As you assemble and worship corporately with other believers today, take notes from the sermon. How is God speaking to you? How is God using this Word to confirm things to you and guide you?
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Tomorrow is a day of Worship and Rest in our 21 Days of Freedom series. This day is especially important to this journey – corporate worship has always been essential to the formation of God’s people. If you are looking for a church family to worship with tomorrow, we would love to welcome you at one of our locations in the Multiply Family. Visit http://s842564812.onlinehome.us/ to find a location near you, or join us virtually!
What is the one scripture that stood out to me this past week?
What is the most powerful truth that God showed me?
Take a moment to write a prayer of thanksgiving to the Lord for how he has guided you in these beginning days.
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Read Exodus 12:37-51; 2 Corinthians 1:4
“Many other people went up with them”
In the area where God has given you freedom, you now have an anointing to lead “many other people” to freedom.
It’s obvious that we have lost the human. All we can hope for at this point is to minimize our losses. What I mean by that is to keep the human focused on him or herself. Keep them selfish and not looking to the needs of others. Or if they do see the needs of others, make them think, “Even though I am free, God couldn’t use me.” Use the same voices and thoughts we put into Moses’s mind at the very beginning of this whole thing. God wanted to use him to bring freedom to others and we filled his head with doubts and excuses: “Other people won’t listen to me. I feel unqualified. Someone else can do it better.” By all means, keep them from being used by their Father!
My son/ my daughter, this is not the end, this is just the beginning! This is not the finish line, but the starting line. We have so much more to accomplish together. I have now placed an anointing upon you to lead others into the very same freedom I have given you. You now walk with a new mantle and a new power. But what you do with that power is up to you. If you put your gifts on a shelf in a closet, you will stall and not grow. But if you look for ways to multiply those gifts to bring freedom to others, the sky is the limit of how I can use you. Are you ready to begin this adventure together? I will use whatever is in your hand to lead others to freedom for my glory. I will be with you every step of the way, guiding you and empowering you for the ministry to which I have called you.
Where has God given you freedom?
How can you use your newfound freedom to help bring freedom to others?
What is your ministry?
Is there a ministry in your church that you can be a part of? If not, is God calling you to begin a ministry?
Read Exodus 12:31-42
36 The Lord caused the Egyptians to look favorably on the Israelites, and they gave the Israelites whatever they asked for. Thus, they plundered the Egyptians!
God is so good that He doesn’t want you walking out of bondage empty-handed; He wants you walking out with plunder!
We have been called out, exposed, disarmed, and defeated. All that we have stolen from the humans we now have to give back to them. We have no choice. You must given them their plunder. You must return the years we have stolen from them. You must return their joy and peace. You must return the years the locusts have eaten. The only minimal thing we can do at this point is to keep them from asking their Father for the plunder. Put thoughts in their heads like, “Don’t bother God. He already knows what you need.” Or, “God already removed your chains. That’s good enough. You’re not worthy to ask for gold or gifts—that’s for someone else but not you.”
My son/ my daughter, as you walk out of bondage and walk into this new life that I have for you, I have a surprise for you. You’re not walking out empty handed. I have plunder for you. I need you to sense the the significance of this shift. Your chains are on the ground lying beside you. Don’t look at them any longer. Look to the gold I want to give you. I am a good Father and I delight in giving wonderful gifts to my children. I absolutely love it when you ask me for good things. I have resources in abundance. I have more than enough for everyone! Go ahead and ask me for what you need.
Ask the Lord, what plunder do you want to give me?
*Hint: Go back and look at what God was setting you free from and then look at the opposite of that thing. That is often a clue as to the plunder that God want to give you.
Take time to write out a prayer to the Lord. Thank Him for what He has freed you from. Ask Him for His provision (plunder) for what you will need for your journey ahead.
Read Exodus 12
The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
The blood of Jesus covers us from all sin.
Our counterfeit has been uncovered. Our lies have been called out and defeated. We have been exposed for who we are. The humans have discovered our kryptonite—the one thing that we have zero power over—those who are under the blood. If someone is under the blood of Jesus, if their sin is under the blood of Jesus, then we are truly defeated. The only thing we can do at this point is to bring lies and false accusations, to desperately try to remind them of their past sins and failures. But if they plead the blood, if they remind us that they are under the blood, turn and run! You have no power or authority and you will be destroyed.
My son/ my daughter, I have provided the perfect Lamb for you. His blood is available for you and your family. I will cover you and cleanse you. I will protect you. The destroying angel will not come near your or near your tent. The blood of Jesus will cleanse you of all your sin and iniquity. There is nothing that you have done, or could ever do, that, if confessed to me, stands up to the blood of Jesus. And when the enemy accuses you of past faults and failures—sins that have been confessed and are under the blood—that is not a charge against you; that is a charge against me! The enemy is saying, “the blood of Jesus isn’t good enough to cleanse your sins.” My child, I don’t take that kind of affront lightly! My blood is sufficient! It is sufficient to cleanse you, heal you, protect you, and restore you! If you simply confess your sin to me, I will place you under the blood of Jesus.
Are you under the blood of Jesus?
Have you fully surrendered your heart to him?
Have you made Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior? Do you know for certain that if you died, heaven would be your home?
If not, simply pray a prayer like this:
Dear Jesus. I know that I am a sinner. I confess my sin to you. I bring all my sin to the cross and I ask you to forgive me. I ask you to come into my heart and come into my life. Help me to live wide awake to the love of God and fully alive to my purpose. Amen.
Read Exodus 10:21-29
Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, “Go, serve the Lord; your little ones also may go with you; but leave your flocks and herds here.”
Freedom isn’t freedom until it affects your finances.
We’ve lost them. We’ve even lost their children. But before we admit defeat, we’ll take one final shot: Don’t let their newfound freedom affect their finances. It’s a long-term play, you see. If we can keep the humans thinking that they can keep their same financial habits—my personal favorites are keeping them from bringing the full tithe into their local church—we will eventually work our way back and get to their heart and keep them in ever-increasing debt. We have so many good excuses: “That’s an Old-Testament thing,” “The church is just after my money,” “If I tithe I won’t be able to pay the bills.” We’ll use their Father’s own scripture against them: Wherever your money is, there your heart will be also. We keep so many humans bound by this! They experience freedom for a short season, but they never trust God with their tithe. That allows us a in-road, and we make our way back in to their hearts and bring then back to bondage, one paycheck at a time.
My son, my daughter, you have trusted me with your life. You have trusted me with your future. You have trusted me with your family. I am so pleased. Will you now trust me with your finances? I love you with all of my heart. I am a good Father. I want to protect and bless you. I want to provide for you. I want you to live in complete freedom. But you can never live in total freedom until you live in freedom with your finances. Would you test me in this? It’s ok. I actually want you to do this. Test me, return the whole tithe to me and see if I will not open up the windows of heaven and pour out such a blessing upon you that you will not be able to contain it.
Are your finances free? Who is your provider? Will you trust God with your finances?
Are you brining the whole tithe into the storehouse? If not, when will you start? Will you “test God” with this and tithe for 90 days?
Are you in financial captivity because of debt? What if you started today to get free from that bondage?
(for a great place to find Christian financial guidance on breaking the bondage of debt, go to www.daveramsey.com/start)
Read Exodus 10:1-20
9 Moses replied, “We will all go—young and old, our sons and daughters, and our flocks and herds. We must all join together in celebrating a festival to the Lord.”
10 Pharaoh retorted, “The Lord will certainly need to be with you if I let you take your little ones! I can see through your evil plan. 11 Never! Only the men may go and worship the Lord, since that is what you requested.” And Pharaoh threw them out of the palace.
The freedom God is giving you will have multiplied generational impact.
If we must let this human slip from our grasp, we need to act quickly to limit our losses. Go briskly into bargaining mode and compromise whatever you must. Get the human to think only of themself instead of their influence on others. If the human gets a glimpse, even for a moment, of how their newfound freedom will impact the generations, there is no hope for us. Once God begins a generational work and turns the hearts of the sons and daughters toward the hearts of the fathers and mothers, it’s over for us. Here’s what you must do — use simple, silly things to bring division. Bring their attention to their distaste of styles of music or dress. Keep them focused on their own likes and preferences (oh, what a good word, “preferences.” We have used that to divide many a church and stop many a move of God!) Get the younger generation to be so self-centered that they forget to honor and respect their fathers and mothers. Get them to think of religion as ‘old-fashioned’ or ‘their parents’ or grandparents’ religion. Again, I remind you, if this gains generational connection and momentum, it’s all over for us!
My son/ my daughter, what I am doing in you has generational implications and generational impact. Do you think that this ends with you? No! What I am stirring in you will pass on to your sons and daughters and your spiritual sons and daughters. When I begin a work, I also grant momentum so that it grows and multiplies. Your sons will walk in freedom and strength because of what I am doing in you. Your daughters will walk in purity and anointing. Your children and your children’s children will rise up and call you blessed.
Can you see the extent of your freedom? Can you see the extent of what I am doing in your life. I want your eyes to sparkle with hope. I want you to smile with joy. Feel what I am doing and let the warmth of my favor wash over you, even now. Single adult, I want you to see your future. I want you to see the partner I have prepared and cultivated for you since the day you were born. I want you to see how the freedom I am brining will affect your future spouse. Your marriage will be more free and joy-filled that you ever thought possible.
Can you envision the generational impact of your freedom?
Write a prayer for your current/future children, your current/future grandchildren, your current/future spiritual children.
As you assemble and worship corporately with other believers today, take notes from the sermon. How is God speaking to you? How is God using this Word to confirm things to you and guide you?
Tomorrow is a day of Worship and Rest in our 21 Days of Freedom series. This day is especially important to this journey – corporate worship has always been essential to the formation of God’s people. If you are looking for a church family to worship with tomorrow, we would love to welcome you at one of our locations in the Multiply Family. Visit http://s842564812.onlinehome.us/ to find a location near you, or join us virtually!
What is the one scripture that stood out to me this past week?
What is the most powerful truth that God showed me?
Take a moment to write a prayer of thanksgiving to the Lord for how he has guided you in these beginning days.
Read Exodus 9:13-35
Now get your livestock and all you have in the field into safe shelter, for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls on them.
Where we run to during storms will determine our future.
Oh, I just love this one! We can be so tricky! The humans at this point are still weak emotionally and spiritually. Don’t you see the toll all of this has taken on them? Obtaining freedom is not easy, you know. We do not give up easily or let go quickly. What we will do now is get them to confuse battles with storms. We don’t want them to fight battles. They have too much power. With their Father on their side, whenever they decide to fight a battle, they win every single time. That’s why our greatest battle tactic is fear. We must get them to run from battles instead of running toward them. However, storms are different. If we can get them to think a storm is a battle, they’ll run out into it and get destroyed in the process. How does this work? Easy! Just get them focused on trying to fight the wrong things.
My son/ my daughter, yes, there are still storms on the path to freedom. The thunder is loud, the lightning can be scary, and the hail and destruction are real. But don’t worry, I have created a shelter for you. Run to me. Come to me all who are weary and I will give you rest. I will be your shelter from the storm. I will guard you, hide you, and protect you. There are times to be brave and run to battle. And there are times to hide yourself in my shelter and let the storm pass. Refuge is not retreat. I will give you the wisdom to know when something is a battle or a storm. This is the latter. Bury yourself in me today. Allow me to wrap my arms around you. You cannot fight the storm. You must let it run its course. Today is a day to hide yourself in me and allow me to shelter you.
When facing opposition, ask the Lord if it is a storm or a battle.
If it is a battle, will you have the faith to fight?
If it is a storm, will you have the faith to run to the Father and find shelter?
