Learn how to expect problems and respond correctly!

 

Exodus 2:1-20
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 wilderness and came to
Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 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. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this
strange sight-why the bush does not burn up.”
4 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.”
5
“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the
place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 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.
7 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. 8 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. 9 And
now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the
Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to
Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and
bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it
is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt,
you will worship God on this mountain.”
13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them,
‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his
name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.[c] This is what you are to say to the
Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of
your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of
Jacob—has sent me to you.’
“This is my name forever, the name you shall call me
from generation to generation.
16 “Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God
of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me
and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to
you in Egypt. 17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in
Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites
and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
18 “The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to
go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews,
has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer
sacrifices to the Lord our God.’ 19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not
let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. 20 So I will stretch out my
hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform
among them. After that, he will let you go.
1. Keep the _______ _____________ with your __________.
2. Learn to _______ at __________ and _____.
3. ____________ the challenges that will ________ ______ your
_____.
4. _____________ and _____ as a ______ on your problems.
Numbers 12:1-3
1 Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite
wife, for he had married a Cushite. 2
“Has the Lord spoken only through
Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the Lord
heard this.
3
(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else
on the face of the earth.) NIV
• I never wanted to do that task to start with, so who cares?
• I’m a failure and my life is over.
• I want to give up and never try again.
• I’m gaining experience from these mistakes; I wonder if I can get
someone to help me.
• I now know three approaches that don’t work, so I’ll try again. 

 

1. Keep the right perspactive with your problems

2. Learn to laugh at yourself and life.

3. Anticipate the challenges that will likely come you way.

4. Communicate and act as a team on your problems