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God Uses Ordinary People
1. He Sees Beyond Our Past!
1. He Sees Beyond Our Past!
Exodus 2:11,15
11 “One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor…
15 Seeing an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people, Moses looked this way and that and, seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.”
1. He Sees Beyond Our Past!
2. He Calls the Ordinary for the Extraordinary!
2. He Calls the Ordinary for the Extraordinary! Exodus 3:1-4
1 “Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law… 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush…
4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, ‘Moses! Moses!’”
Moses Encounters The Presence Of God
God Uses Ordinary People
1. He Sees Beyond Our Past!
2. He Calls the Ordinary for the Extraordinary!
3. He Uses the Weak to Display His Strength!
3. He Uses the Weak to Display His Strength! Exodus 4:10-12
10 “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.’
11 The LORD said to him, ‘Who gave human beings their mouths? … 12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.’”
“But God’s power is made perfect in our weakness”
2 Corinthians 12:9
God Uses Ordinary People
1. He Sees Beyond Our Past!
2. He Calls the Ordinary for the Extraordinary!
3. He Uses the Weak to Display His Strength!
4. He Equips Those He Calls!
4. He Equips Those He Calls!
Exodus 4:2-3
2 “Then the LORD said to him, ‘What is that in your hand?’ ‘A staff,’ he replied. The LORD said, ‘Throw it on the ground.’ 3 So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and he ran from it.”
Prayer:
“Father, I come before You, just as I am. Like Moses, I have fears, insecurities, and a past that sometimes holds me back.
“But today, I choose to trust You. I trust You with my past, my fears, and my weaknesses.
“I say YES to Your calling. Use me for Your glory.
Strengthen me when I feel weak. Lead me where You want me to go. I surrender my life to You.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
Hebrews 11:23-28
23 By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.
24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. 25 He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
Hebrews 11:23-28
26 He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.
Hebrews 11:23-28
27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible.
28 By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.