What to Do When You Feel Unequipped for God’s Call

Have you ever felt sure God was asking you to do something, yet every reason you felt unqualified came to mind? Moses knew that tension. After forty years in Midian, God told him to return to Egypt, and Moses answered with objections about Israel’s response, his speech, and his own ability.

In his teaching on Exodus 4, Andrew Wommack shows that God did not ask Moses to rely on his own ability. God gave him signs, promised to be with him, and provided Aaron as a spokesman. Moses still had to obey, but he would not go in his own strength.

Why did Moses keep objecting to God’s call?

Exodus 4 continues the conversation at the burning bush. God had told Moses to return to Egypt and lead Israel out. Moses answered that the people would not believe him or listen to him. God had just told Moses that they would respond, yet Moses focused on the possibility of rejection.

Moses had already tried to bring deliverance in his own strength and failed. Now, after decades in Midian, he had reached the opposite conclusion: he believed he could not do anything. Andrew teaches that both errors miss the way God works. Confidence in the flesh is not the answer, and personal weakness does not prove that God cannot work through you.

That distinction matters when a calling feels bigger than your experience. You do not have to pretend you are naturally qualified. The question is whether God can work through you. Paul’s confidence in Christ shows the other side of humility: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13). The confidence rests in Christ’s strength, not self-reliance.

What did God put in Moses’ hand?

God asked Moses what he was holding. It was a staff, an ordinary tool from his life as a shepherd. God told him to throw it down. The staff became a serpent, and Moses fled. Then God told Moses to pick it up by the tail. When Moses obeyed, it became a staff again.

Moses had no promise that the serpent would turn back before he reached for it. Andrew points out that taking a snake by the tail left Moses vulnerable to its bite. Moses obeyed without controlling the outcome. For Andrew, that moment pictures surrender: Moses was no longer relying on his own judgment to keep himself safe, but trusting God enough to do what He said.

The staff was a picture of Moses’ life and work. Andrew calls it a symbol of his occupation: familiar and useful, but with no supernatural power by itself. When Moses surrendered it to God and obeyed, the same staff became “the rod of God” in his hand. The wood had not changed. Moses had submitted what he had to God, and God used it to do what Moses could not do on his own.

God does not need you to possess impressive abilities. The question still reaches us: What do you have in your hand? It may seem ordinary next to someone else’s gifts or experience. Bring what you have to God and let Him direct its use. Surrender means you no longer treat yourself as the source of the power to fulfill God’s purpose.

How did God answer Moses’ fear that Israel would not believe?

God did not tell Moses to rely on persuasion alone. He gave him signs to show Israel that the Lord had appeared to him. The staff became a serpent and returned to a staff. Moses’ hand became leprous and then was restored. God also told him what to do with water from the river if the people did not believe the first signs.

Each sign gave Moses a concrete response to his fear that Israel would reject his message. He could show the staff changing, then put his hand inside his garment and show it restored after it became leprous. If the people still would not believe, he was to pour river water onto dry land, where it would become blood. God equipped Moses with visible signs before he went to speak to the elders.

Andrew connects this with the New Testament teaching that God confirms His message with signs and wonders. In the passage, the signs point to the God who called Moses.

God’s provision answered the concern Moses brought to Him. Moses named the obstacle he could see, and God gave him something to do while making clear that His presence and power were behind it. Moses needed to follow the instructions God gave him.

What if you do not feel able to speak?

Moses raised another objection: he was not eloquent and was slow of speech. God answered with a question about who made the human mouth, then promised to be with Moses’ mouth and teach him what to say. The assignment did not depend on Moses being a polished speaker. God was addressing the very weakness Moses believed disqualified him.

Moses still resisted and asked God to send someone else. The passage says the Lord’s anger was kindled, and God appointed Aaron, Moses’ brother, to speak for him. Aaron would meet Moses, hear the words from him, and speak them to the people. God provided help, and Moses still had to go.

God promised to be with both brothers and to teach them what to do. Aaron would serve as Moses’ spokesman, while Moses would tell him the words God gave. This arrangement met Moses’ concern about speaking, but it did not change who had received the call or the message. Self-confidence is not the same as confidence in the Lord, and receiving help did not cancel Moses’ responsibility: he still had to tell Aaron what God said, take the staff, and go to Egypt.

What can you do when you feel unqualified?

Moses did not wait until he felt eloquent or certain before heading toward Egypt. God met his objections with signs, the promise to be with him, and help through Aaron, then Moses took his family and what God had put in his hand. Exodus records the change in that ordinary staff this way: “Then Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand” (Exodus 4:20, NKJV). The staff was still a shepherd’s tool, but in Moses’ hand it now carried the call and provision of God.

This post draws from Through the Bible: Exodus 4 by Andrew Wommack. Watch the full teaching on YouTube.