WYC 2010:  In His Image

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GYC West

WYC 2010: Morning Devotions

Alan Parker

The Sand Reveals Its Secrets

The Four Laws of Marriage

George Jackson

Revelation’s 411 Foundation

Nicole Parker

The Valley of Achor

Father God, we want to thank you for the privilege of meeting in your presence again.

We pray that you will pour out your Holy Spirit during the time of WIC.

May you do more than simply arouse our emotions, but may you transform our lives.

Lord, we are praying that we will not leave here the same, but that you will give us that Holy Spirit burning in our hearts so that we go back to become a generation of young people that finish the work.

Father, please bless us now with your presence.

We pray that you be not only with us but with those who have not yet arrived.

We pray for Heidi Happe who has had a heart attack.

We pray that you will be with that family.

And Lord, we pray indeed for every person that is planning on being here, that you will give them, whether they make it here or not, that you give them an outpouring of your spirit.

Well, I must admit, I am glad to finally be here.

We had planned to come on Tuesday evening to Weimar.

And we got to the airport, and we discovered there was a thunderstorm in Atlanta.

And so that ended up delaying our flight, and there were no flights in.

Every single flight was fully booked, and we were a family of 5.

So eventually, I got a first class ticket, and I said to my wife, honey, I may have to go ahead in that first class seat, and you may have to stay behind with the 3 kids.

But praise be to God, good common sense kicked in.

And so we waited for the evening flight last night, 24 hours later.

And we were watching as there was just 0 on the board and no seats.

And then we got down to the end, and I guess some other people missed their connections.

And we got ourselves in with 5 minutes to go.

And then when we got to sitting down, we discovered that actually they had miscounted.

We had 1 seat less than what they had thought.

And so my wife just put a kid on her lap and didn't say anything.

And then they walked through and they said, Hold on, you don't have a seat here.

And she says, believe you me, I'm willing to carry the kid the whole way to be at WIC, amen?

May you take this message and use it for your glory.

Well, what I've decided to talk about is a little change of topic.

Instead of ropes of sand, we're going to deal with today, the sand reveals its secrets.

And I'd like you to turn with me to the book of Exodus, Exodus chapter 2.

We're going to look at 1 of the well-known heroes of the Old Testament and just draw some lessons that I believe are helpful for every young person.

Exodus chapter 2 and reading from verse 11.

1 day when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens.

And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, 1 of his people.

Verse 12, he looked this way and that and seeing no 1, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Everywhere I go, I find that young people are making choices.

Anyone here facing choices in their life?

And so when you face choices, you have choice of where to go to university, you have a choice of what person to date and eventually marry, you have a choice of what kind of career to go into, you have to choose what kind of courses you're going to take during your time there.

And as you're facing those choices, any of you ever wondered, how am I going to go about making these choices?

Well, what we want to do today is take a look at what Moses did and not repeat his example.

So we want to look at Moses and say, how can we not do what Moses did?

And so as we look at Moses, of course, he made many good choices.

But this particular choice was not the best.

And what I found is we tend to make choices without considering the consequences.

Met a lady, and she told me, you know, when I got married, I always said, if it doesn't work out, I'll just get a divorce.

And she says, now I have paid for that choice my whole entire life.

The choices you make today will determine your destiny.

They will determine how you are shaped into the image of God.

And how you make your choice will ultimately affect how God's will is accomplished in your life.

So let's take a look at what happened to Moses.

First, we have to realize that Moses knew his destiny.

We find from the book, Patriarchs and Prophets, that God had told not only Moses, but the elders of Israel, that Moses was to be the deliverer.

So imagine growing up, and everyone believes that you're going to become the president of the United States.

Like your whole family, an angel appears to your father and to the elders in the church and says, Mark will become a president, the president of the United States.

Maybe not everybody knew, But it wasn't an uncommon thing.

The people knew that Moses was to be the deliverer.

They were watching him growing up in the palace.

And Moses knows that this is going around because his mother has taught him this.

Maybe through you, ultimately, God's purpose of releasing his people will be achieved.

And so as he's beginning to think about this, as that, as God's will has been revealed to him, he begins to think that he knows what must happen.

Have you ever been in that kind of situation?

Where time after time, you've been hearing, this is what God wants.

And then you begin to think that you know how it will happen.

But sometimes when you feel like you know God's will, you also assume that you know God's method and God's timing.

And so I want to encourage you as we go throughout this weekend to really get on your knees and say, God, how do I not just fall into the same trap that Moses did?

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