Part 4 “What you REALLY NEED for EVERY Stage of Life”

From Exodus 17:1-7

📖 Exodus 17:1 (ESV) All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages…

Life happens in .

📖 Exodus 17:1 (ESV) All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

When Israel struggles with THIRST: FIRST: They get .

📖 Exodus 17:2 (ESV) Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.”

When Israel struggles with THIRST: SECOND: They get .

📖 Exodus 17:2b (ESV) And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?”

When Israel struggles with THIRST: THIRD: They get .

📖 Exodus 17:3-4 (ESV) But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” So Moses cried to the LORD, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

1. God is with us because He our in new stages.

📖 Exodus 17:5-6 (ESV) And the LORD said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.

📖 Psalm 86:15 (ESV) But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

2. God provides our by taking the we .

📖 Exodus 17:6 (ESV) Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.

📖 1 Corinthians 10:4 (ESV) For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.

3. God gives the (our real need) in in measure.

📖 John 3:34 (ESV) He gives the Spirit without measure.

📖 John 4:14 (ESV) whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

📖 John 7:38–39 (ESV) Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

The REAL NEED you have in EVERY STAGE is the of God in you made by the of Christ .