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Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.

I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

Hope this inspires you.

Hope it builds your faith.

Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life.

Enjoy the message.

So I thought we would call on Moses if we're talking about God is moving in your life, enjoy the message.

So I thought we would call on Moses if we're talking about faith.

He certainly deserves to be heard as to how he did what he did.

And I chose a selection in Exodus 4-1 through 5, and I want to read it to you now.

Let's go over and see Moses on the far side of the desert in Midian.

The voice of God has summoned him from the crackling of a bush that will not burn but is on fire.

And I think that's a picture of a life that is set on fire by faith, is that it burns

up but it doesn't burn out.

And now he's negotiating with God.

And he says in Exodus 4-1, what if they do not believe me or listen to me and say the

Lord did not appear to you?

And then the Lord said to him,

what's that in your hand?

A staff?

He answered.

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