WHOSE POWER DO WE EXHIBIT?
SEVERAL YEARS AGO THE LORD DEALT WITH ME CONCERNING THE TWO POWERS IN THE WORLD AND THAT BEING THE POWER OF EVIL AND THE POWER OF GOOD.
I THOUGHT OVER THIS AND PICTURED A HAND IN MY MIND AND CAME TO THIS CONCLUSION CONCERNING THE HAND – IT SPEAKS OF POWER. THE HAND HAS FIVE FINGERS AND EACH FINGER REPRESENTED A LETTER OF THE WORD POWER– THE FIVE FINGERS THUS FIVE LETTERS.
THIS LED ME TO BELIEVE THAT THE HAND IS POWERFUL AND THOUGH THAT SPOKE VOLUMES TO ME YET I FELT CAUTIOUS IN THE SENSE THAT JUST AS THERE ARE TWO POWERS IN THE WORLD THERE WAS TWO POWERS WITHIN THE GRASP OF MY HAND— THIS THOUGHT FLOODED MY MIND — POWER IN THE WRONG HAND CAN BE DESTRUCTIVE BUT POWER IN THE RIGHT HAND CAN BE CONSTRUCTIVE. THE HAND HAS EITHER THE POWER TO BUILD OR THE POWER TO DESTROY.
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I LOOKED DOWN ONTO MY HANDS AND I WONDERED IF THEY WERE HANDS OF CONSTRUCTION OR DESTRUCTION – I ASKED MY SELF AM I A SPIRITUAL BUILDER OR AM I A SPIRITUAL DESTROYER.
WITHIN MYSELF I KNEW OUTSIDE OF GOD I WAS A DESTROYER AND IN GOD AND THROUGH GOD I WAS MOST DEFINTELY A BUILDER.
I FURTHER ASKED MYSELF HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE. I LOOKED AT MY HAND ONCE AGAIN AND THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN MY HAND.
AND THOUGHT HOW THEN CAN I HAVE POWER IN MY HAND. I SOON REALIZED THAT OUT OF NOTHING GOD CREATED EVERYTHING. GOD TOOK NOTHING AND MADE EVERYTHING. THE WORLD WAS MADE BY THE POWER OF GOD AND THAT OUT OF NOTHING. GOD SPOKE TO NOWHERE AND FROM NOWHERE CAME EVERYWHERE—- “LET THERE BE LIGHT AND THERE WAS LIGHT.”
I PICTURED MOSES ASKED BY GOD AS “WHAT IS IN YOUR HAND?’ HE HELD A SIMPLE SHEPHERDS ROD THAT LATER PERFORMED WONDROUS MIRACLES. THE NATURAL BECAME SUPERNATURAL. READ THE WORD IT WAS THE ROD OF MOSES BUT ON TWO OCCASIONS (IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME RIGHT) IT WAS CALLED THE ROD OF GOD. Take the natural and cast IT down before the lord and you will be surprised what it will become when you pick it up again.
Look at your hands and what you see is so little. Just five loaves and two fishes. GIVE IT TO GOD AND IT WILL FEED THOUSANDS AND WHAT IS SO AMZING THERE WILL BE TWELVE BASKETS REMAINING. WHETHER THERE IS NOTHING IN YOUR HAND, OR JUST A SIMPLE SHEPHERDS ROD OR JUST BREAD AND FISH, GIVE IT OVER TO JESUS AND THAT NOTHINGNESS IN YOUR HAND WILL BE THE MOST CREATIVE HAND BEACAUSE GOD WILL PLACE HIS HAND IN YOUR HAND TO PERFORM THE IMPOSSIBLE.
PERHAPS YOU WILL REITERATE THE WORDS OF MOSES: “WHO AM I THAT I SHOULD GO?” YES YOU ARE A NOBODY—BUT LISTEN GOD TOOK A NOBODY TO DELIVER EVERYBODY THAT IS EVERY SINGLE JEW OUT OF EGYPT. HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD — GOD WILL TAKE A NOBODY FROM NOWHERE (JUST LIKE HE TOOK MOSES FROM THE DESERT PLACE) AND MAKE THAT NOBODY A SOMEBODY AND AFTER GOD HAS TAKEN THAT NOBODY FROM NOWHERE AND PLACED HIM SOMEWHERE AND MADE HIM A SOMEBODY (A SERVANT OF GOD) GOD WILL THEN TAKE THAT NOBODY WHOM HE HAS MADE A SOMEBODY FROM NOWHERE AND PLACED HIM SOMEWHERE GOD WILL THEN SEND HIM EVERYWHERE PRAISE GOD PRAISE GOD PRAISE GOD.
WHAT IS IN YOUR HAND? IS THERE POWER, IF THERE IS NO POWER DON’T FRET AFTER THE HOLY SPIRIT SHALL COME UPON YOU, YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER
–DESTRUCTIVE POWER DESTRUCTIVE POWER DESTRUCTIVE POWER DESTRUCTIVE POWER DESTUCTIVE TO DESTROY THE POWER OF DARKNESS – YOU SHALL TEAR THE DEVIL’S KINGDOM DOWN –DARKNESS SHALL BE DESPELLED IN THE NAME OF JESUS. NOT ONLY WILL YOU HAVE WITHIN YOUR GRASP DESTRUCTIVE POWER BUT CONSTRUCTIVE POWER AS WELL TO BUILD UP THOSE WHO SATAN HAD ENDEAVOURED TO DESTROY
OH CHURCH OF JESUS HOW WE CRY WHEN WE ATTEND OUR CHURCHES THESE DAYS –PENTECOST IS ALMOST LOST – THE POWER WITHIN THE CHURCH HAS BEEN RIPPED OUT OF THE CHURCH AND SAD TO SAY IT IS NOT THE DEVIL ONLY THAT HAS STRIPPED THE CHURCH, IT IS THE CHURCH ITSELF. THE COMMON WORD AMONG PENTECOSTAL MINISTERS: “WE DO NOT WANT TO OFFEND THE PEOPLE THEY WILL NOT UNDERSTAND THEY COME FROM A DIFFERENT BACKGROUND — THEY WILL NOT UNDERSTAND PENTECOST.”
SHAME ON US—SHAME ON US – SHAME ON US –
THERE IS NOTHING IN OUR ONCE PENTECOSTASL HANDS THOUGH ONCE THE POWER OF GOD WAS MIGHTILY THERE. OH HOW SAD OUR CHURCHES ARE NO MORE PENTECOSTAL THEY ARE MOTIVATIONAL – ALL THEY DO IS MOTIVATE PEOPLE TO BLESS THEMSELVES –WHAT ABOUT A DIEING WORLD WITHOUT JESUS .
IN CLOSING LET US LOOK AT OUR HANDS ONCE MORE– THIS IS WHAT I SEE ON EACH FINGER
P … POWER
O … OVER
W … WICKED
E …. EVIL
R …. RIVALRY (author Dr Joseph D’Allende)
Let us cry to our God, let us cry out the way the early Foundational apostles cried out after they were threatened against preaching the Gospel and performing miracles. They got together and prayed and not only was the house shaken they were shaken with might in the inner man.
You, my fellow minster have two powers in your hand, THE POWER TO DESTROY THE POWER OF DARKNESS, THE POWER OF CONSTRUCTION— LET US WORK THE WORKS OF OUR GOD
GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU PRAY OVER THIS EXHORTATION – LOOK AT YOUR HANDS AND ASK YOURSELF WHAT DO I HOLD IN MY HANDS?
YOUR BROTHER IN CHRIST
DR JOSEPH D’Allende
