{"id":2277,"date":"2020-12-01T13:25:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T13:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2020-12-26T13:26:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T13:26:31","slug":"you-have-all-it-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/01\/you-have-all-it-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"YOU HAVE ALL IT TAKES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exo 4:2 So the LORD said to him, &#8220;What is that in your hand?&#8221; He said, &#8220;A rod.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moses saw himself as least qualified and so did not have anything to qualify him for such a great task ahead . In God\u2019s eyes, Moses had everything he needed to use &#8211; A rod.<\/p>\n<p>This  is the rod that  transformed to a serpent and back to a rod, which was lifted up to part the waters of the Red Sea making the Israelites pass through, which was lifted up as Joshua fought the Amalekites  to victory and that hit the rock  and water gushed out.<\/p>\n<p>Moses would have easily despised what he had, but God used it to transform the course of history.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Lord is asking us the same question, what is in your hand? Is it a cooking stick, a pen, a chalk stick, a ball, a computer, a phone, a small plot, a diploma? The Lord is ready to use it to propel you to your destiny. All He needs is for us to co-operate with Him. He will transform that which we see as just \u201ca rod\u201d into something great for His glory. <\/p>\n<p>Further reading:<br \/>\n1 Sam 17:49<br \/>\n2 Kg 4:2<br \/>\n2 Pet 1:3<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffcBlessed Day\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exo 4:2 So the LORD said to him, &#8220;What is that in your hand?&#8221; He said, &#8220;A rod.&#8221; Moses saw himself as least qualified and so did not have anything to qualify him for such a great task ahead . In God\u2019s eyes, Moses had everything he needed to use &#8211; A rod. This is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}