Fear and Anxiety (3)

Opening Prayer

Recap

Exodus 3 -

Moses talking to Jahova in a burning bush not consumed by the fire -

1. God informed Moses that He heard the cries of His people

2. Hearing their cries God: Called moses/ characterized - and clarified Moses’s assignment/ and commissioned him to go set the captives free

Because of Moses’s overwhelming fear to return where he escaped a capitol murder charge, and worried more about what God’s people would say than what God said, God deferred the oral part of his commission to Aaron, Moses’s older brother

You are not alone

1 Kings 19:1-5 “And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time. And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.”

1 Kings 19:6-10 “And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

The prophet feared the queens decree more than he feared the Lord

The prophet was depressed

The prophet believed he was alone