What Is In Your Hand?
Perhaps the Lord is calling you to do something today or asking you to say something and you are saying to Him: Who am I? What do I have? Well, you are in good company because a very distinguished man in the Bible said those very words to God when He called him to do a task. His name was Moses and we know what great exploits he did for God when he finally said Yes to God.
In Exodus 3 and 4 Moses said unto God: Who am I? And God’s answer to him was not to tell him who he was but to tell Moses that He, God, would be with him. When Moses asked God who he was to tell the Israelites had sent him, Moses was to answer: I AM has sent me. My name is I AM THAT I AM, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
When Moses was still in doubt as to his ability to do what God was asking him to do, God asked him: What is that in thine hand? And Moses answered, a rod. And God showed Moses that the rod was all he needed to go and do what the Lord God was asking him to do.
You see, when the Lord asks us to do something, He never asks without equipping us for the task. And we of all people have all that it takes. He has given us His name. He has given us His blood. He has given us His Word. He has given us the Holy Spirit. And it is not in our own strength or self-efforts that we will do great things for the Lord God. It is through His power, His ability, His strength that we will accomplish whatever we have been called to do. And when He calls, it is usually to do something that our own ability is too weak or limited to do. Then the Lord gets all the honor and praise that is due to Him.
Let’s look at what I AM is. He is saying that I AM whatever you need to do whatever you are asked to do. I am your all sufficiency. In Philippians 2:13, a scripture we used recently in another Pearls of Wisdom, we are told: For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. (KJV) It is God Who works in you, the One Who created everything, is in you to work the work. It is the unlimited, unstoppable, unchangeable, One Who is in you.
Paul, in 2 Corinthians 9:8 when he was talking about being a cheerful giver in relation to finances, said that God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you always having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work. Grace is God’s ability extended to you to do what you cannot do. Abound means more than enough. And we see that word twice in this verse. The Lord God wanted to get something over to us here. God’s ability abounds toward us and we will abound in every good work because we have all sufficiency. Sufficiency means possessing all that you need. This scripture can apply to more than giving finances. It can apply to whatever you are doing. And in whatever you are doing, the Lord doesn’t know addition; He only knows multiplication and increase. Everything He touches is blessed beyond measure. He is in you so that everything and everyone you come in contact with is blessed beyond measure. We must get rid of this little insignificant me attitude and realize Who lives in us, the Greater One, God Himself, to do what we can’t do. Yes, the Greater One lives in us.
And then let’s talk about what is in our hand---the rod. Sometimes the rod is the reference for the Word of God. When God speaks, people listen. Why? Because of the power they recognize. With God’s Word in your mouth, people will listen because they will recognize the power that is coming forth from you. They may not admit that they are listening and may not want to listen, but the power of the Word of God commands attention. I can tell you that there is one group that listens—the devil and all his demons. They know what Jesus the Word did to them. And they will do all that they can to convince you that the Word has little if any power where you are concerned, so why would you have any power from the Word where anyone else is concerned. Well, Jesus was the Word made flesh. Enough said on that subject.
Listen to your Lord, listen to what He says and go and do the work. Yes, you. With the Word of God in your mouth, the name of Jesus on your lips (I AM), the blood of Jesus as your protection and the Holy Spirit as your guide, go forth and do great exploits for the Lord. Moses did. You can.
In Exodus 3 and 4 Moses said unto God: Who am I? And God’s answer to him was not to tell him who he was but to tell Moses that He, God, would be with him. When Moses asked God who he was to tell the Israelites had sent him, Moses was to answer: I AM has sent me. My name is I AM THAT I AM, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
When Moses was still in doubt as to his ability to do what God was asking him to do, God asked him: What is that in thine hand? And Moses answered, a rod. And God showed Moses that the rod was all he needed to go and do what the Lord God was asking him to do.
You see, when the Lord asks us to do something, He never asks without equipping us for the task. And we of all people have all that it takes. He has given us His name. He has given us His blood. He has given us His Word. He has given us the Holy Spirit. And it is not in our own strength or self-efforts that we will do great things for the Lord God. It is through His power, His ability, His strength that we will accomplish whatever we have been called to do. And when He calls, it is usually to do something that our own ability is too weak or limited to do. Then the Lord gets all the honor and praise that is due to Him.
Let’s look at what I AM is. He is saying that I AM whatever you need to do whatever you are asked to do. I am your all sufficiency. In Philippians 2:13, a scripture we used recently in another Pearls of Wisdom, we are told: For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. (KJV) It is God Who works in you, the One Who created everything, is in you to work the work. It is the unlimited, unstoppable, unchangeable, One Who is in you.
Paul, in 2 Corinthians 9:8 when he was talking about being a cheerful giver in relation to finances, said that God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you always having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work. Grace is God’s ability extended to you to do what you cannot do. Abound means more than enough. And we see that word twice in this verse. The Lord God wanted to get something over to us here. God’s ability abounds toward us and we will abound in every good work because we have all sufficiency. Sufficiency means possessing all that you need. This scripture can apply to more than giving finances. It can apply to whatever you are doing. And in whatever you are doing, the Lord doesn’t know addition; He only knows multiplication and increase. Everything He touches is blessed beyond measure. He is in you so that everything and everyone you come in contact with is blessed beyond measure. We must get rid of this little insignificant me attitude and realize Who lives in us, the Greater One, God Himself, to do what we can’t do. Yes, the Greater One lives in us.
And then let’s talk about what is in our hand---the rod. Sometimes the rod is the reference for the Word of God. When God speaks, people listen. Why? Because of the power they recognize. With God’s Word in your mouth, people will listen because they will recognize the power that is coming forth from you. They may not admit that they are listening and may not want to listen, but the power of the Word of God commands attention. I can tell you that there is one group that listens—the devil and all his demons. They know what Jesus the Word did to them. And they will do all that they can to convince you that the Word has little if any power where you are concerned, so why would you have any power from the Word where anyone else is concerned. Well, Jesus was the Word made flesh. Enough said on that subject.
Listen to your Lord, listen to what He says and go and do the work. Yes, you. With the Word of God in your mouth, the name of Jesus on your lips (I AM), the blood of Jesus as your protection and the Holy Spirit as your guide, go forth and do great exploits for the Lord. Moses did. You can.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 7:32 AM
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