THE GOSHEN FACTOR
Church, I feel a word burning in my spirit this morning.
Not just a sermon, not just a lesson, but a prophetic announcement.
There are moments in scripture where God moves Heaven…
and there are moments where God moves His people.
There are seasons when God blesses you in the open…
and there are seasons when God blesses you in hiding.
There are times when He displays your victory, war produces Victory, but victory means occupation. God wants us to occupy what we have conquered. there are times God moves you, pulls you aside, sets you apart, shifts your environment, disrupts your circle not to hurt you, but to save you.
I came to tell somebody this morning…
“Sometimes God moves you before He blesses you.”
Sometimes the safest place in your life is the place you didn’t choose.
Sometimes the hardest place becomes the holiest place.
Sometimes the room that constrained you kept you alive!
And the Lord spoke to my heart and said:
“Tell My people,
Goshen is not a location.
Goshen is My strategy.”
Goshen is the place where…
Light shines when the world sits in darkness.
Plagues pass over.
Identity is preserved.
Families are gathered.
Faith survives the shaking.
And I hear the Spirit of God saying:
“I am gathering My sheep before I move My hand.”
This morning, I want to preach on:
THE GOSHEN FACTOR — When God Moves His Sheep to Save Them
Exodus 8:20-22 (NIV)
20 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he goes to the river and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. 21 If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies; even the ground will be covered with them.
22 “‘But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the Lord, am in this land. 23 I will make a distinction between my people and your people. This sign will occur tomorrow.’”
Before one plague hit Egypt…
before one judgment was released…
before one drop of darkness covered the land…
God had already had his people covered in a safe place
GOD MOVES HIS PEOPLE BEFORE GOD MOVES HIS HAND
What hits Egypt will not hit Goshen.”
I prophesy over every household in this ministry:
What is shaking the world will not shake you.
What is falling apart outside will not fall apart in your home.
What brings fear to the city will bring faith to this house.
For the Lord has drawn a line a divine separation and He calls it Goshen.
Your light will shine while others sit in darkness.
Your children will flourish while others struggle.
Your joy will rise while others lose hope.
Because where the Spirit of the Lord is there is Goshen.
Some of you feel separated.
Some of you feel pulled away.
Some of you feel hidden.
Let me show you why…
GOD USES SEPARATION TO PRESERVE IDENTITY
God is removing you to preserve you.”
Some of you have wondered:
“Why did God move me?”
“Why did God close that door?”
“Why did He separate me?”
“Why did that relationship end?”
Why did He pull me out of places I wanted to stay?”
Here is the word of the Lord:
I moved you to save you.
I separated you to preserve you.
I brought you out so I could bring you in.
The move that hurts you will be the move that heals you.
What looked like loss was an act of divine preservation.
What felt like exile was actually Goshen in disguise.
When the children of Israel were carried to Babylon it was not pretty. There was a trail of blood. If you weren’t strong enough to walk, they killed you. Israel walked in rebellion against God, yet God loved them enough to save them from themselves.
Why doesn’t God move you into a comfortable place?
Sometimes, He moves you into a place that looks like loss.
GOD SAVES THROUGH PLACES YOU DIDN’T WANT
Jeremiah 29:10-14
10This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”
When God wants to save a nation, save a family, save a generation…
He raises up prophets…
GOD USES PROPHETS TO “POINT OUT THE SAFE PLACE”
“This is a house where shepherds and prophets work together.”
This is a church where:
Shepherds protect, Prophets perceive, Teachers establish, Intercessors carry, Evangelists gather, Pastors nurture, Fathers lead, Sons and daughters rise.
BASH is not a normal church.
It is a training ground, a healing center, a prophetic well, a shepherd’s fold, a Goshen place.
Here, the Word and the Spirit meet.
Here, the broken stand up again.
Here, families find their purpose.
Here, dreams grow wings.
Here, the presence settles thick.
This is not a random ministry; this is a refuge.
But He doesn’t just use prophets.
He uses shepherds.
He gathers before He goes looking for the Lost sheep
THE NINETY-NINE SAFE IN THE FOLD
Matthew 18:12-14
12 “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? 13 And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. 14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
Now I need to speak something over this church:
This is not just theology this is prophetic identity.
The name Bash which means Bring All Sheep Home isn’t just a name it’s an identity.
Look at somebody and say: “This house is a Goshen house!”
“BASH IS BECOMING A GOSHEN PLACE.”
“The Shepherd is gathering His flock.”
I declare:
The Shepherd is gathering His sheep.
The Father is gathering His prodigals.
The Spirit is gathering His remnant.
The Lord is gathering His warriors.
He is calling people… Out of addiction, Out of religion, Out of darkness, Out of dead places, Out of confusion, Out of broken identity… Out of Egypt
He is gathering them into a fold where the oil flows again.
And that, fold, is BASH.
Goshen.
A safe place.
A prophetic place.
A healing place.
A prepared place.
“I declare in the name of Jesus… BASH is becoming a GOSHEN PLACE…”
Church, hear me, Some of you have been relocated.
Some of you have been stripped.
Some of you have cried.
Some of you have lost.
Some of you have wondered why the doors closed, why the season shifted, why God pulled you out
But listen to the heart of your Shepherd this morning:
Goshen is not punishment.
Goshen is preservation.
Goshen is preparation.
When God separates—He saves.
When God gathers—He guards.
When God moves His sheep—He is about to move His hand.
Altar call
If you feel God moving you…
If you feel God separating you…
If you feel God pulling you into a new place…
I want you to step out of Egypt.
Step out of fear.
Step out of confusion.
And come into Goshen.
Come into safety
Come under covering
Come under the Shepherd’s care.