Powerball is a jackpot game played by drawing a total of five white balls and one red ball to determine a winner. If a player’s numbers match all balls, that player gets the grand prize.
Just matching the five white balls can net a million in cash. Still, there is an even easier way to walk away with a pocketful of cash.
The simplest way of all to win? Match the lone red Powerball drawn from a drum of 35 balls, and we walk away with a cool million.
God has a lottery, one filled only with red Powerballs. Every person he chooses walks away with a million dollar prize.
Take Cyrus, for instance. A nonbeliever. Yet he was also a king, a warrior among warriors, a man who united the ancient world. In God’s mysterious plan, he drew Cyrus’ number and handed him a Powerball reward.
Isaiah 45:4-6 tells us why.
Reason #1:
God drew Cyrus’s Powerball for Jacob’s sake. The Scriptures tell us that God called Cyrus by name, even though Cyrus did not know Jehovah as his Lord.
When God makes us a promise, just as he did for Jacob, he will fulfill his promise until the ends of the earth.
Reason #2:
God drew Cyrus’s Powerball because he is God, and there is none other beside him. The Scriptures tell us that God girded (equipped with the armaments of war) Cyrus, that he might fulfill God’s prophecy.
God needs no other reason than his supremacy to bless those he wishes to bless.
Reason #3:
God drew Cyrus’s Powerball so that the world would know there is no other God than Jehovah, from the rising of the sun, to the setting of the same.
God wishes to be acknowledged as the Lord of all creation, and when we lift our praises to him, we bring him great pleasure.
God holds every good thing in his hand, and he desires his good gifts to return praise unto him.
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