Walking with God Part 1

Using the Ordinary to Accomplish the Extraordinary

Jesus selected a group of fishermen, a tax collector, a member of an anti-Roman political party, and a traitor as His “A” team. A group referred to in Acts 4:13 as, “unschooled, ordinary men.”” Yet, their courage and forceful ministry caused their scholarly opponents to note, “they had been with Jesus.”

The ordinary had become extraordinary because of Jesus!

Please note that truth has not changed! I have seen God use a lot of ordinary people to accomplish a lot of extraordinary things! Frequently He starts with what seems to be small things or insignificant things. But, the effect is like throwing a rock into a pond. The ripples keep going all the way to the shoreline!

For instance, I worked for Cecil Worley in his foundry, San Jacinto Brass Works. It was a small operation, just the two of us. He was a strong Christian and lived a Godly life. I worked in the foundry and machine shop from my 16 ^th year to my 18 ^th year. He discipled me every day! He made applications of what we did every day to spiritual things.

An example of this came the day I got an electrical shock from a welding machine. After checking me to be sure I was ok, he asked, “Did you see the electricity that shocked you?”

I laughed and said, “No!” He said, “my first degree was electrical engineering. I studied it four years and never saw it either, do you believe in it?”

“Yes,” I said, “I felt its power!”

He told me that it was like the Holy Spirit, you could not see Him, but you can feel His power!

These little encounters added up in their influence to make me the ordained minister I am today!

The little things added up to become a life changing force in my life.

But, it did not stop there!

Fourteen years later, Cecil sent me a $250 check. He Said that God had told him to do that and would I please tell him what I was up to that caused it.

I was trying to build a mobile medical and dental clinic and needed exactly that amount enabling me to buy the bus I needed. When others saw the bus in my yard, they began to ask questions and make donations.

It became the first of 17 mobile clinics and disaster units that were produced. His small gift was the spark that started a giant humanitarian aid movement. In six months of one year, the clinics served almost 150,000 people along the Mexico border and 1500 of those came to faith in Jesus!

Texas Baptists wanted to use the clinic but were afraid of the liability. This prompted the development of the organization called Amigos Internacionales, Inc., as the holding company. That group is now ministering to people in many places around the world.

If there had not been a school bus in my yard to make my friends and neighbors ask, “LaNoue, what are you up to?” all of this may have never happened!

Thank you, Lord, for Cecil’s little gift that You blessed and multiplied! It seemed ordinary, but God made it EXTRAORDINARY!