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  • The First Ability is Availability

    Exodus 3:4 “So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said,”Here I am.”

    1 Samuel 3:4 “The LORD called Samuel. And he answered, “Here I am!” 

    Here I Am! While we would say the greatest of abilities is dependability, we would also say the first ability is availability. Are you available for God to speak to you? Are you available for an assignment from God? Are you available for a new assignment from God?

    I put two verses before you where two people will become greatly used of God. yet it is worth noting how different they were. Moses was 80 and Samuel was just a child. Be reminded that God is preparing an assignment for you, regardless of your present age. Please don’t say I am too old, or I am too young. As well both were not equipped to carry out the assignment yet God still had an assignment for them. Be reminded that God does not call the equipped, rather He equips the called! Please do not tell God what you can’t do (Moses tried) because in so many ways it insults God as one is saying He can’t do something.

    When was the last time you said to the Lord here am I?  May I encourage you to pray afresh and anew today “Lord, may you find in me a willing and surrendered vessel, an available vessel for Your assignments!! Here I am!”

    A March To Remember

    With our Date the Word daily devotion for March we are including a verse for each day and suggesting 2 chapters to read that will help us remember our Savior as we make our way to Easter on March 31.  

    For March 4, let us consider Galatians 1:4. Galatians 1:4 says, “Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,”  

    He gave His life that we might have life.  He did this according to the will of His Father.  He surrenders His will in the garden of Gethsemane to do His Father’s will and in doing so He died for you!  He GAVE His life so you could have life. 
    May our hearts be filled with adoration and worship on March 4 as we Remember our Savior from Galatians 1:4

    On March 4 we would encourage you to read Matthew 4 and Luke 4.
    We encourage you to go to the new DATE the Word App and join the Bible Reading plan where you can read or listen to Matthew 4 and Luke 4 to be reminded of the ministry Jesus did.

    Continue Strong this March Remembering our Savior,
    And remember to DATE the Word

  • Verse to DATE the Word on March 4 (3/4) is Exodus 3:4

    Verse to DATE the Word on March 4 (3/4) is Exodus 3:4

    Our verse to DATE the Word on March 4 (3/4) is Exodus 3:4
    Exodus 3:4 says, “So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
    The first ABILITY is AVAILABILITY!

    You don’t have to say a lot to have said a lot.  For instance, I can hear a man say two words and then hear a woman say two words, and having heard each say those two words I have the power to change their lives forever.  Those two words are I DO.  Upon hearing them respond to my call to promise to love and cherish until death I then pronounce them to be HUSBAND and WIFE.  The saying of two words changed everything.

    Here in Exodus 3:4, we have THREE words that will change everything for Moses.  After seeing a bush that was burning but not being consumed Moses stopped what he was doing and turned aside to see this most unusual action.  With God having His attention God now calls out to Moses and Moses responds with “HERE I AM!”  These three words would change everything for Moses and, worth saying, so many others.

    You might find it interesting that Moses is not the only one to say HERE I AM.  Abraham will say HERE I AM in Genesis 22 twice.   God would call out to Jacob two different times and he would say HERE I AM.  God would call out to Joseph and he would say HERE I AM.  God would call out to the child Samuel and he would respond with HERE I AM.  In 1 Samuel 3:4, we read, “the LORD called Samuel. And he answered, “Here I am!”  Ananias, in the NT, will hear God’s call and he will respond with HERE I AM.  And then, of course, there is Isaiah who upon seeing the Lord will eventually hear the Lord and will respond with HERE AM I! (Isaiah 6)

    HERE I AM and/or HERE AM I are three words of AVAILABILITY.  While there usually is a little more to finalizing doing what God has for a person so many times we see God’s servants saying HERE I AM.  As I discipler and mentor I emphasize over and over that DEPENDABILITY is the greatest of abilities.  However, the first ability is AVAILABLITY.  

    Are you AVAILABLE to God?  Is there a mindset of wanting to know what God wants for your life?
    Can God INTERRUPT your present life with a new assignment?  God interrupted Moses’ life as a shepherd in order to have him return to Egypt and bring the Hebrews out of bondage and lead them on a journey to the Promise land.  Moses was just 80 when this happened.   God interrupted Mary one afternoon by having the angel Gabriel stop by and tell her she was highly favored by God, and that she would be the mother of the Messiah.  Mary does not respond with HERE I AM, but her answer was just as close as she said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” (Luke 1:38) BTW, she was just a teenager.  

    A group of men of various ages and various employment would hear FOLLOW ME and I will make you fishers of men.  While we don’t have the exact HERE I AM answer, their answer was very close as over and over they would respond with “and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.”  (Matthew 4:22) They were AVAILABLE to FOLLOW. 

    Are you AVAILABLE to be a vessel in God’s hand to accomplish His assignment(s) for His glory?  

    Verse to DATE the Word on March 4 (3/4) is Exodus 3:4.It says, “So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”

    The first ability is AVAILABILITY!

    Continue Strong AVAILABLE for His next assignment,
    And remember to DATE THE WORD