"Lent: A Beautiful Hunger"

Exodus 1:13-22
and worked them ruthlessly. They made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly. The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, "When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live." The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?"
The midwives answered Pharaoh, "Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive."
So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live."

Notes taken from Isaac Hunter's sermon (03/01/09)...
*Matthew 5 :6 says "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled."
*"People find themselves waking up under oppression that they never thought they would encounter....we need the hope of God."
*"It was harder to live in the promised land than Egypt."
*"We need the hope and the help of God."
*"You don't have to wait, there is a God who still delivers His people."
*"The midwives greatest fear was of God. They simply did their jobs. You can have titles or you can have testimonies."
*"Refuse to remain a passive victim of circumstance."
*"It is our job to get people safely from where you are to where Jesus is."
*"Recognize there is something more to do, more to be done. Recognize and remember our most important job."

Philipians 3:8
"What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ."

Proverbs 13:12
"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life."

Hebrews 12:1
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us."

Matthew 25:40
"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me."

Psalm 18:31
"For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?"

Psalm 119:14
"I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches."