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MGD: What Is in Your Hands Today?

Harvest Chapel International - Kumasi

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  1. Because I leave, you also will leave John fourteen, verse

  2. nineteen b. Charlom be loved and welcome to our morning

  3. glory devotion. Facilitating today's devotion. Our mistime is a sex champoint.

  4. Let's kindly share a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we

  5. give you all the glory. We worship you with blushe.

  6. We adore you as we humble ourselves this morning to

  7. listen to your word open. I had a mind to

  8. receive your wisdom. In Jesus's name, we pray a man

  9. will take a confession from Joshua one eight. This book

  10. of the law shall not depart out of my mouth.

  11. But I shall meditate in the day and night that

  12. I may observe to do according to all that is

  13. written in me. For then I shall make my way prosperous,

  14. and then I shall have good success. Amen, beloved. The

  15. topic for today's devotion is what is in your hands today?

  16. Taking from Marthe twenty five forteen to thirty, and I

  17. read from the King James version for the Kingdom of

  18. Heaven is as a man traveling into a fur country,

  19. who called his own servants and delivered unto them his

  20. gools and onto one he gave five talents, and to

  21. another two to another one to every man according to

  22. his several appilities, and straightway took his journey. Then he

  23. that had received five talents went and traded weather say,

  24. and made them other five talents. But he that had

  25. received one went and dick in the heat and hid

  26. his lord's money. After a long time, the lord of

  27. those sevents come meth and reconnected with them. And so

  28. he that had received five talents came and brought other

  29. five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliverst onto me five talents. Behold,

  30. I have gained beside them five talents more. His Lord

  31. set on him, well done, thou, good and faithful. Seven

  32. thou had been faithful over a few things. I will

  33. make thee rule out over many things enter down into

  34. the joy of the Lord. And also he that have

  35. received two talents came and said, Lord, thou delivererst onto

  36. me two talents. Behold, I have gained towarder talent beside them.

  37. His Lord set on him, well done, good and faithful,

  38. seven thou have been faithful over a few things. I

  39. will make thee reel over many things entered down into

  40. the joy of the Lord. Then he always had received

  41. the one talent, came and said, Lord, I know thee

  42. thou at an hard man, ripping where that had not soon,

  43. and gathering where thou had no straw. And so I

  44. was afraid, and I went and hit the talent in

  45. the head. Law there thou hast that is dying. His

  46. Lord answered and said, unto that wicked and slot for seven,

  47. thou knowest that I reap where I sould not, gathered

  48. where I have no stroud. Thou ought therefore to have

  49. put my money to the exchanges, and then at my

  50. coming I should have reached my own way. Usury onto

  51. everyone that has shall be given, and he shall have

  52. abandance from him that had not shall be taken away,

  53. even that which he had and cast hid the unprofitable

  54. servant into outer that list there shall be weeping and

  55. nashing of it.

  56. Amen, what is in your hand today, beloved? Ask Christians.

  57. It is very easy to look at our lives on

  58. an ordinary morning and feel that we simply do not

  59. have enough to make a difference. We look at our

  60. modest savings a limited time or are quiet talent, and

  61. compare ourselves to those who seem to possess boundless ability

  62. and influence. We slip into the habit of waiting until

  63. we have more money, more strength, monolage, or a better position,

  64. before we finally decide to be useful to go. But

  65. what if the Lord were to speak to your how

  66. today and acts? What have we done with what I

  67. have already given him? What will your honest answer be?

  68. This very question lies at the heart of the power

  69. of the talent Marthew twenty five. Before going on our

  70. long journey, the Master entrusted his wealth to three seven

  71. to only gave five talents to another, two than to another,

  72. one each according to his ability. When the Master returned,

  73. he did not compare the servants when one another. He

  74. did not ask the sevant with two talent why he

  75. had not produced it. His concent was much simpler. Were

  76. you faithful with what I entrusted to you? Both the

  77. servant who received five talent and the one who received

  78. two talents put their gifts to work, and both received

  79. the same commendation, Well done, their good and faithful servant.

  80. The third seventh, however, allowed fear to paralyze him. He

  81. did not lose their talent, nor did he waste it. Recklessly. Instead,

  82. he buried it in the ground and did nothing with it.

  83. Many believers live exactly like that, Ted Sevant. We bury

  84. our gift because we think they are too small to matter.

  85. We convince ourselves that our contribution is insignificant. If you

  86. are young, you may feel you need to wait until

  87. you are older before God can use you. If you

  88. are raising a family, you may feel that daily responsibilities

  89. leave little room for meaningful service. Others may believe they

  90. need more resources, more opportunities, or better circumstances before they

  91. can make an impact. Yet God never access us for

  92. what we do not have. He access us to be

  93. faithful stewards of what is already in our hands at time.

  94. Our abilities are resources, are words of encouragement, and even

  95. the small opportunity places before us each day. One day,

  96. every one of us will stand before the Lord take

  97. give an account. On that day, he will not ask

  98. how much we wish to be had. He will not

  99. measure us to gain someone else's gift or opportunities. Instead,

  100. he will look at a portion he entrusted to us

  101. and asks what we did with it? What is in

  102. your hand today? Whatever it is, do not bury it,

  103. use it for God's glory, Be faithful with what he

  104. has given him, and trust him with the result. Amen,

  105. we'll take our memory raised from Matthew twenty five, verse

  106. twenty one. And I read his Lord said unto him,

  107. well done, that gold and faithful servant that has been

  108. faithful over a few things. I'll make the ruler over

  109. many things. A then, believerless, kindly share a word of prayer. Father,

  110. in the mighty name of Jesus, Thank you for your

  111. word that has come today. Thank you that you don't

  112. measure us by what others have, but by our faithfulness

  113. with what you've already placed in our hands. Open our

  114. eyes to see they gives time and opportunities we have

  115. been overlooking. Give us courage to use them today they

  116. seem small. Help us not to bear what you've entrusted

  117. to us out of fear or comparison. Help us to

  118. live that one day we will hear well done, good

  119. and faithful servants in Jesus name. Amen, Thank you, beloved

  120. and God wishly bless you for staying through with us.

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  123. prayer Chalom