Open Heaven 2 March 2024: Your Right-Hand Man 1
MEMORISE: “But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun”. Exodus 17:12
BIBLE READING: Exodus 4:10-16 (KJV)
And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not eloquent or a man of words, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and have a heavy and awkward tongue.
11 And the Lord said to him, Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the dumb, or the deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you shall say.
13 And he said, Oh, my Lord, I pray You, send by the hand of [some other] whom You will [send].
14 Then the anger of the Lord blazed against Moses; He said, Is there not Aaron your brother, the Levite? I know he can speak well. Also, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be overjoyed.
15 You must speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what you shall do.
16 He shall speak for you to the people, acting as a mouthpiece for you, and you shall be as God to him.
Read Yesterday’s Open Heaven Devotional here
For everyone who becomes great, there is always at least one person God provides to be his or her ‘right-hand man’.
For example, in Exodus 4:10-16, when Moses told God that he could not go to Egypt because he couldn’t speak well, God appointed Aaron to assist him.
In Exodus 17:8-13, when the Amalekites came to attack Israel, Moses went to the mountaintop with Aaron and Hur and told Joshua to lead the army in the valley below.
Moses lifted up his hands and Israel prevailed, but when his hands got tired, Aaron and Hur gave him a rock to sit on and held up his hands.
In the meantime, Joshua was in the valley below fighting. All these people were right-hand men to Moses.
We find another example in Genesis 24. Abraham called his lead servant and asked him to get a wife for His son amongst his (Abraham’s) people. That lead servant was Abraham’s right-hand man in this case.
I should, however, also note that the term is genderless, as a woman can also be a ‘right-hand man’ to another woman.
The right-hand man is someone who is close enough to his or her leader to know what the latter needs at every moment, and be proactive in providing it.
You should also identify your right-hand man if you haven’t. Your right-hand man can say what you cannot say yourself or might have a way of presenting the matter that will effectively pass on your intended message.
He or she can be the lifter of your hands, the one who will help you when your hands go weary. Such a person is the one who can provide you with something to sit upon when you are tired; someone who can make you comfortable even at his or her own discomfort.
Like Joshua, he or she is the one who can fight your battles even when you are not there.
Your real right-hand man is one who, despite your closeness, will never take you for granted because of familiarity.
Your right-hand man is one who will see your weaknesses and not use them against you or go around telling others about them; he or she will rather cover them as Aaron and Hur did for Moses.
Your right-hand man is one to whom you can entrust things and be sure that they will do it as you want it done.
Note that God may have you serve as a right-hand man to someone as well.
REFLECTION: Pray that God should connect you to the right-hand man He has prepared for you, and also thank Him specially for adding another year to my years today.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Deuteronomy 30-32
Thank you for studying today’s Open Heaven – Your Right-Hand Man 1 – written by Pastor Enoch Adeboye
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Open Heaven 2 March 2024
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