A Tool for Miracles

The Lord wants to use our every day life to touch those around us for Him. It does not matter what you do, He can use you to reach His people everywhere. I’ve come to understand this principle better today through my actions as a businessman.

Having spent most of my adult life in the military, I was shocked at what I found when we entered the business world through our web design and streaming media company. I knew there were unscrupulous individuals in all walks of business, however, I had no idea how widespread it was. What I found was a corporate mentality of profit first, people second and win at any cost.

We had no stomach to operate like this, it violated everything we believed as Christ followers. We weren’t even sure we wanted to be involved in a business environment that promoted this type of attitude. We prayed for guidance, I was looking for an exit, He brought us work to sustain the business. It became clear He wanted us to be an example of integrity in a world lacking that quality.

Ministry is not limited to the church or para church types of ministry, the Lord uses every day people and their business life to touch those around them. Ask Him today how he can use you to reach His people.

Blessings

A Tool for Miracles
by Os Hillman

“With the tip of the staff that was in his hand, the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared.” Judges 6:21

How does God call people into His service? There is a clear pattern in the way God calls men and women into service for Him. Almost every major leader has been called while he or she was in the midst of performing his or her everyday vocation. Peter was a fisherman; Matthew, a tax collector; Luke, a physician; Paul, a tentmaker; Moses, a shepherd; Jesus, a carpenter; and so on.

When God called Gideon to free the people of Israel from the oppression of the Amalekites, he did so while Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress. Like Moses, Gideon argued with God, saying his family was nothing special, so how could he be used of God to save Israel? Gideon acknowledged God by preparing an offering to Him. The angel did an interesting thing with Gideon’s offering; he took the tip of his staff and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. As with Moses, God chose to do a miracle with a staff, the instrument that symbolized Gideon’s work life. Why would God do this? It is because God wants us to know that the tools He has given each of us are the tools He wants to use to demonstrate His power. However, in order for that to happen, we must yield our tools to Him for miracles to be manifested through them.

Have you yielded your tools to the Lord? God wants you to have an overriding ministry objective to your work life. He doesn’t want you to leave your work; He wants to work through your work. Allow Him to do that today.