Central Assembly
Pastor Jim Bradford | January 13, 2019
Exodus 2:1-6 NIV
Exodus 2:7-10 NIV
Three Names, Three Seasons -- Where are you?
* Moses = "Drawn out"
She named him Moses, saying, "I drew him out of the water." (Exodus 2:10)
Three Names, Three Seasons -- Where are you?
* Gershom = "An alien here"
Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, "I have become a foreigner in a foreign land." (Exodus 2:22)
Three Names, Three Seasons -- Where are you?
* Eliezer = "My God is my helper"
. . . and the other [son] was named Eliezer, for he said, "My father's God was my helper; he saved me from the sword of Pharaoh." (Exodus 18:4)
What we do know . . .
* There's a strategy to our seasons . . .
"Deep before wide"
2 Peter 3:18 NIV
* Let every season shape you
* Never stop moving forward
* There's a sovereignty to our seasons . . .
Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him. (Psalm 115:3)
* God is always preparing us for something
. . . it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. (Philippians 2:13)
* God handles the pressure while we relax
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit--fruit that will last--and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. (John 15:16)