Day 4: What’s In Your Hand?
Scripture: Exodus 4
God doesn’t need much from you, but he does want all of you. D.L. Moody once said, “The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. By God’s help, I aim to be that man.” God took a rebellious young man working in a shoe store and used him to be one of the great evangelists in the world in the 1800's.
So often we think we need to have extraordinary gifts and abilities. And that's just not the case. We have an extraordinary God; and because of that, He can use just about anything in our lives to have kingdom impact.
Moses had a staff, and God would demonstrate His power through that ordinary stick. Shepherds use staffs. Moses probably thought that God couldn't use just a shepherd to lead a nation out of bondage and into the promised land. As he said to God, "I am not eloquent... I am slow of speech and of tongue." Perhaps that's why God chose to use the staff as a constant reminder to Moses.
What was God's response to Moses' excuses? "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? Now therefore go..." In other words, I made you and I will use you because of MY power.
Remember this: God doesn't call the equipped. God equips the called. If God calls you to do something, He will give you the power and strength to accomplish it. So often we live below God's best for our lives because we are not willing to step out by faith.
In John 6, Jesus was ministering to the multitudes. It was getting late and the people were hungry so Jesus told His disciples to feed the people. However, the disciples didn’t have food to feed them. I believe this was a testing of their faith and they failed it.
The disciples claimed that it was impossible to feed so many. Jesus had done miracles that day so they should not have doubted. But, there was a boy in the crowd who had faith. He brought five loaves of bread and two fish to the disciples.
Oh, the faith of a child! Jesus took what the boy had and fed the multitudes, with food to spare! What's in your hands? Consecrate it to Jesus. God is a miracle-working God who can take the ordinary and do the extraordinary.
Scripture: Exodus 4
God doesn’t need much from you, but he does want all of you. D.L. Moody once said, “The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. By God’s help, I aim to be that man.” God took a rebellious young man working in a shoe store and used him to be one of the great evangelists in the world in the 1800's.
So often we think we need to have extraordinary gifts and abilities. And that's just not the case. We have an extraordinary God; and because of that, He can use just about anything in our lives to have kingdom impact.
Moses had a staff, and God would demonstrate His power through that ordinary stick. Shepherds use staffs. Moses probably thought that God couldn't use just a shepherd to lead a nation out of bondage and into the promised land. As he said to God, "I am not eloquent... I am slow of speech and of tongue." Perhaps that's why God chose to use the staff as a constant reminder to Moses.
What was God's response to Moses' excuses? "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? Now therefore go..." In other words, I made you and I will use you because of MY power.
Remember this: God doesn't call the equipped. God equips the called. If God calls you to do something, He will give you the power and strength to accomplish it. So often we live below God's best for our lives because we are not willing to step out by faith.
In John 6, Jesus was ministering to the multitudes. It was getting late and the people were hungry so Jesus told His disciples to feed the people. However, the disciples didn’t have food to feed them. I believe this was a testing of their faith and they failed it.
The disciples claimed that it was impossible to feed so many. Jesus had done miracles that day so they should not have doubted. But, there was a boy in the crowd who had faith. He brought five loaves of bread and two fish to the disciples.
Oh, the faith of a child! Jesus took what the boy had and fed the multitudes, with food to spare! What's in your hands? Consecrate it to Jesus. God is a miracle-working God who can take the ordinary and do the extraordinary.
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