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[00:00:10] That ought to be our prayer for each and every one of us is to be a blessing to someone. Today the children are going out. Some are not so happy about it. Some are happy.
[00:00:26] So I wanted to talk this morning that it just sort of gave you an opening of any of you, you guys especially, I guess, ever played football, little League football, and you thought, one day I’m going to be a pro, right? I’m going to be on the football field and I’m going to pay for the Dallas Cowboys, if you like. The Cowboys. As little kids, that was our favorite, the Dallas Cowboys. Mine was always Pittsburgh Steelers, but whatever.
[00:00:58] If you’re a Cowboys fan, the Lord will forgive you for that.
[00:01:04] We always wanted to be on that field, and we always wanted to be that person that just really made it and did a good thing. But the truth is, not many make it. There’s a lot of people in different I used to box and I used to think, oh, one day I’m going to be a world champion boxer as a kid in high school. And, yeah, that ended pretty quick. But things change and things happen, and not many of us make it.
[00:01:32] And you think about these football fields and all these major athletes well known and all the rest, and there’s basically a handful in the whole thing. I mean, I know there’s hundreds of them, but in the grand scheme of things in NFL football, there are very small group of individuals of athletes. It takes many people to make that come together. I mean, there’s people that paint the lines on the field. There’s people who clean the restrooms.
[00:02:04] There are people who do the sound booths and do the TV stuff. And there’s so many more people behind the scenes that you never see that are just as important as those athletes. If it wasn’t for the people behind the scenes, the athletes really couldn’t do what they do. They wouldn’t have a football field that’s well manicured and the grass or the turf is well kept and the lines would be painted and they would know what yard line they were on or the goal posts were painted where the guy kicking the field goal couldn’t see it. Are you getting my point here?
[00:02:40] That it takes a lot of people to make that happen? And a lot of times in Scriptures, we look at the Scriptures and we say, oh, King David, oh, the Apostle Paul, if I could be like him. Oh, Peter, if you want to be like Peter, all these great people, Moses and Noah, and we think of all the patriarchs of Abraham all through Scripture, and I’ll never be one of those, as much as I would like to be. Well, today I want to talk to you about the nobodies of the Bible, people that you may never heard of that were just as important as the people we all know real well. In the first Corinthians, chapter one, if you want to turn there, verse 26 through 31, paul’s telling the people of Chris, for you see your calling, brethren, how that not many are wise men after the flesh.
[00:03:41] Not many are mighty, not many are mobile are called. But God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. And I praise the Lord for that every day. And God hath chosen the weak things of this world to confound the things which are mighty and the base things of this world and the things which are despised. God has chosen yea, and things which are not to bring to not things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence.
[00:04:17] But of him are ye in Christ, whom of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. That according that it is written, he that glorifies, let him glory in the Lord. Father, as we study your Word in these next few minutes, I pray that you would give me the words to say that you would speak through me, that I’d make your word clear to us, Lord, that we would see and understand. And Lord, that you just place them upon our hearts and our minds to see the truth of Your Word and then to be doers of that word, lord, just be with us in these next few minutes as we study your work. In Jesus name I pray.
[00:05:03] Amen. Now, I read these scriptures a lot of times. I think of the disciples. And we all know the Disciples. And boy, they were real popular, right?
[00:05:12] They were the probes. They were on the front lines. We know them all well. But what were they before they were that they were fishermen, most of them. They just went out and went fishing with their dads.
[00:05:27] It was a family business and they fished and Jesus called them. Well, we know one was a tax collector and those things, but they were basically common people, ordinary people. I don’t know what Rob has given me or done to me, but I got a tickle in my throat this morning.
[00:05:48] But these verses, it says, you see your calling that God had called, he called the Disciples from being fishermen to being fishermen of men. And they went on to do great things to spread the gospel. With the exception of John, all were martyred for their faith. They lived spectacular in a way, lives that would bring glory to God. And we all look up to them and say, oh, I could never be John.
[00:06:20] I could never be Paul or Peter. I could never be James. But the truth is we all have a calling. We all are placed. Scripture said God hath put every member in the body as it pleases him.
[00:06:38] Now, I use that as the body here locally, the body of this church you’re not here by accident. You’re not a member of Bethel Baptist Church of Rocky Mount by accident. God has placed you, brought you here for a purpose, for a reason. But you’re also not in the body of Christ by accident. He has placed you there, those who accepted Him as his personal savior.
[00:07:04] You are placed in the body of Christ, and you have a calling. Uh oh. What is my calling? I don’t know. That’s for you.
[00:07:16] As it says, Work out your own salvation, it’s not saying Work for your salvation. It’s saying to work and to figure out what God is calling you to do. What is your part in the body of Christ? Now, you may not be on the field under the lights and the cameras and doing those things, as these football players are, but you may be behind the scenes doing very important stuff. What I want to point out today is a lot of times people come to church and they think, oh, I could never do that.
[00:07:51] I could never stand up in a pulpit and preach. I couldn’t never teach a Sunday school class. I couldn’t be a deacon, for whatever reason or not. I couldn’t teach children. I couldn’t do this, I couldn’t do that.
[00:08:03] But the truth is, if you are in the body of Christ, he’s placed you as it has pleased Him, and he’s put a calling on your he’s. He told Jeremiah, before I knew thee, I formed you in your mother’s womb. I have plans for you. I believe that’s the same with each and every one of us. He has plans for us.
[00:08:29] And what is that plan? To glorify him ultimately. But I want you to get out of this mindset that if I’m not Peter, I can’t measure up. If I’m not the pastor, I can’t do this. I don’t have any place in the body that is not true.
[00:08:47] That’s a lie of Satan. I couldn’t stand here and preach if it wasn’t for the body standing and doing all the behind the scenes and the support, the sound system, the audio system of which we have reached out to people in Texas and Utah and all it began as just a little ministry for our people during COVID Ones who are shut in couldn’t be here. That’s all we were seeking is for our members to be able to come to church of those who couldn’t be or didn’t want to get out during the pandemic or whatever or the shut ins to minister to those. That was our purpose for that. But God had bigger plans.
[00:09:35] God had plans where we would reach a lady in Texas. God had plans where there’s a man in Utah that watches daily. God has plans. There’s some people in North Carolina and Savannah that watch this. Does that make me a great preacher?
[00:09:52] No. That means that we have done something and recognize that God has called us to reach and to minister, to preach the gospel. That is our purpose. Boy, I’m really fighting this.
[00:10:08] That is our purpose. And in that purpose, God has done great things with it. And that’s what we need to understand. You have a purpose. He has a plan for you.
[00:10:19] And insignificant as you may think it is, God will turn it, and he’ll use it for his honor and his glory in great ways.
[00:10:32] All you have to do is be willing I haven’t had this all morning.
[00:10:40] Robin to the rescue. What is this? They’ll bear with me a minute. This is going to help me.
[00:10:50] All right, we’ll try that. Sorry, y’all. I mean, it was just one of them days. So where was I? God has plans.
[00:11:05] We understand that. Hey, we need to do something. And we don’t know how big it is, but God makes those things big. Let me just give you a little bit of list. Anybody know who Nathan is?
[00:11:18] Not the guy down the road. I’m talking about Nathan in scripture. Anybody ever heard of Nathan? Couple of you? Nathan was a pretty important person.
[00:11:31] Nathan did a job that was terrifying that God called him to do. Nathan’s job was to go to King David, the King, and tell him, you’re a sinner. You’ve done wrong in the eyes of God. Now, sometimes our callings might not be so fun. It might be terrifying, but in the way that God used Nathan, and he used a scenario that he told the King David, and King David was fury with this scenario that this person would do such a thing to people.
[00:12:09] And when he got through with his little rant, David did. When David got through with his little rat, nathan says, thou art the man. You’re the man in the scenario. You’re the one that did that. And David repented of his sin with bathsheba.
[00:12:26] That’s Nathan. One or two of you ever heard of him? Right? Well, what a job he did. What a calling God had on his life to bring the King of Israel back in line with the will of God.
[00:12:43] He used Nathan. Let me give you another one. How about Ananias? Anybody ever heard of Ananias? Yeah, we’ve pretty much heard.
[00:12:52] He’s pretty familiar, but he’s really a no, we don’t know much about him. He’s mentioned just a couple of times in scripture. But who is Ananias? Acts ten or acts nine. He was the one that God called and said, go to my servant Saul and lay your hands on him.
[00:13:13] He’s blind that he may be healed. And Ananias says, let’s check this lord. Let’s back up a minute, Saul. You talking about the guy that’s killing Christians. You’re talking about the guy that’s having them put in prison.
[00:13:31] You want me and nobody to go to him and lay my head yeah, I’ll lay my hands on him. Where’s my baseball bat? You know, Ananias said, wait a minute. Lord. Are you sure?
[00:13:45] Sometimes our calling could be a little bit scary, right? Little intimidating. But nevertheless, God called him. He was obedient, and he did. He laid his hands on Paul, and Paul received his sight.
[00:14:02] He gave Paul nourishment and got his strength back after his trip to the road to Damascus. Basically a nobody that God used in a great way. What about Cornelius? May have heard of Cornelius. One, maybe a couple of was.
[00:14:25] Now, there’s some argument over this. He was the first, I guess, documented Gentile to be saved through the Ministry of the Apostles. Now, we know the eunuch and Stephen or Philip went to him, but Cornelius, actually Peter went to him, and the Express told him the Gospel, and he was the first Gentile, him and his family that was saved, that was converted. Another nobody out of nowhere, really, but he was of the first to be saved. Now, everybody knows Gideon, right?
[00:15:04] He’s the guy that wrote the Bible and put him in the motels, right? No, gideon was in the Old Testament, in a book called Judges, which many of you don’t even know. Judges? Is there judges in the Bible? There absolutely was judges in the Bible.
[00:15:23] And here’s Gideon. We see. God goes to him and calls him. And who is he? He’s a great leader of Israel, right?
[00:15:34] He’s real prominent in Israel, right? No, gideon was a farm boy, mashing grapes and hiding where they mashed up the grape. I can’t even think of the name of the place now, the VAT or whatever, where they mash it. He was basically hiding, scared to death, because the Midianites had taken over Israel and was very burdensome to him, very evil to Israel, and he was a scared to death little farm boy. And God said, hey, I have something for you to do.
[00:16:12] Your calling, you see your calling, I got something for you to do. Come here, boy.
[00:16:21] Ain’t nobody else here. Come here, Gideon. Let’s talk. Let me tell you what I want. A scared to death little foreign boy, which we know the rest of the story, who led Israel and defeated the Minionites.
[00:16:37] We see how he started out with thousands of them, right? And God whittled them down to what, 300, boy, in your calling, sometimes God says, I can do this. Just go march around the city a few times and blow your trumpets. Sometimes our calling may be a little difficult for us to farm boy. Yeah, let me get up about 7000 men, and that might be enough against the 20,000 Midianites.
[00:17:08] God says, no, you don’t need that many. What? Sometimes our calling, we want to argue with God, right? God, are you sure? But God can take the little things of this world.
[00:17:20] He takes the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. He chooses the weak things of the world to bring about the mighty. Are you getting the picture? Here yet? Well, if not, I’ve got some more for you.
[00:17:35] What about David? Everybody knows David, right? King David? Everybody’s familiar with him. But if you go to First Samuel, chapter 16, we see where David is called.
[00:17:47] And God tells Samuel, he says, Take a sacrifice and go to Jesse’s house. There you will have my servant, the next king of Israel, and I want you to anoint him. Well, David had other brothers, and they looked good. I mean, they were good looking young men, strong and mighty and just all the rest. And as each one of them would come in, Samuel say, AHA, that’s got to be him, right?
[00:18:15] He’s the man. Look how strong and mighty he’ll be. A good king over Israel. God said no, not him. What about the next young man?
[00:18:26] Well, he’s good with budgets, he’s good with figuring math and doing all these things, and he’s strong, he’s good looking. Surely the countenance of him, that’s got to be the next king of Israel, right? Right? Nope. And he went through every one of David’s brothers, and Samuel sitting there saying, okay, Lord, I’ve gone through them all.
[00:18:51] And Lord tells us, not all of them. So he asked Jesse, he says, have you got more? Oh, we got a little shepherd boy out there. He’s tending the sheep right now. He’s a nobody.
[00:19:02] Bring him to me. And God said, that’s the king. I want a little shepherd boy. That’s who King David started out at. Was King David mighty?
[00:19:16] No, he’s a good looking guy, it says, but was he a mighty man? No, he was a little guy, pretty much. Saul put his armor on him and he couldn’t even hardly stand up under the weight of it. He wasn’t a mighty strong man. He was a man called of God.
[00:19:34] And because of God, David did great things. I want you to understand that this morning. It’s not in your might, saith the Lord, but in mine. I do great things through you. Don’t say, because I’m a little farm boy, I can’t do it.
[00:19:52] Because I’m a little shepherd keeper, I can’t do it. Don’t be like Moses. I can’t talk. I’ll put my words in your mouths, I’ll do it. Are you getting the point of what I’m trying to bring home to you today and to understand?
[00:20:11] Here’s a good one for you. How about tahigus? If I pronounce that right? You ever heard of him?
[00:20:23] That’s a weird name, Tahigus. He was Paul’s pretty much his right hand man in missionary journey. Did y’all know that? He’s the one that Paul entrusted to take his letters that he wrote to the people of Ephesus. And I think Colossians took these sacred letters, these words of God that Paul had given that God had given Paul to write down on parchment, and he gives it to Ichus, and I’m not pronouncing that right.
[00:21:06] Tychegus, that guy.
[00:21:11] It gives them the parchments and says, I’m entrusting you to take this to Ephesus and read it to all the Church. I’m trusting you to take this letter to the people of Colosse and read it to the people of Colosse. I’m trusting you with the very this is the only copy I have. But he was a great minister, a right hand man in the ministry of Paul. He’s mentioned several times and Paul mentions him several times as a beloved brother in the faith of a fellow servant.
[00:21:46] Paul put him right there on the same level with him. I couldn’t do this without him. I need him. He’s so important. But I doubt anybody in this room has even heard of him until today.
[00:22:02] He’s a nobody doing great things.
[00:22:08] Clement and those women which labored with me, paul says in Philippians four three oh, you women. Thought you got out of it, didn’t it? I was naming all these men’s names. You didn’t get out of it. There was so many, paul said, there’s so many of these people, these men that have helped me in ministry and not just many, many women that have helped me and encouraged me and give me strength and give me nourishment and done things that I must mention to who they are in the ministry.
[00:22:44] Great helpers of a great man of God. But they were just as important. Paul put them on the same level when he called them fellow servants. That means they’re equal with me. They’re right here in the ministry doing.
[00:22:59] I could not do it without them. I need them, even the women. And there’s a whole list. And I would encourage you to go through maybe some of Paul’s letters. At the end of each one, he usually gives a list of people that he’s thankful for and people that have helped him along the way.
[00:23:20] These are nobodies that did great things. What is the saying? I’m a nobody trying to tell somebody about what Jesus has done for me. That’s all it is. Don’t think you’re a nobody.
[00:23:36] God can make you a somebody to glorify him. So the last one I have for you, if I can pronounce his life, is our starships.
[00:23:54] He’s mentioned very little in Scripture. He was not a high profile person, not very visible. But he was very instrumental in the work of the ministry of missionary work with Paul. And we can find him and see him in Paul’s letters of his condemning or not condemning but commending him for his work and for being so faithful and working along beside him. My point is you’re not a nobody in the family of God.
[00:24:28] He has placed each and every one of you in the body as it pleases him. And he has called you for a purpose. Now, you might not stand up here. You might not have a Sunday school class. You might not be on a deacon board.
[00:24:45] You may not run the sound system. But there are many things that you can do to support, to edify, to lift up and encourage the body of Christ. What are you doing with it? Have you ever thought about that? The saddest thing I’d ever hear people say.
[00:25:05] I’m just here to warm a pew. I’m here to keep this pew warm, preacher. Don’t ask me to do anything else. All I want to do is worship. I want you to know worship, to actually worship is a service to Him.
[00:25:24] We’re going to be serving Him forever. We’ll be his servants forever. And that is an act of worship to present our bodies a living sacrifice wholly acceptable to God. That is our reasonable act of service. Or worship to a holy God.
[00:25:49] After all that you’ve done for me and you have called me and placed me in the body of Christ, Father, what can I do? You know, I’m just a little farm boy. I’m just a little shepherd boy. I can’t speak too well, but I’m willing. I want to serve you no matter what you want me to do.
[00:26:10] And let God do. Let God work it in you to do his good pleasure.
[00:26:20] Jesus was a great example to us, a servant. We say, well, everybody knows Jesus. He’s God. He wasn’t just a nobody, right? No, he was everything.
[00:26:33] He wasn’t just everybody knows Jesus. Even the heathen know who Jesus is. But what did Jesus do to tell us about this?
[00:26:44] In John, chapter 13, it said, he raised up from supper and laid aside his garments and took a towel and girded himself. And after he poured water in a basin, he began to wash the disciples feet and wipe them with a towel wherein he was girded. And then you see the conversation between Him and Peter. Peter says, oh, no, you won’t ever wash my feet. You’re not going to stoop that low to wash my feet.
[00:27:14] And Jesus said, if I don’t wash your feet, you have nothing to do with well, you know, classic Peter. Oh look, in that case, wash my whole body. Your whole body don’t need to be washed either. Peter, you’re missing the point. Shut up and listen is what I would have said if I was Jesus.
[00:27:32] But old Peter, I love Peter, he just can’t stop talking sometimes. But he has this conversation with Peter and he says after that, he says, for he knew he would talk about the one that betrayed. And then so in down to verse twelve. So after that he’d washed their feet. He had taken his garment and was set down again and said unto them, know you not what I have done to you.
[00:27:58] You call me master and lord. You say, well, for so I am. If then your Lord and Master have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. God came down and washed the disciples’feet. Don’t you think we could do the you said oh no.
[00:28:23] Kenneth said, Nope, you ain’t washing my feet, I’m ticklish.
[00:28:28] Not particularly washing feet, but see, the washing of feet was for the lowest servant of the household. When they would come in from the road with guests and stuff, the lowest servant of the household would get water and a towel. And because their shoes were their walking in sandal, their feet were dirty, they would wash their guests feet as an act of humility and service. The lowest servant of the household and Jesus, God in the flesh, washed the disciples’feet and then asked Him, do you know what I’ve done? If I, being God, can kneel down and wash your feet, you ought to be able to do the same thing.
[00:29:13] You ought to be able to lower yourself to become a servant, to serve one another.
[00:29:23] Sometimes Jesus with everybody, but even a nobody can do noble things to encourage, to lift up, to help the body of Christ. And he’s like just washing the feet. Now that was silly, that was simple. Yeah, sometimes God just calls you just to the simple. But he does great things with the simple.
[00:29:53] He told us that in our text, not the many nobles. He could have called the there was tons of Pharisees there’s, tons of priests, and he could have called and called twelve of them and said, follow me, I’ll make you fishers of men. But no, he went and got the fishermen, he got a tax collector that nobody in Israel liked. And he called them the simple to do great things for Him. He’s called many little not so noble in Scripture, little scared to death, farm boys, little shepherd boys, people we’ve never heard of.
[00:30:35] But he’s called them and they did great things for the Lord. And Jesus gave that example to us. To just be a servant is big in the kingdom of God, to just be a servant to serve one another. And he goes on, very I say unto you, the servant is not greater than the Lord, neither is he that sent greater than he that sent Him. If you know these things, happy are ye that do them.
[00:31:08] You frustrated. You’re just not happy with where you’re at in life. Do you know your calling? Are you fulfilling the purpose that God has created you for? If you hadn’t, you’re not going to be happy.
[00:31:27] We don’t find happiness until we find God. I’ve told you all many, many times that when he creates us, I think there’s this hole in us that only he can feel. And we accept Jesus as our personal Savior. We trust Him and his shed blood on the cross. He fills that hole with His Holy Spirit and gives us purpose and gives us meaning.
[00:31:50] But I believe it’s also. Now that you’re a Christian, he has called you to do something. And if you’re not doing it, you’re not ever going to be fully satisfied with where you’re at. I’ve been there, done that. I know I answered God’s calling, and then I went through a time and for time.
[00:32:09] I won’t go into all details right now, but just in a nutshell, I had pretty much given up on anything ministry. I was getting rid of my books. Now. God didn’t really call me. I thought he did.
[00:32:27] I don’t know why God even called a person like me. And I’d pretty much give up on it.
[00:32:40] And I’m no great preacher, I know that now. But that whole time that I was giving up my books and denying that he ever even called me to be in the ministry, to do those things, I was the most miserable man on earth. There was no happiness. There was no peace within. I was frustrated in everything that I did.
[00:33:02] But God, when I was at the end of my rope and I don’t think I’ve ever shared this with you, probably many of you don’t know this, but I’ll do it today. I just feel like the Lord’s leading me to do it. When I was at the end of my rope and just ready to just give it up. Jack Murphy calls me and says, hey, there’s a church down there that needs a pastor to fill it in. Can I give them your okay, whatever, I’ll help it.
[00:33:41] I mean, I can’t say no to God, right?
[00:33:46] Y’all don’t know. I’ve given you little glimpses. I needed you more than you needed me. I was at the end of my rope. I’d given up on my call.
[00:33:59] It I didn’t think it would ever going to happen. I answered the call in 1991, 2014. Jack calls me a nobody, kind of. He didn’t do anything but to be obedient to what the Holy Spirit was leaving. Hey, I got a guy, he told Jack.
[00:34:21] Jack said, well, I’ll call him. I don’t always say he’s a knucklehead, you know, but I came here and I preached a message. I did it to the glory of God, best I knew how. And I remember Brother Nelson standing back and said, thank you, brother, we’ll call you if we need you. I got out when I said, no problem.
[00:34:43] Whatever I can do to help church, let me know.
[00:34:48] Monday morning, he called me back, said, can you do next Sunday?
[00:34:54] And as time went on, god made it crystal clear to me, your calling is not over until I say it’s over.
[00:35:07] He’s put me here to help you. I’m a nobody, just trying to tell somebody about what God has done in my life. I try to just glorify him in all that I can do, and he put me here. And this church has been more of a blessing to me, more fulfillment to me than when I was trying to find my own way and do my own thing. God has done great things, not because of me.
[00:35:41] I tell you all. The time he’s done great things despite mean. Look at this building back here. Who would have thought, is it me? I mean, Kenneth gets on me every deacon meeting about I need to start raising more money.
[00:35:54] I don’t talk about money here. I’m messing with you, Kenneth. David’s not here today, so I found you. He’ll be talking. I’m not here begging you for money every Sunday.
[00:36:07] If God wants us to have the building has been my motto. He’s going to supply the need. He has done that exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or think. And it wasn’t me. It was us that he used.
[00:36:21] It’s this whole community that he used. People that you don’t even know. There’s people in Gainesville, there’s people in other states that have contributed to this building because God was in it. God did it. That we’ve worked hard.
[00:36:39] We’ve been diligent doing all and guys all you guys that show up and work don’t think you’re a nobody. God’s using you in great ways. Even if you just don’t know how to do nothing but work and hammer or put a screw in something. God’s using you. That may be your calling, your ministry for right now.
[00:37:03] Don’t ever discredit that God has you here for a particular purpose, for a particular reason.
[00:37:13] Do it. Stop letting Satan tell you you’re nobody. You’ll never amount to nothing. God uses the little things to confound the wise. He does this time after time.
[00:37:29] Philippians two. I love these verses. Paul is telling the people of Philippi let this mind be in you which is also in Christ Jesus. What is that mind? The mind of a servant.
[00:37:44] The mind to serve, to encourage, to help one another who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God but made himself of no reputation took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of man. And we go on down through those scriptures and the one I love and the one I see and I just cherish every day. For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to do his good pleasure.
[00:38:24] If he’s taken the simple things of this world maybe you’re terrified of it. Maybe you’re scared to death of it. Oh, no, Lord, I could. There’s no way I could do that.
[00:38:37] Are you like me? And every Sunday I stand up here like Gideon and say or Moses say, Lord, are you sure you want me? Are you sure? And he gives me that verse. It’s God who works in me.
[00:38:58] It’s even God that even gives me the will to want to. So I have that will. And I’m surrendered to his will to do whatever he wants me to do for his good pleasure. To glorify Him, to lift up one another, to encourage one. So don’t sit here and say you’re nobody.
[00:39:21] God’s got a purpose for you. He’s got a plan for you. I don’t know what it is. You may be the next pastor here. You may be a missionary in Africa.
[00:39:33] You may be whatever. I don’t know. That’s between you and God. But what he wants where there is first a willing mind. A willing mind, he says, that’s accepted to give according to what a man has and not according to what he has not.
[00:39:50] God takes what he has given you and uses it for his glory, and he gives you the will to do it. He works through you to do it. All you got to do is be willing. That’s what he told Moses. I don’t care if you can’t talk good.
[00:40:07] I’ll take care of that. I don’t care if you’re bashful. I’ll take care of that. I don’t care if you’re scared. I’ll give you peace in the middle of the storm.
[00:40:18] I will take care of everything. All I want you to do is be willing.
[00:40:24] That’s all I’m asking for you. The Lord says where are you at when I ask you today? Are you miserable? Are you frustrated with life?
[00:40:38] Are you being willing to do whatever God’s called you to do? Because as Christians, I don’t believe we’ll ever have satisfaction until we’re in his will. And, yeah, there’s frustrating times even within his will. There’s testing times even within his will. But I have an inner peace.
[00:40:58] You have an inner peace that only God gives when we walk according to his will. Father. We thank you for your word. Lord. I hope it’s encouraged someone this morning.
[00:41:13] Satan would just want to tear us down, defeat us and make us think that we’re insignificant and that we’re nothing. We might never amount to anything, Lord. But, Lord, you have all kinds of people in all kinds of places that need to do all kinds of things. Maybe this just a support. Maybe it’s just a little job that may seem meaningless.
[00:41:42] But, Lord, they’re all fellow servants in the work of the Lord. To do what you would have us to do to bring honor and glory to Your name. To reach this community with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Every single one are important in Your eyes, Lord. Help us to see that and know that today that what we do, we do wholeheartedly as unto the Lord.
[00:42:10] Lord, just seeking to please you in all that we do and say we just thank you for the privilege to serve and to be in the ministry, to be servants of Yours, that we bring honor and glory to Your name. And Lord, let this be an encouraging message to us today. Lord, let us just seek you and what you have for us that you give us the peace that passes all understanding on Jesus’name. I pray. Amen.