In Second Samuel 24:14, David told God, ‘let us fall into the hands of the Lord for His mercies are great’. When you are in a difficulty, it is the hand of God that you run into.
David had committed a crime, God had become angry with him and God came to David and said, choose three things; either the pestilence destroys you, I put you in the hands of your enemies or let me deal with you myself.
And David told God, “let me fall into the hands of God because His mercies are great”.
How do you attract the hand of God?
1. When you build God’s house. If you are working for God, God has a duty to help you.
2. When you have touched God in prayer. When you have touched God in the place of prayer, the Bible says that God will make His hands to be upon you. 1 Kings 18:41-46
3. When you are willing for God to lead you, God’s hands will be upon you. Genesis 12:1-3 tells us that the reason why Abraham prospered was that he was willing to be led by God.
4. If you are willing to make an agreement with God. His hands will be upon you. In Genesis 28 when Jacob was running away from Esau, (running away from his calamity and destruction,) he ran into God and had an encounter with God in Bethel. Jacob made a vow and the vow ensured that Jacob was preserved.
5. If you avoid sin, God’s hands will be upon you. Isaiah 59:1 says, that “Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated you from your God.”
6. If you are in sin, God’s hands will not be upon you: sin is like an insulator, it prevents God from being able to touch you.
7. If you are totally obedient to God. According to Genesis 26:12 & 13, the Bible says that “Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
“And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great”.
8. If you are ready to be used of God, God’s hand will be upon you. In Judges 6:12 the Bible tells us that, Gideon though was hiding under the winepress was ready to be used of God and had God’s hands upon him.
9. If you are generous, God’s hands will be upon you. You must go back to sacrificial giving. The only way that you can get is if you give.
If you give to God and give to the work of God, you give to the man of God, you give to the poor on different levels, God is duty bound to give back to you.
It was when Peter gave his boat to Jesus that he got a breakthrough.
10. If you are ready to go through anything and suffer anything for God’s sake, God’s hands will be upon you. The Bible says that they put Daniel in the Lion’s den but God’s hands were upon him.
11. When you know who God is to you. Psalm 23 says that David, because he knew who God was, God stretched forth his hand and blessed him. David said, ‘the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want’; and God said ‘Amen’ to that.
12. If you are humble, God’s hands will be upon you to protect you, promote you and to lift you up.
13. If you are kind and considerate to other people, God will stretch forth His hand to lift you up when you are down.
14. If you ask God, the Bible says that God will stretch forth His hand to be upon you. In 1 Chronicles 4:10, the Bible says that ‘Jabez was sorrowful because his mother bear him in sorrow and Jabez looked around himself and said ‘why is there so much sorrow upon me’? Jabez prayed, ‘my God bless me indeed and let your hand be upon me’.
And the Bible says that God answered his prayer.
If God does not move His hand in your direction, certain things may happen to you:
1. You may be still born. That is you will have finished at the starting post. David’s child born by Bathsheba in 2 Samuel 12:15-19 was still born despite David’s fasting and praying for him to live.
If life has been tough for you, you may be still born, spiritually dead on arrival.
2. If God does not move in your direction, your future may be stolen from you and you may never get to where you are going. In Genesis 27:35 Isaac told Esau, “God did not work in your direction, your brother Jacob has taken away your blessing.
3. If you are in constant pain, and your body is sick all the time, then perhaps God has not moved in your direction. Matthew 9:20 tells us the story of a bleeding woman. She was physically sick and was an emotional wreck because God had not moved in her direction.
Matthew 17:14 tells us the story of the epileptic boy who because God’s hand had not moved in his direction, he was constantly throwing himself down, foaming in the mouth and about to kill himself.
It is possible for God to transform your life because when the Lord’s hands are upon you, anything can happen. In life, there are some things that you can do.
But then also in life, there are lots of things that only God can do.
A lot of people do not appreciate this fact and think that most things that they have achieved have been by the power of their own hands.
Why then are you struggling with life, when all you need to do is to put yourself in God’s good hands because it is the hand of God that will direct the path of your life.
The hand of God is a metaphor for the power of God. Let the hand of God begin to work for you today.