Whats in Your Hand?

times we are unwilling to give up what we have.
We want to hold on to what we know, what we understand, what we are comfortable with, what we have leaned upon and had control of for so long.

God is wanting to give us something new, something greater, (but you have to be willing to let go of what you have).

Trust God with your stick.

Before God could fulfil his promise to Abraham that all the nations of the earth would be blessed in his seed, He asked for his seed back.

Abraham trusted God with his seed Isaac and God gave him Jesus and everyone who trusts in his blood to save us.
We are today the seed of Abraham because Abraham was willing to give what he had to God.

The rod of Moses became the rod of God.

That rod became the symbol of Gods authority and Power, The instrument by which God’s word and will were enforced.
So it is today: It is through you and I who carry the Spirit and the Word in us that Gods will is enforced in the earth.

God told Moses what he was going to do, and how he would deliver Israel But he still had to stretch out the rod.
In like fashion God’s word reveals his will to us, but we still have to Speak it, (Stretch out the rod).

Jesus said we had mountain moving power, but he said in order for the mountain to move we have to speak to it.

Everytime Moses stretched out the rod it was a type of speaking the Word out of a believing heart.

Just as Moses and the rod were Gods instruments for bringing his Power against Egypt and setting the Israelites free, we today are God’s instruments to afflict satans kingdom, to bind the enemy of the souls of men and women and set them free.

One of the greatest problems we have as Believers is we have a tendency to underestimate what we have.

I have just enough meal and oil for one little cake said the widow of zarephath
I have just a little pot of oil, said the widow woman who was in debt and in danger of losing her sons to a life of slavery.
There is a lad here with two fish and five loaves of bread, but what is that among so many asked Philip a disciple of Jesus.

But in each case their little bit was enough.
When they put it in Gods hands it became more than enough.

When Samson was assaulted by the philistines there were no superior weapons of quality design to be found,
He started looking around him for something, (anything that he could use)
He found the jawbone of an ass and with it slew a thousand men.

What made this jawbone Samson’s weapon of choice?
Answer: It was there, It was available, It was within reach.
Dear brothers and sisters God is not looking for greatness, (any old stick, any old bush will do), (All God needs is for you to make what you have, make yourself available to him). Put it in his hands.

When samson looked at that jawbone of an ass, he saw something no one else saw, ( he saw an instrument of mass destruction) and that’s what it became in his hand.
Had he despised that jawbone and thought that it was too weak, or too insignificant or too foolish, he may have died at the hands of the enemy.

I believe many of Gods people have been defeated in life because we have allowed the enemy to cause us to despise our gift, or our talent, Like the servant who went out and buried his one talent, many have buried their talents because it seemed so weak, so small, so insignificant.

But the Holy Spirit is