Exodus 1:8-10
A new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt. He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are. Come, let’s deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and when war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”
Exodus 1:22
Pharaoh then commanded all his people, “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”
Exodus 2:1-2
Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman. The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful [healthy], she hid him for three months.
Exodus 2:3
But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
// Moses’ mom
her child to God.
// Transformation comes when we fully
control to God.
Exodus 2:4
Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.
Exodus 2:5a
Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank.
Exodus 2:5b
She saw the basket among the reeds, sent her slave girl, took it, 6 opened it, and saw him, the child—and there he was, a little boy, crying.
Exodus 2:6
She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.”
Exodus 2:7
Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a Hebrew woman who is nursing to nurse the boy for you?”
Exodus 2:8
“Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother.
Exodus 2:9
Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.
Exodus 2:10
When the child grew older, [his mom] brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
>> What are you holding tightly that God wants to “draw out” of your hands?
1) What you have
2) How you’ve failed
3) What’s been done to you
4) What tomorrow holds
>> Letting go of what I have:
// The things I have are
from God, and He can be trusted with them.
Psalm 37:23-24 GNT
The Lord directs the steps of the godly.
He delights in every detail of their lives.
Though they stumble, they will never fall,
for the Lord holds them by the hand.
>> Letting go of how I’ve failed:
// The death and resurrection of Christ has
the power of sin in my life.
Romans 6:6-7 NLT
We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin.
>> Letting go of what’s been done to me:
// What has happened to me in the past does not
me. I can forgive and move on because I am free and made
in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17 GNT
Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
Isaiah 43:18-19 CSB
“Do not remember the past events;
pay no attention to things of old.
Look, I am about to do something new;
even now it is coming. Do you not see it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,
rivers in the desert.”
>> Letting go of what tomorrow holds:
// My Father
me and
me. No matter what I face, He will carry me through it.
Matthew 6:34
[Jesus said,] “Don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.”
Philippians 4:6-7 GNT
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
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