RECOVER YOUR AXEHEAD
Recover Your Axehead
By Pastor William Boachie-Ansah
TEXT: 2KING 6:1-7
And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See now, the place where we dwell with you is too small for us. 2 "Please, let us go to the Jordan, and let every man take a beam from there, and let us make there a place where we may dwell." So he answered, "Go." Then one said, "Please consent to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go." 4 So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. 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. 7 Therefore he said, "Pick it up for yourself." So he reached out his hand and took it.
Elisha is the great prophet in Israel, the successor to his mentor, Elijah. Elisha has begun a school for future prophets. It has grown to the point that their present facility was too small. So they've gone to a new site and begun clearing land for the new facility. That was when the problem came…..
THE AXE
• FOR AGRIC PRODUCTIVITY
• Domestic use in the TEMPLE AND HOMES FOR CHOPPING FIREWOOD
• OFFENSIVE and DEFENSIVE WEAPON
The axehead represents the POWER GOD WANTS TO CHANNEL THROUGH YOUR LIFE, GOD’S ANOINTING FOR HIS PEOPLE AND HIS CHURCH.
In other words, the ax head represents the tools that God places in our hands to effectively do his work. You don't cut down trees without the ax head being in place and being sharp. Some simple observations from the story ….
1. The ax head was borrowed.
It wasn't the property of the one who was using it. It is a God-given power. It is borrowed in a sense. You don't work up this power through psychology or build it up through your own willpower. It's a divine power that comes from Jesus Christ and his spirit living in you. It's a gift from God. It's not your power or my power, it's God's power.
The Spirit of God is the keen, sharp edge of the ax head. That's the difference. The power that you have to resist temptation, to share your faith or to influence your family for Christ, it's not a power created by your own energy, it is the gift you receive when you came to Christ. It's a borrowed power. Don't dare lose sight of it, ignore it or lose it. If we lose it trying to take on this world without God's power through his Holy Spirit, it's like trying to fell a great redwood by beating it with the ax handle. You can never get to anywhere.
2. The axehead was lost.
Some within us have gotten their axeheads lost!
• worldliness
• ritual
• Criticism, murmuring and blasphemous speech
• prayerlessness,
• secularism
• self-satisfaction and complacency
• Unfaithfulness (the case of a demon possessed girl and some tithes-stealing officers)
There's nothing sadder than losing the power that God wants his servant to have. We've faked the power of Pentecost long enough. Let's set aside the imitations and reclaim the real deal.
3. There was a concern over its lost.
As soon as he realizes it was gone, Elisha's helper cried out, '"Oh, my lord.'" He was distressed. Start looking for your axe head because you've lost it. It's not what is done for God that matters nearly as much as what is done by God through us. Activity isn't always productivity.
4. The axe head was found where it was lost.
Spiritually, that's the same way it is with our walk with God. If you've lost your spiritual ax head, go and search for it in the same place you lose it. I don't know where you've left your ax head, but you know where it was. Go there, that's where you will find it.
5. The one who lose it must be the one to retrieve it.
You are responsible for you ax head. No one can relieve you of that. As long as you choose to let the ax head stay in the water, that's where it will stay. If you choose to pick it up. God can bless your life in a mighty way.
"Let's ditch our counterfeits and our cheap substitutes, and ask the Lord to restore the axe blade. Let's cry to Him for a pure, unadulterated, genuine, life-changing, planet-shaking revival.
HOW USEFUL IS AN AXE WITHOUT THE IRON HEAD?
THE DEVIL DOES NOT FEAR A CHRISTIAN WHOSE AXE HAS NO HEAD.
Ps William Boachie-Ansah
boachieansah@gmail.com
boachieansah.blogspot.com
0244137880, 0200014740
By Pastor William Boachie-Ansah
TEXT: 2KING 6:1-7
And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See now, the place where we dwell with you is too small for us. 2 "Please, let us go to the Jordan, and let every man take a beam from there, and let us make there a place where we may dwell." So he answered, "Go." Then one said, "Please consent to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go." 4 So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. 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. 7 Therefore he said, "Pick it up for yourself." So he reached out his hand and took it.
Elisha is the great prophet in Israel, the successor to his mentor, Elijah. Elisha has begun a school for future prophets. It has grown to the point that their present facility was too small. So they've gone to a new site and begun clearing land for the new facility. That was when the problem came…..
THE AXE
• FOR AGRIC PRODUCTIVITY
• Domestic use in the TEMPLE AND HOMES FOR CHOPPING FIREWOOD
• OFFENSIVE and DEFENSIVE WEAPON
The axehead represents the POWER GOD WANTS TO CHANNEL THROUGH YOUR LIFE, GOD’S ANOINTING FOR HIS PEOPLE AND HIS CHURCH.
In other words, the ax head represents the tools that God places in our hands to effectively do his work. You don't cut down trees without the ax head being in place and being sharp. Some simple observations from the story ….
1. The ax head was borrowed.
It wasn't the property of the one who was using it. It is a God-given power. It is borrowed in a sense. You don't work up this power through psychology or build it up through your own willpower. It's a divine power that comes from Jesus Christ and his spirit living in you. It's a gift from God. It's not your power or my power, it's God's power.
The Spirit of God is the keen, sharp edge of the ax head. That's the difference. The power that you have to resist temptation, to share your faith or to influence your family for Christ, it's not a power created by your own energy, it is the gift you receive when you came to Christ. It's a borrowed power. Don't dare lose sight of it, ignore it or lose it. If we lose it trying to take on this world without God's power through his Holy Spirit, it's like trying to fell a great redwood by beating it with the ax handle. You can never get to anywhere.
2. The axehead was lost.
Some within us have gotten their axeheads lost!
• worldliness
• ritual
• Criticism, murmuring and blasphemous speech
• prayerlessness,
• secularism
• self-satisfaction and complacency
• Unfaithfulness (the case of a demon possessed girl and some tithes-stealing officers)
There's nothing sadder than losing the power that God wants his servant to have. We've faked the power of Pentecost long enough. Let's set aside the imitations and reclaim the real deal.
3. There was a concern over its lost.
As soon as he realizes it was gone, Elisha's helper cried out, '"Oh, my lord.'" He was distressed. Start looking for your axe head because you've lost it. It's not what is done for God that matters nearly as much as what is done by God through us. Activity isn't always productivity.
4. The axe head was found where it was lost.
Spiritually, that's the same way it is with our walk with God. If you've lost your spiritual ax head, go and search for it in the same place you lose it. I don't know where you've left your ax head, but you know where it was. Go there, that's where you will find it.
5. The one who lose it must be the one to retrieve it.
You are responsible for you ax head. No one can relieve you of that. As long as you choose to let the ax head stay in the water, that's where it will stay. If you choose to pick it up. God can bless your life in a mighty way.
"Let's ditch our counterfeits and our cheap substitutes, and ask the Lord to restore the axe blade. Let's cry to Him for a pure, unadulterated, genuine, life-changing, planet-shaking revival.
HOW USEFUL IS AN AXE WITHOUT THE IRON HEAD?
THE DEVIL DOES NOT FEAR A CHRISTIAN WHOSE AXE HAS NO HEAD.
Ps William Boachie-Ansah
boachieansah@gmail.com
boachieansah.blogspot.com
0244137880, 0200014740
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