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Trusting God for Today
Exodus 16:1-9
The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin,
which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they
had come out of Egypt. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses
and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’ s hand in
Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have
brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”
Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The
people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test
them and see whether they will follow my instructions. On the sixth day they are to
prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other
days.”
So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of Egypt, and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?” Moses also said, “You will know that it was the Lord when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord.”
Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’”
1. Everything belongs to God. (God has an abundant Kingdom)
Exodus 16:1-3
The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin,
which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they
had come out of Egypt. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses
and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’ s hand in
Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have
brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”
Don’t believe the lie that it's yours:
Psalm 24:1
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.
Psalm 50:9-12
I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens, for every
animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in
the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine. If I were hungry I would not
tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Don’t believe the lie that you’ll give when you have enough:
Luke 16:10
"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and
whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much."
Don’t believe that lie that God is after your stuff:
Luke 16:13-15
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus. He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.
2. When you cry out to God, He hears you.
Exodus 16:4-5
Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”
Just because God doesn’t answer your prayers in the way you wished:
1. Doesn’t mean He isn’t listening.
2. Doesn’t mean He isn’t answering
3. Doesn’t mean He isn’t caring.
3. God will provide. (Out of His abundant Kingdom)
Exodus 16:6-9
So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of Egypt, and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?” Moses also said, “You will know that it was the Lord when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord.”
Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’”
Malachi 3:10
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty,“ and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it."
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By Union ChapelExodus 16:1-9
The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin,
which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they
had come out of Egypt. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses
and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’ s hand in
Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have
brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”
Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The
people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test
them and see whether they will follow my instructions. On the sixth day they are to
prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other
days.”
So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of Egypt, and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?” Moses also said, “You will know that it was the Lord when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord.”
Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’”
1. Everything belongs to God. (God has an abundant Kingdom)
Exodus 16:1-3
The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin,
which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they
had come out of Egypt. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses
and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’ s hand in
Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have
brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”
Don’t believe the lie that it's yours:
Psalm 24:1
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.
Psalm 50:9-12
I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens, for every
animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in
the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine. If I were hungry I would not
tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Don’t believe the lie that you’ll give when you have enough:
Luke 16:10
"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and
whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much."
Don’t believe that lie that God is after your stuff:
Luke 16:13-15
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus. He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.
2. When you cry out to God, He hears you.
Exodus 16:4-5
Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”
Just because God doesn’t answer your prayers in the way you wished:
1. Doesn’t mean He isn’t listening.
2. Doesn’t mean He isn’t answering
3. Doesn’t mean He isn’t caring.
3. God will provide. (Out of His abundant Kingdom)
Exodus 16:6-9
So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of Egypt, and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?” Moses also said, “You will know that it was the Lord when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord.”
Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’”
Malachi 3:10
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty,“ and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it."