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exodus chapter 4 Exodus chapter 4 verse
1 then Moses answered and said but
suppose they will not believe me or
listen to my voice suppose they say the
Lord has not appeared to you so the Lord
said to him what is in your hand and he
said a rod or a stick
he said cast it on the ground so he cast
it on the ground and it became a serpent
and Moses fled from it how many of you
can relate to that part of the verse I
like that he fled from it then the Lord
said to Moses reach out your hand and
take it by the tail and he reached out
his hand and called it and it became a
rod in his hand and I’m gonna stop
reading there and I want to share with
you today on the subject of the
supernatural we live in a world that’s
interested in the supernatural
interested in the spiritual not always
the holy spiritual but the spiritual
movies books are seems like our more
being made about the supernatural than
ever before because there is a hunger
it’s amazing that when the church seems
in many places to be cold dead dull and
dry and there’s no mention of
supernatural power there’s no mention of
the power of the Holy Spirit that the
world is crying out wanting supernatural
power in the story of Moses I see three
quick things that I want to emphasize to
you the Bible said that God told Moses
after 40 years of being in the desert
I’m ready to use you again he spoke
through a burning bush and he said I
want you to go to Pharaoh and tell him
to let my people go
and after 450 years of bondage God said
you’re the man I’m going to use to
deliver the people and he said Lord why
would he believe me why would he say and
accept that God has sent me and God
asked him a question he said what is in
your hand he said there’s nothing in my
hand but a stick and God said
to him throw it down and the Bible said
that the stick became a serpent he said
I’m going to use what I’ve already given
you and I want you to throw it down and
it turned into a snake and then the
Bible said Moses fled from it he ran
from that snake he was running from his
calling some of you’ve camouflaged your
calling and some of you are trying to
cover up your calling and running from
your calling but God’s not gonna let you
run from your calling it’s time to run
to it and God spoke to him and said now
pick the snake up by the tail and this
is huge he said I want you to pick that
snake up by the tail now I’m not a snake
handler but if I were going to pick a
snake up I would not pick him up by the
tail I’ve watched enough of the TV shows
on National Geographic to know you grab
him by the back of his head because if
you grab him by the tail he can turn
around and bite you and what God was
saying to Moses if I’m going to use you
you will have to confront your fears you
will have to overcome fear because one
of the main things that God that Satan
will do to try to stop you from being
used of God is to put you into fear and
God said the only way you can be used by
me number one is to overcome your fear
to confront your fear and that stick
that looks so common that stick that
looks so normal that stick that looks so
ordinary when he released it became
supernatural I believe I know where
Moses got his stutter from because when
you first read of Moses the Bible said
he was eloquent or mighty in speech and
in words but later we read that he had a
stutter you don’t know where he got the
stutter from this is my own
interpretation when God said pick up the
stick he said what what
that’s where it all started that was
worth coming to church for right there
if you didn’t get anything else up it he
said throw it down and then pick it up
and the snake turned back into a stick
suddenly everything went back to normal
because sometimes all God needs is for
you to give him what he’s already given
you and all God needs sometimes it’s
just a stick when he was standing on the
Red Sea God said all I need is a stick
hold that stick up and I’ll part the Red
Sea in your gold cross on dry land when
they were in the bitter waters of Marah
and they were thirsting to death and
they didn’t have anything to drink in
the desert God said take a stick and put
it in the water and the stick will
transform the bitter water into sweet
water and they could drink it because
sometimes all God needs is an ordinary
stick when the widow was dying in the
famine and about to kick to cook her
last meal the Bible said the Prophet
showed up at her house and noticed what
she was doing she was gathering sticks
to make a fire to eat her last meal
because sometimes all God needs for a
miracle is a stick when the axe head
flew off of the handle and went into the
Jordan River and the sons of the
prophets could not continue the building
program and the Prophet said get a stick
off of that tree break a branch off and
put it in the water and when he did when
he put the stick in the water the axe
head did swim the iron did swim and it
began to swim back onto that stick
because sometimes when God wants to do a
miracle all he needs is a stick when God
wanted to prove that he was God to a
barbarian people who were on an isolated
island he said Paul I want you to gather
sticks and build a fire and I’m gonna
let the
people know that I am God when God was
ready to redeem the world from sin he
allowed his son to die at Calvary on two
sticks because sometimes all God needs
is a stick and that’s why the Bible said
a friend loves at all times and there is
a friend that sticks closer than a
brother
sometimes all God needs is an ordinary
common average stick we think to do the
supernatural we have to be somebody
special somebody wonderful somebody
super spiritual when God is not looking
for that he’s looking for sticks he’s
looking for the ordinary all God needs
from you is exactly what you have to
offer notice he didn’t say what do you
have in your head because the miracle
that God wants from you is not dependent
on your intellect notice he didn’t say
what do you have what do you have in
your mouth because the miracle that God
needs from you is not dependent upon
your vocabulary he said what do you have
that I have already given you you don’t
need to produce a miracle out of what
you don’t have I’m gonna use what I’ve
already given you a simple Shepherd
stick quick thinking you’re inadequate
quick thinking that you can’t do it quit
thinking that you’re too small and it’s
too big quit thinking that God can’t use
you and God can’t bless you all God uses
most of the time is just ordinary
average sticks he said give me what
you’ve got
now this is a big important thing for
you to understand it wasn’t until Moses
took what he had and released it and
took his finger prints off of it that it
became the supernatural as long as his
fingerprints were on it it never became
supernatural but when he released it and
put it in God’s hands
then suddenly it became the supernatural
God is saying when you give me what I’ve
already given you and take your
fingerprints off of it because what I
want to do is supernatural in your life
and I’m going to get the glory and I
don’t want it in your hand I want it in
my hand
nothing has changed folks nothing has
changed in the same way that God used
Moses is how he will use you just give
him what he’s already given you and this
is the big point that I want to make on
this Moses if he had not gone through
the desert he would never have been
given that stick he had to go through
the desert and it was in the desert that
he picked up the stick the shepherd
shepherd’s staff that was where he got
the staff in his hand and I want you to
understand that many times when we go
through a season that we call a desert
and we quit and we give up we forfeit
what God is wanting to put in our hands
it’s when we go through some tough stuff
that God will equip you with some stuff
that he will later use to bring
deliverance and help and healing and
hope to somebody who you will minister
to through what you picked up in the
desert what you picked up in in the
rough stuff had Moses never gone through
that desert he would have never been
given the stick when we go through the
desert and we go through the wilderness
and we go through the dry place and we
don’t give up every time God will use
that trial God will use that wilderness
and he will put something in your hand
that later he will come back and use for
his glory but you don’t get it on the
mountaintop you get it in the desert so
now that you’ve had a trial run now that
you have practiced it’s time to go to
Pharaoh and when he says
how do I know God sent you what you
practiced here in the desert throw the
stick down and I’ll turn it into a
serpent you’re ready for the test he
goes in and Moses says I don’t believe
God since you prove it and he says you
see the stick and he throws it down and
it turns into a serpent and he thought
Pharaoh would be impressed and I can
almost see Moses go uh-huh
and Moses yawns our Pharaoh yawns and he
says bring my magicians in the Bible
said that the magicians came with
enchantments the word enchantment means
fire they were not prophets they were
magicians a magician is someone who uses
trickery they cannot perform the
supernatural but they can trick you they
cannot make a rabbit come out of nowhere
but they can use the sleight of hand to
make you think the rabbit came out of
nowhere that that shows up in the impact
a magician is using tricks and fakery
and the Bible said we don’t know but one
one one person that I read after said
that that the stick that that the
serpent the serpents must have been in
some kind of encasing that they that
they had and it looked like sticks but
when they threw them down and when it
says enchantments there was fire there
was smoke that was hey so there was the
sleight of hand and suddenly it looked
like they did the same miracle that
Moses did but God says keep looking at
the snakes Moses and all of a sudden the
one that the first state that was on
before started started swallowing up all
the other snakes it swallowed up that
fake one and swallowed up that fake one
and swallowed up that fake and when it
was over
that wasn’t when it started there was a
whole lot of wiggling going on but when
it was over it was just one snake it
started with one snake and it ended with
one snake it started with one Lord and
it’s going to end with
one Lord and Jesus will swallow up
Muhammad he’ll swallow up false teaching
he’ll swallow up doctrines he’ll swallow
up Buddha he’ll swallow up every lie of
humanism and it started with one Lord
and his funny in with one Lord he’s king
of kings he’s a king snake he’s Lord of
lords he’ll eat up every other snake
come on and give him a shout of praise
if you believe our God is mightier I God
is bigger our God is stronger and all of
a sudden there’s nothing left but that
one snake we love it oh don’t you know
that was fun for Moses in front of all
of Egypt the huge platform
boom God throws him on the floor the rod
and the stick turns into a snake and it
swallows up all the others and oh how
exciting and then God says now take him
by the tail and it’s gonna go back to
being a stick we love it when God
transforms us into something mighty and
something supernatural and he puts us on
a platform and he uses us in a big way
and he does something super and gives a
supernatural success and supernatural
victory and supernatural results oh it’s
beautiful it’s wonderful but the
greatest part of the miracle was not
mystique turning into a snake but in my
opinion the greatest part of the miracle
is the fact that the snake turned back
into a stick it went from the
supernatural back to being common back
to being ordinary back to being normal
because it was saying in that I don’t
deserve that it’s not about the snake
wiggling on the floor it’s about the
mighty God that can take an ordinary
a normal average thing and make it
supernatural and the question that I
have is can God take what you’ve got
your talent your gift and give you a
platform and throw you down on the floor
and use you in some big supernatural way
and did not go to your head but you have
to live there that you have to always be
but the real supernatural thing is when
you come out of it and you go back to
being ordinary normal but God can you
sing the solo but then be faithful when
you don’t have the solo can you preach
the sermon can you build the business
and have supernatural success but when
it’s not happening and and you’re not in
the office and everybody isn’t calling
you sir can you go back home and be
ordinary and be dead and be husband and
be family and be because we think the
miracle isn’t but folks this is just a
small part and the reason God doesn’t
make more snake things happen
sensational because the stick is boring
a stick is average a stick is normal but
I started to get a stick in a real snake
I thought about it but I said I will not
do it because I don’t I can’t do it but
if I wanted to do it I thought about who
could I get to stand up here and hold
the snake in the ass for a list of non
toddlers and where there was so many
that were that I couldn’t choose
one and so so you have to imagine in
your mind but if I held a stick up here
you would you would but if I pulled a
real snake out whoa and so many times we
get into the miracles whoo
but the real miracle is when God can use
you in a mighty way and give you amazing
success and blessing on a huge platform
in front of a bunch of Egyptians but
then you step out of the conference the
big stage and you’re just ordinary
you’re just normal you say God I
appreciate all of that but I want to be
faithful in your hand whether I’m a
snake getting a lot of attention whether
I’m putting cones out in the parking lot
or greeting or shaking hands or singing
in the choir not on the praise team it
really doesn’t matter I think about my
own life and when I go and preach and
occasionally God really used me to
preach in a forward conference or
something like that he throws me down
and gives me a foreword all of that but
I’m gonna tell you that is not what God
really looks for is people who can
perform in those moments but he then
says now I want you the supernet
sometimes the most supernatural thing
you can do is remain natural but after
he uses you you don’t get the big head
after he uses you it doesn’t change who
you are
I started out a stick ordinary nobody’d
and they’re nothing unless God touches
me he uses me and after he uses me I’m
still nobody nothing ordinary without
his touch so don’t praise me worthy is
the lamb don’t praise me give God all
the glory that’s what he looks
and we would get more miracles if God
could find more sticks see we say God
use me what we mean is foamy on the
floor in front of a lot of people use me
in front of all these people
let me wiggle around and do something
supernatural and let them say whoa Wow
God says when it’s over will you remain
faithful in my hand
life is like seasons seasons and here’s
the thing the Lord told me to tell you
that that he watches how you transition
and if you if you humble yourself if you
if you can stay normal and average and
if you can always say God that was
amazing but I’m still I haven’t lost Who
I am I Know Who I am I’m nothing without
you and it’s not words it’s truly from a
heart God says oh my I gotta have that
stick again BAM live here so let’s go
back give me the glory BAM let’s get go
back can God give you the house can give
you the stuff can he trust you with
supernatural success I’m almost done but
the Bible said in mark chapter 16 these
signs shall follow them that believe
they shall take up serpents and if they
drink any deadly thing it will not hurt
them the serpent in Moses day
represented the supernatural power of
God and when he picked it up it did not
hurt him can God use you to do the
supernatural and it not hurt you because
I’ve seen God use people to do
supernatural things and
had supernatural success and
supernatural victory but they didn’t
learn how to give the glory to God and
they were twice as better off when they
had half as much can God use you to do
the supernatural and it not hurt you can
you pick up the serpent and it not hurt
you or if he does some great thing and
open some supernatural door and blesses
you beyond your wildest dreams will you
have to will you be able to still be who
you are and so I conclude by saying to
you could God use you and you handle it
could God use you in Supernatural ways
and bless you and I felt led to tell you
that that he wants to bless people in
this church in Supernatural ways
supernatural everyone say supernatural
success and it not change who you are I
started out a stick
I had the supernatural I’m going back to
being a stick if he can find that he
will use you over and over he’ll
overlook a lot of hotshots and he’ll say
I like that attitude boom and then you
just go back and give him all the glory
give him all the praise I want you to
say three words everybody in this room
everybody in Gwinnett everybody watching
streaming live everybody listening to me
right now say these three words God use
me say it again God use me say it again
God
it won’t run me it won’t hurt me to do
some supernatural things to have some
supernatural opportunities I’ve had
supernatural opportunities I have and it
hasn’t hurt me I don’t think I’m saying
to you that God wants to give you
supernatural opportunities but the
question is can you handle it can you
stand to be blessed will you still go
back to being who he made you and called
you to be just faithful in his hand and
when those days start to fade and when
the phone doesn’t ring anymore
and when the invitations don’t come when
the opportunities and when the business
starts settling down and things are not
it’s okay I’m good I can abound or I can
I can I can I can be a base it doesn’t
matter Lord because it’s not about that
it’s about you and as long as I’m in
your hand and in your presence I’ll just
be a stick
that’s all God needs is a stick I want
you to look at me just one moment I’m
giving a massive altar call this morning
for everyone in this room under the
sound of my voice and in any room that’s
listening to me that would say I want
God to use me this is very important on
a call I want God to use me get out of
your seat and come stand as close as you
can get just as close as you can get
whether it’s big whether it’s little
whether it’s in the limelight or whether
it’s behind-the-scenes whether it’s a
snake or it’s a stick I’m fine with it
I would just like for God to use me
everybody
everybody that would say I want God to
use me get in as close as you can and
folks get in just as close as you can
well pastor this is crazy this big old
church people can’t get in here the ones
who want to will because this is
important this is what life is about God
use me
lift your hands high now all over this
room a beautiful beautiful scene that I
see this begin to pray for a moment just
begin to say Lord I’m Yours I’m Yours
and every transition in life I’m Yours
my goal is not a big platform my goal is
to remain faithful in your hand I’m not
trying to be something big lord I want
to be a vessel I want to be what you’ve
called me to be and I yield myself to
your hand if you can use anything life
is real vivid alive beating breathing it
happens behind closed doors and out in
front there’s joy
there’s laughter and chaos
lifelong friendships are forged love is
found moments cherished
and never forgotten
life is a gift and together we are real
family
real friends
real people
experiencing real life
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