Girls Gone Bible - The God Who Rescues| Girls Gone Bible

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

Hiiii GGB!   Today we're reading Exodus 3:1–10—where God meets Moses in the burning bush and reveals His heart for a hurting people. Before the miracles and the rescue plan, God begins wi...th compassion: "I have seen their pain… I know their suffering."   This episode reminds us that God doesn't just save from a distance. He sees, He hears, He knows, and He comes close to rescue. If you've ever wondered whether God notices your struggle, this passage answers with a loving yes.   we love you so much. Jesus loves you more. -Ang & Ari ORDER OUR NEW BOOK! You can order our new book "Out of the Wilderness— 31 Devotions to Walk with God Through Your Hardest Seasons" at girlsgonebible.com/book JOIN US ON GGB+  https://ggb.supportingcast.fm COME SEE US ON TOUR: Tickets for our tour are now on sale. Go to www.GirlsgoneBible.com/tour December 6, 2025 Los Angeles, CA WE LOVE YOU AND CANNOT WAIT TO SEE YOU! BetterHelp A convenient, affordable way to connect with a licensed therapist from the comfort of your home. Get 10% off your first month at https://BetterHelp.com/girlsgonebible. Dose Daily A daily wellness beverage crafted with adaptogenic mushrooms for energy and mental clarity. Save 25% on your first subscription at https://DoseDaily.co/GGB using code GGB. Everyday Dose Upgrade your morning routine with Everyday Dose, a mushroom coffee alternative. Focus, energy, and gut health without the crash. Get 61% off your first order at https://everydaydose.com/GGB with code GGB. Mint Mobile Premium wireless coverage with unlimited talk, text and data at an unbeatable price. Get a 3-month unlimited plan for only $15/month at https://MintMobile.com/GGB. Our Place Non-toxic cookware that looks good and actually makes you want to cook. From ceramic-coated pans to oven-safe dishes, every piece is free of harmful chemicals and built to last. Get up to 35% off your order at https://FromOurPlace.com. PolicyGenius Easily compare life insurance options and secure your family's future today. Get started at https://PolicyGenius.com/GGB            

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi guys, I'm Ange and I'm Ari and this is Girls Gone Bible. We're a faith-based podcast where we talk all things, spirituality, mental health, the Bible. Look how cute this is. This is yours. I stole it from your house this morning. Hi. Because this is NLT and I read an NIV now. That's NLT.
Starting point is 00:00:20 This is NLT. Today we're reading from NLT. I have a throatache. What? Oh my gosh. A throat ache? Or like my throat is hurting a little bit. It's okay.
Starting point is 00:00:31 I can't get sick. I hate getting sick more than it. Okay, why are you acting like I'm being dramatic when there's nobody? I don't know. I'm on some new stuff lately. Yeah, what are you on? What are you on? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:00:45 I'm on some like, what am I on right now? What are you on? I don't know. Are you on your Pharisee? I'm just kind of like feeling brand new lately, you know? You're acting brand new too. Why are you feeling brand new? looking brand new. You're looking happy at peace thriving. Quack it. To try to be like you Gen Z's.
Starting point is 00:01:10 Being an auntie isn't easy. But trying to keep up with my kids. What's up, dude? What's up, dude? What are you doing? What's up, dude? What are you doing? Nothing. Just came in with a bunch of notes. Do you remember when we first started the podcast where we used to come in with 18. Well, I didn't know what I was doing. We used to come in with so many notes. We wanted to do a good. I did. So would I? You would come in with a lot of notes, for sure. You at one point didn't know a wall. You would have eight pieces of paper, and none of them were in order.
Starting point is 00:01:40 I was like, shh, so Peter sat on the boat. I was just trying to lead you guys while I was drowning. No, and you look at what you've done. My favorite part about it was none of your notes were ever in order. I know. I, yeah, I've, I feel like I'm a lot more, uh, coordinated nowadays. What do you think? A hundred percent.
Starting point is 00:02:06 Yeah, you're coordinated. You think so? Yeah. You have a great coordination. Let's throw a baseball and see you. Even though you call me dyslexic last night. Well, do you know what dyslexic is? It's when people read backwards.
Starting point is 00:02:20 Okay, but you told me what it meant. I just meant that sometimes the words get jumbled. But you told me you had it. imagine just picture this for a second you guys just find jesus you guys just start reading the bible then i don't know three months later you have to read the bible in front of thousands of people i was pooping my fans every tuesday and you did such a good job and you did such a good job i was like j did jad jit j it's so funny the story we're reading today i did the same thing it's so funny how we are time i read you like minnie night midi nights jibesites well in the beginning was the word and the word
Starting point is 00:03:04 was god and the word was god and the word was god was god dude what's new okay so i feel i'm wearing hoops today and i feel a little bit like Shakira i think i'm on like do i look a little latin today it's giving a lo alo yeah like J-Lo but alo okay that will you are the j-lo people are so call me alo all the time Because you are J-Lo, reincarnated as a Christian. Everyone would comment on Ari's clips on Instagram. Why is J-Lo found Jesus? I didn't know J-Lo was a Christian. Yeah, I don't know if it's given Shakira,
Starting point is 00:03:38 but it's definitely giving like Angie from the block. Yeah, Angie's on the block for sure. What? We definitely come from the block. Something like that for sure. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Do you know any two people who laugh about their trauma more than you and I do?
Starting point is 00:03:56 I don't think so. No. Do you think it's okay? We have no choice. What else are we going to do, cry? Exactly. If you don't laugh, you'll cry. Right.
Starting point is 00:04:05 And we ain't doing that. No. Weezed our way through it. That wheeze laugh. Wees. Yes. Look down at your notes right now, and the first thing it says, Ari, let's talk about tonight.
Starting point is 00:04:19 Getting people's names wrong. Abby Gamboa. Jesus sleeps on the. pillow versus Jesus walking I want to what do you tell the people okay I'll tell the class because I was getting my hair done and I start crying laughing crying laughing thinking about the fact that and I love this about you I'm not coming for you I swear like you sometimes you don't listen like when I hear every third word every third word and you get by and like I do the same thing and so like Ari I think I've told you guys this before but Ari I'll
Starting point is 00:04:56 ask her like hey r like what's that person's name and she'll be like oh it's sarah and i'll go up to the person i'm like hey sarah and they're like oh my name's janet and i'm like arie like why and it's all the time every single time i can't ask her what somebody else's name is because i will go call them the wrong name yeah i get the i get especially get the last names wrong right like i can't pronounce them when i read it especially with like abbe gamboa oh and then i wrote on abingambino because you still i'll call her abingambino abingambino yeah i thought of why did i think her name was abingambino because you said you knew someone from my school in massachusetts named abe gambino and then there's there's this christian guy named john ramirez
Starting point is 00:05:41 she calls him johnny ramirez and i'm like that's also not his name we were on tour this past weekend in alana and that was actually insane can we tell them a story about 2819 and boi being nervous driving oh yeah tell you guys no you can tell them but you guys 2019 church has just we went this past weekend it was so special philip anthony mitchell's church i uh he has three first names it's awesome i know i called him the wrong name in an interview we call him anthony we call him mitchell i mean i've been watching him from the beginning and so to i'm like i'm a digital disciple of 2019 so to be able to actually be in person at the church was a sight for angela to see for sure i mean i was jumping up and down i was like come on somebody you were in your element i was going not you guys
Starting point is 00:06:35 don't understand i was literally losing my mind the minute i walked in crying you guys already saw me on the episode with him there were so many memes about that episode by the way so many they're like poor are you all you're trying the whole time but the final funny thing so Ari's friend Sophie was with us and her daughter Kalia and we're driving in the car in the morning and the one thing about Ari and I we are truly servant-hearted humble queens and it's really important for us to get like a nice smoothie with good ingredients like these things are really important to us and so we're in Atlanta and I just like struggle sometimes in the South in general when we're there on tour be I love the South so much but I also can't find food that
Starting point is 00:07:19 makes me feel safe sometimes and so I just wanted a smoothie so bad and we're like 30 minutes early to church and I'm like she's in the worst mood I was like Ari if I don't eat soon like nobody's going to be happy and I look at her I'm like patience she goes patience and I said she goes you get in and drive she didn't want to drive and anytime I drive she watches me like a hawk because I'm you watch me like a hawk too because I'm the B type friend and then so we go to we're at the church and then I'm like are I need to eat something I need a smoothie I need something in my stomach and my friend Sophie is strictly organic so organic so organic like she's like she wants something very healthy very good ingredients and so I look up on my phone smoothies and I'm like oh
Starting point is 00:08:07 this place is perfect it's called get fruity I was like and did you find a place and she was like you know and you're like such a bad mood you know you want to She's like, yeah, she's like, there's a place called, like, let's get, let's get fruity, like a mile away. And you're like, okay, get fruity. And then so we go there and by the looks of the outside, this poor company, I hope we're not like blasting this place. It was just like a fried fish sandwich and a snapple. So we go to this place and it does not look like a place where I want to get a smoothie or Sophie wants to get a smoothie. and it's like not even open yet it was five minutes we're parked outside of it and we're looking at the door
Starting point is 00:08:53 and we pull up and i go i'm not eating here my friends so i go sophie you and clia want to go in and get she goes no there's a there's a fish there's a fish stick sandwich on the door and a snaple and there's like just go get a smoothie soap she's like no there's dyes in it like i'm good i'm like like clear so and then I was laughing all day thinking about the fish sandwich like we went to get fruity to get smoothies and there's a fish sandwich a fish steak and a snapball and I said I have to get back to L.A. where I can eat. We are so unhinged. Oh my gosh. That was so funny. And then we're going into 2819 and bless Ari's heart. I mean this church these people mean the world to her and I respected because I'm that way with people that I love and and I love them too but Ari
Starting point is 00:09:47 got so nervous she got so nervous and she was driving and I knew she was driving like two miles an hour saying hi to everybody as we were going in and so and she's just staring at me like I could feel the stare and I was like you can go I almost crash into a park car you were making me and then when you were trying to park and you parked so badly and you were so embarrassed as if everybody was watching i was like i this is truly one of the best moments of my life oh my gosh that was so funny the fish sandwich and the snapple there's can somebody make a meme for us please of and ari and a fish sandwich and a snapple because that good that was legendary guys before we really get into today's episode we want to talk to you about some things that are
Starting point is 00:10:42 really important to us. First, as most of you know, we are on the Girls Gone Bible live tour. We have been having the best time of our lives. The best. The best on tour. It's holy. It's special. It's healing. It's fun. Fun and full of worship and the presence of God. And we really want you guys to come see us on tour. You can go to girlsgonebival.com slash tour to get your tickets. See what cities you're in. We'll have new cities in the new year coming up very soon. We also have our book, our devotional, that we love so much that just, by the way, went to Target, which is huge and so cool. Like the name of Jesus, a book full of scripture sitting in Target, that's so cool. It is really cool.
Starting point is 00:11:28 So you guys can go to girlsgonebbb.com slash book to get your book. And last but not least, we have GGB Plus, which we love. I just released an episode recently, and I called it a theology around suffering. and I think, gosh, it encouraged me as I was filming it, and I just talked about what it's like going through a hard time and how to trust Jesus through that and what it's like to suffer and what God thinks about suffering. So GGB Plus is so special to us,
Starting point is 00:11:57 so we want you guys to join, and you can go to girlsgonebibble.com slash plus to subscribe. This season has a way of sneaking up on us, whether it's the early sunsets, the holiday pressure, or just trying to keep up with life. And sometimes the hardest part isn't doing all the things. It's reaching out. We've been talking a lot about checking in on the people we love,
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Starting point is 00:15:37 God's chosen people. The Israelites are the group of people that God delivered from Egypt into the promised land. What is really special about this is that's why I've fallen so in love with God. I think I've said this before, but I've fallen so in love with the Father through reading the Old Testament. And I am obsessed with the Old Testament, you guys. It is so rich. The stories are profound. Like, I love the New Testament as well, but there's so much that we miss in the Old Testament because we just think it's boring and old and Jesus isn't there, but it's so rich and it's so important. And so this man, Moses, when God appears to Moses at the burning bush, Moses wasn't a hero.
Starting point is 00:16:18 He was a man that was hiding. So Moses is a man who was born as an Israelite slave, but he was literally sent across the river by his mom picked up by another person in Egypt and was raised as an Egyptian. So like imagine the identity crisis that Moses was facing his whole life, not knowing who he was, where he belonged. And then he grows up and he's in a situation where an Egyptian was going to kill a Hebrew slave. And basically Moses intercepts and kills the Egyptian. And then he ends up running for the next 40 years. So here we have a man again who's not a hero. He's nobody. special. He's just a shepherd, kind of like David, and God places a massive call on his life
Starting point is 00:17:04 in a really ordinary, seemingly insignificant moment. And then so we have Moses. He's in hiding for 40 years. And meanwhile, the Israelites are in deep, deep, deep captivity in Egypt. They have been slaves for a really long time. They're crying out, oppressed, and they feel like all their prayers are falling on deaf ears, not knowing that God is actively. planning their rescue and their deliverance out of Egypt into the promised land. And so in this moment, Moses thinks he's forgotten. The Israelites think that God is absent, but all the while, God is doing something really cool.
Starting point is 00:17:41 And so that's really important for you guys to know that no matter what you're going through, no matter how deep in slavery you feel you are, or no matter how deep in a lack of identity and purpose you think you are, God is up to something always, always. Always. He's up to something, working things out for your good and the good of all those who love him. All right, dude. So let's read Exodus 3. We're going to read out of NLT today. Exodus chapter 3, Moses and the burning bush. Okay, I don't know why we keep saying that. You're not even saying that. The bush. What accent is that? I don't know. You're so creepy. He's so creepy, man. All right, Lord, thank you for your word. That is more precious than God.
Starting point is 00:18:27 gold. God, it is such an honor to teach your word. It is such a responsibility. So Holy Spirit, I pray that you would come and I pray that you'd release wisdom, interpretation, understanding, revelation, Lord. And God, I just pray that you would hold us accountable for all that we say when teaching your word and that you would just give us the words to say. And don't let us say anything that is a wrong interpretation in Jesus' name. And we just pray that every single distraction would be silence from everyone that's listening, that they would put away their phones and they would merely listen to the word and that you would even begin to minister to their hearts with their own situations that
Starting point is 00:19:13 they're dealing with in Jesus' name. We pray that this word would enter deep into their hearts, etched on their hearts forever. and God that the word that they hear would produce a hundredfold harvest in Jesus' name. Okay. One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement.
Starting point is 00:19:44 Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn't burn up. this is amazing Moses said to himself why isn't that bush burning up i must go see it when the lord saw moses coming to take a closer look god called to him from the middle of the bush moses moses here i am moses replied do not come any closer the lord warned take off your sandals for you are standing on holy ground i am the god of your father the god of abraham the god of isaac and the god of jacob when moses heard this He covered his face because he was afraid to look at God. And the Lord told him, I have certainly seen the oppression of my people. Listen to what God says.
Starting point is 00:20:26 This is how much he sees us. 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. God is aware of our 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. It is a land flowing with milk and honey. The land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Parasites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.
Starting point is 00:21:02 Look, the cry of the people of Israel has reached me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians have abused them. Now go, for I'm sending you to Pharaoh. you must lead my people Israel out of Egypt. So we're going to start from the beginning of all of this, but I mean, I just love we're going to do the first 10 verses this week, and then we'll probably continue on the rest of the chapter next week. But what I love about this so much, so this is the moment where God comes to Moses and he calls him.
Starting point is 00:21:31 He calls him to be the one who sets the Israelites free from the slavery in Egypt and to lead them into the promised land. And it's a wild ride after that. What do you think about that all? Go ahead. You explain it. Well, one of my first things that I think when I think about this story is we have Moses, an ordinary guy in an ordinary situation. He's passing by this bush.
Starting point is 00:21:56 The guy is just walking. And he stops in a moment because he sees that a bush is on fire, but it's not being consumed. It's not burning up. And what I love about this so much, what I was thinking about was like, spirituality, a lot of people think that there's like the spiritual life and then there's just the regular life. And I think that's how a lot of us, including myself at times, practice and live out our Christianity, where my spiritual life is my secret place in the morning with my candles. It's church on Sunday. It's the prayer rooms during the week. It's my phone calls
Starting point is 00:22:32 where I'm on my knees praying with my friends. But what we forget is that there is no difference. in biblical faith, spiritual life is all the time, everywhere. God is everywhere. He's involved in everything. And so there is no separation between your spiritual life and your normal life. So things like doing the dishes, taking a walk, answering emails, like those are all opportunities for God to speak. And as we know through scripture is that God oftentimes speaks in those really quiet
Starting point is 00:23:01 moments, not in these big ministry moments or big like worship moments. It's like it's in the tiniest, sweetest, softest moments that God speaks. And there's the scripture, Psalm 24 says, the earth is the Lord's and everything in it. So for Israel during this time, the whole place could become holy ground. And I love that God establishes, this is holy ground that you're walking. There's nothing special about where Moses is. There's nothing special about what he's doing.
Starting point is 00:23:30 But because God is calling him in that moment, the presence of God is here, it's holy. Yeah, you know? This is one of my favorite moments. Okay, so we see the moment where it says, when the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, Moses, Moses. And Moses said, here I am. So in this moment, Moses, if he was distracted, would have kept walking. If he was so engulfed in his own stuff, in his selfishness, his self-centeredness, he would not have noticed the bush. Like there was nothing that spectacular about a bush being on fire. like normal. But he took a moment to notice. It was his curiosity that led to the biggest encounter of his life with God, where he went up and was like, that's interesting. Why is that
Starting point is 00:24:17 happening? There's so much beauty and curiosity and asking questions. I feel like for me, what has grown in my faith so much is asking the Holy Spirit questions, just being curious. God, what do you think about this? What's the meaning? I feel like my most profound breakthroughs have happened when I've just like simply asked curious questions. Yeah. And what I think is so crazy. It says when the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, then God spoke to him. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:46 So God did not speak until Moses stopped and was aware and curious. And so oftentimes God is waiting for us to look, stop, pay attention to him. And then he speaks in such profound ways. And I wrote this down. Revelation meets attention. True spirituality begins with noticing. True spirituality begins with being aware of God what he's doing when he's speaking. And truly, that's why being on your phone, which I've been doing all a lot lately, that's why being on your phone, numbing out on social media, it's killing all of us. It's the worst thing you can do. It is destroying the revelatory moments
Starting point is 00:25:29 that God has planned for us because we're so consumed with like entertainment. Yeah. And then I love this so much. I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I've heard them crying out. The title of this episode is the God who delivers, but it could also be the God who sees, the God who is near, the God who cares. Because it says, I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I've heard them crying out. And specifically, I am concerned about their suffering. That is so comforting to me that God not only knows about. my suffering but he's concerned yeah he cares yeah which means that he's going to do something about it yeah you know god never leaves you in a bad spot no matter how hard it is and how difficult it seems he does not leave you there no and i wrote down that this is the first revelation of god's character in exodus this is a really important moment it's the first revelation of his character because god is not an idea he's not some abstract idea or a subject self-help guru he is a person with a character it says that god is the um he is the god who sees
Starting point is 00:26:41 who hears who knows and who comes down to deliver being spiritual doesn't mean that you have a spiritual life that is above suffering you bring your spirituality into your suffering and you understand that god is it with you in it and then the last thing that i'll say verse 10 the last verse that we left off of it says so now go i'm sending you to pharaoh to bring my people out of egypt so it comes with a commission god always commissions us at the end of ggb shows on tour we always for the most part commission people to go out and do god's work we release the we ask the lord to release the gifts of the spirit and we ask people to receive in faith um and receive the grace, Holy Spirit empowerment to go out and be the hands and feet of Jesus.
Starting point is 00:27:33 You don't just become a Christian so that you can like have cool times with Jesus. You become a Christian to be on mission, to commission with God and partner in what he's doing. Every encounter with God carries a summon. So God, if you encounter Jesus, like he is in that moment not only releasing something to you, but asking you to do something. And he's commissioning you to go out. And so I love this moment for Moses, this guy with no identity, with no purpose. He's just a shepherd tending to the flock, working for somebody else.
Starting point is 00:28:09 Gave up. He gave up. He's been in hiding. How many of us are in hiding? Running from God. Running from God. Yeah. Running from his past.
Starting point is 00:28:17 Running from his mistakes. He feels disqualified. I can't imagine he would have ever thought anything good was going to come for him in his life in this moment. And God chose this man who is so disqualified, who's so unqualified, who's so full of shame and lacking identity. And goes, you're perfect. Because my power is made perfect in your weakness. And I'm going to do this through you.
Starting point is 00:28:42 I wrote this down about a burning bush so people know really what it is. A burning bush in someone's life is a moment that grabs your attention so strongly that you can't ignore it, something that interrupts your normal life and pushes you towards a purpose, decision, or change. It's often unexpected, persistent, and hard to overlook just like the bush that burned but didn't burn up. And so I've had so many of these moments. Something that I was thinking about earlier that stuck out to me is when we first started Girls Gone Bible, I was still acting and I wanted to act so badly. I went to acting school.
Starting point is 00:29:24 You guys know I had a long journey with acting where I loved it so much. I loved the craft. I auditioned so much even while having Girls Gone Bible. And for like the first six months maybe and slowly little by little, I felt the Lord start like pressing in on my heart and being like, this is not the path for you. And it was so hard for me to accept. Do you remember we'd be like in podcasts? And I'd be like, oh, yeah, I'm an actor.
Starting point is 00:29:51 Like, I act. You loved it. I loved it. And I didn't want to let it go. I feel like I let it go like I was ready. Yeah. You, yeah. I just had worked so hard for so long.
Starting point is 00:30:02 And I was so, it was my greatest joy, my greatest passion, my greatest gifting. It was like my gifting, too. So for me, I was like, if you have the passion, the gifting and the opportunities, like, that's got to be God's will for your life. It has to be, right? It all makes sense. And so we start Girls Gone Bible, and I'm like, no, I'm going to have both. Like, it's not sinful.
Starting point is 00:30:24 It's not bad. I can do it all. I can have both. And I just knew, though, deep, deep, deep down, I knew God was like, it's not for you. You're going to be in full-time ministry. You have a really specific calling. Not that this thing is bad, but it's just not for you. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:43 And I'm like, but that doesn't make any sense. When everything is good on paper, Jesus, like, surely you don't know what you're talking about. I remember this. Yeah. I was just like, I love it, Lord, though. I love it. Like, I want to do this. And I've done it for a long time. How am I supposed to give up something that I've put my life and my heart and my soul, blood, sweat, and tears into? You know, since I was a little girl, like, how do I give something like that up? And after Ari and I did a baptism night, the first year of Girls Gone Bible. And I think I've told this story before, but it was, this was like truly my burning bush moment. I was sitting. um at two o'clock in the morning it was my first time doing like in-person ministry so i didn't really know about like the in-person ministry adrenaline and like when you pray for people for three hours i didn't i didn't know yet what that felt like so i couldn't sleep all night i was in my house um and i was sitting on my couch and i had and the bachelor was playing actually but i wasn't
Starting point is 00:31:43 watching watching it i was just staring at the tv and i felt the lord so clearly be like, this is your life. Wow. This is your purpose. I need you to let everything else go. And it was finally the first moment that I ever came into agreement and I said, Lord, whatever I did tonight, that's all I want to do for the rest of my life. However you want me to be involved, I'll be involved, but that's what I want to do.
Starting point is 00:32:18 I am ready to let everything else go and from that moment forward my agent never reached out to me again I didn't reach out to them which is like not normal and I don't that is crazy and I don't necessarily I had like moved agents and so I wasn't really close to these people yeah um and God was already being like girl like you can try as much as you want I'm gonna make like you're he's sovereign he's going to do whatever he feels is right for our lives um but that was my burning bush moment truly one of them where God grabbed my attention so strongly. It was persistent, right? This was happening for a while.
Starting point is 00:32:54 He wasn't letting up. And it interrupted my whole life. Yeah. And it changed everything. I do. And it was the best to sit. Okay, confession. Most of my little NICNA-Colidigis end up in a drawer or the back of my closet
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Starting point is 00:39:57 Well, when I think about... Yeah, like you talked about Moses, like he met him in his, the most inconvenient moment of his life. God had met me in the most inconvenient moment of my life. He met me in the most broken time of my life, a moment when I was, when my ex had left me, when I felt so rejected and worthless, when I lost my job, when I was contemplating on taking my life. when I just felt horrible. He came in at the craziest moment and met me in the middle of it and called me. I mean, that's my burning bush, right?
Starting point is 00:40:50 Yeah. And yeah, and it's crazy. And it's like through that, through that uncertainty and feeling so disqualified and having to expose. the most inner parts of my life on Girls Gone Bible, which I did not feel comfortable doing. He just kept walking through that with me. I mean, I remember just feeling so disqualified, so uncertain, so like being on film for the first time and just not, I mean, I was going through so much, but I kept being obedient and he kept walking me through that. And then I think even the other biggest part of my obedience was, you know, sacrificing the biggest
Starting point is 00:41:41 desire of my life, which was being a mother and a wife and laying down my timeline and laying down those desires for the call that God had on my life. And, you know, even my taking off my sandals. moment was like you know honoring that I had to lay that down for the for the call that God had on my life and and and really being like okay well this is holy ground yeah I know I have these desires but I'm going to put that down to pursue you fully wow and so yeah I mean I being obedient has been, I could have done things so differently. I could have, you know, went the whole other way, but just blindly being obedient and
Starting point is 00:42:38 letting God lead me in my life to the call that he had for me through the most just broken inconvenience season of my life. It's crazy. And that's why, like, he does not call the qualified, he calls. qualifies the cult yeah exactly yeah right exactly so um yeah he does not come it's crazy how he works he comes to you in the most uncomfortable inconvenient moments of your life and it's like you have no say in when you're ready i mean all the moments i thought i was ready all the moments when i i mean i was just showing her i was showing her an entry in my journal where i was in 22 i was like please
Starting point is 00:43:24 allow me to help people in their brokenness use me with everything i've been through to help um can i read yeah please read it this was so cute when we read this this morning act of obedience i wrote this in january 20th 2002 i wrote um i want a job that will take me out of my depression and build me a platform that i can help girls even men people that feel stuck like I do right now. I know I can do this. And so that act of obedience of laying down things that I desired so much and going through that tough season where I had to really put everything on the surface and be obedient and like talk about deep stuff. That's why like it's so hard sometimes to share inner parts of your life or do things
Starting point is 00:44:23 that feel uncomfortable, but if God's calling you to do it, I promise you will thank him later because now three years later, I'm sitting up here, writing in my journal, three years later of the things that all I wanted to do, and now I'm doing it. It's insane. It's so crazy. It's insane. It's so crazy. And then I'll just say one more thing about this story.
Starting point is 00:44:45 When God says, I have come down to rescue them from the power of the objections and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile, spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk. God is always preparing a Moses or a way. And when I think about my own life in that season where I was so broken, it was so uncertain. God was working behind the scenes. He was preparing you to then lead you to me to walk through this journey, which then led us to this. And so he's always making a way.
Starting point is 00:45:17 He's always doing something even when you can't see it. If he's not preparing a Moses, he's preparing something behind the scenes. If you're in a season right now where you're just like, what is happening? I'm suffering. I'm struggling. I'm crying out to God and I feel like he's not hearing me. Trust me, let this be a reminder when he says, I have heard the cries of my people and I am coming down to the rescue them. Let that hit your heart and say, this is for me.
Starting point is 00:45:45 He's going to rescue me. He hears me. And in due time, he will come down and help me. And, yeah, he will lead me to a land flowing with milk and honey. Can we write that on our hearts? How beautiful is that? That's what he's doing right now in your season of the unknowing and suffering. Let that be a reminder to you.
Starting point is 00:46:07 I was thinking about that song Waymaker. And I was like, even though, what does he say? Even though I can't. Oh, even though I can see. Even if I can't see it. Even if I can't see it, you're working. Even if something like that, but even if I can't see it, you're working. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:26 Like, please, like, even repeat that when you start to struggle. Even though I can't see it, you're working. Miracle worker, miracle maker. That's my song. That's been my song since day one. So, yeah, that's my burning bush. That's my burning bush. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:44 We've had so many burning bush moments, guys. All those massive moments and even small. moments in your life, that God comes in and disrupts your plans. He stops you in your tracks. He gets your attention. Like, that's a burning bush moment. And I love what you were saying about God rescuing. Like, guys, please read the Old Testament. You will lose your mind when you find out who God really is and the fact that, like, he has such a specific character. He is so cool and he's so kind and he's so merciful and you watch the Israelites. I hope that we do a whole series on Exodus because what we see these Israelites doing is absolutely wild. These people are given
Starting point is 00:47:27 everything by God, literally are being delivered out of slavery and they're so disobedient. They are so ungrateful. There are all the things. And then you move on to first and second Samuel, first and second kings, you see all of these leaders and these kings and these people that God's puts into place and you see them and all the Israelites in active prostitution, disobedience, infidelity against God. And you see God, his character remains the same no matter what the people are like. That's what's crazy to me. He will not stop rescuing them.
Starting point is 00:48:05 They put themselves in bad positions and God continues to rescue them. That's the craziest thing about God for me is that, I love them. much. Jesus. Literally, we make messes and God cleans them up. That's crazy. He's so merciful. He's so kind. He's so forgiving. I just love the character of God so much. Guys, he is better than we can even conceptualize in our minds because he's nothing like us. That's right. He's literally nothing like us. And he never stops rescuing us. And he never stops caring and loving even in the middle of our mess. It's just insane. And he knows the beginning, the middle, and in the future. And so it's like when we're questioning why and we're trying to do things in our own, he knows his ways are
Starting point is 00:48:53 perfect. I don't know what's making me say that, but his ways are perfect. How you respond to the call is important. Yeah. One of the ways, like, when Moses came and saw and then God answered him, it's like one of the things we can do is sit in your quiet time with him read the word of God study it don't just look at it as something you study but really read it and invite the holy spirit into your heart to minister to you as you read it this is a way that we can find the call of God for your life like I had to spend an immense amount of time with the Lord and at times it was uncomfortable. And when I wanted to go and chase my desires, the desires that I wanted, but I didn't. And I sat and I studied and I really built this incredible relationship.
Starting point is 00:49:51 And it's just that active obedience will show you where you are supposed to go, the instructions that he has for your life. And so, yeah, those are the ways that you can, like Moses, when he saw him take a closer look. And where we are right now, one of the ways you can understand and see is intimacy with the Lord. Read the Bible. Sit and stop talking so much and listen to what he has to say to you. That is an act of obedience. So good. That's so good. Yeah. So how to recognize a burning bush moment for you. A burning bush often interrupts your comfort. It won't go away. It feels bigger than your ability, right? A lot of the times God is calling us to do something we could never do ourselves. And usually that's a sign that he's calling us to something. It pushes you towards
Starting point is 00:50:44 obedience, not ego, and aligns with God's character and scripture. So if you've had a pressing on your heart for a while about something and you just keep pushing it away and pushing it away and ignoring it, it's something that you need to look at. And I love this so much, something that interrupts your comfort, I know it's Jesus when he wants to interrupt my comfort, you know, because it's so important. It's so important. And that's what he does because God actually, I'm so sorry to say it doesn't care about our comfort. He cares about our character above everything else. And guess where our character has grown the most in discomfort? In discomfort, exactly, and in our suffering. So it's just like these, as we mature in Jesus, you guys, every single one of
Starting point is 00:51:29 us begins to realize that yes, God is a God who blesses and he heals and he brings comfort and love and all the cute, beautiful things. But then you mature and you realize, oh my gosh, he's here to grow my character. What does that mean? It means I'm going to be put in some really uncomfortable positions at times. And I need to hear this just as much as you guys do. But we have to remember that discomfort is not a sign of is not always a sign of spiritual warfare yeah it's not always a sign of being out of alignment it's not even always a sign of a lack of peace discomfort is where we grow suffering is where we grow we have to not try to push those things off and realize what is god trying to do right now oh yeah you know i can vouch that yeah my whole
Starting point is 00:52:23 life changed not because I was comfortable but it was because of all the uncomfortability that I was in that led me to this place and it really it hurts so much in the moment it's confusing it's foggy but you guys it's it's the place where you will end up thanking God later literally when you mature and you come out of it and you will be like thank you God for that uncomfortability can't wait to read Exodus the rest of Exodus 3 next week, but I just wanted to say something, Michael Cullianos, said something one time a long time ago that literally changed my brain chemistry. And he said that, because as we know, Jesus is, in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
Starting point is 00:53:15 So even though Jesus is born a long time later after this moment of Moses in the burning bush, Jesus is here. He's involved. He is actively president. The president, not the president. He is actively present. The Trinity, the father, the son and the Holy Spirit are present here in Exodus chapter three way before Jesus's incarnation. And although Jesus isn't physically there, Kuliano said something like, because the burning thorn, the burning bush, A lot of theologians believe with evidence that it was a burning thorn bush. So it wasn't just a bush. It was a thorn bush.
Starting point is 00:54:01 And if you think about Jesus on the cross with the crown of thorns around his head, Michael made the connection and said he believes that Jesus putting the crown of thorns on his head was a declaration, a proclamation that I am the fire in the burning bush. Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the all-consuming fire. Jesus, the Holy Spirit is an all-consuming fire and he engulfs us in his flames but he never burns us up while he consumes us completely
Starting point is 00:54:33 we are never burnt up yeah so good I love you Jesus the refining can feel so painful but it will never burn us up yeah and Jesus is always he is always on a rescue mission
Starting point is 00:54:50 he's on a rescue mission that's what he does he's here to rescue free deliver set for like purify purify yeah he's he's the god who rescues so he's the god who sees too and he sees and he sees you in your suffering yeah even when it sounds like he's silent even when he seems absent and like he's nowhere to be found even when you're begging him to take the painful feelings away he's so in it with you and every moment he does not enjoy your suffering. He cries with you. He hurts with you. But every moment he's involved saying they might have to suffer, but they will not suffer in vain. Something beautiful will come out of this. Can I tell you something that I do real quick? Yeah. Because you said when you're
Starting point is 00:55:39 suffering, you can always call in them. It's so simple and it's such a simple thing. But sometimes I'll be like, God, will you, can you just, can I put my, this is crazy, I don't know, it's so sweet, but it's such a, it's, it's something that I do that's so comforting. I'll be like, will you just put your head on my shoulder? Like, I literally will say that and I will, I will feel this comfort and I'll just go like this and it's like all of a sudden, like when I'm in that grief, I'm in my, that pain and I just I'm talking to him like like my he's our father like we can talk to him with these things like and I literally will be like we rub my head I really think and it's like guess what he's rubbing your
Starting point is 00:56:26 head and I just it's this like sweet and I swear it's been like this for two years like these sweet moments and then all of a sudden I can breathe easier and then I feel joy and then the peace comes and overtakes me and sometimes I have to do that 10 times. a day like really sometimes but in when when you commune with him like that like a father and you do those like treat him as a father will you run my head will you you you can breathe easier and I promise that you always the thing about Jesus is he's the one person that you can call out to who else who else can you call out to and he will always respond so just remember that that's my dog love you are love you
Starting point is 00:57:16 may the Lord bless you and keep you guys may he make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you may he turn his face towards you and give you peace shalom shalom perfect peace in Jesus I love you guys

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