oday we continue with the third in the series “Give us this day.”

     TMatthew 6:11 (NKJV) “Give us this day our daily bread.” We will be talking about what it means to be ambidextrous somewhat. Judges 3:15 (NKJV) “But when the children of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man.” Batterson – Your brave is someone else’s breakthrough. We think right here, right now. God is thinking nations and generations. We think what God does for us is for us, but it’s never just for us. It’s always for third and fourth generations. When we win the day, in our own unique way we enable future generations to dream a little bigger and think a little longer. 

1. Be deliberate in developing your skills. We can assume that these men of Benjamin were not born with this skill set of using both the right hand and the left, sense only about one percent of the population is born ambidextrous. So how did these men of Benjamin develop this unusual skill of using both hands for battle? To become an expert archer or rock slinger takes lots of practice. The Benjamites may have been the first to truly use the Cross-fit training method. It took many years and lots of blisters to get where they were awesomely ambidextrous. 

2. Ehud’s victory became the tribe of Benjamin’s story. The Benjamites cultivating right and left hand skills in battle, was a way of honoring Ehud, and his deliverance for Israel. His brave in winning the victory was not just their breakthrough, it became their inspiration. Everything we do, we should be thinking future generations. Batterson – God wants to use you at your point of greatest giftedness. That’s a given. He is the One Who gave you those gifts in the first place. But God wants to also use you at your point of greatest weakness. Why? Because that is when His power is made perfect. That is where we provide double trouble for the enemy.

3. Connect the dots. There is probably no phrase used more than “David verses Goliath.” We have the tendency to read stories the wrong way, we always think David had the disadvantage. If it was hand to hand combat, yes. There is no way David could win that fight. But David had an advantage. When it seemed like God had forgotten David, God was preparing him for something bigger than he could ever imagine. He was becoming an expert with a slingshot. This is how our brave can be someone’s breakthrough. David had to just win the day to change his life and other’s too. Give me this day!