1. Can I change?

2. Can I change? Exodus 2:10 NIV
When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”
Moses had received the ____of everything.
Many of us live in great advantage and blessing. It can distract us from the change that needs to take place in us.
best

3. Can I change? Exodus 2:11-15 NIV
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us?

4. Can I change?
Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”
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.
Moses’ advantage did not translate to his _______. He needed a change and did not know it.
God provided a ________ _______.
God allows us to see and experience our need for change. Our teachable moments can be gentle or forceful.
purpose
teachable moment

5. Can I change? Exodus 2:21-25 NIV
Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
During that long period, the king of Egypt died The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.

6. Can I change?
So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.
Moses had a 40 year classroom session in _______ ________ and _______.
humility, obscurity,
maturity
Sometimes we are in the classroom of humility and obscurity and we wonder why God is not at work, but He is.

7. Can I change? Exodus 3:1-6 NIV
Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look,

8. Can I change? God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
And Moses said, “Here I am.”
“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
God _____ a different Moses.
God knows the right time to call our name. He knows our hearts. He does have a plan and a purpose.
called

9. Can I change? Exodus 3:11 NIV Exodus 3:13 NIV
But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
Exodus 3:13 NIV
Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

10. Can I change? Exodus 4:1 NIV Exodus 4:10 NIV
Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”
Exodus 4:10 NIV
Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”

11. Can I change? Exodus 4:13 NIV
But Moses said, “Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.”
Moses faced his past, his fears, and his inadequacies through _________ and ____.
obedience
trust
We can change when we are willing to confess our fears and inadequacies before God and listen to His voice.

12. Can I change? Exodus 4:27-31 NIV
The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him. Then Moses told Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say, and also about all the signs he had commanded him to perform.
Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites, and Aaron told them everything the Lord had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before the people, and they believed.

13. Can I change?
And when they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.
Overcoming fears by obedience and trust is the core of _______ ______ and ______.
Maturity, growth, and change are possible when we realize that they are not forged in the _______ of ________, but by trusting God to ____ us through it.
maturity, change,
growth
Trust God anyway. Obey God anyway.
absence
adversity
grow

14. Can I change? Everyone can change! Some change quickly.
Some change slowly over time.