Do You Know That What Is In Your Hand Is All That Matters

Our tendency vs His way

We are people who need hard evidence to feel safe and secure. When we get to see money in the bank, cash in hand, provisions in the home, etc., we feel comfort and comfortable. So, when we face times and seasons, we need hard evidence in hand is to feel protected and safe.

Yet, that’s not how our God works or seeks to assure. He is beyond and above the natural, the physical and the visible. His works are inspite of appearances and evidences. They’re independent of what you see or hear or feel. His works transcend the natural senses and normal answers. Let’s see an example from the Bible.

God sends the prophet Elijah to a widow in Zarephath to be sustained during a famine (1 Kings 17:15‭-‬16). When he meets her, she is preparing her last meal for herself and her son with her last bit of flour and oil, The prophet requests her to share her meal with him, and declares a blessing over her. He promises her that her jar of flour and jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land. She does exactly as Elijah instructs her, and sees a day-to-day miracle. She and her family, as well as her guest are provided for, her trust and generosity making a way for her. Her jars of flour and oil do not run dry because she chose to obey God’s Word and invest in His Word to her!

Such an action seems foolish in the face of the enormous need she had. Yet, she did it anyway, even when facing a dire end. God’s way is often diammetrically opposite to readon, and contrary to the belief system of this world. His ways are not our ways and His thoughts far removed from ours, as far as the heavens are from the earth. That’s the gap between His thinking process and ours, a world of difference!

Living differently

To live under the economy and provision of God and His Kingdom, you don’t need concrete evidence or hard facts. You just need to have faith, which is the real evidence of things invisible, and substance of things unseen.

Let’s see more evidence of such working of God in the history of the prophet Elisha, the protégé of Elijah. A prophet’s wife came to Elisha for help to save her sons from the money lenders. Her husband had died, and her debtors had come to take her sons in lieu of their debt. Elisha simply asks her what she had in the house. She replies she has a little oil, and he asks her to borrow vessels from neighbours to pour out the oil. She obeys him and finds the oil runs out only after she has filled all the vessels available. He then tells her to sell the oil and pay the debt.

The prophet took what was available to birth a miracle by God’s power that rested on him.

God doesn’t need evidence of abundance to do a miracle or to supply your needs. What is available is all he He needs to meet the need of the hour. He doesn’t see what is not there. He sees what you have in hand and will use that to meet your lack. When something is not there, He will never condemn or chide. He will always increase what is available or what you have with you. So don’t focus on what you don’t have, but on what you have. That is enough for God to meet your needs and necessities.

Lack that limits

God is never constrained just by lack but also evidence about it. He is constrained only by a lack of faith and never by lack of resources! Nothing can prevent His power from flowing or His munificence from meeting our needs, except lack of faith! His hand is not shortened nor His arm restricted that He can’t provide care for you, but you can prevent or tie it up by your lack of faith!

Take another example, when hard evidence declares an emergency situation and shows what is in hand is insufficient to meet the current need. Jesus asks His disciples to feed the multitude, about 5000+ people, and all they have is 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes. What they have in hand is, in the opinion of His disciples, not enough to feed the people, but Jesus is unfazed by the meagreness of what is in hand. He just lifts what is in hand to God in prayer, blesses it and asks His men to distribute to the multitude. They end up not only feeding all the people, but also gather up 12 basketfuls of leftovers, one for each of his team to carry home to their families.

God is never limited by what is at hand nor hampered by what is seen to meet our needs, not frugally or beggarly or miserly, but royally and abundantly!

Trigger for miracle

The economy of His Kingdom, His rule and reign are not based on or dependent on lack of evidence or concreteness of visible facts. It is established on the capacity and the capability of His power and glory. You cannot draw from His store or His benefits without an exchange or a currency. The currency by which His Kingdom operates and by which you can get His provision is simple and easy. It is faith that is the hard cash that will enable you to live off and from His storehouse!

You don’t need cash in hand, money in the bank, investment in stocks or even a healthy financial portfolio to be cared for by Him or fed by Him. All you need is faith, faith in His ability, faith in His capacity and faith in His propensity to meet your needs. You just need to trust Him and live every day under His patronage through faith. He has promised to take care and He will. Your circumstances, or the lack of visible evidence or even your inability to provide will not fazzle Him!

He has enough and more in His hand to supply all our needs. His has the heart to bless His children with good things, day after day.

Learn to be unlimited

So, don’t be disturbed by what you don’t have, or depressed by what the little you do have. Just be thankful for what you do have, for that is enough for God to use or reuse!

Simply trust Him and submit to Him, like a little child, totally. Throw yourself fully on Him and He will protect, and provide. He’ll also please you with His Providence and beneficial munifence.

Don’t be disturbed by what you see or what you hear or what others say. Never be disturbed even by what you know to be true to your sense and commonsense!

Just learn to walk by faith and not by your natural senses!

Don’t be limited by what you have in hand.

Be thrilled by the blessing of unlimited supply by a limitless God!

Saturate yourself, not with daily news reports or news analysis. Rather, soak yourself totally in His Word for we need it to live in these times.

Do not live by what is evident, but live by His Word, daily!

Feed on it and live by it daily and you will see evidence of His care, concern and compensation, every day, day after day!