Drop Some Sticks: Obedience (Part 5)!.mp3

INSPIRE Devotionals With Emmanuel Afiawari Saturday, July 5, 2025 Topic: DROP SOME STICKS (Part 5)! Memory Verse: "Therefore he said, 'Pick it up for yourself.' So he reached out his hand and took it" -  Kings 6:7 NKJV Bible Text: 2 Kings 6:5‭-‬6 NKJV 5. But as one was cutting down a tree, the iron ax head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Alas, master! For it was borrowed.” 6. So the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And he showed him the place. So he cut off a stick, and threw it in there; and he made the iron float. INSPIRATION: Exodus 7:8-13 tells us a story of God's instructions to Moses and Aaron to do miracles with Aaron's rod by throwing it down before Pharaoh so it could turn into a snake. Even though Pharaoh's magicians tried to counterfeit the miracle, God still reigned supreme by ensuring their rods were swallowed up by Aaron's. You may never know what God might require you to cast down for your big miracle, just be sensitive and obedient: for Aaron, it was his rod; for Peter, he was to cast his net into the deep (Luke 5:1-8).  As it was in Aaron's case, whatever God inspires you to cast down will swallow up anything that rises to challenge you. Any form of opposition would be drowned in the sea of your victory. God will raise a new strategy by your obedience to deal a bloodied nose to the enemy like He did through Aaron's rod and through Jesus's death. The enemy will be striped of his glory as God begins to act in your favour to embarrass them. Evil strategies would fail before you; your little efforts would deliver super-amazing results when you become sensitive and obedient enough to cast down your rod at God's command. TODAY'S TAKE HOME: Obedience triggers the manifestation of miracles, and God is still in the business of using seemingly meaningless instructions to showcase His greatness. Be attentive, sensitive and obedient to His promptings. PRAYER: O Lord, please give me the grace to follow inspired instructions; to know when to cast my rod at Your command for great manifestations, in Jesus name.