Priscilla Shirer Week Five
So, I now have a week and a half left until I get my hubby back home safely. Please pray it goes smoothly. I am so excited. Next week will be a busy week to get stuff done. God has truly blessed Dan and me during this deployment. I know I personally have grown amazing amounts. I am excited for what God has awaiting us in our future. Below is my outline for the Priscilla Shirer Bible study. Sorry I didn't get it out yesterday.
God’s Voice Reveals His Plan
We are His creation - created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10, HCSB
Our God does not just sit on high and look down low! God can do anything at any time and He chooses to be with us, know us intimately and stay with us always.
Five principles about God's Plan for Your Life
1. God's plain is often uncovered while you are in the desert. God knows what will get our attention like He did for Moses. Moses turned aside to listen. He redirected His attention to focus on God in the form of the burning bush. Redirect your attention towards your burning bushes. Remember, bushes don't burn in palaces, they burn in deserts. Know in that desert experience you are in, God's ready and waiting to meet you right where you are. Even Jesus had a desert experience.
2. You are equipped for God's plan while you are in the desert. Even Moses out in his desert was training every day in his mundane activities to lead the people of Israel.
Moses was equipped with dedication. The Bible explains in Exodus 3:1 that Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law. Moses was raised in a palace and now here he is attending sheep! He was tending the flock, a job he was over qualified for and doesn't like but did it to the best of his ability.
Moses was equipped with direction. He knew where the sheep needed to go and he did it diligently. He took them to Horeb, the mountain of God which we later know it as Mt. Sinai. Moses knew that mountain because he had been there. He met God there as a shepherd of sheep and again as a shepherd of men. How amazing that even when our circumstances and work can be below us or seem too much to handle, God knows He is training us in the desert.
(There is a third equipping, but I don't have it.)
3. Supernatural markers will point you to God's plan. We think what we have is because we contributed to God's plan. I have heard many people say that we need to meet God half way. No we don't! That is simply not true. God wants us to follow him. It's not luck, timing, coincidence, good parenting or good education. It's the Hand of God that has us where we are and where we are going. I have many times tried to lay the ground work so God would have something to work with only to realize how insufficient it was. It's a leap of faith to trust God and wait. God said go and Moses went. The fear of the unknown makes the balance between action and waiting difficult understandably. God doesn't want us to sit and do nothing at all, but He does not need us to lay the foundation for His will. Moses waited in the desert doing the work God had for him with diligence and discipline. I imagine that the thing in Moses that made him kill an Egyptian still was in Him. He waited. When God said go, Moses may have hesitated, but when the time came that he took that first step towards Egypt, man o man, what a sight to see. I just now had a vision in my mind of a good description of trying to meet God half way. Can you imagine Moses preparing a pile of twigs every night to help God ignite Himself as a pillar of fire or maybe run around in circles every morning to get a good batch of dust for the cloud by day?
4. Intimate fellowship is the purpose of God’s plan. God is passionate about his relationship with us. Zephaniah 3:17 says, “The LORD your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” According to first John 4:8, “God is love.” Now read 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (to the right). When I read this, these verses come alive like they have never done before! I feel my spirit stop short in its tracks much like Job when God began to speak to him. We seek God and pursue Him but when we stop and allow Him to stop us and pursue us, words cannot express such a sanctified moment.
5. God’s plan changes the course of your life. “So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites out of Egypt.” Exodus 3:10 Moses went from shepherding sheep to shepherding Israel. It was the same for the woman at the well who went from rejected by her whole town to evangelizing her whole town. Paul went from Christian killer to writing the majority of the books of the New Testament. Don’t ever think you are useless my beloved sister! You are a priceless treasure in the eyes of our King, the King of kings. God is not only your King, He is your Abba King, your Daddy King.
God’s Voice Reveals His Plan
We are His creation - created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10, HCSB
Our God does not just sit on high and look down low! God can do anything at any time and He chooses to be with us, know us intimately and stay with us always.
Five principles about God's Plan for Your Life
1. God's plain is often uncovered while you are in the desert. God knows what will get our attention like He did for Moses. Moses turned aside to listen. He redirected His attention to focus on God in the form of the burning bush. Redirect your attention towards your burning bushes. Remember, bushes don't burn in palaces, they burn in deserts. Know in that desert experience you are in, God's ready and waiting to meet you right where you are. Even Jesus had a desert experience.
2. You are equipped for God's plan while you are in the desert. Even Moses out in his desert was training every day in his mundane activities to lead the people of Israel.
Moses was equipped with dedication. The Bible explains in Exodus 3:1 that Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law. Moses was raised in a palace and now here he is attending sheep! He was tending the flock, a job he was over qualified for and doesn't like but did it to the best of his ability.
Moses was equipped with direction. He knew where the sheep needed to go and he did it diligently. He took them to Horeb, the mountain of God which we later know it as Mt. Sinai. Moses knew that mountain because he had been there. He met God there as a shepherd of sheep and again as a shepherd of men. How amazing that even when our circumstances and work can be below us or seem too much to handle, God knows He is training us in the desert.
(There is a third equipping, but I don't have it.)
3. Supernatural markers will point you to God's plan. We think what we have is because we contributed to God's plan. I have heard many people say that we need to meet God half way. No we don't! That is simply not true. God wants us to follow him. It's not luck, timing, coincidence, good parenting or good education. It's the Hand of God that has us where we are and where we are going. I have many times tried to lay the ground work so God would have something to work with only to realize how insufficient it was. It's a leap of faith to trust God and wait. God said go and Moses went. The fear of the unknown makes the balance between action and waiting difficult understandably. God doesn't want us to sit and do nothing at all, but He does not need us to lay the foundation for His will. Moses waited in the desert doing the work God had for him with diligence and discipline. I imagine that the thing in Moses that made him kill an Egyptian still was in Him. He waited. When God said go, Moses may have hesitated, but when the time came that he took that first step towards Egypt, man o man, what a sight to see. I just now had a vision in my mind of a good description of trying to meet God half way. Can you imagine Moses preparing a pile of twigs every night to help God ignite Himself as a pillar of fire or maybe run around in circles every morning to get a good batch of dust for the cloud by day?
4. Intimate fellowship is the purpose of God’s plan. God is passionate about his relationship with us. Zephaniah 3:17 says, “The LORD your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” According to first John 4:8, “God is love.” Now read 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (to the right). When I read this, these verses come alive like they have never done before! I feel my spirit stop short in its tracks much like Job when God began to speak to him. We seek God and pursue Him but when we stop and allow Him to stop us and pursue us, words cannot express such a sanctified moment.
5. God’s plan changes the course of your life. “So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites out of Egypt.” Exodus 3:10 Moses went from shepherding sheep to shepherding Israel. It was the same for the woman at the well who went from rejected by her whole town to evangelizing her whole town. Paul went from Christian killer to writing the majority of the books of the New Testament. Don’t ever think you are useless my beloved sister! You are a priceless treasure in the eyes of our King, the King of kings. God is not only your King, He is your Abba King, your Daddy King.
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