Let Go Of The "Little" You Have!

You have to come to the realization that;

Little can be huge, when god is in it!

The life story of the great missionary Gladys Alward, illustrates this truth.

Gladys was born in London in 1904. She attended a revival meeting at which the preacher spoke of dedicating one’s life to the service of God.

On a bus in England. Gladys, a poorly-educated 26-year old parlor maid, was reading about China and the need for missionaries there; and from that moment, China became her life and passion.

She applied to the China Inland Mission Center but failed to pass the examinations and was turned down.

Crushed with disappointment, she returned to her small servant’s room and turned her pocketbook upside down.

Two pennies fell on top of her Bible. “O God,” she prayed, “Here’s my Bible! Here’s my money! Here’s me!” That’s all she had.

Gladys was determined to take the little she had and trust God to do the rest.

She began working several jobs and saving every cent she could to purchase passage to China.

She knew she couldn’t afford to travel by ship, so she decided to go overland by train right across Europe and Asia, though it meant slicing through a dangerous war zone on the Manchurian border.

On October 15, 1932, a little bewildered party gathered at London’s Liverpool Street Station to see Gladys Aylward off for China.

The journey was hair-raising and nearly cost her life. But eventually Gladys reached China;

showing up at the home of an older missionary who took her in and shall we say, the rest is history.

Willingly Gladys took the little she thought that she had and God made the most of it!

Gladys Aylward eventually became one of the most amazing single woman missionaries of modern history.

Her mission’s career was so extraordinary that the world finally took notice.

Her biography was made into a movie, “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness” starring Ingrid Bergman.

She dined with such dignitaries as Queen Elizabeth and spoke in great churches.

She even became a subject of the television program “This is Your Life.”

But Gladys never grew accustomed to the limelight, for her heart was always in Asia.

“I wasn’t God’s first choice for what I’ve done for China,” she once said. “There was somebody else...

I don’t know who God’s first choice was. I don’t know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn’t willing.

And God looked down... and saw Gladys Aylward.”

God can take anyone who is willing to step out in obedient faith, persevere in prayer looking in faith for the answer to that prayer,

giving Him whatever they have, little or much and witness the amazing results that He is capable of.

The only thing that matters in this life that we have been given,

and I say that, because the life we have, is a gift!

The only thing that matters, is what we do for the Kingdom of God with our life.

Maybe, God has been speaking to you, wanting you to do more for His Kingdom,

And you keep telling yourself, you want to do more and that someday you will, but

And maybe someone else, God has been speaking to you, to increase your giving and you say you will someday, but