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Do you have so many problems that you feel overwhelmed? Do you lack courage and strength or feel weak and worthless? Are you lonely or filled with anxiety? Do you think that you are an average or even below average individual who could never serve the Lord in any way?
If so, rejoice! The Lord wants and needs someone just like you. He uses average, ordinary, problem-laden folks, just like you and me. Not perfect people, because there are none.
He used a shepherd boy named David to kill the giant Goliath.
He used Jonah, a fear-laden man who would rather drown than be obedient, to save a city.
He used Moses, a murderer with a speech impediment, to save the children of Israel.
He used Joseph, a man thrown into a pit and sold to slavery, to save Egypt during a famine.
Although faced with huge obstacles and roadblocks, they all had one vital ingredient in common: the Lord. They never would have succeeded without the Lord. For success is merely understanding and then fulfilling the Lord’s purpose for your life.
So don’t think you can’t because you can. Don’t think you are unable because you are able. Don’t think you don’t have what it takes because you do have what it takes.
Just follow Norman Vincent Peale’s advice: “Dream creative dreams. Set high and worthwhile goals. Take the first decisive step toward your goal. Then take another step, and another, and another, until the goal is reached, the ambition realized, the mission accomplished. No matter how long it takes, persist. No matter how discouraged you get, persevere. No matter how much you want to quit, hang in there.”
Hope. Dream. Believe. And you will accomplish marvelous things. But don’t forget the most important and necessary ingredient: put on the full armor of God.
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Ephesians 6:10–17
