How do you prepare for a move of God?

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How do you prepare for a move of God? For example, when bills are starting to pile up and you don't know how you're going to be able to afford it all. What are we supposed to do while we wait for God to fix that problem? Or when you're single and you're just waiting for God to send you your person, what are you supposed to do in the meantime? My default is usually just to wait until God does something about it. Survive in the meantime. I mean, we've been reading about Moses recently and there's this part of the Bible where he turns to God's people and says, "The Lord will fight for you. You need only be still." And that's the posture I've taken the majority of my life. I'm going to pray and wait for God to do the miracle. But, do you know what the Bible says in the verse literally right after it? Context is the Egyptians are chasing them. They're cornered and they're in front of the Red Sea. And the Bible says, "Then the Lord said to Moses, why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on." And then he tells Moses what to do to prepare for the move of God. "Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the waters so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground." Before God did the miracle, he told Moses to do some things to prepare for it to happen. And it's not the first time. If we go back in time to the other times where God moved, right before the final sign to release the Israelites out of slavery, do you know what God has the Israelites do? He has them prepare a meal and then gives them specific directions saying, "This is how you are to eat it with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand." Now, why would God ask them to do that? God wanted them to prepare so that when he moved, they would be ready. And what's interesting is after God performed that last sign, in the middle of the night, the king of Egypt summoned Aaron and Moses and then told them to go. "Get all the people and go immediately." And the Bible references that was over 600,000 people that had to be ready. And these people had been waiting and praying for this moment for hundreds of years. And although God moved in a moment, he wanted to make sure they prepared. Now, what can that look like for our bills that are piling up while we're praying for God to save us? It could be reading what the Bible says about money, one of the most talked about topics in here, and trying to do it God's way. Because when we get the money, will we steward it the way God wants us to, which would multiply it? Waiting on our person, the future spouse. Have we been preparing our hearts, putting God's desires before my desires, so that if and when he brings that person into our life, Jesus is truly the center of that relationship? Even in my scenario right now, making these videos, I don't know what God's going to let me share until the morning I wake up. I get up, come down here and pray, play my worship music, take out my Bible, get this area set up, shave, microphone on, and after preparing, while in my quiet time with God, he reveals it to me, and then we record. If God has been calling us to something, and we've been praying about it, the question that we can ask ourselves is, have we also been preparing for it in faith? I'd love to know for you, how do you prepare for a move of God? God bless you, friends.