"Lent: A Humble Beginning"

Exodus 2:16-25
"Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock. Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.
When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, "Why have you returned so early today?"
They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock."
"And where is he?" he asked his daughters. "Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat."
Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, "I have become an alien in a foreign land."
During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them."

Exodus 3:14-15
"God said to Moses, "I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.' "
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 by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation."

Notes taken from Isaac Hunter's sermon (03/22/09)
*"People don't plan on screwing up their lives. We find ourselves in a place we never thought we'd be. Most people are not consciously running from God."
*"A geographical change does not guarantee a biographical change."
*"We still serve a God who has not given up on His people. He does not care more about the mess we have made than He cares for us."
*"Moses still serves even when he can't be the hero."
*"The goal is 'what is it God wants from me?'."
*"Choose to trust God. God still knows. God still cares."
*"What Moses messed up didn't stop what God can use Moses for."

Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."

John 7:38
"Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him."

2 Corinthians 12:9
"But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me."

John 15:15
"I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you."

Hebrews 4:15
"For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin."

Luke 9:25
"What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?"

Isaiah 49:16
"See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me."

I Peter 1:18-19
"For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect."