Starting next Wednesday, June 1st, we are beginning a 12 week series from John Bevere (DVD) entitled, "Extraordinary, the life you're meant to live."
I am looking forward to it.
God is calling you (and me) to live extraordinary lives for Him.
You say, "me?" "Are you talking to me?"
Yes. I am.
You are not an accident. God created you for a purpose. No one is common, no one is menial; we were created for the EXTRAORDINARY.
Each one of us has a unique path that God has prepared for our lives.
Extraordinary means, "beyond what is usual, customary, or ordinary; exceeding the common measure; remarkable, rare, wonderful."
What God desires for us individually, is what he desires for us as well, corporately, as the body of Christ - as a church - Stone Church.
One of my spiritual heroes is Dwight L. Moody. Moody was a poorly educated, unordained, shoe salesman who felt God’s call to preach the gospel. Early one morning he and some friends gathered in a hay field for prayer.
His friend Henry Varley said these words: ‘The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in a man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him.’
Moody later would recall the words spoken by his friend, and realized that Varley meant any man! Not just someone who is educated, or brilliant, or anything else. Just a man (or woman)! Moody determined to be that man.
He sought to be fully and wholly committed to Christ, and God did extraordinary things through his ministry. Moody became one of the great evangelists of modern times. He founded a Bible college and Moody Church here in Chicago.
Don't think that you have to be in "ministry" to do something extraordinary
It doesn't mater who you are or if you are a school teacher, business person, government leader, stay at home mom, athlete, factory workers, hairstylist, student, pastor or anything else. God has called you and created you to be extraordinary in that role.
Are you open to that?
How do we live extraordinary lives? Well, let's all learn together. I encourage you to come on Wednesdays throughout the summer.
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