Today God is asking the question "What's in your hand?" Our response is very important because who does not want to answer God! I believe that God knows that we have everything we have need of he only wants to hear our response. Just as God spoke to Moses with this same question, He is challenging us (Exodus 4:1-20). You can read the account and see that God was just waiting on an answer. Our response will either be one of honesty and obedience or one that reflects our lack of faith and trust in God. Moses knew he had a staff in his hand and to his surprise that was the very thing that would lead an entire generation of people out of bondange. This stick I am sure seemed to be very insignificant when Moses and the children of Israel approached the Red Sea. I truly believe that Moses had forgotten at this point that the stick was used to perform many miracles back in Egypt. Ones that included turning the Nile, a body of clear water, into blood and turning that same stick into a serpent right at Pharaoh's feet. We all know these accounts very well, however they cannot just be Bible stories but real accounts that would propel our faith to to the next level. My challenge today is for us to use all that God has provided and gifted us with and allow those things to bring us deliverance and healing. Use what you have in your hand and watch him do miracles in a mighty way. Your obedience to his word is first and foremost as you use and name those things that are in your HAND!
As a personal testimony my husband and I have always been committed tithers. God gave us the revelation on tithing when we were first saved. No natural situation or deveil in hell could ever take this revelation from us. About seven years into our marriage our lives changed, children were added to our union and our finances were stretched to the maximum. We sought God for wisdom in handling the finances God gave us. After our commitment to tithe and pay bills, little was left if any. We had to use what was in our hand and trust God. This meant that we had to allow God to renew our minds (Romans 12:1). No longer could we view our circumstances the same. We had to apply the word to our situation, speaking only what God said about it and not the bill collectors. This meant that we had to use every means that presented itself. We made ourselves available not only to God in our finances but we availed ourselves to people and their needs. My husband James is a licensed Journeyman that can just about fix anything and if he can't he will find someone who can. James would do jobs for others that he did not declare beneath him such as cleaning carpets, home repairs or any auto work he could do such as oil and tire changes. Now you would think that he would charge for those services, but God said "sow yourself for a season" and this is what he did, not taking anything for his labor. The wisdom of God showed us how to save in our grocery shopping by using coupons and I still use them today. Now I know some would say this is too time consuming, but this is a challenge to renew your mind. God challenges us just to see the condition of our heart. We miraculously saw God turn things around through pay raises and unexpected checks from sources owed to us. These are just a few avenues that God used. Attitude is everything! We must always keep ourselves in an attitude of expenctancy and gratfulness toward God. God is forever limitless in is ability to bless. So your gifts, talents and abilities may not be mine or my husband's but you do have something in your hand. Use it....whatever it may be to the glory of God.
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