Sometimes we think we’re waiting on the Lord when He’s actually waiting on us. When we face problems, trials, or adversity, God already has a plan in place to bring victory out of that situation. But His plan involves action on our part. God used Shamgar, a farmer with an ox goad, to bring a mighty victory. He wants to use you in the same way—right now, just like you are, and right where you are. What do you have that God can use? Are you being obedient to God’s direction in your life? Are you waiting for God to do something when it’s actually you who needs to take action?
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I had what somebody else has I’d really
do something for God but God has given
you a talent God has put something in
your hand the miracle is not in what you
don’t have but what do you have in your
hand use what you’ve got Judges chapter
3 and verse 31 and after him was Shamgar
the son of a Nath who killed six hundred
men of the Philistines with an ox goad
and he also delivered Israel it’s almost
one of those verses that you’ll just
read over Shamgar is not like a
household name but man there’s a lot the
said in that one verse particularly the
latter part and he also saved or
delivered his entire nation all against
his one verse but he had massive massive
impact but I want to talk to you for a
few minutes today on the subject of the
three success secrets of Shamgar the
three success secrets of Shamgar he
lived 3,000 years ago he was a farmer
and he saved an entire nation with an ox
goad an ox goad is a wood pole with a
sharp steel point on the end of it that
was used to motivate the ox to keep
moving when they became stubborn and
didn’t want to plow anymore and he took
this thing this weapon or really this
farm tool this weed eater or whatever
you want to call it a farmer with with a
farm tool and he slew 604 listings it
would be the equivalent of one man with
a stick with a sharp point on the end
killing 600 Isis terrorists and he did
it and saw that his nation was under
threat his family was being overtaken
and something came
him against incredible odds six hundred
to one odds anyone I don’t know what
kind of odds are against you today
physically financially I don’t know what
kind of storm has come or trying to come
into your life and you feel overwhelmed
but can you imagine six hundred to one
odds and yet the Bible declares in mark
chapter nine that with God all things
are possible I want to give you the
three success secrets of Shamgar number
one he started where he was he started
where he was he was not in a powerful
position he was not at some big
university where he had prestige and
influence he had no big doors open to
him he was a farmer he was a blue-collar
worker he was not someone who was famous
and wealthy or powerful and influential
and popular he was a farmer and he had
to start where he was if you wait too
long to decide what you’re gonna do with
your life you’ll find out that you’ve
already done it you have to learn to
start where you are big doors swing on
little hinges the Bible said in
Zechariah four despise not the day of
small beginnings and so many people say
when I get a big break when a big door
opens when somebody notices me when
somebody sees my talent and really
invest in me when somebody gives me that
big break but that is not the key to
success the key to success is to start
where you are right where you are not
when things get better not if things
were different not if you had what
somebody else has but start where you
are secondly use what you’ve got Shamgar
resources were very limited but he said
I’m not somewhere powerful I’m not
somewhere influential I’m gonna start
where I am I’m on my farm in my field
and
and the enemy’s invading so I’m fighting
right here and then he said I’m gonna
use what I’ve got I may have limited
resources all that he had was something
called an ox goad oxg Oh ad an ox goad a
long stick with a sharp steel point on
the end that’s all he had no m1 tanks no
Blackhawk helicopters that’s what I’d
need for if God told me to go fight 600
Isis soldiers where’s that where’s the
Blackhawks no m16 no Navy SEALs sham
Garza resources were limited if I had
somebody who’d really believe in me if I
had what somebody else has I’d really do
something for God but God has given you
an ox code God has given you a talent
God has given you an ability God has put
something in your hand
he asked Moses what is in your hand
nothing but a stick God said throw it
down and when he did the supernatural
hit it and it swallowed up the snakes of
Pharaoh and when he held it up it parted
the Red Sea the miracle is not in what
you don’t have but what do you have in
your hand use what you’ve got an ox goad
something that anybody else would have
overlooked and said he doesn’t have
anything that can win against those kind
of odds but he took what he had he used
what he had and it became a lethal
weapon of mass destruction God has given
you an ox goad what are your asset stop
focusing on what you don’t have what do
you have well I’m not good in math and
I’m not smart and I’m not this and I’m
not that but God has given you something
that can win the battle what’s in your
hand
I’m gonna tell you what God has given
every person under the sound of my voice
he’s given you a dream
dreams motivate us dreams energize us in
all of your getting get a dream in your
life get it from God and you become
unstoppable a dream is the inward
picture of the future you desire and
don’t underestimate it and don’t act
like it’s not important an don’t act
like it’s not spiritual God is the giver
of Dreams and when God is going to do
something in your life he’ll give you a
picture first on the inside of where
you’re going before you ever get there
and he says live into that dream
sometimes a promise isn’t enough
sometimes we think all we need from God
is a promise but just because God gives
you a promise doesn’t mean you’re gonna
reach God gave them a picture of the
promised land when he brought them out
of the wilderness ten spies came back
and said there are grapes oh look at
these grapes they’re the size of melons
and look at look at that but a picture
wasn’t enough some sometimes a promise
isn’t enough you need a picture the
Bible said that Jesus for the joy that
was set before him he had a picture of
what was ahead for the joy that was set
before him he endured the cross some of
you are in a season right now where you
know where you’re going but you don’t
understand where you are follow the
dream that God is put in your heart to
see somebody saved or somebody I don’t
care what it looks like you know where
you’re going don’t get discouraged by
where you are I like the fact that that
that we can live into that like what
Arnold Schwarzenegger said when he was a
skinny kid with no muscles you know the
Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger he said
I got a picture he had a picture of a
bodybuilder and he said I got a picture
of what I wanted to become and I lived
into that picture that’s pretty powerful
I remember when we were building our
second building that’s down the road
that’s now our youth building an
administrative offices and and I
remembered that I went to Charlotte
North Carolina there’s a church there
called Calvary Church that that is
similar in the look much bigger and look
much fancier than that building and had
a lot of glass but I got a picture
I took a picture of that building and I
brought it back and I put it in my desk
and every day for several years is that
building program you know we were trying
to figure out where we’re going I saw
that picture every day when I opened
that drawer of that church and it was
like a picture to me of the dream that I
was dreaming that we would one day have
a building we couldn’t afford it back
then but we were getting there but I
kept looking at that picture and praying
over it saying one day there’s gonna be
a free chapel like that you can make fun
of that kind of stuff but I’m gonna tell
you you got to learn to use what you’ve
got and if you’ve got a dream you’ve got
something powerful because God is the
giver of Dreams that will change your
life come on and give him a praise if
you believe it I’ll tell you something
else you’ve got you’ve got something
called enthusiasm if you want to passion
Shamgar had it Shamgar had passion and
if you don’t fight six hundred warriors
if you don’t have some passion if you
don’t have some enthusiasm use what
you’ve got your passion determines God’s
timing the woman with the issue of blood
Jesus didn’t have her on his agenda he
was going to hit razor we raise a man’s
daughter from the dead and she
interrupted the schedule because your
passion determines God’s timing the
Bible said she couldn’t get to Jesus for
the press meaning the crowd was so so so
large that she couldn’t break through
and and talk to him all she could do is
touch the hem of His garment she she
couldn’t get to him for the press you
somehow touch the hem of His garment and
her passion to do that in her sick
condition it stopped Jesus and he turned
around and he said you are going to be
healed today and it wasn’t on my
schedule but your passion your
enthusiasm is what triggered the miracle
blind bartimaeus didn’t Jesus didn’t
decide the timing of his miracle he did
his passion did his enthusiasm
did Jesus was just gonna walk through
that community and go somewhere and when
he heard Jesus was passing by blind
bartimaeus cried out son of David have
mercy on me and when the religious
people said you need to calm down you’re
too passionate you’re too enthusiastic
be quiet you’re not important he cried
the louder and it wasn’t Jesus timing
that decided the miracle it was the
man’s enthusiasm and passion and Jesus
stopped and said be healed and eyes be
opened and he was healed Mary the mother
of Jesus at the wedding of Cana we act
like when Jesus went to that wedding he
planned to start his ministry read the
story he had no intentions of performing
a miracle at the wedding of Cana which
was the first miracle he ever performed
it was his mother and her passion and
her enthusiasm that decided the timing
of the miracle the Bible said that they
had run out of wine and his mother went
to her son and she said you know we’ve
been praying son I’m just gonna
paraphrase it we’ve been praying that
God would really use you and we’ve run
out of wine and and I think you need to
do something do do something it’s time
for a miracle and he even began to fuss
with his mother a little bit and said
mother my time has not yet come and then
I just think she just looked at him I
can’t this end in the Bible I think she
a boy do you know what I would do to you
it’s time for a miracle I said and don’t
make me say it again and he said bring
the water bring the water and the water
blushed
in the presence of his creator and he
turned the water into wine but it wasn’t
his agenda it was his mother’s passion
that triggered the miracle power of God
in his life where is your passion use
what you’ve got if you get up and leave
you know you’re that you’re the
supervisor and and you get up and you
look like a cover girl from the Book of
Lamentations hey everybody we’re gonna
try to get amen
and who in the world wants to follow you
the word enthusiasm comes from the word
Theo’s from which we get theology or the
study of God
Theo’s means in God if God is in you
your life should be turbocharged you
should be brimming with enthusiasm and
there’s just something about an
enthusiastic passionate person who says
whatever my hand finds to do I’m gonna
do it with passion and smile and energy
you will not stay down use what you’ve
got use what you’ve got we’ll return to
this message in just a moment but I
wanted to share with you that for years
we have strategically been a part of an
amazing ministry called new beginnings
it’s a ministry that helps women get set
free from drug and alcohol addiction but
it’s more than another rehab center
women are surrounded with Christ
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millions of women across the country
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give your gift today Brahms wrote a
famous symphony and the conductor famous
conductor Eugene Ormandy was conducting
it and it’s written in one section of
that music as he’s conducting the
orchestra it says as loud as possible by
the composer he put that there he was
saying I won’t the musicians that you
lead as loud as possible so he really
started emphasizing as with enthusiasm
as loud as come on he’s pulling it out
of him and the few bars later not
drinking bars bars and music a few bars
later Braun’s wrote on his score peace
louder steel louder steel so now he’s
really throwing his arms trying to bring
out and when he did he literally threw
this conductor through his shoulder out
of joint and the press was laughing at
him in the press interview after the
concert and one of the reporters asked
how does it feel to throw your arm out
of joint leading the orchestra and his
response was I know some people who have
reached middle age who have never been
become enthused enough to dislodge a
necktie
not to mention a shoulder so I feel
pretty good about it come on where’s
your passion
what’s your enthusiasm use what you’ve
got everybody say start where you are
not if things were different start where
you are and then use what you’ve got and
lastly do what you can
Shamgar did what he could God is not
wanting you to do what you can’t do he
wants you to do what you can do what can
I do
number one you can pray Bill Bright said
it is impossible to over exaggerate the
importance of prayer jesus said in John
14 whatever you ask the Father in my
name I will do it have you prayed about
it Oswald chamber said men may son are
appeal reject our message oppose our
arguments but they are helpless against
our prayers
iam bound said prayers outlive the lives
of those who utter them and then he
challenges us out Lee of your generation
outlive an age out liova world prayers
are deathless are you praying do what
you can what can I do I can pray and
don’t act like it’s the it’s the weakest
and most pitiful thing that you can do
it’s the most powerful thing you can do
secondly focus what can I do focus focus
is the secret to energy unclutter your
life and keep focused the enemy is great
at trying to discourage us but the
Apostle Paul said this one thing I do
not least 50 things I dabble in get
focus all the devil’s got to do to
destroy your vision is give you another
vision and then you have died vision
and your vision dies stay focused
the Bible said that he constantly told
them don’t look to the left don’t look
to the right why he wanted them focused
the Bible said that Jesus said remember
Lot’s wife what was it about Lot’s wife
she looked back God doesn’t want you
looking back in the good old days he
said stay focused Joshua chapter one is
so powerful if you want to have good
success if you want to see God bless you
in amazing ways he said this book of the
law shall not depart from your mouth
everybody say conversation your
conversation matters this book of the
law of the Bible shall not depart from
your mouth what are you saying what are
you what are you talking but you shall
meditate in this book day and night that
notice the word meditate everybody say
meditate say meditation and conversation
are the keys that you may observe to do
all that is courting that’s written in
this and verse the next verse says for
you will make your way prosperous and
then you will have good success two
things meditation in what in the Word of
God you have twenty-four golden boxcars
every day of your life I don’t care how
rich you are I don’t care how broke you
are you all have the same amount of time
every day you get twenty-four golden
boxcars and what you feel those golden
box cars with determines where your life
and the direction of your life goes and
if you feel those boxcars boxcars with
the Word of God with the promises of God
if you put them in your spirit the more
you put in them the more your life will
begin to go in a prosperous good success
direction everybody’s gonna have it the
same day today and tomorrow everybody’s
got the same chance and your input
determines your output and he said you
are to meditate on the word day and
night put it in put it in put it in and
then you are
that’s meditation and then you are
control your conversation don’t let this
law depart from your it’s interesting
wording from your mouth say what God
says talk what God talks don’t listen to
the inner critic that lives inside that
tells you you’re a failure and you’re
nothing and God’s not for you and you
can’t do it that’s the lie of the enemy
and you need to say what God says with
your mouth your mouth can overcome your
mind confess God’s Word Bible talk helps
you focus I believe today that God is
speaking to people you you you you have
to fight a battle more than once to win
don’t give up in trying times don’t stop
trying regret looks back worried looks
around but victory looks up victory says
I know God is going to help me a man is
not finished when he’s defeated he’s
finished when he quits shout I will not
quit the successful trait of all
successful people in the Bible and in
life is they conquered the temptation to
give up especially when it gets tough
especially when all hell is coming
against you stand up on your hind feet
stand right there and say you know
something it isn’t the final say-so
until I say so
and God hasn’t told me to say so so I’m
gonna lift my hands and I’m gonna
declare victory I’m gonna start where I
am I’m gonna use what I’ve got and I’m
gonna do what I can and God will do what
I can come on and give God a praise
somebody hallelujah
Winston Churchill Winston Churchill said
the nose of a bulldog is slanted
backwards so he can continue to breathe
without letting go God give us a bulldog
spirit that will grab hold of the
promise and the vision and the dream
that God has given us and won’t let go
and that’s why he’s giving us a slanted
nose so so we can breathe why we won’t
let go hallelujah
successful people begin their success
where others let go and give up say well
I guess I miss God if God told you to do
it start where you are use what you’ve
got do what you can and God will do what
you can
well that’s it you’ve got to start where
you are use what you have and do what
you can God will do what you can I
believe this is a formula for success
for every person listening to me today
we can’t do everything but we can do
something and when you do that God gives
you more he trusts you with more and God
will bless that life that begins to move
in faith like that and he wants you to
use what you’ve got and do what you can
and start where you are if you just open
your heart this simple principle can
change your life why don’t you turn your
life over to Jesus Christ today why
don’t you say Lord I’m gonna start where
I am he doesn’t want me to get my life
all cleaned up before I come to him I’m
gonna start right where I am pray this
prayer right where you’re watching me
right now it’s no accident you’re
watching this program say these words
Lord Jesus I give you my life I know
that you died on the cross I know that
you rose from the dead I know who Jesus
is he is Messiah he is Lord
and today I accept you Jesus as my
savior I am forgiven I am loved in Jesus
name Amen
that prayer right there just changed
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he’s for you let us know that you prayed
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encourage you in your new walk before we
leave the broadcast today I just want to
ask your help in touching the lives of
so many precious women and for years
this ministry has strategically been a
part of a ministry called new beginnings
it started right out of our church a
twelvemonth drug and alcohol recovery
program but is so much more than just
another rehab center with your support
this month we can really make a
difference in that ministry here’s my
announcer to tell you how drug use in
the United States has been steadily on
the rise costing more than seven hundred
and forty billion annually millions of
women
across the country each year falling
victim to drug abuse and addiction but
one encounter with the Holy Spirit can
change everything in an addicts life for
years Jensen Franklin has partnered with
new beginnings a drug and alcohol
recovery program where women’s lives are
restored families are reunited and new
purpose is found we’re doing all we can
to help expand this important ministry
but if we need your help with your gift
this month to help lives be set free and
restore we’ll send you a special new
beginning skip set including Jensen
Franklin’s brand new teaching series
restart your heart for your gift of $100
or more we’ll also include the complete
love like you’ve never been hurt
curriculum kit this kit includes a copy
of the best-selling book love like
you’ve never been hurt in intimate
teaching DVD and a guide to take you
deeper into these life-changing biblical
truths don’t wait go online to Jentezen
Franklin TV to give your gift today we
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