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Your were not born by chance

What is in your hand

Potential or opportunity: "What is in your hand" could symbolize something you
currently possess that holds potential to achieve something or make a difference.
It could be your skills, knowledge, or resources,

Your gift will open doors for you and bring you before kings
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Exodus 4:2 tells us, “And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand?” The
answer to God’s question was that Moses had a shepherd’s rod in his hand.

Let’s look at the first Bible verse: Exodus 4:1-4

“Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord
did not appear to you?” Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A
staff,” he replied. The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.” Moses threw it on the
ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. Then the Lord said to him, “Reach
out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the
snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.

We know what really happened in the Court of Pharaoh, the King of Egypt when Moses
demanded his people be released so that they can go and worship their God. And the
staff in the hand of Moses played a significant role in his “revolution” against
the status quo.

But we also read that the same staff, according to the Book of Exodus, the staff
(Hebrew: ‫ ַמֶּטה‬matteh, translated "rod" in the King James Bible) was also used to
produce water from a rock, and to part the Red Sea.

Throughout the Bible, God use this principle of using whatever a person possessed
if that person would simply yield it to God.This principle is just another form of
the "sowing and reaping principle".

Among many other items, God used a stick,

a coat,
fishes and bread,
a slingshot,
a jawbone, and
some oil and flour.

The almighty Creator of the universe is able to use any ordinary object that is
yielded to him in faith. The process is not complicated.

God even asked himself the same question when he expressed his love for mankind -
He use his son, His only son. Abraham through his willingness to offer his son, his
only son as an offering for God legally opened this opportunity for God to
recipicate based on covenant principles.

Let’s look at another example in the Bible in 2 Kings 4:7

A certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha,
saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the
Lord. And the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves.”

So Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the
house?” And she said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”

Then he said, “Go, borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbors—empty
vessels; do not gather just a few. And when you have come in, you shall shut the
door behind you and your sons; then pour it into all those vessels, and set aside
the full ones.”

In 1 King 17:8 - 14 we read about the following example of "what do you have in
your hand" or what do you possess.

Then the word of the LORD came to him [Elijah]:

"Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that
place to supply you with food."
So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering
sticks. He called to her and asked, "Would you bring me a little water in a jar so
I may have a drink?"
As she was going to get it, he called, "And bring me, please, a piece of bread."
"As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread--only
a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks
to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it--and die."
Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first
make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then
make something for yourself and your son.
For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: `The jar of flour will not be
used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on
the land.'"

These three examples have something to do with blessings with what they have at
hand. You shall be blessed by what you have, not what don’t have.

This morning, my question to you is what do you have at hand?

This question goes beyond material items on hand. What skills do you have, what
talent do you have, what knowledge do you have, what abilities do you have? What
you have becomes the platform for God to use to launch you into your destiny
provisions.

Another example is in John 6: 5-12, here Jesus was faced with the challenge of
feeding over 5000 people who had gathered to hear him speak. They needed food and
asked if anyone had any to spare; a boy offered his 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes
(which is not even enough to feed only Jesus and his disciples). To the disciples 5
loaves of bread and 2 fishes couldn’t feed 5000 people but to God it was more than
enough. Jesus blessed the little and it was enough with 12 baskets of leftovers.

God works with what is in our hands. Many a times we look outside ourselves for
help to do something, thus doubting God’s ability to use that which he had placed
in us, take our little and make it into something more than enough for us.

At every point in a person’s life, there is a manifestation of his destiny

available to him for his use to get to that destiny. What you’re going to be, is
going to come out from what you have/are now.

Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and
righteousness- 2 Peter 1:3

All you need to do is not despise what you have now, instead be grateful for it,
nurture it with all of your heart and speak the word of God into it then watch God
use it to increase you.

Do not despise these small beginnings – Zechariah 4:10

We have desires, aspirations, dreams etc. and sometimes it causes us to despise

what we currently have; we hate our jobs, partners, house, clothes, everything
about us seems to be just what we don’t need. But I challenge you to see that God
will use what you currently have to get you to where he needs you to be.
Nothing happens by chance; you are not in that current situation by chance, it’s
all part of a plan and supposed to work together for your good but that can only
happen if you stop despising and complaining about what you have and start seeing
what God wants to do through it.

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is
from God and not from us. – 2 Corinthians 4:7

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But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and
God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are
mighty – 1 Corinthians 1:27

How do we turn what we have now into what we need it to be (according to the will
of God)? Wee simple need to find what God’s word says about that thing/situation,
confess that word with our mouth over and over again and by that we are injecting
the life of God into it. So instead of complaining about does things, we speak the
word of God into them.

As we go on into a new week, don’t despise your days of little beginnings, stop
complaining and making excuses, have a grateful attitude, get the word of God in
your mouth and in your heart and watch as God uses that little to create much.

If you have a tendency to despair over lost opportunities or if you worry about the
future, ask yourself this question: “What is right in front of me?” In other words,
what circumstances and relationships are currently available to you? This question
can get your focus off a past regret or a scary future and back to what God can do
in your life.