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Today's Word 08-13-26 What's in Your Hands? · The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey

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  Speaker 1: It's your early morning praise party. I am Sherry Mackie.
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  Speaker 1: It's time right now. Four Today's word. What's in your hands?
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  Speaker 1: What's in your hands? John six and nine in the
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  Speaker 1: message translation says, there's a little boy here who has
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  Speaker 1: five barley lows and two fish. But that's a drop
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  Speaker 1: in the bucket for a crowd like this. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever looked at what you have and thought it's just
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  Speaker 1: not enough. Maybe you look at your talent and think
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  Speaker 1: it's not gifted enough. You look at your resource and
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  Speaker 1: say I don't have enough money. You look at your
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  Speaker 1: experience and think who would listen to me? You look
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  Speaker 1: at your dream and wonder, how could something this small
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  Speaker 1: ever becomes something significant. Well, that's exactly what happened in
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  Speaker 1: John six. Thousands of people had gathered to hear Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: As the day grew late, the crowd became hungry. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: acts as disciples, how they were going to feed everybody,
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  Speaker 1: but there didn't seem to be enough food anywhere around.
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  Speaker 1: Then some one found a little boy carrying five barley
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  Speaker 1: loads and two fish. It wasn't much, in fact, compared
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  Speaker 1: to the size of the crowd. It seemed almost insignificant.
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  Speaker 1: But the boy didn't hide what he had. He released
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  Speaker 1: what he had, and when what was small was placing
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  Speaker 1: the hands of Jesus, it became more than enough. See
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  Speaker 1: that's the lesson. God doesn't need you to start with
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  Speaker 1: a lot. He simply needs you to be willing to
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  Speaker 1: give him what you have. You may think your voice
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  Speaker 1: is too small, your business is too small, your platform
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  Speaker 1: is too small, your idea is too small, your testimony
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  Speaker 1: isn't imprecedent enough. But don't underestimate what God can do
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  Speaker 1: with you when he puts his hands on your life.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. A seed is small, but it can
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  Speaker 1: become a tree. A spark is small, but it can
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  Speaker 1: start a fire. A little faith can move mountains, and
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  Speaker 1: five loads and two fish can feed thousands when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: gets involved. Come on, Jesus, so stop what you have
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  Speaker 1: to what somebody else has. Stop looking at their five
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  Speaker 1: loaves and two fish in deciding that you're disqualified. God
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  Speaker 1: knows how to multiply what you surrender to him. That
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  Speaker 1: gift you've been hiding, release it, that dream you've been
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  Speaker 1: afraid to pursue, release it, the idea you've been sitting on,
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  Speaker 1: Release it. That testimony you've been reluctant to share. Release
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  Speaker 1: that you don't have to know how God is going
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  Speaker 1: to multiply it. That's his part. Your part is simply
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  Speaker 1: to put it in his hands, because what looks small
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  Speaker 1: in your hands can become extraordinary in God's hand. Don't
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  Speaker 1: despise what you have, don't bury what God gave you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't call insignificant what God calls useful. Give him your gifts,
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  Speaker 1: give him your resources, give him your creativity, give him
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  Speaker 1: your influence, give him your eyes, give him your yes,
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  Speaker 1: give him your mouth, give up your hands, give him
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  Speaker 1: your feet, and watch what Jesus does with if come own.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Father, thank you for everything you've placed in our hands.
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  Speaker 1: Forgive us for the times we've compared ourselves to others
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  Speaker 1: and convinced ourselves that what we have isn't enough. Help
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  Speaker 1: us to recognize the gifts of talents, the ideas, the resources,
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  Speaker 1: the opportunities that you've already given us. Give us the
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  Speaker 1: courage to release them to you instead of hiding them
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  Speaker 1: out of fear and insecurity. Take what seems small and
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  Speaker 1: multiply it for your glory. Take my little God and
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  Speaker 1: make it more than enough, take my limited ability and
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  Speaker 1: add your unlimited power. God. We believe that what we
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  Speaker 1: surrendered to you can become a blessing to others. We
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  Speaker 1: will no longer discount ourselves, bury our gifts, and allow
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  Speaker 1: fear to keep us from stepping into purpose. God, replace
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  Speaker 1: everything we have in your hands, trusting you to multiply
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  Speaker 1: it beyond what we could ever accomplish on our own.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus name, that's your word for today. Take it
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  Speaker 1: applied to your everyday life, and you continue to be
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  Speaker 1: encouraged and inspired. It is your early morning praise party.
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  Speaker 1: I am Sherry Mackie.