What Do You Do When You Can't Do Anything?

Have you ever felt you were in a situation where there was no way out? Circumstances of life sometimes seem to bring us to a dead-end street. When it seems there is no way out, God can make a way.

Israel at the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21)
The Israelites were there because God put them there (verse 2)
Solution: "Lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand" (verse 16, KJV). Today, God want you to stretch out. Stand and see further afar off. You are approaching your destination. Just one more step. Lifted hands mean many things--supplication, praise, surrender, authority. Some say "Throw up our hands." God says, "Lift up your hands." If God put you there, move forward in Him.

Jonah in the belly of the fish (Jonah 2:1-10)
Jonah was there because he put himself there.
Solution: Lifted up his voice in prayer of supplication (2:9). William Cowper tried suicide nine times before he wrote, "There is a fountain filled with the blood drawn from Immanuel's veins, and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains." You may be in a situation of rebellion against God. You have gotten yourself in a place that seems a dead-end  street. There is a way out: a prayer of surrender.

Paul and Silas in the Philippian jail (Acts 16:22-24)
Paul and Silas were there because the world put them there.
Solution: Voices lifted in praise (verses 25,26). The world may try to shut you up or shut you in, but lift up your voice in praise to God who reigns on high.

CONCLUSSION
You may  be in difficulty because (1) God put you there; (2) you put yourself there; (3) the world put you there. Way out: (1) Lift up your hands; (2) lift up your voice in prayer; (3) lift up a song of praise. Inthe world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (John 16: 33, KJV).