Resetting Your Life When Life Takes a Left Turn

Resetting Your Life A Few Questions 1)Have you ever had dreams? 2)How did they work out? 3)What do you do when things seem to take a left turn?

Resetting Your Life The Story of Moses 1) Moses was born into a loving family 2) Moses is given up by his mother 3) Moses is watched over by his sister 4) Moses is found by the Egyptians 5) But it happens to be the Pharaoh's daughter 6) Miriam intercedes 7) Moses sees the suffering of his people 8) Moses commits murder 9) Moses tries to cover it up 10) His people spread the story

Resetting Your Life The Story of Moses 11) Pharaoh tries to kill him 12) Moses flees to Midian 13) He protects Reuel’s daughters 14) Reuel gives him a home and a wife 15) Moses enjoys a new life 16)God takes notice of the suffering of the Israelites in Egypt 17) Moses sees the burning bush

Resetting Your Life What does it mean? 1)All of us are born into different circumstances 2)We all have dreams and make plans 3)Circumstances change 4)We change 5)Life happens 6)The world changes

Resetting Your Life Moses at the burning bush (Exodus 3:1-15) One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. 2There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up. 3“This is amazing,” Moses said to himself. “Why isn’t that bush burning up? I must go see it.”23 44When the LORD saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Moses! Moses!” “Here I am!” Moses replied.

Resetting Your Life 55“Do not come any closer,” the LORD warned. “Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground. 6I am the God of your father-the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” When Moses heard this, he covered his face because he was afraid to look at God.6 77Then the LORD told him, “I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering. 8So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.8

Resetting Your Life 99Look! The cry of the people of Israel has reached me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians abuse them. 10Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.” But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?” 1212God answered, “I will be with you. And this is your sign that I am the one who has sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God at this very mountain.” 1313But Moses protested, “If I go to the people of Israel and tell them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ they will ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what should I tell them?”

Resetting Your Life 1414God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. Say this to the people of Israel: I AM has sent me to you.” 15God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh, the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.15 This is my eternal name, my name to remember for all generations.

Resetting Your Life What is the spiritual meaning? 1)The Lord has plans for all of us 2)But we live in a fallen world 3)The Lord is constantly growing us 4)We seldom grow without adversity 5)We can’t afford to settle 6)God has more for you than what you experiencing 7)The burning bush happened right where he was 8)He heard God’s voice because he listened

Resetting Your Life Your Story 1)Your disappointments in life are not unique to you 2)The plan of God is wide open to you today 3)It’s time to RESET!