- God can never be stranded when it comes to His purpose, if He could use a donkey to get someone’s attention, you already have what you need.
Job 14: 7-9
I don’t know who you are watching, wherever you are watching from around the world, for us, like my husband said yesterday, the second half is always a new start, a new season. You don’t need to be recharged if you’ve not exerted yourself, if you’ve not put in energy, if you’ve not done some work. The reason why a phone needs to be recharged or charged is because it has done some work and some people hear sitting, listening, you have exerted, you have put in energy, you have invested, maybe since last year and you are at a point where you’re tired, you’re exhausted, you don’t know the way out, you’re not at your optimum. In a phone device, there is something called low power mode, it gets there when the battery is low. The phone can do certain things but not everything. When you want to start again, when you want to get to a point where life comes, where you are doing things better than you used to, then you need something to be added. I pray that in this season of recharge, that life, that needed water will get to you in Jesus’ name.
YOU ARE NOT STRANDED
Exodus 4: 1. The preceding chapters about Moses, we all know the trend that he had, the passion that he had to rescue the Israelites, he was like a deliverer, we know all that happened, the drama, and that he had to leave Egypt. In chapter 3, verse 1 started that Moses was tending sheep in his father-in-law’s house and that looks like a paradox, a deliverer tending sheep, and then he had an encounter with God. Then let’s look at Exodus 4: 1-4. Now, Moses was a shepherd, and shepherds use rods, to tend the sheep to guide them, to protect them, to punish them. So that rod in the hands of Moses wasn’t a special rod, another version said it was his walking stick, it was just a stick, but, at the time when God needed the deliverer Moses to step out, of course Moses was afraid, he was just focusing on his inadequacies. You will think that a deliverer, a deliverer needs auction, he needs charisma, he needs a surge, he needs all the swag of being a deliverer, but all he had was that stick. Something that he was used to using, let me use that phrase, every day, he would go out and come in using that stick, he would hit the sheep on the head with that stick, if he needed to fall down, he would hold that stick, just a normal stick, but God told him, ‘Cast that rod on the ground’, and in a twinkling of an eye, that single stick, that used stick became a tool of power.
Exodus 4: 17. What Moses needed in that position of a deliverer wasn’t more anointing, it was what he already had that he cast on the ground. In chapter 3, God told Moses, ‘Where you are is holy ground, throw that stick on the ground’. I don’t know what you have, sometimes when we are looking for, we want to be charged, we want breakthrough, we want something new, we are always thinking of something else. Our mind is that God will give me something, I will meet someone that is connected to Dangote, or someone that is connected to Bill Gates, or somehow, it’s something you don’t have. What you need, you already have. All you need to do is to throw it at His feet, the holy ground, His presence. I don’t know what you are used to, you might already be despising it, it could be a skill, you can cook, you can teach children, you can counsel, there’s something you have, there’s a relationship in your life, it could be your spouse, the answer is always around you, but sometimes we belittle these things. Moses could never have thought that with a rod, with that stick he had been using, he could part the red sea, because God’s power had rested on it. Nigeria, for some people, except God tells you to leave, the answer is in this country. The prayers we need to pray is, lord, help me to see, open my eyes to recognize what you have placed within me and around me.
The truth is sometimes we know but we are scared. 2Kings 5, Naaman was leprous and he thought he needed something complicated, the prophet said, ‘Go and wash in river Jordan’. He said I could have had a good wash in better rivers, the prophet told him that ‘If I had told you something complicated, won’t you have done it, go and wash’. And when he washed and he came out, that’s multiplication, the Bible said his skin was like that of a baby. Naaman chose to trust that word. Your word might have come to you yesterday and you are still saying ‘No, I have to fast, they have to lay hands on me, I have to fall down’. The instruction has come already, don’t belittle it. God can never be stranded when it comes to His purpose, if he could use a donkey to get someone’s attention, you already have what you need.
There is something called the multiplier effect in economics, there is something called a multiplier effect even in psychology, when you invest, ripple effect gives you multiplied returns. God deals with multiplication, Moses cast that single rod in obedience and what did he get in return? A tool of power. God is opening our eyes already; you will know and see that rod. It also happened in 1Kings 17: 8-16. When God told the prophet, I have commanded a widow, what would you think? You would think that the widow was rich or that God had already gone to meet the widow to tell her that ‘my prophet is coming, make sure…’. I’m sure if it was the prophet in our days, he would have been looking for a rich widow, not one gathering sticks. This was not a widow that thought she had a future, in fact what she had was about running out, she was about to eat and die. The woman put the flour in the hands of the word, in her eyes, the flour was about to run out, but in God’s eyes, that flour would be the source of multiplication. There is something in your hands, put it in the hands of God’s word, that little thing that is about to die will not die, in the name of Jesus.
It looked like Isaac was the only son that Abraham had, he was the chosen son, God said give me that son. Abraham said if Isaac is gong to die for any reason, its better that he dies in God’s hands, because God that gave him would bring him back to life. There is a mindset about this year, about this season, and we are saying I need a connection, I need an anointing, I need more, and God is saying, ‘You have all you need, put it in my hand’. Your store house would not be exhausted, your source of income would not be used up, your menta vitality, God’s power will come upon it afresh in the name of Jesus Christ.
1Samuel 17: 38 At that time, David needed what he was used to. God’s power is not in what you are not used to but what you are used to. It has worked before; it would work again. For months or weeks this Goliath had been threatening the Israelites but the best of the soldiers could not fight, when he saw David, he disdained him for two reasons. One, he was only a youth, and two, he was an aje-butter, he was chubby and good-looking.
#RC2021
#RechargeConference2021
#PastorBimboDavids
#ChurchGist
