The Rod in Your Hand!

Hello Friend,

How are you doing today? How was your weekend? I trust that it was great. I had a marvellous week last week. We had our week long anniversary program in Church and it was glorious.

Where do I start from? Had late nights so I couldn't put posts up. What I will do is try to encourage you this morning, as you start your glorious week. We learnt yesterday about the rod in our hands. To understand this fully, you need to read Exodus 1-4. Pastor Agu Irukwu shared a lot of powerful things with us. We know the story of Moses, the circumstances in which he had been born, and how he ended up in the palace. This is someone who had been marked for death, but was saved when his mother put him in the Nile and asked his sister to watch his basket from afar to see what would become of him. Pharaoh's daughter found him and we know the rest of the story. So he grew up in the palace a s Pharaoh's daughter's son. He killed an Egyptian and when he discovered that some Israelites had discovered what he did he fled. He eventually got married and served as a shepherd in his father in law's territory.

Now check this out, Pastor Agu explained that for forty years, Moses did the same thing. He woke up and went to work, tending to the sheep with his staff/rod in his hand. He was probably so used to the route that he could tell the trees on the route apart. a lot of us are in the same routine. Doing the same thing everyday. Eating the same thing, wearing the same nightie/pj's, the same desk, the same snack everyday,, the same car route, the same channel. He was like, we need to be delivered from the mundane. Anyhow, so Moses went about going on his same route and this day, he noticed something different. A burning bush.

Now if you read the whole thing, God during their conversation told Moses to drop his rod/staff. Exo 4: 1-5 "Moses answered, "What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, 'The LORD did not appear to you'?" Then the LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" "A staff," he replied. The LORD said, "Throw it on the ground." Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. Then the LORD said to him, "Reach out your hand and take it by the tail." So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. "This," said the LORD, "is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you."

God asked Moses what was in his hands. It is not that God didn't know what was in Moses' hand but he wanted him to acknowledge it. In the same way, we need to ask God to reveal to us what is in our hands because whatever it is God can use it for His glory and that will elevate us and grant us divine results. For some people they talk well, God can use that to turn your life around, for some people it is organizing, you just love to organize things, God can catapult you to greatness with that. For some people it is listening, it can be anything. The sermon was so exhaustive. I have heard a similar message before but this just hit home again, especially to move me into divine results.

I pray God shall reveal the rod in your hands to you as well.

L8r