-Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo at Morning Glow, KICC on ‘THE MIGHTY HAND OF THE LORD 7’
Praise the Lord!
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Welcome to morning glow, welcome to another time in the presence of the Lord. I believe you woke up to life, to power, to grace and to the hand of God this morning. I believe that you woke up to the joy of the Lord, the presence of the Lord, the goodness of the Lord.
If you are joining us for the first time, for almost two weeks now, we have just been stuck in the hand of God. And I tell you, it is so awesome to know that we serve a mighty great God whose hand is on our lives. Whose hand is gracing us, whose hand is leading us and this morning I want to first of all take quality time to really just stir up your spirit on the hand of God and believe God that even as I share with you, it will provoke you and it will make you to want to serve the Lord with all your might and with all of your strength in the name of Jesus.
Praise God.
The hand of God in this our day makes us to understand that when others don’t know where to turn, the hand of God is leading us, the hand of God is guiding us, the hand of God is in the affairs of our lives. Church Gist. And He is a mighty God and because of His mighty hand, He will save you, He will deliver you and by His hand, He will silence the enemy. Satan will be put to shame for you.
The hand of God is mighty upon His Children. God created us in His image and in His likeness according to the book of Genesis 1:27. We are created in His image, we are created in His likeness so that we will be like our Father, we would walk like our Father, we would operate like our Father. We will be in the class of our Father and I want you to know that because of that, we can trust His hand to lead us, to guide us, to uphold us.
The Bible says in Genesis 1:27, so God created man in His own image. In the image of God created He them, male and female created He them. It is an insult on the God who spoke the universe into existence to say that we evolved from toads to fish, from fish to this until we came into apes, from apes to man. No! God created man. By one command and it becomes. He said let there be and there was. He is the Omnipotent God who has no limit in what He can do. He is the present God who has no limit to where He can be. Church Gist. He is the Omniscient God who has no limits as to what He can know. His eyes are upon His children and so He promises us that His hand will guide, will lead you, will uphold you and you will never be put to shame.
God is fully aware of what is happening in our lives and with His mighty hand on us, He is able to deliver us from trouble and help us through it all. For example, Isaiah 59:1 makes it clear, it says behold the Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save. I love it. It tells us that when Moses wanted to see God, God said look, you can’t see me and live. Just hide inside the cleft of that rock. There are many of us who are inside the cleft, inside the tight place. The hand of the Lord is not short that He cannot save you nor His ears heavy that He cannot hear you.
One other translation puts it this way; Listen, the Lord’s hand is not too weak to save you nor His ears too deaf to hear your call (NLT). Not too weak. Church Gist.There are some people they want to help you but their hands are too weak to help you. They want to carry you but their hands are too weak, you are too big for them. Glory to God.
God’s hand is not short or too weak to save us from the hands of the enemies. When the enemy comes like a flood and Satan does know how to terrify, scare, he can attack the whole household. The hand of the Lord is not too short that He cannot save. Glory to God.
How do we know that hand parted the red sea? He created it so He can part it. You know to us; I was standing by the sea the other day and the magnificent of the Atlantic just look huge and where I was standing, I am just a spec of a little dust at the edge of the Atlantic in one spot. Church Gist. Incase you don’t know, I was standing in Africa, in Nigeria, in Lagos and the Atlantic goes from Lagos down to South Africa and then it goes South East until it gets to Brazil. It’s a thousand miles. Then it goes on to England to the whole of Europe. Church Gist. Then it goes on to the whole of North America. America has Pacific and Atlantic beside it. It looks big to me but when you go into the space, our planet becomes a tiny ball. And when you get into our solar system, our planet is not the biggest and yet we think can God do it?
The one who spoke all these things into existence, His hand parted the sea in Exodus 14:21. His hand made the sun to stand still for Joshua. Joshua 10:13. His hand opens and no one can shut, His hand shuts and no one can open. Revelation 3:7-8, Isaiah 22:22. His hands are so beautiful that I am inside the palms of His hands, don’t mind the fact that I am sitting on a chair here. I am really inside the palms of His hands. Psalm 138:8.
I cannot forget one of my teachers. She is a Canadian lady called Rose BeloBaba. She loves to sing a song that says “safe am I in the hollow of His hands. Sheltered over in the hollow of His hands. No ill can harm me, no foe alarm me. For He keeps both day and night. Safe am I, safe am I in the hollow of His hands” I can never forget. She was my Teacher. She taught me what is called Pentateuch, the five books of Moses, she is an awesome woman of prayer and just too loving.
So listen, you are in the hollow of His hand. So the Lord will perfect that which concerns you. Psalm 138:8. Glory to God. Therefore with the hand of God on us, He will perfect what concerns you particularly when the Word of the Lord has gone ahead concerning you, it only a matter of time, it must come to pass. How do we know? Genesis chapter 37 until you get to chapter 50 shows us one person on whose life the hand of God was – Joseph. His father favoured him. His brothers didn’t like him. God gave him dream that he will rule his family. His brothers plotted to kill him, they sold him into slavery but then the hand of the Lord turned it round. He was a slave in Egypt but he became the king’s favourite. The hand of the Lord was with him. The hand of the Lord lifted him until he became the second in command. Joseph did not go to school but he became a voice in the land of Egypt.
- I see God doing a new thing in your life, changing your story, moving you into a dimension that you have never imagined. Get ready, it shall come to pass.
The second person whom we see the hand of God in his life was Job. Job chapter 1 to 42. The devil came, attacked him, torn down everything he had but he kept his focus on God. He said that thou He slay me, I will yet praise Him. His friends came, God save us from bad friends, they condemned him, they called him names. His wife also said curse God and die but the plan of God came through in His life because God’s hand was mighty on Job. God’s hand was mighty on his hand. Glory to God. I believe that somebody who is connected to this morning’s morning glow, God is about to change something for you.
Job said in Job 19:25, for I know that my Redeemer liveth and He will stand upon the earth in the latter days. Glory to God. He will stand upon the earth, He will prove Himself mighty and strong on your behalf. God showed up for Job. God showed up so powerfully for him and he truly came out of the mess. The Bible says if God be for us, who can be against us? Paul said for I am persuaded that neither height nor depth nor angels nor principalities nor things present nor things to come can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. Nothing can stop you!
Isaiah 64:8
Everything you are going through is going to mould beauty out of you. The mighty hand of God is going to so work in your life. God is going to bring forth beauty out of that situation, out of that nonsense God is going to make sense for you. The Bible says in Romans 8:28 that all things work together for good to them that love the Lord, to them that are called according to His purpose.
In His times all things will work together for you. There are times you just can’t see it but God is weaving. Church Gist. God is creating something, God is making something happen. Ecclesiastes 3:11 – He has made everything beautiful in His time.
- God is about to make something beautiful in His time in your life, fill your mouth with laughter, fill your life with celebration in Jesus name.
Psalm 31:15
My times are in Your hands. Deliver me from the hands of the enemy and from those who persecutes me. Psalm 60:5. The mighty hand of God is able to save you from any situation and that’s why you must trust Him, you must put your confidence in Him. You must not be shaken. You must just put your eyes on this hand. Church Gist. In Exodus 33 which we have used to pray in this period, Moses said to the people, remember this day which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. For by strength of hand, the Lord brought you out of this place. Nobody who Egypt captures ever escapes. It has to be the hand of God.
- You will not die in the place of slavery.
- You are coming into the fullness of your blessings.
- God will enter places that want to hold you, wreck the place down and give you absolute victory in Jesus name.
- This morning as I prophesy into your life, you are going to see the hand of His power, the hand of His might, the hand of His greatness the hand of testimony, the hand of lifting and the hand of progress in Jesus name.
Glory to God.
Hear what God says to you in Isaiah 41:10 “fear not for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed for I am Your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” God says do not fear. God says He is with us. God says don’t be discouraged. God says He is our God, He strengthen us, He will help us. Church Gist. There are some things that are very overwhelming and you look and you have no plan B, you don’t even know which way to turn to; I prophesy on you this morning, God will come through for you.
- God will uphold you with His victorious hand.
Psalm 16:8
You need to know that God is there and you should not be moved. The promises of God are Yes and Amen through His son Jesus Christ. Psalm 89:21. With God your hands shall be established and with His arm you shall be strengthened. Glory to God. Psalm 139:10. I want you to know that even there, whatever place, His hand will lead you and uphold you.
Get ready for something to turn around. Get ready for healing, favour, turnaround and the mighty hand of God. Get ready for Satan to be put to shame. Get ready for the hand of the Lord to do amazing, awesome and marvelous things in your life in the name of Jesus. Get ready for people to be amazed at what God will do in your life.
Glory to God!
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