God Do You Hear Me – Part 4

What Moses and Draymond Green Have in Common

Acts 7:22 (ESV): 22 And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

Exodus 3:1 (ESV): 1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Acts 7:36 (ESV): 36 This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years. 

Hebrews 3:2 (ESV): 2 . . . Moses also was faithful in all God’s house.

Hebrews 11:24–29 (ESV): 24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. 27 By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 28 By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them. 29 By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.

When What We Want Isn’t What God Wants

• Earnest
• fervently
• fervent
• faith-filled.
• faith (only), no doubt.
• zero doubt.

Effective prayer doesn’t just change your circumstances; it changes you.

A Closer Look at Moses

Exodus 18:14–16 (ESV): 14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning till evening?” 15 And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God; 16 when they have a dispute, they come to me, and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.”

Exodus 18:17–18 (ESV): 17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. 18 You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone.

Numbers 11:11–15 (ESV): 11 Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers? 13 Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ 14 I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me. 15 If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”

Numbers 11:16–17 (ESV): 16 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you. 17 And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone.

Jeremiah 31:31 (ESV): 31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,

Jeremiah 31:33–34 (ESV): 33 . . . .I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Exodus 2:11–12 (ESV): 11 One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. 12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 

Acts 7:25 (ESV): 25 He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand.

Exodus 2:13–14 (ESV): 13 When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?” 14 He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.” 

• Objection Number One:
• Who am I? (Exodus 3:22)
• Objection Number Two:
• Who are you (God)? (Exodus 3:13)
• Objection Number Three:
• They will not believe me (Exodus 4:1)
• Objection Number Four:
• I am not eloquent (Exodus 4:10)
• Objection Number Five
• Send somebody else (Exodus 4:13)

Next Month’s Series

Rediscovering generosity: Trusting God with your treasure and troubled times