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God In The Hands of Men

What an awesome thought! No man or woman will ever be mightily used of God until God can make him or her a partner. When we truly live in a partnership with our Father and His Son; we are not His hirelings, but His friends. As His Spirit crafts us into the Redeemer’s image, we are invited to live out the Word of God and to reckon with our God in every promise of His revelation. We cannot impose our own imaginations on Him, but we can take hold of every truth of His Book and then move our God in its action in His church. While we must first be His property, and that without question or compromise, He then gives Himself to us. He truly wants all that He is to be available to us, His saints.

Moses was one of Scripture’s best examples of “God in the Hands of Men.” As Moses led that multitude from Egypt toward the Promised Land, it was a daunting task. They were slaves and prisoners in their bondage and had been practically turned into animals by the torture and depravation of their life in Egypt. Moses had God’s promises that had been given to Abraham that this crowd of broken and abused souls would be led back to the Promised Land and become a great nation of blessed people. This crowd could drink up God’s blessings like hungry animals and then turn on God and Moses just as soon as one desire was not met. They had a lot of Egypt in them, but no Promised Land at this time. The Father was ready to dispense Moses and Himself of such whining brats.

Moses was flesh and blood with this crowd and he remembered the forty years with his father-in-law, where he got Egypt out of his system. He stood his ground with God and would not give them up to destruction. He cried out, “No,” to God; but, it was not a selfish cry. It was the passion of a father to His own people and God was convinced. The Scripture teaches, “And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people … let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them … And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people … Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people … And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.” (Exodus 32:9-14) What a picture of a man and his God finding the solution together. It shows us the wonderful personality of our Father.

Jacob wrestled with God and would not let Him go until he was blessed and changed. Hezekiah was on his deathbed and God had signed the death certificate in advance. Hezekiah cried out in prayer, the Father changed the date on the death certificate, and added fifteen years. Actually, every promise in the Bible is awaiting someone that will move God to keep that promise. The plan of God for every man cannot be fulfilled until we surrender to this partnership of faith. Many circumstances in our life could have been different if we had only committed to the covenant of God that is available to us.

Our Father did not create us to be robots but to think and choose. We were created in His image to be able to reckon with Him about His kingdom, His promise, and His design for us. When we go to the Holy Book and dig for His treasures like a gold digger looking for spiritual wealth, He will honor us and draw us into His fellowship. The widow that sought out the unjust judge was His example of what He desires for all His children. She had guests in her home with no food, and she could not be persuaded to leave this judge until he honored her need. He made it clear that He wants His children to come to Him for their honest needs and to never give up until He responds to us. His final word for that example was, “And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?” (Luke 18:7).

“And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” (Matthew 11:12) The Kingdom is ours to take. The Father will never be an unwelcome guest in our hearts. His miracles are never accidents in human lives. He wants to be wanted, He longs to be joined to you in partnership for His kingdom. Our Father loves it when we are totally surrendered to Him and then begin to take the authority He has given us to effect His glorious will in ourselves and others. He is a Father and any father worth his salt loves to see his children grow up and act like adults. God wants you to take His kingdom and thrust it into your world with supernatural results by His Holy Ghost.

Joseph R. Chambers