God Loves To Use Ordinary People In His Kingdom Work and Mission

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God Loves Use Ordinary People In His Kingdom Work and Mission

 

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Does God use ordinary people ? Can God use you to do extraordinary things ? God not only used many ordinary people in the Bible, God loves to use ordinary people today. God loves to use ordinary people to accomplish His kingdom work and mission.

 

God Loves To Use Ordinary People In His Kingdom Work and Mission

 

Dwight Moody – An Ordinary Man

 

god uses ordinary people, dl moodyDwight Moody was a simple ordinary man. As a young man he sold shoes to make a living.  He had very little education before his conversion to Christ. When he was 17 he could barely read or write, and in a Bible class he could not find the book of John. He searched for it in the Old Testament.

He was not your idea of someone that God could use to reach many many people for Christ. And he was not formally trained or educated to be the evangelist that God called him to be.

But Mr. Moody was a man totally committed and surrendered to God, and as a result God was able to use him in great ways. God’s hand was on him in a special way.

 

God Loves To Use Ordinary People In His Kingdom Work and Mission

 

Billy Graham – Another Example

There are many other examples of plain ordinary people that God has used in great ways. Billy Graham was the son of a farmer in rural North Carolina. After his first semester at Bob Jones University, he was told “At best, all you can amount to would be a poor country Baptist preacher somewhere out in the sticks.”

But God had other plans for Billy Graham. God used him in extraordinary ways to preach the Gospel to millions of lost people. He is another example of how God loves to use ordinary people in His kingdom work and mission.

 

 

God Used Ordinary People In The Bible

There are too many examples in the Bible of how God uses ordinary people to list them all. Most of Jesus’ disciples were fishermen, and one was a dreaded tax collector. They were sinful men that Jesus touched and saved, and then used in great ways to change the world.

King David was the “runt” of his family. He was a simple shepherd boy.  Even the prophet Samuel would have chosen one of David’s brothers to be king of Israel and not David. But God had plans to use David in great ways.

“But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”  – 1 Samuel 16:7

 

 

God Loves To Use Ordinary People In His Kingdom Work and Mission

God’s Call Did Not Come Right Away

Nancy and I both repented, received Christ as our Lord and Savior, and committed our lives to Him in 1985. We were blessed to have a great pastor and church, and good teachers and friends to help us to grow in our walk with Jesus. It was a church that had a heart for God’s kingdom work and mission to share the Gospel, reach lost people, and make disciples.

In 1995 I prayed that God would let me serve Him full time. He had planted a desire in my heart. At the time I had a business. So what happened after that ? Absolutely nothing. I heard nothing in my prayer time about it. And nothing in our life or circumstances happened to show us that God was moving in that direction.

 

God Loves To Use Ordinary People In His Kingdom Work and Mission

God Prepares His Servants Before Calling Them

So I continued to serve in our church, and work in my business. And I continued to seek God. In the mean time we also experienced various difficult circumstances in our lives. These included various years of financial difficulties. And family difficulties. And other difficult circumstances. Circumstances that would test our faith and our loyalty and devotion to God.

These circumstances and difficulties changed us and our hearts. You do not go through difficulties and come out the same, if you walk with God in them.

“And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined (“planned from the beginning”) to become conformed to the image of His Son“. – Romans 8:28-29

 

God’s Call To Be Self Funded Missionaries

God’s call to be full time self funded missionaries did not come until 2005. Starting early in 2004 God had been speaking in my heart about serving Him. He was promising to bless my business and then some day we would sell it and use our own funds to serve Him full time.

The 2 years prior to that had been the most difficult years in my business. As a result of 9/11 in 2001, our economy and my business went way down. And so did our finances. Fortunately we had gotten out of debt right before all of the difficulties. We got down to $500 in the bank, which is not much with 3 teenagers in the house and college coming up in a couple of years.

But God always does what He promises, and sure enough 2004 and 2005 were great years in my business. But for a year and a half we had no idea what God was calling us to do. I had an idea, but when God finally clearly revealed His will, it was nothing close to what I thought it would be.

God called us to be self funded missionaries to Brazil during a mission trip to Sao Paulo my oldest son John and I were on in 2005. We sold my business, our house, and everything else and moved to Sao Paulo Brazil in 2006.

 

God Loves To Use Ordinary People In His Kingdom Work and Mission

We have seen God touch and save & transform tens of thousands of lives in many different countries. And we are in awe of what God has done. God loves to use ordinary people in His work and mission. And He always does what He says and promises. In fact, Gods promises are actually guarantees. 

“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.” – Ephesians 3:20

 

God Loves To Use Ordinary People, For His Glory

 

Ephesians 3:20 has been one of the verses that has been our motto in our missions ministry. It is actually a promise and a great truth. God used this and other verses to tell us ahead of time that He was going to greatly use us for His mission work.

God loves to use ordinary people in His work to do extraordinary things. Because everyone knows that it was God that did the great work, not the people He uses. And God receives all of the glory and honor and praise, which He alone is worthy to receive.

“but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong. And the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before God. By His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.”  – 1 Corinthians 1:27-30

 

God Loves To Use Ordinary People

Can God use you to do great things ? Absolutely. If you are willing to sacrifice yourself, and be fully committed & surrendered to Him.

“I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. And he will do even greater things than these…” – John 14:12-13

“My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.” – John 15:8

 

 

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