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“Then the Lord said to him, ‘What is that, in your hand?’” (Exodus 4:2, NIV)
Charles Mulli was a man who knew the streets. Abandoned at age seven, he came to Christ as a young man and couldn’t dismiss the call of God on his life to reach out to street kids in his native country of Kenya. He felt so ill equipped to make a difference. Although he had the financial resources he also had a large family of his own to support, and no inkling of where to begin a ministry with orphans. He also felt that God was calling him to sell everything before he could begin. His wife had serious doubts. He started simple. He fed a few children in his own neighborhood.
How often do we buy into Satan’s lie that we have nothing worth giving? If we look around us we can easily find someone who is more efficient than we are, more qualified, or who has way more experience. But God’s only requirement is a willing heart.
When we believe that we have nothing worth giving to God whether it is our time, abilities, or our resources, we not only deprive others, but we also deprive ourselves of Gods rich blessing on our lives.
How we would love to do something grand, but because we can’t do everything we often don’t do anything. Yet deep inside we know that genuine caring goes beyond feeling into actions, for it is pity that stands at a distance; compassion gets involved.
God is asking you to act today, just as he asked Moses who only had a staff in his hand, and was convinced he’d never make a public speaker.(Exodus 4:10)
What do you have in your hand to offer him? Is it your time spent with a troubled youth or a senior who needs a hand with the groceries? Maybe God asks that you intercede in prayer. God will use what we have only if we offer it freely to Him, just as he used the staff in Moses’ hand to demonstrate His power to Pharaoh. When Moses’ reluctance turned to a willing heart, God delivered His people from bondage into freedom.
Charles Mulli, MCF founder has given hundreds of displaced children a home, love, and hope for their future.
Don’t despise the small things that God is calling you to do.
Father God, how often I feel inadequate to make a difference in your Kingdom. Help me look beyond myself today, to your amazing power. I yield all that I am and all that I have for your purposes and plans, and I stand in faith, expecting great things. Amen
Question: Consider who you are in Christ; what do you have in your hand to offer?
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To all the first time/soon to be and older mother’s out there. I was reading Hailey’s comment and felt lead to share a little on how as Mum’s we have service options different to but as rewarding as before taking on this most precious role. It’s very true that as mother’s we no longer have the freedome to come and go, to devote ourselves totally to ministry and service – we have the responsibility to nurture and raise our little ones and teach them about Christ and His plan for their lives. That said we do have service and ministry options available to us. Think about all the Mums you will meet as you attend playgroups, mummy and me classes and when the time comes pre-school and even school. If you’re like me you will attend a mix of Christian and non-christian groups. Take these thoughts with you to each group: Every time you offer a helping hand to any of the mothers you come in contact with you’re sharing the love of Jesus with them. Each time you speak with them and encourage them in their daily lives of raising their families and running their homes you are communicating God’s grace and compassion to them. Each time you offer them a shoulder to lean on and/or cry on you are the physical representation of God’s loving embrace.
Beautiful mother’s everywhere – go forth and take up your service to God, be His arms, His Feet, His Heart. Your biggest and most impacting acts of service are coming!
Mom of 3 and alice – Thank you for your encouragement and words of wisdom. I truly take them to heart and appreciate you reaching out to me! I do want my family to be priority and my #1 ministry. Keep me in your prayers that I may be able to discern God’s vision for my daily life. Bless you!
I just wanted to encourage Hailey, the new mom, that her greatest mission field is in her arms every day. When I had my first baby, I was so tired that I barely took time to pray let alone read my Bible and getting to church on time was a chore. I felt like my whole spiritual life had stopped. But then I realized God had given me the most important mission of my life. My children will learn about God from me—when I pray out loud, when I read the Bible to them, sing them hymns and model my beliefs. He trusts us to share Him with them. It is the most amazing, awe inspiring and exhausting mission you will ever do. Praising God for your new blessing and praying for your ministry ahead!
I am now a grandmother.My son has two children but, at this stage, my daughter has no children. We are believing that the Lord will still bless her with children.Pray with me for this? Children are God’s blessing in our lives. These children come straight from heaven from our Father God who blesses us with the priviledge of bringing up these children in the ways of the Lord. It is our task to ensure that our children are properly cared for, loved to the extreme, supported and educated and prayed for on a continual basis. Our children need to be taught about the Lord and His great blessings and plan for our lives. Motherhood is such a huge responsibility. This is your God-given task for this time in your life. When you children have left home and have families of their own, then you will have more than enough time to get involved with ministries outside your home. Your home, your husband, your children are now your first responsibility at this stage of your life. Do not get confused by “works”. You can pray continually while caring for your children. The Lord has created you for this time to be spent caring and loving and teaching your children. Do that first. Let me assure you, this season passes all too quickly and then you will have time to do other things for the Lord. Being able to look after and bring up your own children is a gift from the Lord. Love what you are doing. Enjoy the season you are in. Thank God every second of the day for your children. Love them, care for them, teach them about the Lord, help them, prefer them, encourage them. You have enough to keep you busy without being trapped into outside activities that will rob you of precious moments with your children. You have to ensure that your children will be able to stand on their own one day and to be able to take up their place in society, in the workplace and in a ministry the Lord will call them into. This is your taks for now!!!
This devotional really hit home for me today. I am a first time mother, my baby boy is now 11 weeks old and how life has changed! I feel so unavailable for the Lord these days. Before I had my baby I had all the time in the world to serve and reach out to others and now it’s been hard for me to do much of any of that. I know being a mom is a ministry in itself but I can’t help but want to do more for others as well. It’s easy to think that you I don’t have much to offer now and have that lead to not doing anything. But I don’t want that to be the case; my availability may look different now but I am not going to stop having a willing and eager heart to do more for the Lord. As long as I am willing, He will guide me into opportunities to be used by Him. I need to keep my eyes and ears open for opportunties that probably look different than ones I have had before I was a mom. Now that I am a mom I probably have new things to offer and a new group of people I can reach!
I try to hear the Holy Spirit speaking to me about what I need to do. I go to the word of God, and pray about it as well. I have been blessed w/ some opportunities in my retirement to help others, and to get more wisdom in a Bible Study that I attend weekly. I want to be equipped for when I’m really called to make a difference. In the mean time, I help the children in the schools by volunteering to tutor one day a week, and I help a Good News Club which talks to the children about God, in an after school program (one day a week). I pray for these children and for these programs as well. I also have begun to help in the children’s program at church. It has been fulfilling. I know I am called to searve the Lord, and I am blessed by doing good for the Lord. I must share that I am still searching for my Spiritual Gifts, and I think the main gift I can give right now, is the gift of helping and assisting others by volunteering. After working 31 years, I have something I never had b4. Time… It’s really a blessing.
Wow! This is so true. I often feel so burdened for people, but I don’t know how to help them. At different times in my life I’ve felt a strong desire to do something, but have been discouraged to do so. Then I’m overwhelmed with guilt because I did nothing. Often I feel my life isa waste, because I’m not helping anyone.
great story and great examples. Thank you for this post.May God continue to use you in your writing.