Finding Your Resources

Every believer faces moments when life feels overwhelming and the way forward seems unclear. In those seasons, it can be easy to assume that help must come from somewhere new. Yet often, God has already placed the very resource we need within reach. This devotional invites you to pause, reflect, and recognize how God uses what is already around you to bring freedom, direction, and hope.

Have you ever felt trapped in a situation that seemed unending, bound by challenges, emotions, or circumstances beyond your control? The children of Israel knew that feeling well. For years, they suffered under the weight of oppression in Egypt, crying out to God for deliverance. Their cries were not ignored. Scripture tells us that God heard their groaning and remembered His covenant.

Exodus 2:23-24 (KJV)“And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.”

What a powerful truth. God not only hears our cries, He responds out of covenant faithfulness. Even when we feel forgotten, He remembers His promises. He has not overlooked your pain or your prayers.

God Works Before We Ask

One of the most remarkable truths in Exodus 2 is that while Israel was crying out for deliverance, God had already begun preparing the answer. Before their groaning ever reached heaven, the plan for their freedom was already in motion.

In verses 1 through 10, we meet that plan, an infant named Moses. Born in secret, hidden among the reeds, and raised in Pharaoh’s very palace, Moses was a resource God placed in the world long before the Israelites knew they needed him. The solution to their bondage was being nurtured in the same place that symbolized their suffering.

A peaceful riverbank where Moses was hidden

That is how God often works. While we are overwhelmed, He is orchestrating miracles behind the scenes. While we are crying for escape, He is developing deliverance. The resource you need may already exist; it just has not been recognized yet.

Are You Overlooking What Is Already in Your Hands?

How often do we pray for answers while ignoring what God has already placed within reach? Sometimes the provision we need is not waiting to arrive, it is waiting to be used.

Maybe your resource is not a person like Moses. Maybe it is your voice, your obedience, your creativity, your community, or even your pastor’s wisdom. Perhaps it is a skill God gave you years ago that you have set aside, thinking it was not important.

God does not waste resources, and He does not make mistakes. The same God who used a baby to lead a nation can use the smallest seed of faith or effort in your life to produce something extraordinary.

A hidden treasure chest symbolizing overlooked resources

God Still Does Big Things with Small Means

In today’s world we are surrounded by technology, tools, and conveniences that promise to make life easier. Yet in many ways, these can distract us from the simple truth that God still does great things with very little. He fed a multitude with a few loaves and fish. He defeated a giant with a stone. He parted a sea with a staff.

Perhaps God wants to remind you that your greatest resource is not found in what is new or complex but in what is already in your hand.

Take Time to Seek the Source

Spend time today in stillness before God. Ask Him to open your eyes to the resources already around you. What has He placed within your reach that could change everything if you simply acted in faith?

Maybe your “Moses” is not far away. Maybe it is hidden in plain sight, waiting for you to recognize it, nurture it, and trust God to bring deliverance through it.

When you stop searching for the spectacular and start seeing the supernatural in the ordinary, you will discover that God has already provided more than enough.