By Apostle Andre Pelser

You’ve heard the saying, ‘everything he touches turns into gold!’ People normally use this saying referring to very successful people.

Everything Jesus touches changes into something valuable. Whatever you give to him, will be given back to you in a more valuable form.

When Jesus asked Peter if he could use his boat to preach from, he gave it back to him full of fish! When he took a school boy’s lunch he fed 5000 men with it.

He turned a murderer into an emancipator of a whole nation: Moses fled into the wilderness because he murdered an Egyptian. But after his encounter with the Lord, he returned to Egypt and led the Jews out of slavery.

He turned a coward into a savior of a city: when Jonah refused to go to Nineveh to preach, he was thrown overboard into the sea and a great fish swallowed him and spat him out on the beach. He finally plucked up his courage and preached in the streets of Nineveh and a whole city repented and changed their ways.

He turned a slave into a Prime Minister. Joseph was sold by his brothers as a slave and ended up in an Egyptian prison. But because he could interpret dreams he was brought before Potifar and the Lord helped him to interpret the king’s dream. This got him promoted and eventually he became the Prime Minister of Egypt.

He turned a shepherd into a great king. David was a shepherd boy who protected his sheep from wolves, bears and lions. He killed Goliath with the same sling shot and shot up in prominence to become the beloved Psalmist that ruled Israel and Judah and taught them how to praise and worship the most High God.

He took fishermen and told them: follow me and I will make you fishers of men! From being unknown men, they became household names for centuries to come. Their fame outlasted all the other men of their time, because they gave their lives to the Master.

When ten lepers approached Jesus of Nazareth, he spoke a word that healed and cleansed them.

When the Master saw a man born blind, he put clay and spittle in his hollow eye sockets and sent him to go and wash in the pool of Siloam (which means ‘sent’) and he came back seeing.

When a woman caught in adultery was thrown at the Master’s feet demanding that she should be stoned according to the Jewish Law, he stooped down and wrote in the sand, and said, ‘whoever has no sin among you, let him cast the first stone!’ When he looked up, all the accusers had left. Then he said to the woman, ‘Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more!’

When Jairus, the ruler of the synagogue, came to the Master because his little daughter was at the point of death, Jesus immediately went with him. On the way they were interrupted by a woman who had an issue of blood for 12 years that heard about him and said, ‘If I can touch the hem of his garment I shall be made whole’. She pressed through the crowd and touched his garment. He said, ‘who touched me?’ because He felt virtue leaving Him. The woman confessed that it was her, and He commended her, ‘your faith has made you whole!’

But by this time the little girl had died. A messenger came to Jairus and told him, ‘don’t trouble the Master any longer. Your daughter is already dead.’ Jesus told Jairus, ‘don’t fear – only believe – she is sleeping.’ And Jesus went to ‘wake her up’. He took her by the hand, raised her from the dead and gave her back to Jairus alive!

Whatever is touched by the Hand of the Master changes – forever!

Friend, perhaps you need a touch from the Master’s hand today. One touch can change your life forever. Perhaps you need His mercy, His grace, His love, His forgiveness, His touch in your life today.

If you can believe, you can receive a touch from the Master’s Hand.

Let me tell you a story to illustrate what I am trying to tell you.