October 8, 2023
Series: Serving God In Our Time
Message: Serving God When It’s Hard To Hear
Exodus 6:1-9
Ver. 9 – But they did not listen to Him.
INTRODUCTION:
What I know about discouragement:
1. Everyone gets discouraged.
2. Is contagious.
3. Keeps us from being effective.
“Neither God nor man can use a discouraged person.”
Mary McLeod Bethune
4. It comes from a loss of perspective.
5. Often comes before God’s blessings.
Why did the Israelites feel so bad?
1. Their situation seemed hopeless.
Ver. 1 – For with a strong hand He will let them go.
2. They hadn’t experienced God’s deliverance personally.
Ver. 3 – May name Lord.
3. Their problem had lasted many years.
Ver. 5 – Egyptians keep in bondage.
4. They were exhausted.
Ver. 9 – They did not heed Moses because of anguish of Spirit.
Un-listened to Lessons of Exodus 6
1. God hears us when we’re hurting.
Ver. 5 – Moreover I have heard the groaning of the Israelites.
Four Reasons We Often Fail To Sense God’s Help:
1. We may have a pain problem.
2. We may have a timing problem.
3. We may have an attitude problem.
God chooses what we go through.
We choose how we go through it.
4. We may have a faith problem.
Unbelief puts our circumstances between us and God.
Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
2. Helps us to respond to God in a greater way.
Ver. 3 – I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and to Jacob as God almighty, but my name, The Lord, I did not make myself known to them.
God is God, but at different places in our journey, He reveals Himself to us in new ways. Most of these revelations come at difficult times in our lives.
We offer God our problems and He offers us Himself.
Closing Comments:
1. Look and listen for what God is teaching you.
2. Choose to make this difficult time in your life a time for growth.
3. Focus on God, not your problems.
4. Take action now!
My Problem:_____________________________________________
My Answer: God, I take You now. You are enough.
Signed: _________________________________________