This document discusses an icebreaker activity where participants draw a symbol representing their occupation and compare symbols with others. It then discusses the story of Moses and how he spent 40 years thinking he was important, 40 years thinking he was unimportant, and finally 40 years finding what God could do with someone who felt unimportant. The document contrasts the easy life in Egypt with being in the world but not of it, and discusses how our natural capacities can mirror our spiritual makeup and how God can use our faithfulness and skills to bring glory to Him.

1. Ice-breaker Activity:
Think of a tool you use in
your occupation. What
symbol represents what
you do for a living?

2. On a Post-it, draw a symbol
visual symbol of a tool that
represents your occupation,
“day job” or something you are
very good at.

3. Compare post-its
with two other
people you don’t
know well.

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5. 1 Cor. 10:11-
Now these things happened to
them as an example, but they
were written down for our
instruction, on whom the end of
the ages has come.
Moses spent
• 40 years thinking he was somebody,
• 40 years thinking he was a nobody, and then
• 40 years finding out what God can do with a
nobody.

7. The Easy Life
The soil rich from the Nile
floods. Compare Egyptian
depiction of plows to
other cultures.
The Easy Life leads to self-
indulgence and
stagnation.

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9. “in the reeds” – not in the
current, not in the flow.
We have been placed in the
World, but are not “of it”.
The Nile represents the Kosmos –
the present world system.

10. kosmos- to the combined activities,
affairs, advantages, and accumulated
assets of the worldly men on the earth.
An organized system.
“In more than thirty important passages
the Greek word ‘kosmos’...is employed in
the New Testament to portray the whole
mass of unregenerate men alienated
from God, hostile to Christ, and
organized governmentally as a system or
federation under Satan.” (Unger)

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19. What do you have in your hand?
Throw it down (literally). Look at it. Moses saw a snake.
Do you see the capacity for evil? The quality that could lead
us to be distracted from God?
Now pick it up (by the tail!)
Do you see how it can become a supernatural means of
demonstrating the glory of God?

24. What do you have in your hand?
1. Does your faithfulness to do a work of excellence bring glory to God?
2. Is there something of your capacity in the natural that mirrors your “spiritual” make-up?

25. “That which you are in the natural, I will make
you that in the Spirit…”
• Peter, a fisher
of men
• Evangelist
• John, a mender
of nets
• Mending ministry
• Paul, a builder of tents
• Church builder