Small God - Week 3

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Exodus 3:1-11 NIV

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”

And Moses said, “Here I am.”

“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, ect… And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

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Exodus 3:11 NIV

But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

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Exodus 2:14

“Who are you and why would we follow you?”

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Exodus 3:12 NIV

And God said, “I will be with you.”

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Real confidence, genuine bravery, comes not from a better assessment of your potential but a clearer view of God.

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Exodus 3:13 NIV

Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

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Exodus 3:14 NIV

God said to Moses, “I am who I am.”

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Confidence comes from seeing how big and powerful God IS.

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Exodus 3:14 NIV

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ “

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Exodus 4:10-11 NIV

Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.” The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”

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Exodus 4:13

But Moses said, “Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.”

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God instead prefers to work through broken people.

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Feeling inadequate is a prerequisite to being used by God.

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To those who hunger, he says, (John 6:35) “I am the bread of life.”
To those who thirst, he says, (7:38–39) “I am the living water.”
To those in darkness, Jesus declares, (John 8:12) “I am the light.”
To those who need a fresh start, (John 10:9) he says, “I am the door.”
To those who feel abandoned, (John 10:11) “I am the Good Shepherd.”
To those who feel lost (John 14), Jesus says, “I am the way.”
To those confused, “I am the truth.”
To those afraid of death, “I am the life.”

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The Christian life is not about moral improvement. It’s about Christ working the power of a new life in you and through you.

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Exodus 20:7

The 3rd Commandment is: “You shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”

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When we think, “I am not ENOUGH, we are taking his name in vain, because even though we are not, he is, and we have become one with him.

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You say, “God, I can’t be a good parent.” He says, “I can.”
You say, “I can’t make it.” He says, I can.
You say, “I am so doubtful.” He says, “But I am so faithful.”
You say, “God, I am so dysfunctional.” He says, “But I am so complete.” You say, “I am so deficient.” He says, “Yet I am so sufficient.”
You say, “I am so sinful.” He says, “And I am so graceful.”
You say, “I am at the end of my rope!” He says, “I’ve got another one, and it’s as long as eternity.”

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You were created to find your identity and your sufficiency in the arms of an everlasting God.

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