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Use What Is in Your Hand

God asked Moses one question before the miracle. He is asking the church the same thing.

Reginald Lee Bachus

August 30, 2026 · 3 min read

Before the Red Sea opened, before the plagues, before Pharaoh, God asked Moses a simple question: “What is that in your hand?”

We often pray for what we do not have while overlooking what God has already given. A building. A van. A kitchen. A retired nurse in the third pew. A teenager who understands technology better than the whole trustee board.

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