What Do You Have In Your Hand?

Have you experienced a troubling situation lately? Perhaps a health, relationship, or money problem? In times like these, people go to great lengths to find deliverance from their painful woes.

In case you’re currently experiencing financial, physical, or spiritual set backs, I want to give you a secret principle for finding deliverance in the most unlikely places.

A great story to discover this success principle is found in Exodus 4:1-5. Ancient Israel was facing literal bondage. They wept over their troubles and cried out for deliverance. The Almighty heard their plea and decided to send a deliverer to end their suffering. However, the chosen leader, Moses, wasn’t confident that he was the man for the job.

He wanted some assurance that the elders of Israel would listen to him and believe that God truly appeared to him. Even after having a miraculous visit from God at the burning bush, Moses presented several excuses to get out of the mission. To boost his faith, God asks him a key question:

God then performed two other miracles to reassure Moses that, with these signs and this simple tool, he didn’t have to worry about delivering Israel. In this scenario, what I hear God saying, as a key to bring about deliverance in your time of trouble is:

Put another way:

What are the implications to the question, “What Do You Have In Your Hand?” Your Creator has endowed you with sacred gifts, I call these SKILLS — education, expertise, and experiences. When you lay them at His feet as on offering or prayer, He can use them to provide for your needs, deliver you from bondage, and give you an overflow to be used to bless others.

I call this principle, Building The Ark Before The Flood Comes. When you get used to seeing your “meager” skills as blessings in disguise, you will begin to pray differently and experience faster deliverance from trials and tribulations. Don’t discount yourself and what you actually have.

All God needs is a little something of whatever you have and He can make it big. He can multiply it. He can use it to bring about a mighty deliverance for you. Just like He did with Moses’ rod and David’s slingshot and five stones. Don’t underestimate your seed, your faith, your rod (staff), your sling, or your stones.

Take a moment now to write down at least 3 answers to the question, What Do You Have In Your Hand? Think about areas of expertise and educational background also.

Then you have all the ingredients necessary: the education, expertise, and experiences — use them.

Please share your thoughts on this below in the comments section. What do you have in your hand that God has ALREADY given you? What do you have in your mind? What do you have in your heart? That if you put it in His hands, He can bless abundantly and deliver you.