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MGD: What Is in Your Hands Today?
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Because I leave, you also will leave John fourteen, verse
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nineteen b. Charlom be loved and welcome to our morning
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glory devotion. Facilitating today's devotion. Our mistime is a sex champoint.
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Let's kindly share a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we
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give you all the glory. We worship you with blushe.
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We adore you as we humble ourselves this morning to
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listen to your word open. I had a mind to
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receive your wisdom. In Jesus's name, we pray a man
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will take a confession from Joshua one eight. This book
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of the law shall not depart out of my mouth.
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But I shall meditate in the day and night that
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I may observe to do according to all that is
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written in me. For then I shall make my way prosperous,
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and then I shall have good success. Amen, beloved. The
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topic for today's devotion is what is in your hands today?
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Taking from Marthe twenty five forteen to thirty, and I
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read from the King James version for the Kingdom of
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Heaven is as a man traveling into a fur country,
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who called his own servants and delivered unto them his
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gools and onto one he gave five talents, and to
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another two to another one to every man according to
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his several appilities, and straightway took his journey. Then he
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that had received five talents went and traded weather say,
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and made them other five talents. But he that had
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received one went and dick in the heat and hid
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his lord's money. After a long time, the lord of
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those sevents come meth and reconnected with them. And so
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he that had received five talents came and brought other
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five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliverst onto me five talents. Behold,
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I have gained beside them five talents more. His Lord
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set on him, well done, thou, good and faithful. Seven
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thou had been faithful over a few things. I will
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make thee rule out over many things enter down into
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the joy of the Lord. And also he that have
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received two talents came and said, Lord, thou delivererst onto
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me two talents. Behold, I have gained towarder talent beside them.
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His Lord set on him, well done, good and faithful,
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seven thou have been faithful over a few things. I
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will make thee reel over many things entered down into
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the joy of the Lord. Then he always had received
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the one talent, came and said, Lord, I know thee
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thou at an hard man, ripping where that had not soon,
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and gathering where thou had no straw. And so I
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was afraid, and I went and hit the talent in
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the head. Law there thou hast that is dying. His
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Lord answered and said, unto that wicked and slot for seven,
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thou knowest that I reap where I sould not, gathered
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where I have no stroud. Thou ought therefore to have
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put my money to the exchanges, and then at my
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coming I should have reached my own way. Usury onto
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everyone that has shall be given, and he shall have
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abandance from him that had not shall be taken away,
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even that which he had and cast hid the unprofitable
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servant into outer that list there shall be weeping and
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nashing of it.
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Amen, what is in your hand today, beloved? Ask Christians.
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It is very easy to look at our lives on
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an ordinary morning and feel that we simply do not
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have enough to make a difference. We look at our
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modest savings a limited time or are quiet talent, and
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compare ourselves to those who seem to possess boundless ability
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and influence. We slip into the habit of waiting until
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we have more money, more strength, monolage, or a better position,
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before we finally decide to be useful to go. But
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what if the Lord were to speak to your how
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today and acts? What have we done with what I
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have already given him? What will your honest answer be?
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This very question lies at the heart of the power
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of the talent Marthew twenty five. Before going on our
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long journey, the Master entrusted his wealth to three seven
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to only gave five talents to another, two than to another,
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one each according to his ability. When the Master returned,
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he did not compare the servants when one another. He
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did not ask the sevant with two talent why he
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had not produced it. His concent was much simpler. Were
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you faithful with what I entrusted to you? Both the
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servant who received five talent and the one who received
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two talents put their gifts to work, and both received
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the same commendation, Well done, their good and faithful servant.
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The third seventh, however, allowed fear to paralyze him. He
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did not lose their talent, nor did he waste it. Recklessly. Instead,
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he buried it in the ground and did nothing with it.
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Many believers live exactly like that, Ted Sevant. We bury
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our gift because we think they are too small to matter.
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We convince ourselves that our contribution is insignificant. If you
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are young, you may feel you need to wait until
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you are older before God can use you. If you
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are raising a family, you may feel that daily responsibilities
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leave little room for meaningful service. Others may believe they
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need more resources, more opportunities, or better circumstances before they
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can make an impact. Yet God never access us for
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what we do not have. He access us to be
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faithful stewards of what is already in our hands at time.
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Our abilities are resources, are words of encouragement, and even
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the small opportunity places before us each day. One day,
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every one of us will stand before the Lord take
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give an account. On that day, he will not ask
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how much we wish to be had. He will not
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measure us to gain someone else's gift or opportunities. Instead,
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he will look at a portion he entrusted to us
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and asks what we did with it? What is in
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your hand today? Whatever it is, do not bury it,
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use it for God's glory, Be faithful with what he
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has given him, and trust him with the result. Amen,
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we'll take our memory raised from Matthew twenty five, verse
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twenty one. And I read his Lord said unto him,
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well done, that gold and faithful servant that has been
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faithful over a few things. I'll make the ruler over
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many things. A then, believerless, kindly share a word of prayer. Father,
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in the mighty name of Jesus, Thank you for your
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word that has come today. Thank you that you don't
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measure us by what others have, but by our faithfulness
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with what you've already placed in our hands. Open our
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eyes to see they gives time and opportunities we have
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been overlooking. Give us courage to use them today they
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seem small. Help us not to bear what you've entrusted
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to us out of fear or comparison. Help us to
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live that one day we will hear well done, good
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and faithful servants in Jesus name. Amen, Thank you, beloved
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and God wishly bless you for staying through with us.
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