God Can Still Use A Nobody

 

 

I want you to take a good look at yourself.

 

I don’t see anyone here that has preached at General Conference.

No one here has ever pastored a church running thousands.

 

Your name has never been in a Pentecostal magazine or on television for doing some great and heroic deed, but you need to realize that God took a bunch of nobodies and sent them forth preaching the gospel, casting out devils, healing the sick, raising the dead and every other thing that came to the mind of God.

 

Until you realize that it isn’t the amount of money or the prestige that got God’s attention, but it was a willingness of those men He chose to try something that seemed impossible.

 

He picked men from every walk of life to do the supernatural. You hear of great men of God all over the world and you might think, “man if I was like Bro Stonking or Bro Jeff Arnold I could do that I could see the miraculous happening”.

 

Well, let me let you in on something: neither of those men proclaims to know anything except Jesus Christ and him Crucified.

 

They realize that the supernatural hasn’t come by their abilities, but their willingness to submit to the ordinances of God.

 

They have the same Holy Ghost as you. There is a difference in having the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost having you.

 

We have to submit to the things of God before we can accomplish the will of God.

 

 

John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

 

Believing on God is more than words it takes action to have faith.

 

James 2:20

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

 

James 2:26-3:1 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

 

It takes the Spirit of God to do the works, but we have to trust God to do them through us.

 

The problem with most Pentecostal people is that they think they are a bunch of nobodies and we might be to a lot of people– but God still uses nobodies to accomplish his will.

 

Abraham was nobody. Moses to some was nobody. Elisha and Elijah were nobodies to the world, but they were powerful in the hands of God.

 

1 Corinthians 1:26-31

26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.

30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Just because a preacher isn’t used to preach conferences, just because his name isn’t mentioned among those that do, doesn’t mean he isn’t used of God.

John Knox was so mighty in prayer that Mary Queen of Scots is reputed to have said: “I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe.”

 

Prayer and faith working together and put into action can do the miraculous.

 

Prayer is useless without faith and faith is useless without prayer and neither one can accomplish anything unless they are put into action.

 

I cannot begin to tell you how many people have failed God just because they say, “I can’t do that let someone else do it”.

 

No one can fulfill your calling but you. If you can’t obey God you aren’t a servant of God.

 

Each of us has our calling and each of us have a useful purpose in the Kingdom of God.

 

Let’s stop running and start doing what God has called us to do.