What Faith Can Do Series

Then the man got up and introduced himself as Ben Hopper and he left the table. Dr. Craddock kept going over in his mind again and again, Ben Hopper, Ben Hopper, and then it hit Him, Ben Hopper had twice been elected as The Governor of Tennessee.

An illegitimate child, who was looked down upon was not a likely choice to become the Governor of the state of Tennessee. I’m sure that those who stared at, ridiculed and ignored him never picked Ben Hopper to become a future Governor of their state, He was a very unlikely candidate, But nevertheless He did.

You know to me that is one of the most exciting things about God, Time and time again throughout the pages of scripture we see God using the unlikely, using the ordinary to accomplish his will and get his work done.

When Moses, barely 3 months old was placed in that tiny basket barely escaping death, He was not from a human standpoint at the time the one most likely to deliver his people.

What about David, even his own father didn’t think that he could possibly be a King after all he was just a shepherd boy. But when God looked at David, He didn’t see a shepherd boy,,but rather he saw a man after His own heart, And He told Samuel, this one, He will be my King.

And then there is the woman at the well, she had been through 5 unsuccessful marriages, was now living with a man. And she comes to draw water from the well at the hottest part of the day, because she can no longer bare to face the stares, whispering and cold shoulders of the other woman in the town. Most people would not have looked at that sad and lonely woman walking down that hot dusty road and picked her out to do anything significant. But Jesus is not most people and when he saw her approaching that well on that hot and sunny day He said, "she is the one who will take the Gospel to her town," and she did and they believed.

And what about Saul of Tarsus, I am confident that the early church did not hold weekly meetings to discuss how they could convert Saul, because they felt that he just had so much potential for Jesus Christ -- They were afraid of Him and even after his conversion many were still afraid for quit sometime.

Listen to what God says in I Samuel 16:7, this truth still needs to be learned today, "I DO NOT LOOK AT THE THINGS MAN LOOKS AT. MAN LOOKS AT THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE, BUT I LOOK AT THE HEART!"

God looks at the heart, and when God looked at:

MOSES HE SAID, "HE IS MY DELIVERER!"

DAVID HE SAID, "HE SHALL BE MY KING!"

WOMAN AT THE WELL "SHE WILL WIN HE TOWN FOR JESUS"

PAUL HE SAID, "HE WILL TAKE THE GOSPEL THROUGHOUT THE WORLD (even at the cost of his own life)"

God is a master at using the unlikely, he is an EXPERT at turning the ordinary into the extraordinary, time and time again in scripture, we see God’s power manifested in lives of someone who on the outside may not look that impressive, but on the inside, has submitted and surrendered his or hers life completely to God. And Oh, the things God can do and the victories God can win, with that kind of surrendered life.