Tag: reign

Becoming Totally Reliant on God

2 Kings 2:12
And Elisha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

Elisha had been forewarned that his master, Elijah, was going to be taken from him. Elijah asked Elisha what he wanted from him before he was taken away. Elisha asked for a double portion of the anointing that the Lord had placed on Elijah. Elijah said that this was a huge request, but if Elisha witnessed his master being taken away by the Lord then his request was granted.

Having gone through his final lessons from Elijah, Elisha saw Elijah taken away. Elisha now stood alone. In a show of extreme grief of having lost his master, he tore his clothes in two pieces. He knew that he would no longer have his guide and leader to rely on. But because he had asked for it, he was granted a double portion of the anointing that was held by Elijah. Elisha would now rely on God, not on his master.

As Almighty God prepares us to spend eternity with Him, He may allow the people around us who we have relied upon to be taken from us. It may be through death or through a broken relationship, but they will be removed in some manner. Our Lord may also allow our finances or our possessions that we hold dear to be taken from us. During these times, we must learn to rely on the Lord and not on the world around us. Until we come to the point that we are totally reliant on God, He is likely to continue to allow the removal of people and things from our lives until we totally surrender to His reign in our lives. Through it all, we will learn the comfort, the power and the strength of resting in the hands of the One that created us.

Let us turn to the Lord for the peace and the strength that only He can provide when a person, place or thing has been taken from us. Let us find our new direction under the guidance of the Holy Spirit as we struggle with our change. Let us boldly ask the Lord to replace what we have lost with a double portion of His blessing on our lives.

Prayer
Heavenly Father, we thank You for allowing us to rest in the comfort of Your hands as we go through our journey of surrendering completely to You. We praise You for Your loving kindness and Your mercy as You never forsake us as we struggle to find our way. We pray, Lord, that You will open our eyes so that we may begin to see all that You have prepared for us. We beseech You, Father, to grant us the fullness of the power and strength that You have set aside for us. We ask all these things in the name of Our Ever Present Lord, Jesus Christ.

God Wants to Get His Hands on You

Jeremiah 18:4
And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

God has the power and the authority to raise up nations to do His good work. He also may dispose of nations as He sees fit if they do not please Him. He certainly has the power to rule over individual lives. He will always rule and reign perfectly according to His justice and His goodness.

Our Father in heaven rules over the lives of all men through His Son, Jesus. Jesus puts His hands on each of us to insure that we are molded uniquely in accordance with the Father’s plans for our lives. Jesus is the Great Potter. He keeps His hands on us, His clay, at all times. He is in no hurry to form us according to His purposes. He knows that He will take whatever time is necessary to get us to conform to the purposes that His Father has for our lives. He will even break us, the clay, if it is necessary for Him to see us reach our chosen form.

As the clay, all we have to do is surrender to the hands of the potter on our lives. From the point of surrender, we should have no concerns for the potter will form us perfectly. We simply wait on the glory of our finishing.

Let us surrender all that we are to the hands of the Great Potter. Let us rejoice in knowing that there is no better place to be than in His hands.

Prayer
Heavenly Father, we thank You that You have good and perfect plans for our lives. We thank You for Your patience as You mold us into the good and faithful servants that will stand before You one day in the image of Your Son, Jesus. We pray for the grace to surrender to the hands of Your Son on our lives. We pray for the strength to endure through the shaping process. May we become the perfect vessels of Your love that You created us to be. We ask all these things in the name of the Great Potter, Jesus Christ.