Greetings to all in the matchless name of the Lord and
savior Jesus Christ. As I was attainting the fasting prayer. The
topic of fasting prayer given like this, “Restored hearts and Revive services”. I thought for a while if I would have been the preacher what I would have preached. Immediately it came in my mind. Moses, David, Joseph, etc……….. Since this meeting is institutional heads. So I thought I will discuss about Moses. Because Moses was a charismatic and administrative leader. Administration and leadership though it is closely connected, but they are different. That’s why John Maxwell said, “Management is the process of assuring that the program and objective of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people”. Moses life can be divided into 3. One is first 40 years in Pharaoh’s house. Second 40 years in wilderness. Third 40 years leading the people to canon. The third 40 years we could see the leadership and administrative skill. He was a excellent HR manager. He could select 70 people and depute accordingly (exodus 18). He was an excellent logistics officer. Because he could gather material from people. And he was an excellent OPS manager who could identify the skill of the people (exodus 31). He could provide food for the people. He could manage the problem within (number 6 Miriam, Aaron; num-16-korah). He could confront the problem outside and he could stand in between the gap when people did some mistake. That is the role of the right leader. I can keep on telling, but from where it all came? It is the wilderness experience of Moses. Now let me come to the 1st 40 years (Act 7:23-27). So Moses knew that he was something special. Bible says: Act 7:22 “But the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said “who made you ruler and judge over us?” And he thought his brothers will automatically accept him alas. It was big failure. You may be educated, you may be qualified you may be from palace. That is not going to make you a leader. And you will be failure. And that’s why Moses has to ran away to the wilderness. Significant to insignificant. Significant is, Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was powerful in speech and action Insignificant is, Now, he chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt In wilderness 40 years. He was lonely walking around the wilderness with his father in law sheep’s. Moses was a broken and lonely man. “I will never forget going through my depression stage where it seems that anxiety is my only friend and loneliness is the only one I can rely on” He must have thought why I did it. And he must have bitter with his own people. He must have prayed 100 times to God why is happened to me. He must have been cried in the wilderness loudly, there was no one for hear; softly there was no one for see him. Only his tears were swelled by the sands of the wilderness. He was a broken man. But he never knew that God was at work to fulfilling his heart desire of delivering his people. To my understanding Moses was pruned by God. When a wine tree is grown up, it comes up with 30-40 branches and every branch may produce fruits. More branches more fruits but less taste and less quality for making a wine which of equivalent to aged and finest wine. That is why the gardener prunes the wine branches all the branches except one or two branches which can give quality graphs. At the end these one or two branches will produce best graphs which will be a tasteful wine. That’s what happened in Moses life. God did hear Moses tears and pain. One by one he was pruning Moses. Like undoing his education, his skill, his knowledge and very specially pride. Moses thought that was his end. Once Billigram said: “When we come to the end of our self, we come to the beginning of God”. He came to his end. A broken man. God saw it. That was the beginning of God. It was the experience of burning bush. We need to have burning bush experience (Exodus 3). When Moses confronted God, he was a changed man. Why did he say to God sent some one. Because he was at his end. Probably we may thinking at my end, I am not able to manage, people are not obeying me, not listening me. You need to have burning bush experience that is confronted with God. Let this day be a confrontation day with God at the burning bush, God gave his anointing, God gave him authority and God made him undisputable leader who could fulfill his tasks. Today this morning let us long for a burning bush experience in our life. So that we can successful leader in your area of work.