Skip to main content

In Your Hands

By

“…But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.”  “What can I do to help you?” Elisha asked. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” “Nothing at all, except a flask of olive oil,” she replied” 2Kings 4:1-2

I want you to know without a shadow of doubt that it is your job to find that opening and to exploit it. God can help you find it but it is still your job to exploit it. We tend to think of openings and opportunities as a distant thing. “The greatest people maximize the opportunities at hand” – Anonymous. Look around you; there are opportunities before you already so stop looking everywhere for what God has already placed in front of you. In  2Kings.4:1-7, a widow came to Elisha seeking help because creditors had come to take her sons. And Elisha asked what she had in the house.

Many of us, like the widow, are quick to answer and say I do not have anything. Do not be in a hurry to answer. God is saying what do you have in the house? Just a little jar of oil, she said. Elisha said we would work with what you have and her story changed. In Luke 9:10-17, Jesus said to His disciples go and feed these five thousand men. They said, we have nothing except this little boy’s lunch. You are complaining that the opportunity is so small. Jesus says feed them. Why? It is because as you take the little opportunities, the ‘bread and fish’ will multiply.

In Judges 6:11-16, the angel said to Gideon, thou mighty man of war and Gideon said it cannot be me. There is something in you that you cannot see but God sees; He put it there and He is calling for it today. In Exodus 4:1-5, God said to Moses, you will deliver my people, Israel and Moses said how? God said, what is in your hand? Moses said, just a rod and God said, with this rod you will bring about deliverance. What I am saying is you already have the opportunity that will change your life. Like Moses, it is in your hand. Like Gideon, it is within you. Like the disciples, you have the relationships in your life already. Like the widow, it is in your house already.

A farmer wanted diamonds so he sold his farm and went on an expedition looking for diamonds. He spent all the money but found no diamonds and eventually committed suicide. Meanwhile back home, the man he sold the farm to, found black rock-like materials while digging. Apparently the farm was sitting on a diamond mine. You are married to an awesome person so stop looking for diamonds where it is not.

Prayer: Holy Spirit, please open my eyes to see the openings around me, in Jesus Name.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

You've been blessed through this reading share with Others. Share the DO's and the DON'T.

Popular posts from this blog

Dominion Mandate Daily Devotional Thursday,March 3

By
THEME: You Can Create Whatever You Desire John 16:21-27 The instrument with which you exercise dominion over creation is your mouth.You can create whatsoever you desire by speaking that thing into existence.Whatever you say begins to exist in the spiritual form.Jesus said in John 6:63,"The words that I speak unto you,they are spirit,and they are life". In like manner,you create whatever you say and the things begin to exist in the spiritual form.What you create through words also have life and they continue to live until they find physical expression.  This is exactly what happens when you pray.The things you declare in prayer come alive and begin to exist in their spiritual form.They remain in that spiritual form until they are converted to their tangible equivalent through work. Jesus said,"until now you have asked nothing in My name.Ask,and you will receive,that your joy may be full" (John 16:24). Don't make the mistake of relaxing after you have pray...
Post a Comment
Read more

Dominion Mandate Daily Devotional Friday, March 18th 2016

By
You Must Forgive Yourself Hebrews 12:1-11 You have heard quite a lot about forgiving those that have offended you – and that you must do. It happens often that the person you must really forgive is yourself. You may have committed an offence or a sin and your conscience has condemned you, just as the Holy Spirit has chastised you. You may also have repented of this sin, confessed it to God and resolved not to go back that way. But you discover that the heaviness, clouded vision, and the erosion of confidence occasioned by the sin you committed continue to weigh you down. At such moments, you need to make another type of confession to God in order to regain your liberty from the weight that holds you down. You have to confess your unbelief in His word that says, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). When you have genuinely repented of a sin and confessed it to God; and you have pleaded ...
Post a Comment
Read more

A Partaker Of Other People's Sins? - Pastor E.A Adeboye

By
Open Heavens Daily Devotional Friday July 15th 2016 Memory Verse: Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure. - 1 Timothy 5:22 Bible Reading: 2 Chronicles 18:28-34 28. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.  29. And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.  30. Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.  31. And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.  32.For it came to pass, that, whe...
Post a Comment
Read more