Message Notes

14th YAG RETREAT
Session #3
05 November 2011
Theme: SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP III

Text: Exodus 7-12

ANSWERS TO PRAYER

1. Common Problems encountered

a) Praying without expecting an answer

b) Receiving an answer but not understanding the answer

c) Praying but no answer from God

2. Prayers are to be understood in its relationship to Answers

a) Answers are to be expected

b) Answers come with deep lessons

c) Answers are to be fathomed carefully

d) Answers are carefully orchestrated by God Himself

i) Number of plagues

ii) Type of Plagues

iii) Duration of Plagues

iv) Purpose of Plagues

3. Understanding the Ten Plagues

a) As fulfillment of what God had said

i) Signs and wonders              Exodus 7:3

ii) Laying of hand on Egypt              Exodus 7:4b

iii) Great judgments              Exodus 7:4c

iv) Aiding knowledge of God              Exodus 7:17

b) As lessons for Moses and Aaron to learn about drawing the power of God in ministry

i) Obedience of Moses and Aaron              Exodus 7:6, 10

ii) Listening to the voice of God and the instructions given for every plague              Exodus 7-12

iii) Confronting Pharaoh with God’s commands              Exodus 7-12

iv) That God hears and answers prayer              Exodus 8:10

v) According to the word of Moses              Exodus 8:13, 31

c) As lessons for Pharaoh and Egypt to learn

i) That all may acknowledge God and His power              Exodus 7:17

ii) That all may know that there is no one like God              Exodus 8:10

iii) They do not possess the kind of power God had              Exodus 8:18

iv) That the children of Israel were set apart by God              Exodus 8:22

v) That all in Egypt may know that God was in the land              Exodus 8:23a

vi) That God distinguished Israel from Egypt              Exodus 8:23b