We should all want to be used by God. Our decree should be “Here I am Lord—send me.”  You may not know God’s will for your life, but you should know this: He wants to use you, He wants to use you in this church, in your family, in your job, and in your neighborhood.

We may at times look at young people and worry for their generation, but what about our generation? We allowed baby killing, prayers to be taken out of schools, ten commandments removed from public places, and even the nativity to be removed from properties during the Christmas season. So what do we need to do??

The first eight chapters of Chronicles gives the genealogy of Jesus starting with Adam. Right in the middle of listing these heroes of times past is a reference to potters (1 Chronicles 4:23).  The potters dwelt with the king and were available to do the king’s work. Amazing. Right in the middle of all these important people, God mentions the simple potter.

What does a potter do? He creates things. The potter takes dirt and throws it on his spinning wheel. It goes round and round, and nothing happens until he adds water to it. We are all called to be potters. As our wheels spin round and round, we make things happen as we add water to the wheel.

John 7:38 tells you that rivers of living water flow from you if you believe in Jesus. But you must let that water come out of you into that dirt on your spinning wheel. The dirt will start to solidify and know you can start making something.

We need to be the potter over our children and grandchildren, and over the people we work with. Put the situation on the potter’s wheel, add the water, and start molding it. Maybe you need to add more water to take the lumps out or to keep it from getting too dry. Keep working at it. Keep it spinning, add more water, keep it spinning. The clay may fall time and again, but keep working at it. God didn’t discard you when you fell. He didn’t throw you off the potter’s wheel, He keeps working on you.

Being a potter is a dirty job. You get mud and dust and water on you. But you need to keep encouraging your family, kids, grandkids, etc. Potters take the next generation and put their hand on them and begin to mold them. We are forming it, smoothing it out, getting the lumps out. The Potter keeps working on it just like we need to keep working on people. Keep speaking words into them. Keep shaping and molding and believing in them. Keep loving them and telling them they are special.

Jeremiah 29:11 This we all know well, that we all have a future and a hope.

Speak this “water” over your kids, grandkids, families, work people, church. Let their minds be formed over words of life spoken into them.

We are potters in the king’s house. It may not seem “important” but if not for the potter there would be no vessels for the king to eat and drink from.

God has anointed us to be potters.