Read Exodus 3:1-22

• What do you come to know about the Lord’s character in this chapter?

• What about people in general can you learn from this passage? Who are they “being”?

• Is there anything the Lord is prompting you to do based on this chapter?

As we anticipate being together for worship, spend some time preparing your heart to sit with your spiritual family.

• Are there grievances in your heart with others in our body? Confess them to the Father and to that person.
• Are there ways that you have sinned against the Lord this week? Confess those.

Sit and rest with the Father knowing that He forgives, He restores, He brings fellowship back.

Read Exodus 2:21-25

I love the action words here in this passage:

The Israelites:

Groaned

Cried out

Cried for help

God:

Heard their groaning

Remembered His covenant

Looked on the Israelites

Was concerned for them

• On a separate piece of paper, finish these sentences:

Father, I am crying out to you, I am groaning in my heart about….

Father, I want to know that you see me, you hear me, you look on my life and You remember me, You are concerned for me. Please show me Your care today.

Read:

• Exodus 2:21-25

• Genesis 15:1-7 and Genesis 17:1-8

Today we are going to look at some verses about God remembering- as you read through these, ask the Holy Spirit to bring to mind things that you want the Lord to remember in your own life.

Genesis 8:1

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

Genesis 19:29

So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

Genesis 30:22

Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.

Exodus 6:5

Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.

Numbers 10:9

When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by the Lord your God and rescued from your enemies.

Psalm 105:8

He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations.

• Today, Father, I want you to remember me in these ways (write out on a separate piece of paper):

Read Exodus 2:16-22

Moses gets rewarded with a wife and a family for his good action of protecting the sisters. In a sense he gets “new people.”

And yet he names his son Gershom remembering that he is an ‘alien’ there.

Remember back last week when we looked at the word Hebrew? “One who crosses over” or “went from place to place, an alien, or traveler.” From the beginning, God called his people to be aliens- Abram left his home, Isaac and Jacob lived in tents, Joseph was taken to Egypt, and now Moses in Midian.

We also are called to be ‘aliens’.

1 Peter 2:11 says in the NLT:

Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls.

In the NIV:

Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.

In the Message:

Friends, this world is not your home, so don’t make yourselves cozy in it. Don’t indulge your ego at the expense of your soul. Live an exemplary life in your neighborhood so that your actions will refute their prejudices. Then they’ll be won over to God’s side and be there to join in the celebration when he arrives.

• In what way does your life reflect the truth of being an ‘alien’ here in Indiana?

Read Exodus 2:15-20

Moses obviously has a desire to see things “right”. He protects these women, he cares for their flock, he stood up for his fellow Hebrew, and he questions the Hebrews fighting each other.

This desire for justice in his world was a huge motivator for Moses. And yet, he is often unable to accomplish it himself.

• What are the strong motivators for you? Why do you get up the morning and do the things that you do?
• What would it look like for you to involve the Holy Spirit in your day to speak into your motives and desires?
• What would need to change to see this happen?

Read Exodus 2:11-14

Moses hides the man that he killed but cannot hide the knowledge of this murder.

We don’t know whether Moses was afraid because he had committed this grievous sin, or because he’d been found out and feared the consequences.

Read James 4:1-12

• What does James state as truth in this section?
• What is the difference between the envy that moves us to sin, and the jealousy that God feels for us as His people?
• What are some ways that you would describe us as a people of God based on this passage in James? (e.g. We are a people who seek to be humble).