WHO DOES GOD USE? (Part 2)

WHO DOES GOD USE? (Part 2)

Look at the men God used down through history to fulfill His purposes:

-JACOB: God had to choose between Jacob, a man who desired the birthright so much he would cheat for it, and Esau, who so lightly regarded it that he would forfeit it for a bowl of soup. Yet he used Jacob to bring forth the nation of Israel. 

-ABRAHAM: Abraham was to be the father of many nations. When he received this revelation from God, he fell on his face and laughed in unbelief in Genesis 17:1-3. Later, this great man of faith lied to the enemy and claimed Sara was his sister because he feared for his life. In spite of this, Abraham was called the "friend of God" and became the father of many nations. 

-MOSES: His disobedience kept him from the Promised Land, yet he liberated two million people from bondage in Egypt and led them through the wilderness according to the plan of God. 

-DAVID: He took another man's wife and murdered the man to cover his sin, yet he was called "a man after God's own heart" and God gave Him the kingdom. 

-GIDEON: Gideon was harvesting wheat in hiding for fear of the enemy when God called Him to be the deliverer of Israel in Judges 6. 

God uses ordinary people to fulfill His will:

-When Jesus performed His first miracle of turning water into wine, He asked ordinary men to fill ordinary water pots. 

-When He multiplied bread and fish He gave it to ordinary men who then fed the multitude. 

-When Jesus was about to perform what was perhaps the greatest miracle in His ministry, that of raising Lazarus from the dead, He depended on men to move the stone from the entrance of the grave. Didn't the same God who raised Lazarus have the power to remove the stone from the entrance? Yes, but God has always used men to fulfill His plan. His methods are men. God calls ordinary men and makes them extraordinary. He moves men and women from spectators to participators in His plan. 

All of you ordinary people who thought you couldn't be used of God or who thought you couldn't be part of a miracle remember this one thing-God is not looking at your past or present performance. 

-He is not seeing you as you view yourself. 

-He is looking at you as you will become as you accept the challenge to go to the harvest fields of the world. 

-He is seeing you as you will be when endued with the power of the Holy Spirit. 

God is not depending on your faith, education, talents, or your level of spirituality. He is not depending on anything that you are. He is depending on what He knows you can become if you will surrender your life totally to His will and purposes. The world of the early church was not reached through great preaching. It was reached by men and women who were as human as we are but they turned their eyes from their own failures and caught the vision of the harvest. They realized that when they were weak in the natural, they were strong spiritually. God promised in 2 Corinthians 12:9: 

"My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness."