This presentation is a devotional message about the Hand of God which is one of the most used anthropomorphism of God and is divided into four points: i. Description of the Hand of God; ii. Doings of the Hand of God; iii. Danger of the Hand of God; and iv. Dealing the Hand of God.

1. THE HAND
OF GOD
BY: PTR. PAUL JOHN MORALES AZORES

2. TEXT
• READ
EZRA 7:1-28

3. INTRODUCTION
• One of the most used
Anthropomorphisms of God is
“His Hand”. Because it speak
about His Power, His Guidance,
His discipline, Provision,
Protection and Dealing with
men.

4. INTRODUCTION
• The best way to understand the
Hand of God is to believe fist that
there is God.
• Many people is this Generation
recognize God only through their
lips, but in works and deeds it
manifest that as if there is no
God.

5. Jeremiah 10:10-13
• 10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the
living God, and an everlasting king: at his
wrath the earth shall tremble, and the
nations shall not be able to abide his
indignation.
• 11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods
that have not made the heavens and the
earth, even they shall perish from the
earth, and from under these heavens.

6. Jeremiah 10:10-13
• 12 He hath made the earth by his power,
he hath established the world by his
wisdom, and hath stretched out the
heavens by his discretion.
• 13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a
multitude of waters in the heavens, and
he causeth the vapours to ascend from
the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth
the wind out of his treasures.

7. I. DESCRIPTION OF THE HAND OF GOD:
A. MIGHTY HAND
Joshua 4:24
• That all the people of the
earth might know the hand of
the LORD, that it is mighty:
that ye might fear the LORD
your God for ever.

8. I. DESCRIPTION OF THE HAND OF GOD:
B. POWERFUL HAND
2 Chronicles 20:6
• And said, O LORD God of our
fathers, art not thou God in
heaven? and rulest not thou over
all the kingdoms of the heathen?
and in thine hand is there
not power and might, so that none
is able to withstand thee?

9. I. DESCRIPTION OF THE HAND OF GOD:
C. GOOD HAND
Nehemiah 2:8
• And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the
king's forest, that he may give me timber
to make beams for the gates of the
palace whichappertained to the house,
and for the wall of the city, and for the
house that I shall enter into. And the king
granted me, according to the good hand
of my God upon me.

10. I. DESCRIPTION OF THE HAND OF GOD:
C. GOOD HAND
Job 2:10
• But he said unto her, Thou
speakest as one of the foolish
women speaketh. What? shall we
receive good at the hand of God,
and shall we not receive evil? In
all this did not Job sin with his
lips.

11. I. DESCRIPTION OF THE HAND OF GOD:
D. HEAVY HAND
1 Samuel 5:11
• So they sent and gathered together all
the lords of the Philistines, and said,
Send away the ark of the God of Israel,
and let it go again to his own place, that
it slay us not, and our people: for there
was a deadly destruction throughout all
the city; the hand of God was very heavy
there.

12. I. DESCRIPTION OF THE HAND OF GOD:
D. HEAVY HAND
1 Samuel 6:3
• And they said, If ye send away the
ark of the God of Israel, send it not
empty; but in any wise return him a
trespass offering: then ye shall be
healed, and it shall be known to you
why his hand is not removed from
you.

13. I. DESCRIPTION OF THE HAND OF GOD:
E. FEARFUL HAND
Hebrews 10:31
It is a fearful thing to
fall into the hands of
the living God.

14. II. DOINGS OF THE HAND OF GOD;
A. STRENGHTENING HAND
Genesis 29:24
• But his bow abode in strength,
and the arms of his hands were
made strong by the hands of the
mighty God of Jacob; (from
thenceis the shepherd, the stone
of Israel:)

15. II. DOINGS OF THE HAND OF GOD;
B. LIBERATING HAND
Exodus 32:11
• And when the people saw that Moses
delayed to come down out of the mount,
the people gathered themselves together
unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make
us gods, which shall go before us; foras
for this Moses, the man that brought us
up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not
what is become of him.

16. II. DOINGS OF THE HAND OF GOD;
B. LIBERATING HAND
Deuteronomy 5:15
• And remember that thou wast a servant
in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD
thy God brought thee out thence
through a mighty hand and by a
stretched out arm: therefore the LORD
thy God commanded thee to keep the
sabbath day.

17. II. DOINGS OF THE HAND OF GOD;
C. CHASTISING HAND
Deuteronomy 11:2
• And know ye this day: for I speak not
with your children which have not
known, and which have not seen the
chastisement of the LORD your God,
his greatness, his mighty hand, and
his stretched out arm,

18. II. DOINGS OF THE HAND OF GOD;
D. FULFILING HAND
2 Chronicles 6:4
• And he said, Blessed be the LORD
God of Israel, who hath with his
hands fulfilled that which he
spake with his mouth to my
father David, saying,

19. II. DOINGS OF THE HAND OF GOD;
E. FAVORING HAND
Ezra 7:6
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and
he was a ready scribe in the law of
Moses, which the LORD God of Israel
had given: and the king granted him
all his request, according to the hand
of the LORD his God upon him.

20. II. DOINGS OF THE HAND OF GOD;
E. FAVORING HAND
Ezra 7:28
And hath extended mercy unto me
before the king, and his counsellors, and
before all the king's mighty princes. And
I was strengthened as the hand of the
LORD my God was upon me, and I
gathered together out of Israel chief
men to go up with me.

21. II. DOINGS OF THE HAND OF GOD;
F. TOUCHING HAND
Job 19:21
•Have pity upon me, have
pity upon me, O ye my
friends; for the hand of
God hath touched me.

22. II. DOINGS OF THE HAND OF GOD;
G. PROVING HAND
Ecclesiastes 2:24
• There is nothing better for a
man, than that he should eat and
drink, and that he should make his
soul enjoy good in his labour. This
also I saw, that it was from the hand
of God.

23. III. DANGER OF THE HAND OF GOD;
• FEARFUL HAND
Hebrews 10:31
It is a fearful thing to
fall into the hands of
the living God.

24. IV. DEALINGTHE HAND OF GOD;
•1 Peter 5:6
•Humble yourselves
therefore under the
mighty hand of God, that
he may exalt you in due
time: