Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

When God called the people out of Egypt, not all of them heard the call and consequently a large proportion of them were constantly seeking to undermine the leadership of Moses. They had a point. Moses grew up in the comfortable surroundings of upper class Egypt. He wanted for nothing and had all his desires met without question. However, when he learnt about his true identity there was a passion to discover the real reason for his existence. Now God orchestrated it so that he had to leave Egypt for a period of time to really discover himself. And for many of us we need to leave our familiar surroundings for a period of time so that we can really discover who we are and what we are called to do. For Moses, this took forty years looking after sheep and tending cattle. For you it may only take months getting away from the familiar and hearing what God is saying about your destiny. For me this happened in 2002 after I went to Ellel ministries for some personal ministry. Prior to this I was prompted by the Lord to visit my sick mother in Jamaica. I arrived in Jamaica on the Monday 1^st April to arrange helpers for her and she died on the Wednesday the same week. Those sequences of event changed my life and on returning to the UK about a month later my life was never the same again.  All that I now do and hope to achieve is dependent on what the Lord says. He prompted me to go and study his word full time for three years and provided the means to do so, even when things seemed impossible.

Later on in Moses life he received the Ten Commandments from the Lord for his people. To get them to remember them, he was instructed by God to get them to put blue fringes or tassel on end of their garments so that they would remember all the commandments (Numbers 15:37-41). One of the reasons we have the commandments is to remind us not to go back to Egypt again. It was this fringe that the woman who had been bleeding for twelve years touched on Jesus’ garment in Luke 8:43-48, that effected her healing. The foundation and order established by Moses, the physical deliverer, was built on and consolidated by Jesus the spiritual deliverer.

Today if you want to leave a marker in the sands of time, order you life on the principles of those whom God called, and anointed and appointed to be our cloud of witnesses. Read Exodus 14 and Hebrews 12 and remember the hardest part of your life is laying a strong foundation in the right order!