• You: “Lack of Self-Esteem”
  • (“Who am I?”)
  • God: “Not you;
    • Me: Who AM I? 
    • I AM is with You”
    • ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!
• You: “What do I know?”
  • (“What is your name”)
  • God: “Not ‘what,’ but
    • WHO you know:
      • the ‘I AM’
    • ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!
• You:  “I am not a leader”
  • (“They will not believe me”)
  • God:  “What is that in your hand?”
    • “At my word
      • see what I can do with it
        • through you!”
    • OPPORTUNITIES EVERYWHERE!
• You: “I don’t have the skills”
  • (“I can’t speak in public!”)
  • God:

    

    • “I made the mouth,”
    • here is Aaron for you”
    • YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO IT ALONE
    • OPPORTUNITIES EVERYWHERE!
• You:  “I can’t do it”
  • (“Please, send someone else, Not me!”)
  • God: “You are out of excuses, this is just plain disobedience now”
  • OPPORTUNITIES EVERYWHERE!

Sounds familiar?

• Moses (Exodus 3-4)
  • humbled the gods of Egypt,
  • gave the ten commandments,
  • led at least 1.5 million people out of Egypt, and
  • walked through the red sea
    • on dry land
  • He led a nation for 40 years
    • in the desert!!
    • Suppressed a rebellion in the ranks,
    •  meeting needs,
    • administering justice,
    • administering disaster/food relief,
    • writing laws, and
    • fighting foreign armies

The key:

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• “What is that in your hand?”
  • A staff,
  • A dry stick,
  • Good only for leaning upon, OR
  • The symbol of DIVINE authority
  • OPPORTUNITIES EVERYWHERE!!
    • There is a ‘staff’ in your hand
    • right next to you!
    • available to you:
      • time
      • health
      • talent and abilities
      • family resources
      • free information
      • friends, associates, co-workers, bosses, church, pastor, club, professor, classmates, neighbor etc. etc.
      • community resources
    • OPPORTUNITIES EVERYWHERE
  • OPPORTUNITIES EVERYWHERE
• OPPORTUNITIES EVERYWHERE
• OPPORTUNITIES EVERYWHERE
  

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OPPORTUNITIES EVERYWHERE!!!!