You would ask for strength. You would ask. I'm in you so you can ask. I'm in you." You gotta get it in you.
Moses said, after a whole series of excuses, you know...
God asked him a question, he said, "What is that in your hand? Moses simply had a staff, but that wasn't all it was. It was an instrument to part waters, to turn rivers to blood. It was an instrument. What is in your hand? It is coming from the five. What is in your hand? Did you ask? Did you ask or do you just assume it's not enough? We get in trouble when we answer instead of asking. So, God said, " I chose you, Moses".
In Exodus 4:10, this is the picture the Lord gave me. And the Lord must want somebody to get this message because it is so heavy on me I can barely move. But Moses said, "Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent (not enough), neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue." Now everybody has something like that they could say why you can not make it and why there is mot enough and why eight months wages would not be enough. Everybody has an inner Philip. And the inner Philip will jump to conclusions based on the evidence that you can see with your eyes.
But watch what the Lord said in verse 11. The Lord said, "Did I ask? Who gave human beings their mouth? Did I ask? Who makes them deaf or mute? Did I ask? You keep telling me what you are not, but I did not ask you that. You keep telling me what you can not, but I did not ask you that. So do not say, I am just single. Do not say I am just young. Do not say, I am too old. Did I ask? I am the Lord. I am enough. Is it not?"
I need $260. You did not think you had it, but right up before I came here to preach, I handed him my wallet, and I did not tell him why. I said, "Just hold this for me till I am done." And I am about to be done. Because when I get to the end of my message, I am gonna put something in my boy, and when I ask you for it, the fact that I asked is the proof that you have it. If I asked, you have it. If I asked, I gave it. It is in you. It is more than enough. Count that money. Open that wallet. What is in that wallet? I need $260. But I will never ask you for what I did not give you, to begin with. And if you run out of that, I got credit too. God said, "My credit's good. I put it in a boy. I put it in your joggers. I put it in your spirit. I will put it in a basket. I will put it in a bag. I will put it in weakness. I will put it in a thorn. I am the Lord."
