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Do Something! Potential


Icebreaker:
What skill do you use now but found difficult to learn?
What skill did you try but gave up learning?

Overview:
Read Exodus 4:1-17.

Back in the 1960’s, classes taught the skill of writing in shorthand to prepare a person for a secretarial career. Shorthand was a way of recording quickly what a person said by using symbols instead of words. I had the unfortunate experience of taking a class in shorthand. The skill did not come easily to me. Fortunate for me, I had a good memory and was able to interpret the few scribbles I made and correctly type up what had been dictated. Technology soon made shorthand obsolete and I never needed the stupid skill anyway. The advent of the personal computers and email has made having an assistant of any kind obsolete.

Poor Moses felt like me in shorthand class when God asked him to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. “Lord, please! Send anyone else.” We all have potential and, even if we can’t see it, God sees it. What do you have in your hand? God wants to put it to work for Him!

Discussion:
What did Moses say was the initial problem?
When God solved that problem, what was the next problem?
What was Moses’ real fear?

Activities:
What potential do you possess?
How has our past prepared us for our future?
Why are we afraid of failing?
How does that fear keep us from trying?

As a group, continue to discuss the needs in your community and your response to them. What skills and resources are available through your group? What is God placing on your heart to do as a group?

Prayer:
As a group, pray for God to open your eyes to your full potential.

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