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GOD'S INCREDIBLES: 
What Bible Characters Teach Us About Life, Leadership, and the Power of God
"MOSES: How to Accomplish Incredible Things for God" 
Pastor Jeff Duchemin
Sunday, August 14, 2005

How to Keep from Maximizing your Effectiveness for God:
1. Try to be someone else.
2. Misunderstand what it means to do incredible things.
3. Compare.

Doing incredible things for God = Being the very person He wants you to be, and doing the very things He wants you to do.

Ex 3:1-10--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 desert 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, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 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."



4 Things We Learn from Moses:
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1- Stop, Look, and Listen

Stop: the busyness and distractions.
Look: at what God is doing.
Listen: to how he wants you to be a part.

Ps 46:10--Be still, and know that I am God

Ps 105:4--Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.

Isa 30:21--Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."



2- When you feel inferior, know that’s perfectly okay.

Ex 4:10--Moses said to the LORD, "O 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."

Ex 3:11--But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"

2 Cor 12:9-10--But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.



3- Surround yourself with people who believe in you. 

Ex 17:8-13--The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands." So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up--one on one side, one on the other--so that his hands remained steady till sunset. So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.

Heb 10:24--And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.



4- Trust in God
Ps 62:8--Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.

What do we focus on? Trusting Obedience.

Small Group Discussion Questions

1. Share different things in the world that can distract us from what GOd is wanting to do with our life.

2. Review the points and Bible verses from this lesson. What personal application can you make from this week's teaching? 

3. Share a time you felt inferior. How did you respond to that?

4. Take some time right now to pray for the needs of those in your small group.

*Scripture is quoted from the New International Version unless otherwise noted.
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