"The Supernatural" with Jentezen Franklin

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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 is free chapel this program has been brought to you by the friends and partners of Jenson franklin media ministries for more information on this broadcast or for additional resources go online at Jenson Franklin dot o-r-g you

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 24 2014