How can you be extra ordinary when you are just ordinary?
- God uses _tough times_ to do extraordinary things.
Judges 6:1
Judges 6:6
Proverbs 3:11–12
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts to us in our pains.
It’s His mega phone to rouse a deaf world.
C.S. Lewis
God _sees_ the extraordinary more than you do.
Focus on who God says you are.
Judges 6:7–8
Judges 6:11
Judges 6:12
God always sees more than me!
Focus on _who_ God says you are.
Re frame our understanding by allowing the truth of God’s Word to impact our identity.
You are God’s child.
John 1:12
You are His friend.
John 15:15
You are His masterpiece.
Ephesians 2:10
You are now a citizen of Heaven.
Philippians 3:20
You will never be separated from His love.
Romans 8:35
You are chosen, not frozen!!
1 Corinthians 1:26–29
- God _confirms_ His extraordinary with His presence.
Judges 6:13
Judges 6:14
Judges 6:15
Judges 6:16
It’s not a matter of who you are as much as it matters who is with you.
Remember, God wants to grow your faith because He is _faithful_ even when you are _faithless_.
Judges 6:17
- God will _challenge_ you to his extraordinary.
Heroism is optional but obedience is essential.
If you want to learn how to trust God, more from the ordinary to the extraordinary, you must first set your home in order.
_Private_ faithfulness is a prerequisite to public powerfulness.
God’s extraordinary is determined by His power, _not yours_.
God uses the common to accomplish the uncommon- the extraordinary!
Judges 7:21
“And every man stood in his place..”
Remember this closing thought. . .
++We all start from the same baseline- ordinary. The only difference between ordinary and extraordinary is the Lord.