Saturday, November 15, 2008

A Win Win Situation (Exodus 18:1-27)

Worship in Light of Truth (Exodus 18:1-12)
Speaking the truth is our responsibility, the results are God's responsibility.
What acts of God in your life do you need to reflect on?
How has God's work in others' lives caused you to praise and worship Him?
Who are you going to approach this week regarding the greatness of YHWH?
What sacrifice do you need to make for God this week?

Wisdom in Line with Truth (Exodus 18:13-27)
Godly wisdom leads to order, not chaos.
Teachers and leaders needs to be teachable.
How do you rate at accepting other people's advice?
Where might your resistance to advice be causing you unnecessary stress and hardship?
How might your resistance be due to the sin of pride?
What are you doing to provide Godly wisdom, in a loving way, to those you know need it?

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

God the Provider (Exodus 15:22-17:16)

Bitter Water to Sweet (Exodus 15:22-27)
God tests His people for their good.
How has God turned a bitter experience in your life into something sweet?
How are you willing to take the good things God provides, but less willing to obey what God commands?
What past provision from God are you forgetting that is causing discontent with your present situation?

Bread From Heaven and Meat (Exodus 16:1-36)
Spiritual food only comes when one partakes of what God provides.
Remembering God's provision protects against grumbling.
What habits are you developing that ensure a right view of God's sufficient provision in your life?
What are you doing to reflect a grateful heart to those around you?
What “entitlements” do you need to give up in order to realize God's all-sufficiency?
How are you practicing the daily habit of taking God's word in each and every day?  Yesterday's manna is not sufficient to sustain you today!

Water From a Rock and Amalek's Defeat (Exodus 17:1-16)
God brings victory through the willing and obedient.
What small task has God called you to do? Are you doing it faithfully?
Where do you need to support someone in a key role for God either through prayer, encouragement, or both?
How might your grumbling be testing God?  How might it be revealing a lack of faith?
What evidence of God's living water do you have in your life?

The Null Posting

I was not here for this week, so the posting is lacking any input on my part.  This, however, is a placeholder in case I become ambitious.

God Revealed: Words and Acts (Exodus 6:28-10:29)

God's Preparation and Purpose (Exodus 6:28-7:13)
God's authority accompanies the correct use of His word.
How might you be misrepresenting God by incorrectly using His word?
How have you experience the power of God in your life through study, meditation, and application of Scripture?
What are Scriptures are you currently memorizing so they're available when God calls you to use them?

God's Power and Protection (Exodus 7:14-10:23)
Rejecting God's truth eventually results in complete darkness.
God crushes His enemies to redeem His people.
What things or people or pursuits in your life take precedence over God?  Honestly, where is your focus?  Where is your treasure?
How have you experienced God defeating other gods in your life by bringing on some plagues?
What plagues in your life do you need to thank God for?  These plagues in Egypt revealed God.  They can do the same in our lives.
How have you experienced God's protection even when trouble was all around you?
How is your obedience to God revealing God to those around you?

God's Face Turns Away (Exodus 10:24-29)
The final judgment awaits those who reject God.
How are you rejecting God by refusing to obey what He commands and demands of you?
Where are you compromising with God's word and questioning its authority and applicability for today?
What sacrifices to God are you withholding?

God's Ingredients for Success (Exodus 5:1-6:27)

Impossible Situation (Exodus 5:1-21)
Immediate outcome is an inaccurate measure of God's work in a situation.
Response to circumstances reveals one's focus.
How are you letting your circumstances dictate your attitudes or reactions?
When have you been disappointed because things didn't turn out as you expected even though you were in God's will?
What lessons has God taught you that you would have missed had everything turned out as you wanted?
When all your efforts succeed, who do you tend to depend on?

Powerful God (Exodus 3:11-4:17)
God encourages those who honestly seek Him in prayer.
What questions and discouragements are you carrying that need to be brought to God in prayer?
How have you experienced God's peace through prayer, even when there was no immediate answer?
Who has God told you to go talk to that you know will not listen?  Are you going to go anyway?

Ordinary Men (Exodus 4:18-31)
God takes the ordinary and uses it extraordinarily.
What are you refusing to do for God because you think you're incapable?
How have you seen God do extraordinary things with simple willing people?
How do you need to start trusting in the power of God to work through you rather than the power of you to do something for God?

Moses' Call (Exodus 3:1-4:31)

God Reveals Himself and His Purpose (Exodus 3:1-10)
God reveals himself to those He calls.
How is God revealing Himself to you personally?  Are you going where God is for this revelation?
What holy things are you treating as common?  When are you going to take off your sandals?
God may be the God of your father, but how do you know He is also your God?  Does He know you by name?

Objections Overruled (Exodus 3:11-4:17)
No objection is a valid objection to God's call.
How are you erroneously considering your abilities in lieu of a clear directive from God?
What work for God have you avoided for fear of failure?
How have you experienced God's equipping for a job you knew you could never do?

Moses Obeys and God is Worshiped (Exodus 4:18-31)
Obedience to God brings glory to God.
How is your obedience glorifying God?
How have you experienced your obedience to God causing others to praise God?
How are you making right preparation now for the tasks God might have for you in the future?
Like Moses with his son, what areas of your life are you neglecting, thinking the things you're doing right outweigh the things your doing wrong?