Hosanna Restoration Church

Have you found grace in God’s sight? Does God know you by name? I have good news for you. If you know the Lord, the answer to both questions is yes! The Word of God confirms that it is by grace that you have been saved and that the Lord knows His sheep. Since God told Moses that He would do what Moses asked because of these two things, it stands to reason that through Christ and His new and better covenant, God would be even more faithful to that covenant with you.

So here we are still building our foundation to stand on. That foundation of course is the solid Rock of Jesus Christ and all that we speak of is found in Him. In order to reach for what is ahead, we must be confident that it is there. We must be continually reaching for another level. My contention since I was first saved has been that there is more to Jesus!

Just today I had a divine appointment with a precious friend who loves the Lord. Their family recently encountered a physical mountain. They believed God could heal, if it was His will. I encouraged them to fine tune that prayer and simply pray that they knew He was the healer and that according to His word it is His will and to thank Him for His promise of healing. It was so precious to hear my friend tell me that this must have been an appointment set up by God.

It was after this conversation that God put the thought, “Stand for another level” in my head. These dear folks love God, but had never entered the level of expecting God to keep His word for anything beyond salvation. It is always amazing to move to the next level in our walk with God. It is in knowing that there is another level that we find the confidence to push through to it. Once we come to that place where we are convinced that all things are possible with God we can just keep pressing from one level to the next.

Moses came to my mind as a good example of this. He was always pressing. In Exodus 24, God called Moses to come up to Him and Moses was there for 40 days and nights. Later when Moses would go to talk with God, God’s presence would come down on the tabernacle and people would stand outside their tents and worship. Joshua was right there with Moses and he would not even leave the tent. He was learning some things from Moses about the presence of God. Moses would leave the tent glowing from the Lord’s presence.

Now all of this is pretty amazing and should satisfy anyone, right? Well Moses was looking for another level. He asked God to show him His way and God said okay, My presence will go with you and give you rest. What more could Moses want? Moses wants God to make it clear that He treats His people differently than the rest of the people of the earth. Still Moses wants to go to another level and asks God to show him His glory. Wow! There is always another level in God. Press for it and stand on it!