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Q4. What about Moses' strengths have inspired you?

Looking at the life of Moses has inspired me to stand firm on the promises and commands of the Lord. Studying his life has also helped me to see the power of intercession for others believing in the power, mercy, and favor of the Lord.

What about his weaknesses have been a warning to you?

When I saw Moses lapse of faith in following God

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Q4. What about Moses' strengths have inspired you? Looking at the life of Moses has inspired me to stand firm on the promises and commands of the Lord. Studying his life has also helped me to see the power of intercession for others believing in the power, mercy, and favor of the Lord. What about his weaknesses have been a warning to you? When I saw Moses lapse of faith in following God
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What about Moses' strengths have inspired you? The strength to keep on keeping on in spite of the fact that he himself was sometimes discouraged. He had the strength do deliver God's messages even though he had no idea how God was going to deliver.

What about his weaknesses have been a warning to you? His frustration led to anger. Minimize frustration and keep my eyes on God. Never let the ignorance of others dictate my intelligence.

If there is one primary thing God has taught you from Moses' life that you seek to apply to yours, what is it? If you listen and obey; God will deliver.

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Q4. What about Moses strengths have inspired you?

Moses definitely had a lot of significant strengths. His ability to just be himself and honest with God about who he was not and what he felt he could not do for God. Moses was truthful even when he was out of line in his complaining about situations. He was a person who remained himself and did not try to assert himself to or copy another person.

What about his weaknesses have been a warning to you?

His anger is a warning to me. In anger and reacting we can step outside the will and direction of God and flow in disobedience. This is not a good place to go in a relationship with God.

If there is one primary thing God has taught you from Moses life that you seek to apply to yours, what is it? 

Put God, his words and directions first and trust Him always with what comes. No one else or their opinions or view of you matters.

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Q4. What about Moses' strengths have inspired you?

What about his weaknesses have been a warning to you?

If there is one primary thing God has taught you from Moses' life that you seek to apply to yours, what is it?

Once he got over the shock that God had truly chosen him as leader to get the people out of slavery, he seemed more focused and always ready to do what God commanded him to do, even if it was strange commands.   That has always spoken to me and almost blinded me to his weakness, viz., his sometimes uncontrollable anger and impatience. (not that it was always easy to remain calm with the people who murmured and complained).   

I would like to follow God's leading without questioning and serve Him right to the very end as well.  If I stand alone I too want to remain standing and serving as and where God would have me serve. 

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One of the attributes of Moses I wish I had, but don't, is his ability/permission to speak to God face-to-face. He communicated with God in ways no one, beside Jesus, has done. God talked to him. Led him. Worked with him in spite of his many weaknesses. And, I think God loved Moses because Moses desired to talk and be with God. 

But Moses' desire to hurry up the promise led him to do a horrible thing -- kill the Egyptian -- this is something I intuitively understand because I, too, am eager to be used, to get on with the promise (any promise will do!) and make my life worth living for HIm. But, the warning of this story is that a hurried promise is actually a horrible disobedience which may, in the end, keep that promise from being fulfilled. Unlike others on this forum, I believe that in the back of his mind, Moses always knew he would do something for the slaves in Egypt, though certainly he doubted and wondered what that would be and if he had heard incorrectly from God.

One thing I learned from the life of Moses is that careful, exacting obedience -- waiting for the promise to unfold -- is highly important to God. THough He forgives, He also punishes those who do not do His will in detail. Moses was only able to see the promised land from a distance. How sad that is! What a horrible punishment. Moses' entire life had been spent working toward this end, of entering the promised land, but God saw to it that he never arrived.

 

It is a scary thought that my own behavior, though forgiven, may keep me from experiencing the joy of accomplishment years down the line. It's such a crushing thought, that whatever promised land God may have had for me, I may have shut the door on without knowing it. I pray this is untrue, that I still have a chance of being used, that my promised land lies ahead of me, not in the dust of personal history. 

 

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