Unit 1: Day 4 & 5 May 03, 2007

God Works Through His Servants (Parts 1 & 2)

1. God is always at work around you.
2. God pursues a continuing love relationship with you that is real and personal.
3. God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.
4. God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
5. God's invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.
6. You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing.
7. You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes His work through you.

From Memory
1. God is always at work
2. God pursues a relationship with me
3. God invites me to be active in what He is doing.
4. God reveals Himself and His activities to me by way of the Holy Spirit
5. God's invitation brings me to a crossroads where I choose between my will or His
6. I choose God's will
7. I experience God working through me.

Answer the following questions about the three preceding statements.

1. Related to Israel, what was God already doing?
   God was hearing their cries, remembered His covenant with them.
   
2. What evidence do you see that proves God wanted a personal and real relationship with Moses?
   God could have written the 10 Commandments without Moses there, but he invited Moses up on the mountain for the process - for the relationship.
   
3. How did God want to involve Moses in the work he was already doing?
   God had decided what He was going to do, and he wanted to send Moses to Pharaoh to accomplish it.
4. What did God reveal about Himself, His purposes, and His ways?
   God revealed that He was personal, and had a name; that he cared about the Israelites, and that He would use people to accomplish His tasks.
   
5. What did Moses have trouble believing about God?
   Moses didn't want to believe that God would use him - he wasn't eloquent, no one would listen to him, etc.
   How would you summarize Moses' faith as it is described in Hebrews 11?
   Moses' faith was incremental: it started small and then grew according to (or through) his circumstances and experiences.
   
6. What adjustment(s) did Moses have to make?
   Moses went back to Egypt, the land that he had fled, taking his entire family with him.
   
7. How do you think Moses must have felt when God delivered the Israelites through him?
   Moses must have been amazed, humbled, and exhausted.

Could God work in extraordinary ways through your life to accomplish significant things for His kingdom? Yes

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What was the most meaningful statement or Scripture you read today?

Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing
without revealing his plan
to his servants the prophets.

Reword the statement or Scripture into a prayer of response to God.

God, I want to be used by you - to be your servant. Please reveal to me what you are doing so that I may join you there.

What does God want you to do in response to today's study?

Spend time listening.

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Summary Statements

• God reveals what He is about to do.
• The revelation becomes an invitation to join Him.
• I can't stay the way I am and go with God.
• He is able to do anything He pleases with one ordinary person fully consecrated to Him.
• God's standards of excellence are different from man's.