How to be Used by God

Every message obviously, and I'll, I'll preach quickly and

get out of the way so Brother Almonza can have plenty of time.

But I do have a burden on my heart.

And Acts chapter 14, if you'll stand with me, please.

Acts 14 · chapter mention

This is at the conclusion of Paul's first missionary journey.

They're just now coming back to their home church in Acts

Acts 14 · chapter mention

chapter 14 and verse #26 the Bible says, and thence sailed to

Antioch, from which they had been recommended to the grace of

God for the work which they fulfilled.

And when they were come and had gathered the church together,

they rehearsed all that God had done with them and how he had

opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.

And there they abode long time we as the disciples.

I want to focus, if I can, on that phrase in verse #27 where

it says they rehearsed all that God had done with them.

What a statement. Preach on this thought for just

a few moments tonight. How to be used by God.

How to be used by Godfather. I pray that you take the Word of

God now. Speak to hearts, minister to

every life here. Thank you for the privilege to

preach. Use the message tonight.

I pray to stir and challenge your people in Jesus name, Amen.

You can be seated. So I will take a lot of this

message out. I've got eight points.

I'm only going to preach 4 of them.

All right, because I want to get out of the way.

This is a, this is a longer, more detailed type message, but

I want to hit the highlights of the 1st at least four points

that I have in this message. And I may throw the other four

out at the end for you to write down.

I won't preach them for the sake of time.

But as I read this statement, I was thinking about how awesome

it is to be able to have a life that God can do something with.

They, they came and rehearsed to the church all that God had done

with them. And, and as a boy, I read

missionary autobiographies and biographies and stories of great

leaders and and great missionaries and pastors.

And I remember as a boy thinking, I wished I had stories

like this. I wish, I wish I could have a

life that has this kind of adventure and this kind of

excitement. And I wish I had their kind of

faith. And I wished I had the stories

of all the answered prayer. And, and I wish, I wish I could

get up and, and preach or, or, or or be used to God do

something amazing. As a boy, I thought that I

dreamed about that when I was in 4th grade.

I felt like God might have been calling me to preach if

everybody that knew me called me a preacher boy might have had

something to do with it. But I remember because I went, I

took my Bible everywhere and I just loved the Lord and I was

always, I was always getting all the people for doing the wrong

thing and never would. I never would get go along with

them. And they I was just a square pig

in a round hole my whole life. I mean, I always was a stick in

the mud. I'm one now, but it's OK.

That's all the way I know to be. But but I remember as a little

boy thinking maybe God wants me to preach and, and, and my dad

sit down and counsel me and he said, if God wants you to

preach, he knows where you're at.

You just, you just keep doing what you're doing.

And, and kind of that, that, that thought just kind of left

my mind in 4th grade. But then at the age of 21, God

came back to me and backed me up in the corner and I waved the

white flag of surrender. I said, Lord, if you want me to

preach, that's what I'll do. God changed my whole trajectory,

changed my whole life. I was at Pensacola studying

business administration and computer science at BCC, and I

thought that's what I wanted to be, was a millionaire in the

church. I mean, it sound like a pretty

good plan to me, but God had other plans, Amen.

And I really, I just wanted to be a pillar in the church, hold

up the pastor's hands. I knew that the qualifications

of the Bishop was he could not be a striker and a brawler.

And I thought, well, if I'm not a pastor, I can do it for him,

Amen. If somebody gives him a hard

time, I'll just Jack their jaws and I'll drop enough money in

the plate. He won't even say nothing.

All right, so I had it all figured out.

But in 1993, God changed my whole life, called me to preach,

and I've never once regretted surrendering to what God has

called me to do. And as I'm reading this story, I

can, I can feel, I can feel that the excitement that is brewing

in their hearts is they're now able to reconvene with their

home church in verse #27 and, and just tell them all that God

did. Now their whole first missionary

journey is only in chapter 13 and chapter 14.

It's only two chapters. There's no way in the world they

told everything to happen. They went to too many places

that they didn't talk about. But when you just read these two

chapters, there was a whole lot of stuff going on in that first

missionary journey. I mean, it was so much and at

one point it was so much at one point that the one guy said, I'm

out of here. Hey, man, you can.

I can't take it no more. And as Barnabas, his cousin

said, I'm going back to the house.

But anyway, we're as we're reading these stories here, I'm

amazed at just the fact that God can use anybody.

God's no respecter of verses. All right?

God can use anybody. I come from a little town in

Waterloo. Anybody ever heard of Waterloo,

Georgia? Of course not.

It says Waterloo unincorporated. It's so small.

It says welcome to Waterloo on both sides of the side.

I'm telling you. I mean, if you check your text

messages going through there, you won't miss that town.

That's where I was from. And God has, God has allowed me

to do things I never dreamed, I never thought imaginable as a

boy. He's allowed every, every

impossible dream to come true. And, and all I just want to say

is that God can use anybody. God can use me.

He can use anybody and he will use anybody.

But there's some things that you've got to be willing to do

for Him to use you. And I want to give you a quick

list of them this evening. The first thing I want you to

notice, if you're taking notes, write this down.

To be used by God, you got to be willing to be faithfully serving

God where you already are. I think it's important in

chapter 13 where the story begins.

This is where they're called into the mission field, if you

will. The Bible tells us in verse #2

of chapter 13, as they ministered to the Lord and

fasted that ball and Barnabas were already serving God.

They were already working. They were already involved in

the church at Antioch. As a matter of fact, they had

been serving there for a number of years, going all the way back

to the end of chapter #11 where? But where Barnabas went to see

what God was doing and, and people were getting saved.

And he went and got Saul to come help him.

And they began A discipleship ministry there at the church in

Antioch. And the church was so, so, so

strong brother boots I've preached at a church planters

conference just a few weeks ago. Boy, God showed me this.

The church Barnabas never went back to Jerusalem.

Jerusalem sent him to Antioch to see if what was going on was

true. People were getting saved.

They were hearing reports that people were getting saved and he

got there. Bible says when he saw the grace

of God, he was glad and he exhorted them all that with that

with the singers of heart that they should clean under the

Lord. And, and the Bible says that the

beginning of the discipleship ministry went got Paul brought

him in there. And the Bible says they assemble

for a year and taught the people and they were called Christians

first. And Antioch, he never went back

home. He just stayed there.

And he began to ground them and decide for them to train them.

And then just a couple of years later, that church was so strong

and that church was so solid that he became their sending

church. So when God called them into

missions in chapter #13 God just called them to go and do another

place is what they were already doing in their local church.

Be careful that you don't ask God to do something with you

that you're not willing to do in your own home church.

The Bible says as they ministered, don't sit on a few

and wait for God to lead you to go somewhere to start doing

something. He will just ask you to go

somewhere and do what you're already doing.

Hey, man, just 'cause you get a prayer card, don't mean you're

going to become a missionary. Just because you get a mission

board, just because you get a display table, don't mean you're

going to have a burden for souls.

God's going to call people to the mission field that already

has a burden for souls, that is already serving in their local

church, that's already willing to do whatever needs to be done.

So if you want God to use you #1 you got to be willing to be

faithfully serving God where God has already put you.

I've got this in my notes. They were already doing what

they could, where they could, when they could.

And God's, I believe I'm going to let you do that over here.

Amen. You want stories to tell of what

God has done with you. You got to be doing something.

God uses people. God uses people to do something

that's doing something. They were already served and

they were already faithful, so they had that going for them.

But secondly, write this down to God.

For God to use you, you got to be willing to be fully

surrendered. Fully surrendered.

We see in Acts chapter number 11 and verse #2 chapter 13 rather,

I'm sorry, chapter 13, verse 2, as they ministered to the Lord

and pastor, the Holy Ghost said, separate me, Barnabas and Saul

for the work wherein 2 I have called them.

The Holy Ghost came to the to the church and came to them and

said, and I want you to leave here and I want you to go

somewhere else. And we have no record where they

ever argued with God about that. Well, I'm amazed at how many

people tell God I'll do anything you want me to do except and

then they've got this long list of stuff that they don't want to

do. That's not surrender.

That's not how surrender works. Surrender.

When you take a blank sheet of paper, you sign your name at the

bottom and then you hand it to God and say you write in the

details, you fill in the blanks and whatever you say, whatever

you want, that's what I'm willing to do.

The Holy Spirit of God, it came to them and said they pray to be

Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

You've got to be willing to be fully surrendered.

And it's my honest and sincere belief that the vast majority of

Baptist Church members are not fully surrendered.

If you want to have a story to tell, if you want to be able to

round your church up one day and tell them what God has done with

you, what God has done through you, you're going to have to be

willing to leave your comfort zone.

Chapter 13, verse 2, you got to be willing to do what other

people won't do. I've separate them for the work

whereunto I have called them. That word work right there

throws a lot of people out. The ministries work.

It's called ministry. That's a word for ministering,

all right. It's we're servants of God.

Paul talked about striving together.

He talked about laborers laboring in the middle.

Jesus had one prayer request in his whole ministry, and he

prayed for, he prayed for workers prayed.

Therefore the Lord of the harm was that he would send forth

laborers into the harvest. The ministry and the work of God

is work. It's work.

You've got to be willing to do what other people won't do.

You got to be able to answer what other people won't answer,

he said where unto? I have called them.

God has called a lot of people. They just wouldn't pick up the

phone, live the whole rest of their lives out of the will of

God because they refuse to surrender.

They've already got their life mapped out.

They live their house, they love where they live.

They love being close to mom and daddy.

They love being close to Walmart and Cracker Barrel.

They they've got their retirement, their 401K, they've

got their retirement. They already planned.

They know exactly when they're going to be able to quit, where

they can retire, live off of their income.

And the Holy Ghost comes to them in the missions covered or come

to them in the Bible conference and says, this is what I want

you to do. And all of a sudden they panic.

They say I can't do that. All all of my plans is going to

completely fall apart if I surrender.

Well, if you want stories to tell, you're going to have to

surrender. Amen.

You got to surrender. You got to do what other people

won't do. You got to answer what other

people won't answer. You got to go where other people

won't go. Verse three and four, Hey, man,

and you got to leave what other people aren't willing to leave.

Bible says in verse 3, when they had fasted and prayed, laid

their hands on them, they sent them away.

Well, that word right there is what runs a lot of Christians

out of ministry away. I've got friends down South

that's pastored four or five churches in the last 30 years.

Interestingly enough, every church I've ever pastored was

driving distance from the house they live in, but never one time

had to move to take a church. The only churches they were

willing to take was ones they could drive to from where they

were already living. Well, I can see right now that's

going over like a lead balloon. I can't believe how many people

when we were on deputation in 2000 to go to South Africa, try

to talk us how to go to the mission field.

I mean, I'm going to churches and presenting our work and I'm

super excited. I mean, I'm on fire about going

to Africa. My wife was, we had three

beautiful children, had a display, had amazing

presentation. And afterwards they'd say, I

can't believe, I can't believe you're taking them three

beautiful children to Africa. I got to where I would say,

well, if they was ugly, could I take them?

If they were ugly, would you take us on just to get them out

of your face? Can't believe you're going to

Africa. And that's a long way.

I'm like, I know it's on the other side of the world, but

that's where God called me. I can't believe how many of my

preacher friends down South couldn't believe I was leaving

South Carolina to go to Baltimore.

What in the world are you doing going to Baltimore?

I said I'm going where God told me to go.

You got to be willing to go away from family, away from friends,

away from your comfort zone, away from everything you know,

if that's what God wants you to do.

You got, you want stories to tell, you want to be used by

God. You got to be fully surrendered

#3 if you want God to use you, you got to be willing to be

filled with the Spirit. Well, we can print your whole

message on this point. Look at, look at, look at verse

#9 the Bible says and, and, and, and Saul, who also is called

Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, set his eyes on him.

You don't underestimate the importance of big field of

spirit. You won't God to do amazing

things with you. You're not going to do it in

your power. You're not going to do it in

your energy. You're not going to do it with

your intellect. You're going to need the

supernatural help from God to do it.

And the Holy Spirit, according to verse #2 is the one that does

the calling. The Holy Ghost is the one in

verse #4 who does descending, and the Holy Ghost in verse #9

is the one that does the work. If you get anything done, you

and I are going to have to be filled with the Holy Spirit of

God. And most people cannot be used

of God because they're full of their self and they're not full

of the Spirit. They were filled with the Holy

Ghost in verse number too, because they fasted and prayed

verse #3 they fasted and prayed and they were filled with the

Holy Spirit of God. They worked and operated in the

power of the Holy Spirit of person.

That will not be spirit filled, won't have very many stories to

tell. That's right.

The only stories you're going to have to have to tell are about

all the messes you made, the mistakes you made, and the

trouble you got into because you was not spirit filled, but you

were walking in the flesh feeling being filled with the

Spirit. The fire we need comes from the

Holy Spirit. The fuel we need comes from the

Holy Spirit. The fervency we need comes from

the Holy Spirit. The focus we need and the finish

we need comes from the Holy Spirit of God.

Don't underestimate the importance of being filled with

the Spirit. The ministry is spiritual work.

It's supernatural work and you can't do it in your own power.

In fact, it's so it's amazing to me, It's amazing to me that

Jesus as he ascended up into heaven and Acts chapter #1 last

thing he said before his feet left planet Earth was to go in

all the world, preach the gospel to every creature.

But then he said, tarry in Jerusalem till you be endued

with power from old high. Then you shall be witnesses unto

me in heaven and earth. And he they had to wait until

they had the Holy Spirit of God in dwelling them before they

ever were allowed to share the gospel.

One time. There's a big difference in

Peter and Acts 2 and Peter and the Gospels where every time he

opened his mouth, he was put in his mouth.

Every time he'd say something, Lord have to rebuke him.

He got rebuked all the time. One time Jesus looked at Peter

and said, get thee behind me, Satan.

It was Peter saying not so Lord. It was Peter over there by the

fire swearing and cussing, saying I don't know him, I don't

know the man. But then he got full of the Holy

Spirit of God and he preached a message and 3000 people got

saved. You and I don't have the ability

apart from the Holy Spirit to do what God wants done.

If we're going to have any stories to tell and be used by

God, we have to be filled we're the Holy Spirit of God #4 write

this down. You got to be willing to fight

Satan if you want to be used of God.

It's spiritual warfare from Day 1 chapter 13 verse #8 the Bible

says that elements the sorcerer for so is his name by

interpretation withstood them. They hadn't got started good.

I mean, they had that. They didn't even have a

honeymoon in their mission on the mission field.

They just got, they just had a going away party.

They just blew out the candles in the going away cake and and

they're on that. They're on the first few days

and weeks of their missionary journey and the devil sends a

sorcerer to withstand them. So maybe think you know what

spiritual warfare is? Get in a foreign country and do

missionary work and you'll find out real quick.

Devil knows how to take it up a notch.

Start trying to plant a church somewhere where there's not one.

Start trying to start trying to evangelize a community that

desperately needs the gospel and see if the demons of hell don't

wake up and get all over you. I'm telling you, it's spiritual

warfare from day one. And I don't care if you're a

pastor, pastor's wife. I don't care if you're a

missionary, a church planner. It don't matter if you're an

evangelist. It don't matter if you're a

Sunday school teacher. The minute you step up and say,

Lord, whatever you want to do with me, do it.

You can go ahead and mark it down.

The devil's going to send people, demon possess people,

crazy people, demonic people to withstand you.

You got to be ready for that. You got to be ready for that.

You're afraid or unprepared to enter the spiritual warfare.

Your chances of being used by God's pretty slim.

All it takes is a devil sticking his head around the corner,

going Boo for you to back up and go home.

Hey, God can't do much with you. Why do you think Jesus told his

disciples upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates

of hell shall not prevail against it.

From the minute he mentioned starting a church, he concluded

the statement by saying you can go ahead and get ready for

demonic, satanic warfare. The devil's going to do

everything you can to come against it.

Come against the church, come against your family.

You think you've got stress in your marriage, now get in the

ministry. It don't get better.

The devil takes it up a notch. You think you've got trouble

trying to train and raise godly children?

Now wait till they're preachers kids or missionaries kids or

wait till they're you're trying to go all in for God and you're

surrender to do whatever God wants you to do and and your

family is committed. We're going to do the ministries

of the church that God will let us do and I'm telling the devil

will take it up a notch. You said, preacher, if you're

trying to talk to me in the surrender and you're doing a

pair of terrible job of it, I'm just being honest.

You want to have stories to tell.

You want to be used by God. You want to be able to gather

people around, tell them what God did with you and how God

used you. You're going to have to be ready

for some spiritual warfare. I mean, it's it's Paul and

Barnabas face sorcerers. I was thinking about this,

Brother Louis, I think you're going to agree with me.

You read the disciple, you read the, you read the Gospel.

If you look at the accounts of how many places Jesus went and

how many demons and devils he cast out, unclean spirits, foul

spirits, I mean even just in Mark one, I mean, look, I mean

demon possessed people, devil possessed people.

He delivered in just Mark chapter #1 in one place that

says they were gathered, all the city was gathered at the door

and he cast out many devils. This is in one house and one

night in one town. You think how many devil

possessed people was back in those days?

When you Fast forward to 2026 and I'm going to tell you

something about the help with the, with the Internet and the

social media and all the mind altering drugs and all of the

satanic influences that we've got in our society.

You take whatever demonic people there was in Jesus day and you

can multiply that by about 10 or 15 and 2025.

And we look at people, we think, man, they're just mean or

they're just hateful. No, they're devil possessed.

I mean our society is full of devil possessed people.

That's their problem. They're devil possessed and they

will be sent by the devil to oppose you.

You can't handle a little bit of opposition.

You best just stay on the bench. They were confronted and opposed

by literal children of the devil.

He told him in verse #10 old, full of subtlety and all

mischief. Thou child of the devil, he

said, Preacher, that's nerve wracking, that's scary.

I know it is, but it's real. Spiritual warfare is real.

If you're a soul winner, you've been counted it on people's

front porch. If you're a soul winner, you can

count into that. When you knock on the door and

they come to the door and you can see the devil in their eyes,

they act like you're trying to rob them.

Tell them Jesus loves you, love you to come to church, and just

let's talk to you about the Lord.

You think they act like you're trying to rob them.

It's a devil. They need to be saved,

obviously. What I'm saying is if that

scares you off, you're not going to have a lot of stories to

tell. God's not going to be able to do

much with you if you can't handle spiritual warfare.

The good news is greater T that is in you than he that is in the

world. Amen.

The devil is a defeated foe. He's just a dog on a chain.

He can't go. But so far God's given us the

victory. We know how the story ends and

and the church is invincible. The church is able to do the

what God has called us to do. The devil can't do nothing to

stop it, but a lot of people are afraid to even deal with it.

Let me give you these other couple points right quick, and

I'm going to get out of the way. Number, write this down #5 you

got to be willing to face suffering.

You got to be willing to face suffering.

If you want to have stories to tell of how God has used you,

how God's allowed you to make a difference, you don't have to be

willing to face some suffering. Chapter 13, verse #45 Now says

when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled

with envious make against those things which were spoken by

Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

The Bible says in verse #50 the Jews were stirred up, the devout

and honorable women, the chief men of the city, and raised

persecution against Paul and Barnabas, expelled them out of

their coach. If you've got thin skin, you

stay out of the ministry. If you get your feelings hurt

real quick and best, best just stay on the few and pray and

tithe and be faithful to church because you're not going to be

able to do much more than that if you can't handle a little bit

of suffering. Let me tell you how much

suffering Paul had to deal with. That was his call to preach.

God told Ananias, you go over there to the house and you find

Saul and you tell him how great things he must suffer from my

name. Not how big a church is going to

get the pastor, not how many love offerings he's going to

get, not how many people he's going to have following him and

inviting him out to eat. You tell Paul I've called him to

preach, and the call to preach is how great things he must

suffer from my sake. From day one Paul knew he was

going to suffer and he did suffer.

And he gives us a long list of the things he had to deal with.

Getting stoned and shipwrecked and beaten with rods and on and

on he went. But you got to be willing to

face suffering. Bible says they shook off the

dust in verse 51 of their feet against them and came to

Iconium. What about that?

Just shut the dust off their feet and went to the next town.

You got to be willing to face suffering.

Being in the ministry is not popular with people that are

lost. Being in the ministry is not

popular with people that are devil possessed.

It's not popular with people that love sin and love what

they're doing. God sends us out there to tell

them the gospel, share, share the gospel, shine the light of

the glorious gospel in their eyes and their hearts and their

ears. And not everybody's going to

fall down and grab your feet and thank you.

Some of them's going to cuss you out.

Some of them's going to tell you not to come back.

Some of them's going to be rude and mean and sends you hate

mail. We talked about it today.

I get hate mail, I get emails. It's nasty, horrible, vulgar

things. I just delete them and keep

going because that's just part of it.

Just part of it. You got to be willing to face

suffering number six. You got to be willing to be

fluent in scriptures. I wish they had time to expand

this point to be willingly fluent in scriptures.

Paul and Barnabas were Bible teachers and Bible preachers.

The Word of God was their life. The entire first missionary

journey was 1 concentrated effort to preach and teach and

proclaim the Scriptures there. One of the most invaluable yet

underestimated secrets to being used of God is knowing your

Bible. Learn your Bible, young people.

Memorize Scripture. Know what you believe.

Know why you believe it. One of the qualifications of the

Bishop in First Timothy 3 is that he not be a novice.

In chapter 13 verse 5, Bible says they preached the word of

God in the synagogue. Chapter 13 verse 7 they called

for Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear the word of God.

Chapter 13 verse 15 after the reading of the law and the

prophets, the rulers of the synagogue said of them saying

that you men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation

for the people say all well we could just go on and on.

Verse 44 the Bible says the whole city came together to hear

the word of God. Are y'all staying with me?

Chapter 13, verse #46 The Bible says that it was necessary that

the word of God should first have been spoken unto you.

Verse 48, When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and

glorified the word of the Lord. Verse 49.

The word of the Lord was published throughout all the

region. Chapter 14, Verse 3, The Bible

says they gave testimony into the word of His grace.

And chapter 14, verse 25, when they had preached the word,

everywhere they went they was preaching, teaching the word of

God. If you want God to use you, If

you want God to put his hands on you, if you want God to open

doors and allow you to do things for him, you need to know your

Bible. You could give the average

independent Baptist a three by 5 card and say write what you

believe and why you believe it. And they couldn't fill up both

sides. Paul's message in Acts chapter

Acts 13:15–41

13, verse 15 through 41 was filled with Scripture.

I'm not going to give you the whole list, but he quoted

Genesis, first Samuel, Isaiah, Mark, Matthew, Psalm, Isaiah,

Psalm 16, Isaiah 53, and Habakkuk 1.

He quoted every one of those Scriptures in his message from

verse 15 down through verse #41 and he did it without notes.

He stood up there and preached and quoted scriptures and just

grabbed verses from all over the Bible and you wove them together

and put together a Bible message.

Amen. Let me give you one last point.

Write this down. You got to be willing to fortify

the Saints. Fortify the Saints.

One of the greatest requirements for being used of gods to be

able to be trusted by God to help other Christians grow and

you're willing to live day and night for other people to go

further in their Christian life it's all about helping them

advance it's all about them going further with God then God

can do something with you. The Bible tells us over and over

and over in Paul's first missionary journey and

barnabas's first missionary journey, God used them to help

other people fortify the Saints. Chapter 13, verse #43 When the

congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious

proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them,

persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

Chapter 14, Verse 21. The Bible says when they had

preached the gospel and had taught many, they returned again

to Lystra, Verse 22, confirming the souls of the disciples,

exhorting them to continue in the faith that we must through

much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God.

Verse 23 And when they had ordained them elders in every

city and prayed with vast and they commended them to the Lord

on whom they believe. So it gives us a journey.

They went through all these cities, LED people to the Lord,

got people, saved all these cities, and then as they

backtracked back to Antioch, every city, they confirmed them

and encouraged them to go further with God.

If you want God to use you, you got to be spiritual enough not

only be able to keep your own walk with God maintained, but

let God use you to help somebody else go further with God, not

just the pastor's job. It's not just the pastor's job

to encourage and challenge the church members to live right and

do right and stay faithful. You're supposed to do it to one

another. The Bible says provoke one

another to love and good works. Does it not say that?

Sure it does. But one of the story ends when

they gathered the church together.

They rehearsed all that God had done with them.

They had set themselves up, they had checked all these boxes and

said, Lord, whatever you want to do with us, we're willing to be

used. And God did amazing things.

And and that's just missionary journey number one.

They took two more after that. And all we got in chapter 13 or

14 was just a couple little isolated glimpses of what God

did with him. Only eternity will know what God

did with Barnabas and Paul. And there's no telling what God

can do with you. You're sitting this here right

now saying me, you don't know me, you don't know anything

about me. I know this.

If you're saved and you won't do something for God, God can use

you. God wants to use you.

I think about this and I'm done. A lot of Christians sit around

waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting,

waiting for God to tell them to do something and they're not

doing half of what he's already told them to do, right.

God's not going to give you more light till you walk in the light

you've already received. Ron Comfort said this years ago.

Light received increases light. Light rejected decreases light.

As long as you're walking in the light, he'll keep giving you

light. When you stop, the light stops.

You won't God open up doors. You won't God to do open up

greater doors. Walk through the doors that's

open in front of you right now and see if God won't let you

have some stories to tell. You'll be able to say, look what

God damn with me. I can't believe God did this

with me. God used me to do this and I

just can't believe it. God's got so much he wants you

to do, so much he wants you to do, Pastor, Amen.

I just.