Ehyeh! I Am That I Am!

EHYEH! WHO AM I? VS I AM!

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)

*EH-YEH (HEY – yeah): I AM THAT I AM! (Theme: Focus on the problem or the promise?)

WHO AM I? REMEMBER FROM WHERE WE HAVE COME? REMEMBER THE VIET NAM WALL?

*THE WALL HAS 58,287 NAMES. *39,996 WERE 22 OR YOUNGER. *8,282 WERE 19.

*33,103 WERE 18. *12 WERE 17. *5 WERE 16.

*THERE ARE 3 SETS OF FATHERS AND SONS ON THE WALL. *31 SETS OF PARENTS LOST 2 OF THEIR SONS.

* 997 DIED ON THEIR FIRST DAY IN VIET NAM. *1,448 WERE KILLED ON THEIR LAST DAY OF DUTY THERE.

*8 NAMES ARE WOMEN ON THE WALL, ALL WERE NURSES.

*244 SOLDIERS RECEIVED THE METAL OF HONOR DURING THE WAR. === *153 OF THEM ARE ON THE WALL.

AM I? VS I AM! Your aura? We learn in communication skills several issues come into play. Volume, tone, body language and how you phrase your words. Sometimes changing the order of your words can change the whole communication. Let us look at two words: AM I – VS-- I AM.

*WHO AM I? (Rusty Goodman)

When I think of how he came so far from glory, came and dwell among the lowly such as I, to suffer shame and such disgrace. On Mount Calvary took my place, then I asked this question: WHO AM I?

WHO AM I THAT THE KING WOULD BLEED AND DIE FOR? WHO AM I THAT HE WOULD PRAY NOT MY WILL , BUT

THINE O LORD? THE ANSWER I MAY NEVER KNOW, WHY HE EVER LOVED ME SO. BUT TO THE OLD RUGGED CROSS HE’D GO for who am I?

REMEMBER THE APPROACH: WHO I AM? VS “THE GREAT I AM” … GOD IS THE GREAT I AM…MOSES SEES HIS ABILITY, BUT THIS CAN NOT RELEASE GOD’S PLAN… MOSES, IT IS NOT ABOUT WHO YOU ARE… THE GREAT I AM HAS COME.

Who am I? I lived in the palace? I killed a man? I have an APB out on me? I never came willingly to the desert, I know WHO I AM? THE BURNING BUSH WILL FOREVER CHANGE WHO AM I? AM I? TO I AM!!!

Exodus 3:11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

** A GREAT DREAM BEGINS WITH A DREAMER, NOT WHO AM I, BUT WHO GOD IS. ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU HAVE WITHIN YOUR HEART THE “GREAT I AM” YOU HAVE THE STRENGTH, THE PATIENCE, THE ENDURANCE, THE PATIENCE AND THE PASSION TO REACH HIGHER AND TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE.

Exodus 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

I AM NOT …GOD SAYS YOU ARE NOT! He is the I AM. I AM ABLE TO DO THIS? NO, I CAN’T? I HAVE THE EXCUSES DOWN PAT:

Exodus 4:10 (NLT2) But Moses pleaded with the LORD, “O Lord, I’m not very good with words. I never have been, and I’m not now, even though you have spoken to me. I get tongue-tied, and my words get tangled.”

11 Then the LORD asked Moses, “Who makes a person’s mouth? Who decides whether people speak or do not speak, hear or do not hear, see or do not see? Is it not I, the LORD? 12 Now go! I will be with you as you speak, and I will instruct you in what to say.”

A WOMAN IN ANCIENT TIMES, KNEW WHO SHE WAS… LET US SEE HOW WE PERCEIVE THE WORDS WE STATE: WE ASK THE QUESTION: WHO AM I?

My husband and 2 sons left our home and moved away for 10 years because of a famine at home. We heard MOAB had plenty. Life has been difficult, hard and crushing. Ruth’s husband died in MOAB, a strange land. Her sons married there. Ruth visits the funeral home and makes arrangements in this strange land. Her husband is dead. Sometime later there is another trip to the funeral home. That’s ok, Naomi has one more son. The second son dies. Who am I?

WHO AM I? I am not a Moabite. NAOMI HEARS SOME GOOD NEWS… “THE I AM RETURNS” TO ISRAEL.

Ruth 1:6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.

AFTER A LONG DISCUSSION: WHO AM I? NAOMI SAYS WHAT AM I DOING HERE? Naomi “AM I?” Am I stuck here? The decision, the choice, I AM GOING HOME. Naomi knows the “I AM” in her pain she focuses on “AM I?” NOT HE IS!