04.25.21 NOTES
Our Mission: Leading people into a growing relationship with Jesus
Unseen Heroes
Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have – right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start – comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.” 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (The Message)
MORDECAI
1. BE _______________ TO BE USED OF GOD (Esther 4)
· ___________ the Lord in prayer first
· ______________ the Least Likely – Esther “for such a time as this.”
· _____________ a strategy – Esther is “how to”
· Always _______________________
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor. James 4:10 (NLT)
· ____________________ that God rewards
You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies. You honor me by anointing my head with oil. My cup overflows with blessings. Psalm 23:5 (NLT)
ABIGAIL
1 Samuel 25
1. DON’T LET _______________________ YOU BACK
18 Abigail wasted no time. She quickly gathered 200 loaves of bread, two wineskins full of wine, five sheep that had been slaughtered, nearly a bushel[b] of roasted grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 fig cakes. She packed them on donkeys 19 and said to her servants, “Go on ahead. I will follow you shortly.” But she didn’t tell her husband Nabal what she was doing. 20 As she was riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming toward her. 1 Samuel 25:18-20 (NLT)
2. ____________ YOURSELF & _______________ WITH THOSE AROUND YOU
23 When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed low before him. 24 She fell at his feet and said, “I accept all blame in this matter, my lord. Please listen to what I have to say. 1 Samuel 25:23-24 (NLT)
A soft and gentle and thoughtful answer turns away wrath, But harsh and painful and careless words stir up anger. Proverbs 15:1 (NLT)