YOUR SUFFICIENCY IS FROM GOD

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“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.” (2 Corinthians 3:5 NKJV)

 

While Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, God suddenly interrupted his daily routine and called his attention to his real divine purpose, mission, or assignment in life.

From the midst of the bush burning with fire but strangely not consumed, God called Moses, saying, “Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” (Exo. 3:10 NKJV).

Moses was born for this purpose—to deliver and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt, the house of bondage. Moses had gone through everything to prepare him to accomplish this divine purpose, mission, or assignment.

Likewise, all that you have gone through in life is intended by God to prepare you to accomplish your divine purpose, mission, or assignment in life in due time.

Although God had divinely and thoroughly prepared, enabled, furnished, or equipped Moses to fulfill his divine mission or assignment in life, Moses was unaware of this and thus still felt very inadequate and reluctant to step out and fulfill his divine mission when the set time came.

Like many believers today, Moses ignorantly thought that God was seeking a perfect person or a superman to use to accomplish His purpose.

Therefore, when God called Moses, he protested, saying, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.” (Exo. 4:10 NKJV).

If God only uses perfect people to accomplish His divine plans and purposes on earth, God will find no man worthy of His use. Why? Because none is perfect in all his thoughts, speech, emotions, or actions on earth (Job 25:4-6).

But praise God that He does not wait for us to attain moral or spiritual perfection before He uses us. No man God has ever used or will ever use that is worthy, qualified, or competent for God’s use.

You are not and will never be worthy, competent, or sufficient based on your works, self-righteousness, or performance for God’s use. Your calling is “…according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.” (2 Tim. 1:9 NKJV).

Your sufficiency, adequacy, or competency is from God! Paul explains, “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.” (2 Cor. 3:5 NKJV).

God uses us despite our human weaknesses, deficiencies, or inadequacies so that He may receive all the glory for all the exploits or incredible feats we do or accomplish in His strength and wisdom.

If God calls and uses supermen, perfect or most qualified men, to do great exploits, they will likely share the glory with God for the exploits God did through them (1 Cor. 1:27-29).

When God called Moses to be His divine instrument for the deliverance of the children of Israel from the yoke of slavery and bondage of Pharaoh, he was very reluctant to undertake the mission because he could see nothing in his life or hand that God could use.

How mistaken he was!

God had already placed in Moses’ life and hands all He would need to accomplish his divine mission or assignment.

However, for Moses to be persuaded that God had already equipped and anointed him for his divine assignment, God said, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.” And He said, “Cast it on the ground.” So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.” (Exo. 4:2-3 NKJV).

Afterward, Moses was asked to pick up his rod again. Then God said to him, “And you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.” (Exo. 4:17 NKJV). Moses returned to Egypt with nothing but his rod, and he did nothing in Egypt without his rod!

Beloved, like Moses, what God has deposited, invested, or placed in your life and your hands is suitable enough to accomplish God’s purpose if you present or surrender it to God, just as Moses presented and surrendered his rod to God.

Like Moses, you already have in your life and your hands what God can bless and use to accomplish His divine purpose through you. God has been preserving, preparing, and equipping you for what He created you to accomplish for Him from your childhood.

God will not call any man to undertake any mission or assignment for Him without preparing, equipping, and enabling the man. Whatever God is calling you to do is what He has already adequately prepared, equipped, and anointed you to accomplish.

God has already anointed and empowered you to carry out your divine assignment or mission successfully. Apostle Paul testifies to this truth in his epistle to the Corinthians, “Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.” (2 Cor. 1:21-22).

Therefore, don’t be discouraged by your human weakness, disability, or impairment. God has considered all that before calling you by His grace to fulfill His purpose through you.

Also, don’t let the devil incapacitate, stagnate, or hold you down or back from stepping out to fulfill your divine calling, mission, or assignment through thoughts or feelings of unworthiness, incompetence, inadequacy, or insufficiency.

Quit feeling unworthy, inadequate, incompetent, or insufficient to fulfill your divine assignment or your holy calling or mission.

Friend, rise today with “your rod” in your hand, unreservedly yielded to God to bring God’s deliverance and blessing to the peoples and nations God has sent you to. They have been waiting for your arrival and ministry.

Please don’t keep them waiting in bondage any longer!

  

Prayer:

Father, I surrender my life unreservedly to You today to use as it pleases You for Your glory and the blessing of many nations and generations, in Jesus’ name. Amen.