Message Notes

14th YAG RETREAT
Session #1
04 November 2011
Theme: SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP III

Focus: Deeper Prayer Lessons

GOALS OF RETREAT

1. Discovering lessons Moses learned about prayer

2. Discovering what and how God taught Moses to learn about prayer through experience

3. Deepening our prayer-life

4. Moving on to “the next level”

5. Learning from mistakes made in prayer

6. Deepening sense of purpose in prayer

7. Finding greater motivation and inspiration to pray

BASIC LEVELS OF PRAYER

1. Working Definitions of Prayer

a) Talking to God

b) Making our Requests known to God

c) Supplicating/Pleading

d) Relating Prayer to Ministry and Life

2. Where Prayers do not seem to be answered

a) Setbacks occur

b) More problems arise

c) Discouragement sets in

d) Doubts assail

e) On the brink of despair

3. Despairing (early) Prayers of Moses     Exodus 5:22-23; 6:12, 30

How Not To Pray!

a) Blaming God                Exodus 5:22a

b) Querying God              Exodus 5:22b

c) Doubting God              Exodus 5:23

d) Whining unbelief        Exodus 6:30

e) Wrong focus

ESSENTIAL LESSONS GOD TAUGHT MOSES ABOUT PRAYER

Exodus 6:1-13

1. Coming into the Presence of The LORD

a) “I am the LORD”             Exodus 6:2

i) Appearing as God Almighty to the patriarchs             Exodus 6:3a

ii) Covenant established with them             Exodus 6:4a

iii)The Promised Land of Canaan             Exodus 6:4b

b) “I am the LORD”             Exodus 6:6

i) “LORD” would be the new Title of God             Exodus 6:3b
with the children of Israel

ii) This LORD had heard the groaning of Israel in Egypt             Exodus 6:5a

iii) He had remembered His covenant             Exodus 6:5b

c) “I am the LORD”             Exodus 6:7

i) He will bring them out of their burdens             Exodus 6:6b
imposed by Egypt

ii) He will rescue them from bondage                           Exodus 6:6c

iii) He will redeem them with great judgment              Exodus 6:6d

iv) He will take Israel as His people (formally)              Exodus 6:7a

v) He will be their God             Exodus 6:7b

d) “I am the LORD”             Exodus 6:8

i) Experiential knowledge in mind

ii) Personal knowledge too

iii) National solidifying knowledge

iv) Powerful life-impacting knowledge through rescue from bondage             Exodus 6:7

v) Promise to the patriarchs would be fulfilled – Israel would inherit Canaan             Exodus 6:8

2. Significance

a) Knowledge

i) Historical

ii) Current

b) Consciousness

i) Little consciousness

ii) Limited consciousness

iii) Great consciousness desired

c) Lordship

i) Acknowledged

ii) Appreciated

iii) Renewed

iv) Deepened

d) Potential Impact on prayer

i) Hope revived

ii) Faith renewed

iii) Trust deepened

iv) Spurring greater effort in prayer

v) Creating a desire to know God even more deeply

vi) Anticipation of what God would do to fulfill what He Has promised

vii) Standing in greater awe of God

viii) Humbled in spirit