TITLE
The Potter’s hands
SCRIPTURE
Isaiah 43:19
One thing I know to be true is Yahweh is always gentle with his children. No matter if you’ve been faithful to him all your life or if you just recently gave your life to him, he is always speaking with love. Gentle doesn’t always mean a whisper, though God does whisper for some of us stubborn individuals he does shout with love. When I first came to a relationship with Christ I quickly realized he doesn’t yell at me the way we earthly parents yell, his shout is more like the encouraging voice in us that keeps us from quitting the things we start. I felt comfort knowing he always speaks the perfect way I didn't even know I needed, but he did. His voice guides us into the life he has for us, because nothing stays the same when we surrender to HIM. So why do so many Christians lives still look the same as their pre-saved days? There can be many reasons but from what I've witnessed is the willingness to surrender their every part of their lives for a new one. We tend to hold onto the parts we like and trick ourselves that we can balance both old and new but what we really trick ourselves into is double life. Jesus gives us everything, there’s not one part of himself he hides from us, so why do we continue to hold back? He is the creator, he was there before Genesis and he will be there after Revelation. Revelation 22:13 – "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." If we keep choosing to believe the life we create for ourselves will be greater than what he has in store than we will never know the potter’s hands.
Pottery is clay and water formed by the hands of a gentle touch, then made hard under the pressure of heat. When I sit back and think of the process it reminds me that God is the ultimate potter. He takes takes us as we are, raw and gives is his water that never runs dry: while gently and carefully forming us into a new creation. When we allow his will over our own we allow him to form a new heart, mind and spirit, When we allow Jesus to be exactly who he is he never disappoints. His hands can and will shape us more like him, after all isn’t that what we desire? Daily surrender allows this molding and refining to take place, just like clay we must go through fire to refine us and strengthen us. Only through refining will all other parts of fall off, it is a blessing to walk with him through the valley’s. Everywhere in the Bible you find people seeking and yearning for a touch of Jesus, are you one of them? How much do you yearn for the potter’s hands over your life? Put him to the test and give up your ways and watch Jesus do only what he can, he created everything else you see, why wouldn’t he do greater with his child.
FAITH SCRIPTURE
John 4:13–14
Jesus tells a Samaritan woman at a well, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never thirst. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life"Job 11:7-9
Malachi 3:3
God sits as a refiner and purifier of silver to clean and purify His people.
Ezekiel 11:19
And I will give them one heart [a new heart], and put a new spirit within them. I will take from them the heart of stone, and will give them a heart of flesh [that is responsive to My touch].
PRAYER TO SPEAK
Lord I know I'm uncomfortable with change, I want to keep the parts of my life that I enjoy even if it’s not in your word or will. Help me to let go of the stubbornness in my heart, soften it so it can be more like yours. I want to listen when you speak and allow your voice and hands to be what guides and molds me. I seek a touch from heaven, from you. I desire nothing else but to dwell with you as the new creation you have promised me. Change me, mold me, do whatever you want in the process Jesus. Make me new Holy Spirit, burn within me. Discipline my desires, I lay it all down. I surrender every area right now Lord, you can have it all.
In Jesus name
Amen.
WORSHIP SONG
PRAYER OVER YOU
Father, Lord help my spiritual sibling draw strength from you to leave their old ways at your altar. Give them a new heart as you mold them of a new life, fill them with your never ending water that keeps us from thirst. Remind them all we need is you, everything belongs to you including our lives. Come make them new, make them more like you and less of them.
In Jesus name
Amen
SOCIAL MEDIA
NAMES OF GOD
Elohim - “God”
Abba - “Father”
Yahweh - “The Lord
El Elyon - “God Most High”
El Roi - "God Who Sees”
El Shaddai - “God Almighty”
Yahweh Yireh - “The Lord Will Provide”
Yahweh Nissi - “The Lord Is My Banner”
Jehovah Rapha - "Healer" Yahweh Shalom - “The Lord Is Peace”