Daniel 4:14-15

King Nebuchadnezzar had a vision of a huge tree that was a nest shelter and shade. To him this tree was a sign of his prosperity and success. He was going through a season of enormous blessings, followed by a season where he was filled with pride. God then said to cut the tree down. But he left the stump. There would come a day that God would visit the stump and cause life to come back into it.

God is sovereign, and in control no matter where you are in life. First, God is the Lord of what you have. Second, God is Lord over what you lost. Third, He is Lord over what you have left.

God left you something. He will never take from you without leaving you something. He won’t let  the enemy leave you with nothing.  If He lets you lose something, He will leave something in its place.  He will come back to the stump and cause life to come out of it.  What is left is what God will cause to produce what you need to fulfill the purpose and future He has for your life. While you lament over your loss, God is telling you that He will use what’s left.  Hold on to your faith in God, for He is the God of what’s left. It may only be a stump, but God will surely use it.

Take Noah for example. If God needed the wicked society that lived during that time, he would have never caused them to die in the flood. The miracle wasn’t in the rain that came for 40 days and 40 nights and drowned these people, but the miracle was in what was left – 8 people on the earth.

Job 13:15

The devil believed the only reason Job served God was because God had blessed him in abundance. He asked God, who wouldn’t serve you if you blessed them.  God gave satan permission to attack Job, but God left something. He told satan you can take his belongings, you can take his family, you can even take his health. But God left something—Job’s life.

Job declared that he would continue to trust God no matter what. He said even heaven, or what God allowed, could not shake his confidence in God. Job declared that he would come through this as pure as gold because God is the God of what is left—his life. (Job 23:20).

Judges 7:7

God told Gideon to send home 32,000 men from his army. Only 300 soldiers were left. God used what was left for Gideon. He and the 300 soldiers were victorious. The miracle was in what they had left.

Exodus 9:8

God told Moses to take the ashes that were left and throw them up to heaven for Pharoah to see. The ashes were what was left. When they came down the ashes inflicted the Egyptians with boils on their bodies. God used what was left.

1 Samuel 30:13

The Amalekite army left behind one man. David encountered this man, and his words led David to victory over the Amalekites. This man was what was left.

2 Kings 4:1-2

The widow woman who was about to die had nothing, except a little bit of oil. God used what she had left to fill all the pots she could get her hands on with oil.

Ezekiel 37:3

Ezekiel encountered a valley of dry bones. These bones were all that was left. He didn’t know if God could restore life to these, but what he could do was to be obedient to God and speak out words of life over the bones. If you don’t have any faith left, just speak the word of God over your situation. You don’t need to “feel” faith or even have passion about what you are saying; just be obedient to what God told you to do – that is, speak His word over your situation. Ezekiel told God he didn’t know if God could bring the bones back to life, but he obeyed what God told him to do and spoke God’s word over the dry bones, what was left in the valley. As he obeyed God and spoke the bones came together and life returned to them.

Quit giving the devil glory for all you lost. Start magnifying what you have left!