PART 2: WHAT IS IN YOUR HAND?

Continuation…….

What’s in your hand? 

Give it God, and you will see miracles in your life.

II. What I Have Is Not Enough

Some think they don’t have enough TIME, ENERGY.  I could be faithful to church but that cuts into my time.  I could teach that class but I don’t have enough energy

Let’s look at a lady who learned to give all that was in her hand. Elijah, the man of God, had been dwelling by a brook and was being fed by ravens. Then the brook dried up and God told him to go to a city called Zeraphath and to find a widow woman who would feed him. Elijah found the widow woman and told her what God had said. But when she looked at what was in her hand, it didn’t seem to be enough.

1 Kings 17:12-13 (KJV) 1Kings 17:12 And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

1Kings 17:13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.  Elijah said, “Do that which God said." The widow obeyed God.

I Kings 17:16 says “And the barrel of meal did not waste, neither did the cruse fail, according to the word of the Lord."   What would have happened if she had hoarded that which was in her hand?  They would have starved.

What happened when they gave it to God?

He multiplied it over and over.

Christian, are you hoarding your time?  You are using it for yourself instead of giving it to God.  You can spiritually starve to death. Give what you have to God and let Him multiply it and you will be spiritually full and running over. The reason many think they are starving in a church is because they are keeping their time and energy for themselves.

III. That Which God Has Placed In My Hand May Make Others Laugh.

You desire to be used of God.  You desire to win victories for Christ.  You desire to fight a good fight. But what God has given you is just laughed at by the world. How can one person make a difference with what God has given you?

The Philistines were set to do battle with the Children of Israel... A Philistine giant challenged Israel day after day to send out a man to fight him. No one was willing to fight him except a Shepard boy named David.

1 Sam. 17:42 .And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. 

43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 

44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. 

45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.

46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’S, and he will give you into our hands. And when David when out to do battle, the giant laughed at him.

All David had was a sling shot in his hand.  But when the giant fell from a stone in his forehead no one was laughing any more and a great victory was won.

People may laugh at what God has given you. They may tell you it is impossible for you to do anything for God. But you remember David and say, people may laugh at what I have but God it’s yours. And He will use it to defeat some great giants.

IV. What God Has Placed in My Hand is OLD AGE and UNQUALITYFIED in an Unimportant Place.

Look at Moses: 80 years old working for his father-in-law, keeping sheep, on the back side of the desert, in a foreign country. Look at the EXCUSES • 1] Who Am I?! - Exodus 3:1-12

• [2] Who Should I Say Sent Me?! - Exodus 3:13-22

• [3] What If They Don’t Believe Me?! - Exodus 4:1-9

• [4] But I’m Not Eloquent! - Exodus 4:10-12

• [5] Lord, Send Someone Else! - Exodus 4:13-17

Exodus 4:2 (KJV) And the LORD said unto him: What is that in thine hand? And he said; A rod. We all know the Rod was something that he used every day controlling the sheep but when Moses gave it to God, it lead the Children of Israel to the Promise Land.

What do you have in your hand?

1. Does it seem insignificant? Tell that to Samson. God wants to use small things.

2. Does it seem not enough Time or energy to share? Tell that to the widow. Little is much when God is in it.

3. Does the world laugh at what God has given you? Tell that to David. Your sling shot will defeat giants.

4. Do you think age and former failures will stop you from being what God wants?

To Moses, an old rod became a Symbol of Authority of God. It’s not what’s in your hand, it’s what you let God do with it!