God wants to use you. Are you ready?

God wants to use you. Are you ready?

Jesus and the fisher men

It’s a profound truth to be told that no matter what situation you find yourself in, you can still be used by God. Nothing that we do, no sin that we commit can disqualify us from serving Jesus. This truth is controversial. It’s counter-cultural. And it can seem ludicrous!
God is searching the world right now looking for willing vessels that will carry forth his word. When you stop and think about the time when the word searched out and found you---the very day you were transformed out of darkness and into God's marvelous light! What a feeling!
Each of us has a calling. Callings are not reserved for those who have it all together, or for those who seem to be the Christian elite, or even for those that some tout to be the “heroes” of the Bible. No. God has a call on each of our lives. The question is: Will you offer yourself up to be used?
Do you believe that Jesus is simply waiting for you to be willing to be used?I don't care who you are, how much education you have, how knowledable of the Bible you are, how shy you can be or how unprepared you feel- God can and will use you to further His kingdom. God isn't looking for super spiritual Christians or those who seem to have it all together, He wants to use you!
Let's be his hands and his feet in this world and spread the good news of the gospel!God shows His great power by using a unwilling people to willinging complete His great will, to bring His light to the nations
We didn't become Christians in order to just sit on the bench and be a cheerleader, God wants every one of us in the game. If you are listening to this right now, I can guarentee that it is true for you because if God didn't have something for you to do, you would already be in heaven.
There is no question of our having sufficient power in ourselves: we cannot claim anything as our own. The power we have comes from God" Corinthians 3:5
And if you were to talk to most Christians out there who are serving God, I bet they would tell you the same thing: that on their own they are inadequate to serve God but as soon as they stepped out and started serving those inadequacies no long mattered because it was then that God stepped in and gave them more strength than they needed to cover for their weaknesses.
As God told Paul and says to each and every one of us "My gracious favor is all you need. My power works best in your weakness."
Doesn't it just burn within you, the desire to share the gospel of Jesus Christ
A desire to tell anyone with a heart to hear that there is a God that saves!
A God that delivers!
A God that heals!
The same God, that changed you completely and set you in green pastures feasting on the true word, wants to use you.
Jesus said, "Freely ye have received, freely give".
So no matter where you are today, let me encourage you to not be afraid to let God use you. There is nothing that serves as a better faith builder than to allow God to move through you and that is the only way the world will come to know Him.
"David was the youngest son of a shepherd, but he became the greatest king of Israel. Paul ardently persecuted the early church, but he became the one who would spread the Gospel to the Gentiles. Mary was an ordinary teenage girl who became the mother of the Messiah. There are times in our lives when things seem almost hopeless' but God wants to use us all for great purposes. He does not look at our current condition, but at what we have the potential to become. We should view others and ourselves in the same way...We should try to view all things with the faith and hope that God can and will transform us into the people He wants us to be.Here is a list of several Biblical personalities used by God.
NOAH was a drunk....ABRAHAM was too old...ISAAC was a daydreamer....JACOB was a liar....
LEAH was ugly....JOSEPH was abused....MOSES couldn't talk....GIDEON was afraid....SAMSON had long hair and was a womanizer....RAHAB was a prostitute...JEREMIAH and TIMOTHY were too young....DAVID had an affair and was a murderer....ELIJAH was suicidal...ISAIAH preached naked....JONAH ran away from God....NAOMI was a widow....-JOB went bankrupt....JOHN the Baptist ate bugs....PETER denied Christ....THE DISCIPLES fell asleep while praying....MARTHA worried about everything...MARY MAGDALENE was demon possessed....The SAMARITAN WOMAN was divorced... more than once!!....ZACCHEUS was too small....PAUL was too religious....TIMOTHY had an ulcer....and LAZARUS WAS DEAD!!!!
Yet God used them all!!! Even the dead Lazarus! If others look at us like worthless, then God sees our potential! So don't put yourself under stress. God wants to get the best out of you - after all it was Him who, at some point, has put it there! If you know what sort of problem it is that you cannot correctly deal with, then ask God to help you with it. If you don't know what it is, then ask God to make you realize it. Also then He will help you overcome it, if you allow Him to