The Lessons of the Lost Axe teaches us an important message. When you have lost your axe head, you are much more susceptible to listening to the voice of the enemy.  Discouragement gives him an open road into your soul.  It's in the middle of weeping over the axe head that despairing voices are the loudest. Here is a very simple story that contains an incredible miracle. There were some young men who determined to build a new house because the old one was too small. It was not long into the enterprise before a borrowed axe head ends up in the bed of the river. The Tool Needed Most Was Lost. If there are a lot of ways that the axe head is lost in churches, the same holds true for individuals.  All of us at some point in our lives have come to the place where we lost the axe head. If you have lost something over the years, go back to where you lost it and pick it back up again!  God still has more work for you to do.