Ordinary Doing Extraordinary

We had a great message this past Sunday. The message was about how God will use ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary Kingdom work. "God is raising up a movement of ordinary people that he gives dreams to and uses those ordinary people to do extraordinary things."

How do you feel about being one of the ordinary people God hopes to accomplish extraordinary things through? Excited? Scared? Both? Isn't it cool that if you are willing and obedient that God will share His dreams and visions with you and find a way to plug in your unique passions and giftings in a way to serve Him?

I am always relieved when I read that God makes us each uniquely and has gifted us with different personalities and talents and that He will use each one of us. So He can and will use my transparent, sometimes too honest and passionate approaches to topics and subjects that I am passionate about. Encouraging the downtrodden. Lending a hand of hope and healing to hurting parents who have family members experiencing substance abuse. Moms who have lost a child through miscarriage, preterm birth or neonatal death. Abortion healing. Those are just a handful of the issues I have strong feelings about and welcome God to send me to serve in those areas.

The prerequisite is not perfection (we won't ever have it) or more practice; it is recognizing and being obedient to the call when God is looking for an ordinary person to serve. He will empower you to achieve extraordinary results.