God OF EXTRA-ORDINARY

"God’s used ordinary people to display that He is Extra-Ordinary."

God likes choosing ordinary people to do His work. Remember Gideon? He was a farmer threshing wheat in a winepress to hide from the Midianites – but God choose him to deliver Israel. How about David – a smelly old shepherd? God choose him to be King. Or Ruth – an unknown widow from Moab. God choose her to be the great great great grandmother of Jesus. Or what about Jesus’ very own disciples like Peter, James, John, Andrew? They were plain old fishermen – but God choose them to lay the foundation for His church.

The same with the story when Elijah calls Elisha to follow him – to one day be his successor. Elisha was an ordinary person. The Bible gives no qualifications why God should choose him. It doesn’t say he was talented speaker. It doesn’t say he was scholar. It doesn’t say he was a man of great influence. It doesn’t say he was any kind of a great leader. In fact, he was on the end of the line – plowing with the twelfth team of oxen, eating the dust of the other eleven plowmen in front of him. Elisha was just an ordinary guy, but God choose Him to be the man who would do extraordinary things for God. God likes to choose ordinary people to do His work – people like you and me. He wants to use them in His church, in His ministries, in your home, at your work place – everywhere.

Think of an expensive painting: What makes it so expensive? Is it a special type of canvas that the artist paints on? Or Perhaps special paint? And a unique type of brush? No. It’s the talents and the skills of the artist that give the painting its value. Just as the artist uses ordinary paints, ordinary brushes, and ordinary canvases, so God uses ordinary people like you and like me to accomplish extraordinary things for Him.
Think of the 12 disciples. They were just ordinary, run-of-the-mill fishermen – but look what God has done through them! Think of Billy Graham – he’s just another ordinary guy. God has used him in an extraordinary way – reaching thousands, even millions of people with the Gospel.
So is it possible that ordinary people like you and me can do extraordinary things for God? Can you and I live lives like Billy Graham, Daniel, Joseph, Moses, Abraham, or Elisha? And if we can, how do we do it? God used an ordinary person like me, to write this book, and to tell you that, God uses the ordinary in extraordinary ways. Let's be ordinary people available to an extraordinary God. I pray that God use this book to transform you from ORDINARY into EXTRA-ORDINARY!