What's in Your Hand?

By Pastor Rey Diaz

God is asking you “what is in your hand?”  Because if you give what is in your hand to God, He can use it for his kingdom.

This past week we focused on one of the most powerful principle found in scripture - Everybody can accomplish more than somebody.   Paul uses this analogy of the human body to describe the church.  Everyone is valuable.  Everyone is significant.  Everyone needs one another to fully function.  We are all mission critical to the body.  We can accomplish more together. 

We need you.  Our community needs you.  The world needs you.  Our awesome church is not about going to church but about giving back as the church.  We can do so much more together than we can alone.  Everybody is greater than somebody. 

So here is what I’m trying to convince you to do:

• To get off the bench and step onto the playing field.
• To get off the sidelines and get into the game.
• To leverage some of your time to make a Kingdom difference right here.
• To take whatever you have in your hand, and use it for God. Everybody can play a part.

The church is a volunteer organization…it’s the power of everybody working together.  We are an army of people, all with important parts to play.  We are people that were created to join God in His mission. We serve because it gives us a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.  For me it’s the most fulfilling thing I do.

Everybody can have a part in the mission and there is no unimportant task. The body of Christ is made up of many parts...all of them help the others.

So, where does God want you?

Serving is for everybody.  You don’t have to have a special card to be a volunteer around here.  You don’t need to have a signed permission form from the Holy Spirit.  You don’t have to be a super Christian.  You just need to serve somewhere.

God has a mission and everybody can accomplish more than somebody.  Everybody that serves in some capacity around here is spreading the Gospel.  You’ve been created and gifted to serve.  You use your passions and gifts throughout the week…in your home, in your job, why not leverage them for use in your church?

So let me be clear about what I want everyone to do.  I want everyone to serve somewhere.  Because everybody is better than somebody.

I don’t want you to serve because we have a whole bunch of needs that if they don’t get met, disaster will strike.

I want you to volunteer because you were created and hard-wired by God to do it.  And when you serve somewhere you will find fulfillment, people’s needs will be met, and the gospel will go forward.