TAKE TIME Assignment: March 25-30, 2013

Introduction: This week we begin the book of Exodus.

At least one generation had passed away, the Children of Israel that had been born in Canaan, and new ones that had been born in Egypt are the theme of the story. Joseph was Moses' great-uncle (his mother's uncle) and we are told that in these intervening years a Pharaoh had arisen that had totally forgotten what Joseph had done to save Egypt from starvation. Instead, this Pharaoh looked at how quickly Joseph's family had multiplied and decided that he needed to do something about it! This is how the slavery years begin for the Children of Israel.


Reading Assignment:

• Monday - Exodus 1:1-2:10
• Tuesday - Exodus 2:11-3:22
• Wednesday - Exodus 4:1-31
• Thursday - Exodus 5:1-6:9
• Friday - Exodus 6:10-7:25
• Saturday - Exodus 8:1-32

Memory Verse

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them . . . .  Exodus 3:7-8a


Prayer Journal (ACTS)

• Adoration - This week take time each day to praise God for hearing your prayers! 
• Confession - God already knows about each sin but confess any as they come to your mind and ask Him to help you not sin that way again.
• Thanksgiving - Thank God for sending a Redeemer to take you out of the slavery of sin!
• Supplication - What are your prayer requests this week? List them for future reference so that you can see how God answers.

Search the Scriptures

Look for references for each of the following:

• Promises that God made and to whom He made them. Do they apply to you?
• References that either refer to or infer something about future events.
• What does this passage teach about Jesus?
• Commandments that God made and to whom He made them. Do they apply to you?

Putting the Word into Action

Sometimes God makes us wait before He gives us the things He has promised to give us! God's commission to Moses is a great example of that. Moses did not want to do the things that God told him to do because they made him uncomfortable. Then God told him to go to Pharaoh and do all these wondrous things, but He said that Pharaoh would not listen, at least not at first. How depressing to be told that the project is going to be a failure at the start!

Has God told you to do something but it is so hard that it takes you out of your comfort zone? And if you do them are you discouraged because you don't see results? (Yeah, me too!)

Find that thing that

1. God has told you to do
2. That thing that makes you uncomfortable
3. That thing that seems doomed to failure

and get to work! Perhaps the miracles that God works for you will be just as spectacular as those He did for the Children of Israel through His obedient (and reluctant) servant Moses.   :)