In "Forty Years Ahead of God," Stephen Davey examines Exodus 2:11-15 alongside the parallel accounts in Acts 7 and Hebrews 11, tracing the moment Moses—educated as Egyptian royalty and brimming with passion to deliver his people—killed an Egyptian taskmaster and tried to launch a rescue on his own timetable. Davey paints a vivid picture of a man who had every human qualification for leadership yet lacked the one thing that mattered most: the counsel and timing of God. Drawing a memorable contrast with John Naisbitt's worldly definition of leadership as "finding a parade and getting in front of it," he shows how Moses heard the band strike up and stepped out front forty years before God's parade was ready to march. Through striking illustrations—from the persecuted underground church in Russia and China to Paul urging prayer for Nero from a prison cell—Davey presses the difference between methods that merely seem to work and methods that align with Scripture. Listeners will be challenged by three searching questions about impatience, ignoring God's counsel, and planning projects while looking everywhere but up—and reminded that wisdom means discovering which way God is going and going with Him.
Forty Years Ahead of God
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