Message Notes

2 February 2015

PRAYER MEETING
Text: Exodus 34

RESPONSE TO GOD’S PROCLAMATION OF HIS NAME

1. Moses made haste and bowed his head to the earth

a) Humble

b) Natural

c) Needful

2. And worshipped

a) Immediate

b) Initial

c) Appropriate

FURTHER RESPONSE

1. Prayer offered

2. Intercession

a) Finding grace in God’s sight    Exodus 34:9

i) Understanding grace

ii) Application of grace

b) Go among us

i) God’s Presence to be with His people

ii) Appeal from the heart

c) Confession

i) A stiff-necked people    Exodus 34:8 (Deuteronomy 9:6, 13)

ii) Proven over and over again

d) Pardon

i) Pardoning of iniquity

ii) Pardoning of sin

e) Plea

i) Israel to be “an inheritance”    Exodus 34:8 (Deuteronomy 9:29)

ii) A privilege never to be taken for granted

REMEMBERING AND APPLYING

1. Psalm 95

a) Greatness of the Lord

b) Grateful Worship of the Lord

c) Great awareness of the sinful inclination of the heart    Psalm 95:8-11

2. Psalm 99

a) Exaltation of the Lord

b) Examples of people who served the Lord faithfully    Psalm 99:6

c) Exulting in worship