Message Notes

August 23rd, 2026
Make Yourself at Home
Week 1: Staff

But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch.

Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
Exodus 2:3

[Moses] went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
Exodus 2:11

Then Moses was afraid and thought, What I did must have become known. Exodus 2:14

And Moses said, Here I am.
Exodus 3:4

Then the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? Exodus 4:2

I will be with you.

What is that in your hand?

The Lord said, Throw it on the ground.
Moses 4:3

Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake…
Moses 4:3

Moses said to the Lord, Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, … I am slow of speech and tongue.
Exodus 4:10

Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.
Exodus 4:13