Christian Healing Ministry - Devotionals

Devotional for September 1, 2026

WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR HAND

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Exodus 4:1-2

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 that in your hand?”

Additional Verses

📖 Exodus 14:1-31; 2 Kings 4:1-7; Matthew 9:20-26; Acts 19:11-20

When Moses escaped from Pharaoh and became a shepherd of his father in- law Jethro, he did not have anything at all to defend himself other than the rod he carried around as he looked after the flock. When God appeared to him and was about to send him back to Egypt to deliver the children of Israel, Moses gave excuses as he feared that the task would be impossible because he was no match against heavily armed Egyptian army. The LORD then asked him what he had in his hand and he said, “A rod.” (Exodus 4:2). Then the LORD said to him, “Cast it on the ground.” So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses 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 caught it, and it became a rod in his hand), “that they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, appeared to you.” (Exodus 4:3-5). With this rod, God used Moses to perform many miracles and wonders before Pharaoh until Pharaoh eventually released the children of Israel. Even at the Red Sea, all that Moses had to do, under the LORD’s command, was only to stretch the rod over the waters of the Red Sea and the waters were divided into two leaving a highway in the middle for the children of Israel to walk through to their freedom. With the same rod stretched over the sea, the waters came together again destroying the army of Pharaoh and all his chariots. When God is about to re-establish you, He will use anything that you have on you. All you need to do is to have faith in Him. God knows that there is climate change all around you and your nation just like all the nations of the world are going through a time of economic meltdown. However, if He promises you to see you through, through His Word, He will surely do that for you provided you stop doubting and doing exactly what He commands you. Remember in Genesis Chapter 1 that He is the same God who created the heavens and the earth from chaos and I mean from nothing. God does not change, He remains the same as from the time of creation. A Prophet’s widow asked Elisha, the man of God for help in 2 Kings Chapter 4:1-7. Elisha asked the widow how he would help her and asked what she had. She replied that she had nothing except a pot of oil. The man of God commanded that she borrows a lot of empty jars from her neighbors and go into the house, shut the door and pour the oil into those jars. She did as commanded by the man of God Elisha. She asked her two boys to bring in the empty jars and she filled all the jars as the oil continued coming out until she ran out of the jars and the oil stopped. She advised the man of God, and Elisha told her to go and sell the oil and pay back the debt left by her husband and live on the rest. Jesus Christ used mud and his saliva to open the eyes of the blind man. John 9:6-7 says, “When He had thus spoken, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And said unto him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, {which is by interpretation, sent} He went his way therefore, and washed, and came back seeing.” When He spoke the Word, the sick were healed, the demon - possessed were freed and the dead were raised. Matthew 9:22 says, “But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.” The woman with the issue of blood for twelve years had great faith in Jesus Christ. She only said in her heart, if only she could touch the hem of His garment, she would be healed and for sure she was healed indeed. What do you have in your hand that the Lord may use to bless you with? Do you have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ so that He can use His anointed servants to declare to you also that Your faith has made you well? Whatever situation you may be going through, I encourage you to believe what God has said about you in His Word and I tell you your poverty will be turned to success and your darkness will be turned into light. Alleluia!

Prayer

Thank You Father, for re-assuring me that just as You used the stick in Moses’ hand to deliver the children of Israel from bondage to freedom, in the same way You are still able to use anything in my possession to reestablish my life. In Jesus Christ’s mighty name I pray. Amen.