worried about.

We screw things up. We fail to get it right. We struggle. We fall short. These are the things we worry about within ourselves, so we continually dismiss ourselves. And let’s be clear – that’s not what God is upset over.

Girl, he knows you struggle – he created you to need him. He knows you fail – he forgave you before the first misstep. You can get over all of that, because God certainly has.

So, what is God upset over? When does he look at you with anger? It’s not when you’re unable – it’s when you’re UNWILLING.

The unwilling mind that continually makes excuses reveals the unwilling heart that simply DOESN’T WANT TO. You don’t want to be the one God chooses. You don’t want to be the one he sends. You don’t want to be the one called to do that work. And really you don’t want to be available because you don’t want to change. You don’t want to be uncomfortable.

This is where God grows angry with Moses. Moses didn’t want to be the one because he didn’t want to leave his comfortable life. He preferred to stay exactly where he had been hiding for 40 years. Why? Because there he was safe. No one hated him. No one was hunting him. His days were predictable and controllable. I wake up and I do the same things every day and I go to bed every night in the same way. Moses had a sense of control over his simple life with his family and the sheep. He was unwilling to give up his comforts, but ultimately he was really unwilling to give up control.

Is that you? You don’t want to be uncomfortable. And you certainly don’t want to be UNcertain. You need a sense of control, of knowing what’s going to happen and how it’s all going to work out. So any hint of discomfort, you just dismiss yourself. Any uncertain loose ends you’ve tied into knots that hold you steady (and stuck). You’re driven by a desire to control it all far more than a desire to follow God in it.

Ugly truths we don’t talk about. It’s easy to paint it pretty and declare we’re being faithful where we are with humility and perseverance … but sometimes when you chip through that paint you find an unwilling spirit to do anything different.

And THAT is what frustrates God. This is what gets him angry with his girls. Maybe you’re not unable, you’re really unwilling.

The Lord tells Moses to return to Egypt and lead his people to freedom. He’s promised to be with him. He’s promised his hand of victory over them. He’s even shown him 2 very clear miracles to give him confidence in God’s personal power over this mission. And here’s what happens next – Exodus 4:10, “But Moses pleaded with the Lord, ‘O Lord, I’m not very good with words. I have never been, and I’m not now, even though you have spoken to me. I get tongue-tied, and my words get tangled.'”

Moses had an insecurity. Ultimately he didn’t think he had anything good enough to say to the Israelietes to convince them to leave, or to the Egyptians to convince them to let his people go. So he points out his inadequacy to God.

God didn’t get mad about it. He understood Moses’ fear. He understood that he felt inadequate for such a huge job. And here’s God’s response to Moses, verses 11-12, “Who makes a person’s mouth? Who decides whether people speak or do not speak, hear or do not hear, see or do not see? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go! I will be with you as you speak, and I will instruct you in what to say.”

How awesome is that? God reassures Moses. Moses, I made you exactly as I wanted you. If you can’t do something it’s because I wanted to do something different through you. Remember what God says in 2 Corinthians 12:9, “My power works best in weakness.” God knows how he created Moses, and he knows if there’s a problem with his ability to speak – that’s just room for God to speak! That’s a person who is not self-sufficient so they can be God-sufficient!

God isn’t angry with Moses for not being self-sufficient. He’s reminding him he won’t have to do the speaking by himself – God will do it through him.

Girl, I don’t know what you’ve been saying you aren’t good enough to do – but maybe you need to be reminded right now that God’s power works best in your weakness. The exact areas where you’ve struggled and where you’ve failed can now be the perfect space to display God’s power.

Here’s the thing – I really don’t need to be impressed by all you can do. That doesn’t help me at all. In fact your super power of being self-sufficient simply leaves me feeling lacking and unworthy. What I really need to see is where you fall short, but God comes through. What the people around you need to see is how you can’t do it all, but God can. They need to see where you have struggled, God has provided. We desperately need to see that what you didn’t have the power to do on your own, God did it through you.

What – you think I wake up know exactly what you need to hear each day? Girl – NOT AT ALL. I fall so miserably short when I try to do this on my own. This is God’s space. I’m simply a mouthpiece for the Holy Spirit. This has been a journey of me showing up to do the work while staying out of the way. The second this becomes about me, I fail. You have to know, no matter what, this girl speaking to you every morning is just an ordinary girl like you with a Bible I’m willing to study and time I’ve created for the Holy Spirit to work every single day. Is it easy for me? No. I struggle every morning when I sit down to write the first word. You know why? Because I CAN’T DO THIS.

Moses couldn’t do what God was asking him to do. But it can’t end there. When God says, “Nope, you can’t – but I can”, that’s when you drop every excuse and make yourself available! Now, we will see what happens when you don’t drop your excuses.

Verse 13-14, “But Moses again pleased, ‘Lord, please! Send anyone else.’ Then the Lord became angry with Moses.”

God wasn’t angry with Moses’ insecurities and questions. He lovingly reassured Moses that his power would work through him. God became angry when Moses was UNWILLING. “No, Lord, send anyone else. I don’t want to do this. This so uncomfortable for me. I can’t be the one. I really just want to stay here in my predictable life where I’m in control.”

God can work with your inabilities. That’s not a problem for him at all. What is a problem for him is your unwillingness to step into the unknown, leave your comforts, and follow him into the hard stuff that’s out of your control.

What’s God asking you to do? Where has he asked you to get involved in his work? He’s not burdened by your doubts. He can handle your doubts. He’s not upset over your shortcomings. He sees room for his power all in you. But what he’s angry about is your unwillingness to follow him.

If you keep reading in the story, you see that ultimately God allows Moses to take his brother Aaron with him as his mouthpiece. God would tell Moses what to say, and Moses would tell Aaron what to say, then Aaron would be the one to say it. Okay, seems fair. So did God finally agree that Moses wasn’t good enough for the job alone? Did God need more than just Moses?

No – actually, Aaron became more of a problem than a help. God didn’t want that problem for Moses, he would have been far better to just trust God to speak through him directly. Aaron was more of a chastisement from God that Moses brought on himself when he was unwilling to go alone.

I don’t want to create problems for myself. I don’t want to do anything that makes the journey harder. So what God is showing me is I have to drop every excuse and believe he will do everything he says he will do, and he actually CAN do it through me. I must continually keep my heart open, my mind open, my hands open, and my plans open so I am WILLING to do anything and everything God asks of me.

It’s so easy to become busy, then my busy-ness leaves me unwilling. It’s so easy to become comfortable, then my love of comfort leaves me unwilling. It’s so easy to become lazy, then my laziness grows into a complete atrophy of what I was once able to do and everything gets so hard, that always leads to me being unwilling.

Busy has got to go! Clear the schedule. Make space. Remain available. Girl, you keep canceling where God is assigning you because you’re just too darn busy. Stop that!

Comfort is not your calling. When is the last time you did something hard? Stay ready! Be willing!

That laziness is rendering you incapable of simple things and the enemy is playing in your head as you just sit there. As you scroll, he’s eating away at your strength. Get up. Do something. Stay willing!

Don’t make this harder than it needs to be. If God says he’s with you, that’s enough. If God says his power will work through you, awesome, trust that. If God is prompting you to do something, be bold enough to tell him you’re in!

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Fear cripples us and keeps us stuck. Fear has our mind thinking thoughts we have absolutely no business thinking. Fear has us playing little, assuming the worst, and dismissing ourselves from the wild, faith-filled spaces God is calling us to.

Do you want to taste the fullness of life God really has available for you? You must overcome the fear that has held you back.

Do you want to experience God’s power unleashed in your life, leading and guiding your every step? You must break free of the fear that has sold you on less.

There’s more in you. There’s more for you. You’re capable of more. You’re created for more. But fear will always steal your ‘more’ and trade you for far less. You must decide if you’re going to stand by and allow that to continue in your life.

Fear shows up everyday as your worry-filled thoughts. Worry is the nasty little off-spring of fear. And here’s what that looks like in real life:

The average person on an average day has about 40,000 thoughts. 80% of those thoughts are negative, fear based, worry filled thoughts. And of those 32,000 worries, 85% of them never actually happen! 27,200 absolute wasted thoughts on negative things that never even happen – ON A DAILY BASIS.

We are on a perpetual loop of worrying about things that don’t matter and, get this, probably won’t even happen! All while there is so much MORE in us and for us. What a waste of the MORE we are capable of and created for.

God’s looking for a few girls who will decide to grab those fears by the tail, stare them down and realize they have NO POWER over you. You see, until you do, you run around afraid of things you could have conquered a long time ago. Until you dare to overcome those fears, those fears overcome you, then what are you missing? What life does God have available for you if you would get out of the negative, worry filled loop, and replace it with big faith in action? Oh girl, he would lead you to some wild, faith-filled spaces you could never reach alone and you would discover how much MORE there always was for you.

Moses had spent 40 years living in fear. Back in Egypt he witnessed the Egyptian slave master abusing one of his own people, and in anger Moses killed the Egyptian. When the King found out, he came after Moses. Moses fled hundreds of miles away to the region of Midian. There in Midian, he chose to forget the palace he came from, and opted for a life of hiding as a shepherd in the fields. He lived a quiet, simple life – but all that time there was so much more in Moses.

I wonder what MORE is in you, but you’ve been running from it. You’re afraid of what comforts you might have to leave, what sacrifice might be required of you, and what failure you could face, so you’ve stayed right where you are. You don’t dare answer the call for more. You don’t dare pursue a deeper passion within you. No, you just stay right where you are and dismiss everything else.

Hmmmmm … seems to me there’s more in you, my sister. And it seems to me God might be calling you out.

Here’s the truth: God doesn’t need one more of his girls to play little, go with the flow, fit in and do what everyone else is doing. No. God wants some of his girls to refuse those negative, fear based, worry filled thoughts and take them captive, just as his word tells us to do. 2 Corinthians 10:5, “We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” Your thoughts aren’t going to just change, you will have to MAKE THEM!

No, worry, I will not allow you to flood my mind today.

No, negativity, you don’t get a seat at my table.

No, fear, you’re not welcome in my home.

Now, what will you think about instead? What will flood your mind? What will get a seat at your table? What is welcome in your home? You get to decide that.

If 85% of the things we worry about never even happen, then how about we stop worrying about them. How about we start focusing on the good things that can happen? How about we start dwelling on the promises of God we hold? How about we start seeking the good plans of God unfolding here for us and intentionally start stepping smack dab in the middle of them with an open heart, open mind and open hands. Yes, Lord – I’m ready for what you have for me. Fear will not hold me back here!

So here’s Moses, hiding in fear for 40 years in Midian. Reliving his mistakes and failures, knowing he can never return to his home in Egypt because of what he’s done. And this is when God shows up! God acknowledges that Moses alone cannot rescue his people from Egypt, that this is a job for God’s own mighty hand. God promises Moses that he will raise his hand and strike the Egyptians. That his hand will cause the Egyptians to even look favorably on him and the Israelites and they will walk right out of Egypt, free. Not only free, but carrying the wealth of the Egyptians with them.

Hearing all of this, Moses still has fear. Fear because now he is a nobody. He’s done nothing but shepherd sheep in pastures for the past 40 years. He’s been playing little for a really long time and this all seems way to big to him. God, surely you have the wrong person. It can’t be me!

I remember 13 years ago God showed up for me, much like he did Moses, and he told me to start hosting a devotional call. Y’all, I didn’t even know what a devotional was. I was absolutely the least likely and most under-qualified person for that. And I argued with God, much like Moses did. God, it can’t be me. You’ve got the wrong girl. I don’t know your word. I can’t pray out loud without crying. After a wrestling match with God, I decided I would make a ONE WEEK commitment to hosting a live conference call with a short devotional. One week, and only one week. I was convinced during this one week that God would surely see I tried, but I wasn’t his girl, then he would move on and choose someone else. So, I showed up that week. It was cring-worthy as I plagiarized straight from a Joyce Meyer devotional book (I’ve asked forgiveness), and I was quite miserable. I continually dismissed myself in fear.

The week came and passed, and God never cancelled my calling, it only grew and demanded I grow with it. No more plagiarizing, I had to write these devotionals on my own. No more playing little, I had to show up with the power of the Holy Spirit and let it flow. 13 years and over 3,000 devotionals later, I understand I actually AM GOD’S GIRL and my fear almost caused me to miss this!

Fear may be threatening to cause you to miss the most beautiful blessings and greatest callings on your life. Are you going to let that happen?

Moses was facing more than potential failure and embarrassment – he was facing complete annihilation, destruction and death. Of course he had fear. But fear could no longer have him!

Yes, you will have fear – that’s natural. But will fear have you? Will fear rule your mind? Will fear run the board meetings in your head? Will fear make your decisions? Will fear be your leader? Only you get to decide.

That brings us to Exodus 4. Moses is still arguing with God, still questioning how he could possibly be good enough to return to Egypt after 40 years and help set his people free. Fear had Moses, and God knew it. So that’s when God does something amazing!

Verse 2, The Lord asked Moses, “What is that in your hand?” “A shepherd’s staff,” Moses replied. “Throw it to the ground,” the Lord told him. So Moses threw down the staff, and it turned into a snake! Moses jumped back.

Why did Moses jump back? Because it’s a snake. We hard hard-wired to fear snakes. It’s part of our DNA. It is natural to have fear when you see a snake, but God wants to show Moses he has a choice here. A choice to NO LONGER ALLOW FEAR TO HAVE HIM!

Verse 4, Then the Lord told him, “Reach out and grab its tail.” So Moses reached out and grabbed it, and it turned back into a shepherd’s staff in his hand.

Here, Moses is learning it’s okay to have fear, but don’t let fear have you. He learned to do what God told him to do even when it’s uncomfortable. This was the exact lesson Moses needed to follow God into those wild, faith-filled spaces where he was being called.

I have to believe you too are being called into some wild, faith-filled spaces. Spaces where fear is natural, but if you’re not careful, that fear will cause you to miss everything God has for you here. God isn’t telling you to not have the natural feelings of fear as you step out in obedience to follow him – he’s saying grab that fear by the tail and watch it become powerless over you!

Have you ever laid in bed at night and been terrified by the noises? It’s literally the washing machine – but at night, it’s a potential threat to your very life and the hairs on your neck stand on end. You have the power to get up and turn on the light, or lay there afraid. What will you do?

80% of your thoughts are negative, fear based, worry filled thoughts. And 85% of them never actually happen! Are you going to allow fear over the things that will never even happen keep you from showing up for the things God has already ordained as possible in your life?

Girl, grab that thing you fear by the tail. Stand up. Find your voice. Move forward in faith. God is with you!!!!!!

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There are some things you can work your way through. There are some things you can talk your way out of. And then there are some things that no matter what you do, it simply will never be good enough. You do not have the power to change this. You do not have the strategy to fix this.

And maybe you’re facing one of those situations right now. There’s nothing you can do to change the trajectory of where this is going. It’s going and you can’t stop it.

That can truly leave a person feeling hopeless. Like you’re in the middle of a whirlpool and regardless of what you do, you’re getting sucked in and going down with this. For the hopeless soul listening right now who has watched every hope they were holding on to go down the drain, may I remind you that Romans 15:13 says, “May the God of HOPE fill you with all joy and peace as you TRUST in him, so that you may overflow with HOPE by the power of the Holy Spirit.” The God we love, the God we serve, the God we are here to hear from today, is the God of HOPE. He holds hope. He reigns over all hope. Our God is a hope dealer! Overflowing hope fills us when we trust in him.

My friend, this situation may feel hopeless, but the God of HOPE is here to fill you with hope again. Hope that while you can’t change this, GOD CAN. And let me tell you HOW God can change it: With his hand!

As God is giving Moses instructions on leading his people out of slavery in Egypt and into their promised land, God knows it’s truly a hopeless situation. Hopeless without God’s hand. There’s no way the Egyptians are going to allow their 2-3 million slaves of free labor to walk right out of captivity. There’s no way the Egyptian Pharaoh is going to just hand over the Israelites that have slaved away for 400 years. There’s absolutely nothing Moses could say to convince Pharaoh to let them go. There’s no war they could wage against their captors that would set them free. It was impossible. Impossible without God’s hand. But with God’s hand, it was already done!

God says to Moses in Exodus 3: 19-22, “I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand forces him. So I WILL RAISE MY HAND and strike the Egyptians, performing all kinds of miracles among them. Then at last he will let you go. And I WILL CAUSE the Egyptians to look favorably on you. They will give you gifts when you go so you will not leave empty-handed. Every Israelite woman will ask for articles of silver and gold and fine clothing from her Egyptian neighbors and from the foreign women in their houses. You will dress your sons and daughters with these, stripping the Egyptians of their wealth.”

God’s hand would do the impossible here. God’s hand would turn this situation around. Again, a situation that had been absolutely as bad as it could possibly be for 400 years. At this time, the Israelites had never known anything but slavery. Their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers were slaves here. It’s who they were and what they did. It was their lot in life. Nothing had ever been different for them, so why would they even dream of something different now?

I bet there’s something that’s been passed down to you that’s always been. You don’t even know to dream of something different because it’s never even crossed your mind that there might be more for someone like you. BUT THERE IS. There is more. It doesn’t matter if the thing you’re facing is the thing that the past 10 generations in your family has faced, it can change here. It doesn’t matter if you’ve always been the one to screw it up, that can change here.

How will it change? The hand of God! The hand of God will cause impossible things to become possible. The hand of God will change minds, cancel agreements with evil, and set prisoners free. The hand of God will break chains, terminate assignments of Hell, and cause the demons to flee. The hand of God will open doors, part seas, and make a way through the wilderness. Only the hand of God.

Only the hand of God over this will change it, and the hand of God is all you need to change it.

How do you get the hand of God on you? Is there a criteria for being good enough? Is there a list of things you have to do, give up and change before God’s hand is over your life?

That’s certainly what I used to think. I was so caught up in a performance mindset, always trying to earn God’s approval and applause, just hoping everyone else would like me too. God totally wasn’t impressed with me either. I struggled to live in grace because I was performing to earn what is only given to the undeserving, and I had to be humbled to understand I was undeserving no matter what I did.

Ezra 7:9-10 says Ezra “had the gracious hand of God on him.” (Then it tells us WHY.). “This was because Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the word of God and do it.”

Girls, this is HUGE!!!!!! As you’re here listening today, seeking God’s word so you can apply it to your life, you are inviting the gracious hand of God to be on you! That gracious hand holds all power and can make the impossible possible. That gracious, powerful, mighty hand can change what you could never change!

This is the hand that was over Moses and the Israelites when facing the Egyptians. It would never make sense for the Egyptians to just let their slaves leave after 400 years, but God’s hand was already in motion with the precise series of events and miracles that would not only set them free, but bless them on their way out!

9 chapters later, the impossible happens exactly as God had told Moses. Exodus 12:31, “Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron during the night, ‘Get out!’ he ordered. ‘Leave my people – and take the rest of the Israelites with you! go and worship the Lord as you have requested.'” Verse 36, “The Lord caused the Egyptians to look favorably on the Israelites, and they gave the Israelites whatever they asked for. So they stripped the Egyptians of their wealth!”

What in the world?!!! How totally awesome is that?!!!! What happened in the 9 chapters in between to bring them to this moment of walking right out of the place where they had been held captive for 400 years? What happened in those 9 chapters was everything that had to happen BY THE HAND OF GOD. This was a job only the hand of God could do, and he did it!

You may be facing a job that’s only for the hand of God – okay, great, then get his hand! How do you do that? Go back to Ezra 7: 9-10 again. “Ezra had the gracious hand of God on him. This was BECAUSE Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the word of God and do it.”

Get yourself in God’s word. I mean dive in. Read. Study. Surrender. Abide. Obey. Go. Follow. Repeat.

Read. Study. Surrender. Abide. Obey. Go. Follow. Repeat.

God already knows what his hand can do in your life. His hand can change the trajectory of where this is going. His hand can stop this. His hand can fix this. And when you know his gracious, powerful, mighty hand is on you as your heart seeks his word and does it, then something incredible and unspeakable happens. Something that won’t even make sense … You will be filled with hope. You will have joy right in the middle of the chaos. You will have peace with the problem still present. You will overflow with hope as God’s hand moves in the unseen, and before you even seen it, you will know HE IS DOING IT.

May your heart seek the word of God and do it. Then, may the gracious hand of God be on you and change every single thing that needs to be changed for you, for your family, for your future, and for his kingdom.

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Within your breath, God has given you a divine gift. A gift that taps into the greatest of powers and deepest wisdom. Yes, right here in your breath.

From the moment you were born, you’ve been doing it, without even being aware. Right now, it is happening. And today, God says, “My girl, I want you to now know what you’ve been doing your entire life and start doing it with intention.”

At this moment, take a deep breath in. Now, slowly let that breath out through your mouth. Do it again, notice the sound of your inhale and your exhale.

This sound is not an accident, it is divine. This sound is the call of God’s name.

Do it again and listen. Breathe in. Breath out. This is God’s name. With each breath, you’re calling to your Creator.

Your inhale makes the sound of YH. Your exhales makes the sound of WH. Together, inhale and exhale, we speak YHWH, the original Hebrew name God revealed of himself to Moses. Your Bible likely adds a few vowels to make a word we can pronounce, Yahew, but God’s intentions were for us to continually breathe his name.

Open your Bibles, let’s check this out!

Moses had an encounter with God in Exodus 3. God appears in a burning bush and calls out, “Moses! Moses!” “Here I am!” Moses replied. Then God proceeds to tell Moses he is aware of his people’s sufferings and he has come down to rescue them. God says to Moses, “Now go, for I am sending you.”

But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to do this?” God answered, “I will be with you.” But Moses protested again, “The people will ask me who sent me.” So, God replied to Moses, “I Am Who I Am. Say this to the people of Israel: I Am has sent me to you.” God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people: YHWH has sent me to you.”

What a bold move for Moses to ask God for his name. He feels so unqualified for this mission. So lacking. The imposter syndrome must have been screaming within him. “Moses, can’t rescue anyone. The last time you tried to help your people, you ended up killing someone. Now you’re running and hiding. There’s no way God is calling you.”

But God says two things to Moses that give him the confidence he needs to step into his purpose.

1. Exodus 3: 14, “I Am Who I Am.” (we studied this yesterday) This means God has no equal. If you put God on one side of the equation, there’s absolutely nothing that can be equal to Him on the other side. God equals Only God.

It has been said that our God is the “becoming one.” I never understood that until I took God being the “I Am” literally. God becomes whatever is lacking in our time of need.

When we say we are too weak, God says I AM your strength.

God is mysteriously and miraculously always able to become everything you need. He is continually BECOMING your I AM.

Moses felt completely unqualified, but God is telling him, “I AM QUALIFIED! I have everything you will need. I have the strength. I have the plan. I have the provisions. I have made the way. Trust me, I Am.”

What do you need today? Can you lean in and hear God as he whispers to your soul, “I AM.”

It’s who God is. It’s what he does. It’s his name.

2. Exodus 3:15 (NLT), God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, has sent me to you.”

This is the name Moses’ ancestors have called him by. This wasn’t new. This was the God he has heard about his entire life. He is YHWH.

Moses’ mother’s name was Jochebed which literally meant “YHWH is glory.” And now God is showing Moses, with every breath he takes, he is calling out to God. Inhale, YH. Exhale, WH.

Without vowels, only the consonants of YH and WH, it’s a name we breath. We are literally created to breathe the name of our creator. YHWH represents breathing sounds. When pronounced without vowels, it sounds like breathing.

A baby’s first breath speaks the name of God. YHWH. God hears, God draws near, God responds.

And think about this, what about when tragedy strikes. You know, when life hits you so hard you can do nothing but moan and gasp for air. The harder you try to catch your breath, the louder you speak the name of God. Inhale, YH. Exhale, WH.

Within the past few years, I’ve received phone calls from two of my best friends after each of them unexpectedly lost their husbands. They couldn’t speak. I only heard these deep, moans and gasps. They cried out in pain. I didn’t understand it then, but I do now, they were calling on the name of God. And God met them there in the worst moments of their lives and he has carried them through.

Remember that when you’re crying out in pain and anxiety. When you’re fighting for every breath and you hear the sounds of your labored inhale and exhale. You’re calling on the very name of God. YHWH.

Psalm 92: 15, God says, “When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble, I will rescue and honor them.”

With every breath, God is answering you. With every breath, God is rescuing you. Those times when it’s hard to breathe and every inhale and exhale is loud and labored, you’re calling even deeper to your rescuer. YHWH.

Hasn’t he always gotten you through? Seriously, he’s never not given you the strength to make it through even you hardest days.

Hasn’t he always provided? Hasn’t he always rescued you? You’ve never once been abandoned. Your God has always responded to you as you call his name.

Job 12:10, “For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of every human being.” There’s a song I used to sing in Church that said, “It’s your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise, pour out our praise to only you Lord.” We are literally speaking the name of God when we breathe!

Now, God wants us to breathe with intention. All your life, you’ve been breathing out of habit, speaking his name without knowing. But now, God has made you aware so you can grow even deeper in your relationship with him.

Now, when you breathe and speak his name, you are more aware of his power filling your lungs. Not only is your body filled with his breath, but your mind is renewed with clarity. God has responded by breathing into you so you can live this life with his power! You can respond to his calling and step into your purpose. Just like Moses, when God calls, you can speak with confidence and say, “Here I am, YHWH!”

God uses Moses to lead his people out of 400 years of captivity. He worked through Moses in miraculous ways, and no doubt, everything Moses wasn’t, GOD WAS. How? Remember he is the I AM. He is the becoming one. He becomes whatever is lacking in our time of need and fills us to overflowing so we are MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH CHRIST JESUS!

And when we have completed our earthly mission and God promotes us to an eternal paradise, we will take one final breath and call out his name. YHWH. And with that, God will respond with our final rescue.

How incredibly divine that God gave himself a name we can’t help but speak every moment we’re alive. All of us, everywhere, all the time, we have the name of God on our lips.

And now, we speak his name intentionally with our breath. God is everywhere. In every breath of every living creature. YHWH. We are fully dependent upon him, for without God, we have no breath.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I will breathe the same.

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Right now, if you’re taking notes, write God, and an equals sign. God (=). What does God equal? What equals God?

One cup plus one cup equals two cups. They are the same. One is no greater than the other. So what equals God?

Could you put holy on the other side of that equation? God = Holy?

God is holy – yes, but holy does not equal God. God is so much more.

How about power? God = Power?

God is power – yes, but power does not equal God. God so much more.

Oh but the greatest is love, right? God = Love?

God is love – yes, but love does not equal God. God is so much more.

There’s only one thing that can hold it’s weight on the other side of this equation. God = God. There is simply no one and no thing that can equal God, but God. There are no words to properly describe him. No number to measure him. No description fully fitting of him. God is God, the highest, the greatest, the most powerful, the never-ending, always was and always is. And our human minds struggle to comprehend that. We need a beginning. We need a measure. Because we only think in limits. But God is limitless!

When God spoke to Moses in the burning bush and called him to lead his people out of captivity in Egypt, he tells Moses to tell the people he was sent by “I AM”. Well what does that mean? Exodus 3: 13-14, “But Moses protested, ‘If I go to the people of Israel and tell the, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you’ they will ask me, ‘What is his name? Then what should I tell them?’ God replied to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM. Say this to the people of Israel: I AM has sent me to you.”

In these days, anytime someone had personally heard from God, they came back with a name for God. When Rahab was thrown out into the desert and miraculously provided for by God when no one else cared about her, she calls God El Roi, the God Who Sees Me. When Abraham is about to sacrifice his son on the mountain, and God sends a ram for the sacrifice in his place, Abraham calls God Jehovah Jireh, the LORD Will Provide. When Gideon encounters an angel, he calls God Yahweh Shalom – The Lord Is Peace. So understand what Moses is asking God here – He is asking God what he should call him after this encounter. He’s being sent on a mission, but what will your name be on this mission, God?

God answers, “I AM WHO I AM. You tell the people, I AM has sent me to you.”

What could that possibly mean? Well, quite simply, it means EVERYTHING.

You need to understand who your God is in your current situation, your current problem, and your current need. How will he show up for you? What will he do for you? How can you count on him?

Answer – In every way, in every thing, for all things. God will show up for you in every way in this. He will do every thing he needs to do for you here. You can count on him for all things, there is absolutely NO FAIL in God because there is no equal to God. Nothing is bigger. Nothing is greater. Nothing is too hard. Nothing is too far gone.

I once heard it put like this, “God is the becoming one.” What does that mean? That means God becomes whatever is lacking in our time of need. The name, “I AM” invites us to fill in the blank to meet our need.

I need strength right now. God says, “I AM strength.”

I really need provisions right now. God says, “I AM provisions.”

I just need peace here. God says, “I AM peace.”

I just need to know they way through this. God says, “I AM the way through this.”

I need answers. God says, “I AM the answer.”

I need healing. God says, “I AM healing.”

I need help. God says, “I AM your help.”

My friend, whatever it is you need today, GOD IS your answer. He becomes whatever is lacking in your time of need. There’s absolutely nothing he can’t do, no need he can’t meet, no emptiness he can’t fill.

So, this is God’s invitation to you. What do you need today? Really, what is it? Big or small, just say it.

Yes – for real. Speak it right now. Acknowledge that need. Big or small. Nothing is dismissed here. What do you need?

Now, here God say to you, “I AM”. I am your answer. I am your strength. I am your peace. I am your way. I am your healing. I am your help. I AM.

Moses’ question to God is what name should I give you for this specific impossible situation, Lord? Your people have been stuck in slavery for 400 years. We are beat down and broken. We have no way out. The Egyptians aren’t going to just let us walk away. This won’t just get better. What specific name can I use here for you, God? God, what will you equal here for us?

God’s answer? God = God. I will equal everything for you. I will meet your every need. I will guide your every step. I will make the impossible possible. I will become everything that is needed every moment of this journey. I AM. I am your guide. I am your deliverer. I am your healer. I am your redeemer. I am your provider. I am your way maker. I AM.

And if you know how the story ends, you know God delivered in every single way. Through mysterious acts and miraculous feats, through huge impossible moves and tiny unseen details, GOD WAS. He delivered his people. He provided for his people. He guided his people. He healed his people. He made a way for his people. God alone did that.

God = God. The I AM. He became in every way, in every thing, for all things.

But this isn’t just a story for us to read and remember what God did thousands of years ago. This is a reminder for us of who our God still is today. Of who he is today for us personally. FOR YOU, in your situation, with your problem. God says to you today, I STILL AM. In every way, in every thing, for all things, I AM.

He has heard your prayers. He has seen your tears. He knows your heart. Now he extends an invitation to you to go with him and experience who he really is for you. He’s not just the God of the Bible, he is YOUR GOD in your real life. He’s not just the creator of your existence, he is the caretaker of your existence. He’s not just the rescuer of your soul, he is the He is the redeemer of your story, the healer of your hidden wounds. He is the one who walks with you through every valley, and he’s right here with you today saying, “MY GIRL, I AM YOUR ANSWER! YOU CAN TRUST ME WITH THIS.”

Now, what will you do with that?

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How many of you know God doesn’t work within our limits. He doesn’t see things the way we see things. God simply does not fit in our box. EVER.

You likely have an unspoken box of how and when God can use you. He can use you when you are successful. He can use you when you are liked. He can use you when you look good. Those are boxes. Your boxes, but not God’s. The truth is, God can use you when you are struggling. God can use you when you are the least likely and the least liked. God can use you when you look rough, sister.

In fact, sometimes I’ve found when there’s less of what I would desire, there’s a whole lot more space for Jesus.

Stop limiting when and how God can work. If you’re down right now, let me remind you, God works in the pits. If you’re stuck right now, you need to know God sees exactly where you are and he knows the way out of this. And the beautiful thing is, God doesn’t need to wait until he gets you all fixed up again to use you for his good purposes – he wants to use you exactly where you are.

Moses was the Israelite baby threatened by the King of Egypt to be drown in the river. His mother placed him in a basket and sent him floating down the river, trusting God to save him. Down the river, the king’s daughter found baby Moses and rescued him. Then, as only God could do, he arranged for the baby’s mother to be paid to raise him while he was little, then he would go with the king’s daughter to the palace to be raised in royalty.

Moses received the best of both worlds – he learned about faith in God from his Israelite mother, and he learned how to lead in the palace from his royal adopted family. This was God setting him apart for divine purposes.

But one day, something terrible happens and in Moses’ eyes, it would be the end of his good life. He sees an Egyptian beating one of the Israelite slaves. Moses knew that while he was dressed like an Egyptian, he was one of the Israelites. So he defends his people and kills the Egyptian, then hides his body in the sand.

This began a series of running and hiding for Moses. The King, essentially his adopted grandfather, is trying to kill him. He can never go back home to the palace. So he ends up in the region of Midian where he’s a nobody, working for a farmer. Surely Moses thought he had ruined his life. Surely he thought God could never use him now.

And just when Moses thought he couldn’t be used by God, he was perfectly aligned! This low place is precisely where God could best use him. Not in his palace, not with his riches, not with his great successes and power. No, instead with his humility as a mere worker in the fields where he was a nobody – that is where God could best use him.

Now that he’s out of the palace, God would empower him to deliver his people. The place that looked like rock bottom where Moses is stuck hiding, is the place of the firm foundation where God would rebuild him into the leader for an entire nation to find freedom. God wasn’t finished with Moses just because he had failed. God wasn’t finished with Moses just because he was in a hard place. God was just getting started.

My friend, God isn’t finished with you just because you failed. He’s not finished with you while you’re in this hard place. Nope – he’s just getting started. What’s actually happening here is a divine stripping of self so you can return with holy power! Less of you – more of Jesus!

Just when you think you’re out, God say’s you’re in. Just when it feels too late, God says it’s his time. And remember, when God says it’s time, it’s the right time, then it’s quick time!

Now, it was quick time for Moses. But understand, Moses is not young at this point. It’s easy to read this story in Exodus chapter 2 and assume that Moses is some young man with a youthful spirit and his whole life ahead of him. No, actually, at this point, Moses is 80 years old! He was 40 years old when he killed the Egyptian and ran from the palace, and now he’s spent 40 more years hiding in Midian as a nobody working in the fields.

And this is when God chose to call Moses. At 80. Purpose at 80. Calling at 80. Change at 80. And what – you’ve been using the excuse of it’s too late for you?!!!

Exodus 3, God appears to Moses in a burning bush and says, “Moses, Moses!” He replies, “Here I am.” Then the Lord says, “I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. NOW GO, FOR I AM SENDING YOU to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”

To this 80 year old nobody, God says, GO, I AM SENDING YOU!

Now tell me again why God can’t use you. Tell me why it’s too late for you. Tell me why God couldn’t work through your life at this point.

GIRL, YOU ARE NOT DISMISSED!

Maybe you’ve gone through a season of feeling like an absolute nobody. Great – that’s precisely who God loves to use. If you’re a nobody, then there’s a whole lot of space for Jesus in you. There’s absolutely no reason why God can’t work in your life to fulfill his great purposes.

God aligns us to his purpose in ways we cannot understand. He works through the hardships, through the setbacks, and through the disappointments to align us with a destiny greater than ourselves. Girl, you’re not out – you’re aligned!

Everything you went through, everything you came out of, everything you have been feeling within can align you now for a life of purpose through Jesus. God can use every bit of that for his good – if you’ll let him.

Moses was the perfect deliverer for these enslaved people because he was one of them by birth. But now he had also spent half his life in the palace and half his life in the pastures. Now he knew leadership and he knew hardship. Now he was a nobody just like the people God wanted him to save. That’s alignment.

Now that you’re one of the broken flawed people too, God can use you to deliver the broken and the flawed. Now that you’re one of the rescued, he can use you to go back and rescue others. Now that you’re one of the saved by grace girls, you can show his grace to the next girls who feel unworthy of that love. Sister, you’re just aligned now. Better than ever before, you’re in alignment!

Who better to help someone who has gone through what you’ve gone through – than you. Why? Because you have gone through it! God has aligned you to go back and rescue others for him. He’s sending you! You’re aligned.

Nothing is wasted with God. Time in the palace is not wasted. Time in the pasture is not wasted. Time in hardship is not wasted. Time in the wilderness is not wasted. In all this wandering, God writes a map on your soul. A map that leads back to him and his greater purposes for your lifetime.

Now, God wants to use you. Just as you are. Right where you are. Listen for his call.

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The enemy will always try to stop God’s plan. His forces of evil will always try to interrupt God’s goodness. Hell will always come against Heaven’s objective. However, Hell never wins. Evil will be overcome by good. The enemy is forever defeated by God.

Hell may look like it wins a few rounds, but the war has already been won by the Lord. God is not cornered. He’s not stuck. He’s not worried, stressed or overwhelmed. He forever holds victory in his right hand. Maybe what you’re experiencing right now looks like a win for the enemy, but his defeat is guaranteed. God will turn this around, and he will turn it around BIG TIME!

That’s what you really need to know, my friend. God will turn this around. The things that are against you right now will not always be against you. The things that have overwhelmed you can be under you as you rise up in the power offered to you through Jesus. The tide will turn and what’s been going out will start coming in. Prodigals come home. Walls come down. Chains are broken. Seas are parted. The mouths of lions are sealed. Blind eyes are opened. Dead bones shake.

In our study of Exodus, we last left off with the Israelites as slaves in Egypt, and while under affliction, they grew. The harder things became, the more they grew in number and in strength. We see that no amount of affliction can defeat God’s purposes. We also see that fear causes us to make terrible decisions and become someone we were never created to be.

The new King of Egypt was so fearful of the growing presence of his enslaved Israelites that he did unspeakable things to control them. His fear became a tool for the enemy to use.

Did you know Satan works in your fear? Your fear is a open door that allows the enemy access to your heart and mind. In fear, you make horrible choices. In fear, you say horrible things. In fear, you not only miss God’s plan, but you partner with the enemy’s.

In fear, the King of Egypt partnered with Satan’s plan to wipe out the Israelite population. Here’s what Satan knew – he knew the Messiah would come from the children of Israel, so he wanted to destroy them. All he needed was a fear driven soul to give him an open door to work. The fear driven soul of the King gave the enemy an opportunity to kill God’s deliverer before he was ever born.

BUT THE PLANS OF THE ENEMY NEVER WIN AGAINST GOD. He may try. He may win a few rounds. But the war has already been won through Jesus. Satan tried to stop that, but he was not successful.

The fear-driven demands of the King bring about the order in Exodus 1:22, “Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile River. But you may let the girls live.”

Imagine being a pregnant woman at this time. Imagine having a newborn baby boy. Imagine knowing they’re coming to take your baby and throw him in the river to drown him.

When you’re facing evil like that, what do you do? You trust God! You trust God to do what only God can do, as you do everything you can do.

Exodus 2 tells us of a couple that got married and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She hid him for 3 months. But, as we know, 3 month olds aren’t exactly quiet, so they could no longer hide him. In complete trust of God, the mother places the baby boy in a basket and floats him down the river. A river filled with crocodiles!

And here we see God align the most beautiful unfolding of providential provision for the mom who trusted him. The King’s daughter is downstream bathing in the river and she sees the baby floating in a basket. She rescues the baby. Then, get this – in the way only God can – it all turns around!

The Princess comes to the baby’s mother and says, “Take this baby and nurse him for me.” The princess told the baby’s mother, “I will pay you for your help.” So the woman took her baby home and nursed him.

She was then PAID to lovingly take care of the baby she had to give up.

That’s what God can do in impossible situations. He can turn it all around.

This is not too far gone for God to work. This is not hopeless in the hands of the Lord. He can work here. He can turn all things around and use them for good!

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No amount of problems can stop God’s plan for you. Nothing can cancel God’s purposes. God’s will WILL fight through every adversity, through every affliction, through every trouble and prosper on the other side. Every time. Guaranteed.

God is undefeated. Victory is forever in his right hand.

But, as God’s people, we will go through our fair share of problems. We will face adversity. We will endure affliction. Trouble will come our way. We live in the real world and there are no faith bubbles to protect us from real life. HOWEVER – we are promised in Romans 8:28, “God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose for them.” That means God works in every detail of our lives into something good.

It may not be good in the beginning, but it will be worked into something good. Just like baking powder in a cake, you don’t want a teaspoon of that in your mouth, but it’s a detail worked together for good in your cake.

Maybe what you’re facing right now is a teaspoon of baking powder. Singled out, this situation is unpleasant and undesirable. But nothing in your life is a stand alone event – ever. All things are working together. One thing always leads to the next thing. Some things just don’t feel good in the unfolding, but you haven’t seen the full picture yet.

You know who has seen the full picture? God. God says in Isaiah 46:10, “Only I can tell you the future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish.” God has a plan, we’re promised it’s a good plan, and it absolutely WILL happen. God already knows it, sees it, holds it, and is making a way to it.

After finishing our study of the book of Genesis last week, we see the unfolding of tremendous affliction for God’s people in the next book, Exodus. Remember Joseph was sold by his brothers into slavery and ends up in Egypt. 22 years later, Joseph has risen to the 2nd in command of Egypt and controls the only food in the country during a famine. Joseph’s brothers come to him from Israel, begging for food. He graciously saves them and their families. This is how the Israelites move to Egypt. They’re starving and Egypt has the only food during the famine.

Now, several generations later, the Israelites are still in Egypt and they have greatly flourished. They’ve been prosperous, multiplying, spreading out, and gaining power. And now, generations later, there’s a new king in Egypt, and this King sees a great problem with these successful Israelites in his land. They have done so well, they could take over his land if they wanted to. The King is afraid, so the oppression begins.

Fear makes us do stupid things. Fear turns us into people we don’t want to be. This King was afraid, so he began to do horrible things. I promise you this – fear could drive you to do the same.

Fear will have you twisting truth, creating sides, and stirring fights. Fear will bring out the ugliest side of you.

My sister, where has fear been growing within you, causing you to act in ways you hate? Fear turned the mighty and blessed King Saul into a crazy man on the warpath. Fear can do the same to you.

When my daughters were teens, I allowed my own fear to cause me to parent in a way I’m not proud of. My mind became filled with fearful thoughts and I went into overdrive trying to control everything and everyone. Rather than leading from love, I lead from fear. It wasn’t the best me.

Can you see how fear has caused you to do some stupid things? Can you see how fear is turning you into someone you don’t want to be? Bring that fear to God now and ask him to lift it from you. It is not God’s will for you to operate out of fear. His word tells us hundreds of times to NOT FEAR – why is that? Because fear changes who we are and what we do, and it’s never good.

The new King of Egypt was filled with fear, so he became an evil man with evil orders. Don’t ever assume unchecked fear couldn’t do the same to you. You were never created to be fear driven – you were designed to be faith driven. Anywhere you have fear, there is an invitation for faith. Faith that God is good. Faith that God is for you. Faith that God holds it all. Faith that God is working.

The new King says in Exodus 1:9-11, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are strong than we are. We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor.”

Was that fair? Absolutely not! But did it cancel God’s good plans? No – In fact, it furthered them!

As the people of Israel face horrible conditions and unfair treatment, they continue to grow. The more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites multiplied and spread. There was growth in the face of affliction! The more God’s people are afflicted, the more they grow.

That’s God’s plan for you too, my sister. Right here in this affliction – in this problem – in this trouble – YOU GROW!

Problems are like a wave that comes against a ship and looks like it will destroy it – but the ship catches the wave and uses it to speed along. Girl, CATCH THE WAVE.

There may be a wave of problems coming against you right now. It may feel like these problems will destroy you – but God’s plans are not to harm you, but to prosper you (Jeremiah 29:11). These problems are like that wave. Catch the wave. Ride this out. It will speed your progress into the good life God has for you.

This wave against you is not to destroy you, it’s to carry you in the direction God has planned. Catch it.

The Israelites were not destroyed by the cruel Egyptian King. That wave carried them into a plan of exodus. A plan of freedom. A plan of growth like never before.

There’s a wave here for you. A wave of problems. But you will grow in these problems. You will get better through this. And if you catch that wave rather than sit here and be beat down by it, it will speed you along to God’s purposes.

No amount of problems can stop God’s plan for you. Nothing can cancel God’s purposes. God’s will WILL fight through every adversity, through every affliction, through every trouble and prosper on the other side. Every time. Guaranteed.

God is undefeated. Victory is forever in his right hand … and guess what – that’s where he forever holds you too. In his right hand of victory!

Problems are like a wave that comes against a ship and looks like it will destroy it – but the ship catches the wave and uses it to speed along. Girl, CATCH THE WAVE.

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Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.”

This is one of the most memorized and quoted scriptures. Empowering, motivating, reassuring … yes … and it’s a call to action.

Notice it doesn’t say, “I can do all things through Christ who does it for me.” Unfortunately, many times we view God as a genie in a lamp. God was never supposed to do your work for you.

Think about Noah. God told him to build an ark, a huge boat 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet tall. If the ark were a house, it would have been over 100,000 square feet. Translation … it was big. Really big. There was a flood coming and his ark would be the only way of survival for man and animals.

Now God being God, couldn’t he have just built the ark himself?

But that’s not the way God works now is it? God told Noah to build the ark and Noah worked for nearly 100 years to build what God could have done in an instant.

That almost doesn’t seem fair now doesn’t it?

There are likely areas in your life where you wish God would show up and just do the work for you. But God called you to BUILD A LIFE and that requires work. Will you work for it?

Let’s break this scripture down so we will never hear it the same. I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

“I.”

Who does it say? “I.” This is personal. You should be owning it. Insert your name into this scripture. Pamela can do all things through Christ who gives her strength. Yes, I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

“I can.”

Not “maybe, sorta, it might happen or it might not”, no! I can. Say that with me. I CAN. Sometimes we just need to remember we are more capable than we ever give ourselves credit for. We have all the potential within us. We are fully equipped by our maker. Listen to me right now … you are not broken. You are not incapable. You are not helpless or hopeless. You were made for more. You are capable of more. You are worthy of more. And you CAN.

Now the third word “do.” “I can do.”

Does that mean think about, contemplate, sit around and rationalize, talk about and plan for? No. “I can do.” This is a call to action. I can do.

Your life requires action and you CAN DO IT. I know you can. You can rise up and make the changes you desire. You can radically change your life.

What has the first month of this year of life been for you? I’m not asking what has happened to you, I’m asking what you’ve done with it. Have you done what you can do? Have you taken action? Have you stepped out in faith? Or have you chosen to just remain where you are and think about what could happen? Have you been wishing for change but never doing anything about it? Let me shoot it to you straight … that’s never going to work!

You can do it and you must do it. It’s time to go, do, show up, move forward, step ahead, now. Today. Be in action. Why are you sitting on those dreams and desires? God’s Holy Spirit moves and prompts us from within, but it’s up to you do to something about it.

You can do ALL THINGS.

Did you hear that? How many things can you do? Can you only do SOME things? Are there some things that will just be too hard? Are there some things that will be impossible for you? Nope, that’s a lie the enemy has sold you.

YOU CAN DO ALL THINGS, and that includes “this” thing that you need to do today. The thing you’ve been avoiding – the thing you’ve been dreading – the thing you’ve tried before and failed – you can do it. The enemy wants you to believe you can’t. He wants to remind you of your past epic failures. He wants you to dwell on your weakness and shortcomings. DON’T LISTEN TO HIS NONSENSE TODAY. God says you can do all things, believe it!

How? THROUGH CHRIST.

I can do all things through Christ, and that means this is a partnership. When you live your life as a partnership between you and God, you realize he does his part and you do your part. He goes before you to make a way, he walks beside you to guide you, and he walks behind you to cover your back.

Through Christ you can do all things today. With this partnership you are able. With him before you, beside you, and behind you, nothing will be impossible! Nothing can come between you and your destiny. Nothing can stand in your way. When God is for you, who can be against you? And just in case you forgot, yes my sister, GOD IS FOR YOU!

And now the grand finale “I can do all things through Christ who GIVES ME STRENGTH.”

And this is where it gets real and it gets personal. Why didn’t the scripture just end after “I can do all thing through Christ.” I like the idea of that. But this is the part we sometimes miss.

It WON’T BE EASY. It was never supposed to be easy. You’re going to need strength, strength you didn’t even know you had. You don’t even know how strong you are until you have to be strong. That’s the kind of strength God is talking about here.

Strength like Noah’s to get up for 100 years and keep building a boat in the middle of a drought when everyone thought he was crazy.

If it was easy you wouldn’t need strength.

Easy is the counterfeit to the life you were created for. An easy life is the imitation to your BIG Life. You need strength to take on the day you were meant to live, and it’s given to you by Christ so that you can accomplish the things you need to accomplish today.

You don’t need life to be easy this year – you need to take action in partnership with God and use the supernatural strength he gives you. Tackle this head on. There’s absolutely no reason for you to avoid this or run from it. No, girl – you have the power of God working with you.

Commit this scripture to memory – but then take it another step – actually start believing it.

Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.”

There will be hard steps ahead for you to take, and you can take them!

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God will do what he intends to do. Nothing can stand in his way. Nothing can stop him. The question is, will you accept his open invitation to be part of what he’s doing, or will you miss out?

The phone is ringing.

This is your opportunity to be in partnership with the Almighty. To to be divinely led by the Spirit, and walk in purpose,. To step into the good plans God has always had for you and be part of something greater than you ever imagined.

The phone is ringing.

With this invitation is your option of choice. Will you say yes … or will you keep believing you’re not good enough? Will you dismiss the potential God has placed within you … or will you dare to believe God wants to use you for more? Will you dwell on your long list of shortcomings and failures … or will you dare to accept what your Creator has spoken over you?

Just how much of God’s plan for your life do you need to see in advance before you’re willing to trust it? How certain do you have to be of the future before you leave the shores of today? Understand, your tight grip on certainty and comfort potentially forfeits you ever holding what was truly meant for you. Those hands have to be open, sister. Open to the unknown with the All-Knowing.

In Isaiah chapter 6, God is looking for one who will partner with him in a mission. One who is courageous enough to believe maybe they could be used by the Creator of the Universe for something more. The Lord said in verse 8, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?”

The phone was ringing.

And here’s this young man, Isaiah, at about 18 years old who immediately answers, “Here I am. Send me.”

Send me where? Oh, well I don’t know exactly. To do what? Yeahhhhh about that, I’m not sure. For what purpose? Uhhhh, well that’s unclear, but I’m all in. I’m here, I’m available, send me.

Isaiah was signing a blank check to the Lord, declaring a universal YES to God’s plan for his life. He didn’t know where God wanted him to go, but he agreed to go anyway. He didn’t know how God would use him, but he believed God could do anything he wanted to do and he simply wanted to be part of that. So, he did the only thing that needs to be done, he declared himself AVAILABLE.

The phone was ringing. Isaiah simply answered – “Umhhhh, hello? Yes, I’m available!”

Although Isaiah sounds confident with his bold response to God of “Here I am. Send me!”, the truth is, he felt extremely inadequate. Just 3 verses earlier Isaiah says “It’s all over! I am doomed!”

He felt unworthy. He saw himself as inadequate. But he was called. The phone was ringing. All Isaiah had to do was answer. “Yeah, hello God? Here I am. Sure, I’m available.”

Unworthy and inadequate do not seem to go together to create called, but they do. This is God’s math, and in God’s math that’s the perfect combination of purpose.

Unworthy + Inadequate = Called.

It doesn’t matter how unworthy you believe you are. It doesn’t matter how inadequate you have felt before. All that matters is answering the call. The phone is ringing!

I understand that feeling of smallness. I struggle daily with the voices that tell me I can’t possibly do great things. That old Imposter Syndrome kicks in and tells me this is all a facade and soon it will come crashing down.

And when you know something will come crashing down, you prepare. How do you prepare? You hold back. You stop the investment. You withdraw. You search for signs that it was all too good to be true and you find the cracks. The cracks in you. The weaknesses and faults you tried to hide, but they’re there.

Staring at these cracks, you see the potential for the crumble and you run. You run from what you could be doing because ultimately you feel too inadequate to keep doing it.

Trust me, God sees those cracks. He knows every weakness and fault within you. He knows your potential to royally screw this thing up, and he still believes in your potential to get it right. And he calls that potential out.

He’s calling. My sister, you are called! Your struggle with feeling unworthy and inadequate do not trump this calling. You’re not dismissed from God’s power. The call is here and it’s here for you.

Girl, it’s time to answer the dang call. I’m here. I’m right here. I’m ready.

Ready for what?

Well, that’s not for you to know right now. Right now, you sign the blank check to God and speak a universal yes to God’s good plans for you. All he needs to know is that you’re available.

What can God do with a life like yours fully surrendered in availability? Oh girl, what could he not do?!!!!

In response to Isaiah’s availability, God spoke through him and gave him words we still read today, nearly 3,000 years later. As if that’s not enough, know that the words God gave Isaiah were later quoted by Jesus himself 700 years later. Yes, Jesus quoted Isaiah! Think about that!

Isaiah felt inadequate and saw himself as unworthy, but this is who God would use to speak words Jesus would later quote. And God did it all because of Isaiah’s willingness to be available. That’s it. He was simply available. His blank check to God bought him a life of purpose he couldn’t have possibly imagined as it was unfolding.

What life could your blank check to God bring? Well, I can’t even imagine. I have no idea how God may use you. My mind can’t even dream of all he could do with a life like yours fully surrendered and sold out. But, don’t you want to know?!!!!!

Here I am. Right here, this is where I am, and I’m available here and wherever you want to take me next. I want to step into the purposes you have for me, Lord. Wherever those steps may lead, I’m all in. I sign the check. Here is my universal yes for your plans for me. Send me.

Isaiah couldn’t have possibly known the words he would speak through the power of God would reach the year 2026. He couldn’t have possibly known the direction his words would give future generations in our fancy cars and crazy smart phones. He couldn’t have known how many people have fought through the hardest struggles of their lives clinging to his words in Isaiah chapter 40, verse 31: “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Or chapter 41, verse 10: “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

He couldn’t have known hundreds of years later, the ONE he wrote about would then read his words and fulfill the prophesy, but indeed that’s exactly what happened in Luke 4: 17-21. Jesus takes the scrolls written by Isaiah, unrolls them and reads those words: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.” Then after Jesus read Isaiah’s 700 year old words, he said, “The scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”

Woah – Isaiah is the one God used to write those words. Not because he was anyone special. Simply because he was available. That’s all. Just available.

Could God have spoken these words to any other living soul during Isaiah’s time? Absolutely. But he spoke the words to the one who made himself available and said “Here I am. Send me.”

What does God want to do with you? Well I have absolutely no clue. But I just bet it’s bigger than you will even known in your lifetime.

Girl, you’re called. Are you available to answer the call?

The phone is ringing.

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