Extra-Ordinary

There’s a stirring among God’s people. Winds of revival are beginning to blow. God is at work. Are we ready to receive what God has for us? Are you ready to be an instrument in God’s hands? When you begin to think about serving God on His mission to redeem a lost world, you may ask, “What can one ordinary person do?” Well, Scriptures are full of ordinary people used mightily by God. Elijah is a good example. He was one of the great Old Testament prophets used of God in the contest with the prophets of Baal. He was outnumbered 850 to 1. But one plus God equals a majority. You know the story. After the prophets of Baal had failed to call down fire, Elijah repaired the altar of the Lord and called upon God, and God answered by fire consuming the sacrifice just as Elijah had proposed. Did Elijah or God bring down the fire from heaven? God did. What was Elijah doing? Being obedient. And James 5:17 tells us “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours…” In other words, he put on his pants one leg at a time just like you and I do. He was ordinary just like us. But God looks for the obedient ordinary so He can do the extraordinary. Henry Varley said, “The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in a man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him.” He spoke those words a hundred plus years ago to a man named D. L. Moody who became the great evangelist in the late 19^th century. D. L. Moody was an ordinary man who sought to be fully and wholly consecrated to Christ, and God did the extraordinary through one obedient ordinary man. Will you be that one? You may protest, “but I’m not D. L. Moody or Elijah.” You don’t have to be. God wants you to be you. Remember, He’s the one that brought down the fire. Listen, when you believe that nothing significant can happen through you, you have said more about your belief in God than you have said about yourself! You are saying that God is not capable of doing anything significant through you. Truth is, He is able to anything He pleases with one ordinary person fully yielded to Him. Will you be that person?

                                                                                    In Christ,

 

                                                                                    Bro. Royce Hendry