HANDIWORK

• What is that in your hand?
• Every journey completed began with a first step; every project with an initial action to carry it out: Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel, for example, began with the first stroke of a brush - no, with the hand picking up the brush... So what is that in your hand? Whatever it is, that is where your future begins. Use what you hold for the glory of God, and your hand will become a instrument in his hand.
• References to God's hand, your hand, our hands appear over 1400 times in Scripture; and usually with connection to outcomes for good or evil resulting from what these hands have done or not done with what they held; or to a potential for good or evil depending on what these hands will do with what they hold...
• What is that in your hand?

• "A staff...but I am slow of speech and tongue." Exodus Chapter 4 Moses speaking to God on the occasion of Moses call to lead the exodus of Israel from Egypt

• "...five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?" John 6:5-13 Andrew to Jesus, responding to Jesus' query, "Where shall we buy bread to feed these people?"

• "...a handful of flour...a little oil...and a few sticks...to make a meal and die." 1 Kings 17:7-16 A single Mom, responding to a Prophet's request for food; See,

• "...a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened...on his hand (and) they said to each other, 'This man must be a murderer' (and) expected him to...suddenly fall dead." Acts 28:1-10 Residents of the Island of Malta, expecting Paul the Apostle to die from snakebite.

• Amazingly, little things with God soon become big - they just have a way of growing when we use the little thing to cooperate with God do his big things. Listen to this:
• "The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity-in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground-in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.
• "The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.
• "The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom." Deuteronomy 28 11-14
• So Moses staff became a mighty weapon in his hands; a few pieces of bread and fish in the hands of a child fed a multitude; a cup of flour and few tablespoons of oil in the hands of a single Mom fed her son, the prophet of God, and her through long months of famine; and a deadly viper bite on the hand of God's apostle couldn't kill him, because his hands were anointed of God...
• What is in your hand? I dare you to find out what it can become when God places his hands on yours...

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