Post by Brother Michael (FE) on Jan 24, 2018 14:24:37 GMT -8
~ Anyone feel as though you are not a "Worthy Vessel" in the eyes of The Lord...?
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God doesn't take His useful vessels from the ranks of the wise, mighty or noble. First Corinthians 1:26 says, "For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called."
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Continuing in 1 Corinthians 1, verse 27, "But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen."
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Paul says to get His job done, God uses things which are foolish, things which are weak, things which are base, things which are despised.
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God even allowed Paul to be put in chains, for two years in Rome, That he would write 4 "Epistles", and convert much of "The House of Caesar" ....The Praetorian Guards ( an elite unit of the Imperial Roman Army whose members served as personal bodyguards to the Roman emperors), as they were chained to Paul in 6 hour shifts, and could not escape from Paul's words & teachings.....
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So... who Has God Our Father used in times past, that we can look to as an "Ensample" :
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Abraham- Was Very "Old"
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Jacob- was "Insecure"
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Leah- was "unattractive"
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Joseph- was "Abused"
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Mosses- was a "poor Speaker & Stuttered"
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Gideon- was "Poor"
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Samson- was "Co-Dependent"
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Rahab- was "Immoral"
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David- was an "Adulterer & Poor Father"
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Elijah- was "Suicidal"
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Jeremiah- suffered "Depression"
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Jonah- was "Reluctant & Disobedient"
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Naomi- was a "Widow"
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John The Baptist- was "Eccentric"
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Peter- was "Impulsive"
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Martha- was a "Worrier above all else"
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The Samaritan Woman- was "Married 5 times"
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Thomas- was a "doubter of even what he had seen"
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Paul- was "in poor health"
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Timothy- was "Timid"
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and Lastly, here is what WE are;
a Work in Progress... being used in the meantime unto His works, as He grows us, Precept upon Precept, a Little bit here, a little bit there..... who have said "yes Lord; your servant is here; what would you have me to do"?
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10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2
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Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised;
And let us consider one another; to provoke unto love and to good works:
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
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.God our Father uses anything, and anyone, WHO WILL serve His Purposes, at His Pleasure, and to which He will Get The Glory....
He uses the "Most unlikely of things, and People, to confound the World ("Wise"),
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He uses His Children; US.
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Who are not of This World.
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The Peace and Truth of Jesus Christ be upon you all
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~ Brother Michael NewDay