WHAT'S IN YOUR HAND?

We all have something in our hands and many times we read and experience that there is something about giving - what we have in our hands to God. I’ve always been amazed at how many times we do not see what we have as good enough. As something even worthy to lay before the King. The Bible is full of places where God used normal every-day things to bring about His work and His kingdom.

Sampson had the jawbone of a donkey.
Ruth had grain.
David had his sling and stones.
A boy had his five loaves and two fishes.
A woman had an alabaster jar.
Moses had a staff.

“What is in your hand” means whatever is in your care or control and what you withhold and retain in your hand reveals what is in your heart. As we learn to release what is in our hands, He releases what is in His!

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In the book of Exodus, we find Moses in the barren wastes of the Sinai. While there, God asks Moses a simple question: "What's in your hand?" Moses is a shepherd. That's all he's done for 40 years, and he's ready to retire at age 80. "What's in your hand, Moses?" Moses looks at his hand. "A staff," he tells God — as if God didn't know. The Lord says, "Throw it on the ground." Moses does so, and it becomes a snake. God tells him to pick it up by the tail and it turns back into a staff. Hmmm. Over the next 40 years of Moses' life, God uses that simple wooden stick to deliver the Israelites from Pharaoh, to open the Red Sea, to win a battle with the Amalekites, to bring water from a rock. 

Who would have thought? Surely, Moses initially looked around thinking: "You mean this staff?" Why do you want to use ... this? How can you use this?

For years, you may have echoed this same sentiment ... How do you want to use this? (looking at staff in hand) 

The facts are: you have a staff that God has assigned with your, name on it. For some it's singing, others teaching, some the gift of love, conversation, etc. The greatest joy of life will be being faithful to use what He has placed in your hand. The second, is to love what God has placed in others hands as well. Every staff has a season, a purpose, and a destiny.

On our own, we conclude what we have in our hands is not good enough - and in the midst of our perceived deficit You come … and we watch you break our cycles of imagined scarcity, override our presumed deficits. quiet our anxieties of lack, transform our perceptual field to see the abundance………mercy upon mercy
blessing upon blessing.

Be faithful; take whats is in your hands and use it. You will watch the waters part in front of your very eyes and who knows where that dry land will take you.

He is faithful, and he will complete the work He began in You!