“Make Overs With Leftovers”
Learning To Live On What’s Left
GFBCFFF
Dr. Derrick L. Miles, Pastor
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“When Comfort Transforms Into Uncomfortableness”
Exodus 2:15-21
5 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock. 18 When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?” 19 They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.” 20 “And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.” 21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,[a] saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
- There are some ______________________ in life that will frustrate us, inconvenience us and cause us to rearrange our plans.
2. Sometimes life can ______________________ your dreams, hopes and aspirations.
3. Things like rejection, ________________________, age, bad choices, or preoccupation with everyone’s dreams drained your energy and causes you to no longer dream.
4. Dealing with the ______________________, losses and leftovers of our lives can break you.
5. Dreams can ______________________ nightmares because yout hink about what could have happened.
6. One event changed Moses ______________________.
7. ______________________ event can change your life.
8. Leftovers will ______________________ be important.
9. If you don’t have an ______________________ brace for outward circumstances, you will become disillusioned, discouraged, defeated or even self-destructive.
10. No one is ______________________ from disappointments and discouragement.
11. When troubles come ______________________ the wilderness is not your final stop. Moses time in the wilderness was developmental.
12. Even though Moses was a Prince, he had a ______________________ moment. The word shawa is a word that means to weep, wail, shoutout and call.
13. When Moses found himself with ______________________, it hurt him.
14. When you have a Well moment, cry out for ______________________ Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.
15. When you have a Well moment, cry out for ______________________. Psalm 51:12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.
16. When you have a Well moment, cry out for your ______________________ Philippians 4:6-7 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
17. When you have a Well moment, cry out for ______________________ I John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
18. God always sends a makeover ______________________. (2:17)
19. When you have to go through ______________________, watch your attitudes. Genesis 46:34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants’ occupation has been with livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an[a] abomination to the Egyptians.”
20. I must learn how to make the most of my uncomfortable ______________________. (2:21)
21. The Wilderness is our ______________________ ______________________.
22. It’s ok to have a down ______________________ just don’t lay down. (2:22)
23. Never forget that you have never been forgotten! Isaiah 49:15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child,[a]And not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.