You are from where???

 

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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To be a neurosurgeon and to be able to be the best of the best, in fact be able to be the first one to separate conjoined twins at the back of the head… They have to have an incredible background, family and raise with some major elitism… but not Ben Carson. Born a poor inner city kid in Detroit, raised by a single mom and had a nasty temper… he had everything going against him including what other thought of him. 

 

Acts 2

2 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. 7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 

(Galileans - a group of nobodies, normal everyday people… The group that changed the world??? They are from New Prague??? What?) 

8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? 9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome 11 (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” 

(We see elsewhere in scripture where Paul went to other lands and churches had already been started… most likely from the those who were in this group.)

12 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

13 Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”

 

What does this mean… aren’t they all Galileans? 

They are the wrong people… they are nobody’s

- I will never forget the first time I was really moved to want to heal someone (and definitely not for the right reasons) But a young kid my age, weird, super spiritual and fresh out of the drug culture and was very sexually permissive. He had healed a woman’s leg. He prayed and had it grow out a few inches. He had many people from church as eye witnesses… and I was like “YOU”… wait a second you are a dimwit (and he was) But I began to think thats not fair- he is the wrong person to use. But God uses nobody’s.

 

In fact 

God can use anybody. He used an ass to speak to baalam. He used an old prophet to speak to David, He used a a whisper to speak to Elijah, he used a little girl to speak to Peter, he used a couple dead fish and pieces of bread, he used spit and dirt to heal a man…. God can use anybody and anything. 

 

They did not have the intellect or educational pedigree to be considered to be effective.

What is your reputation among those who are very mature spiritual believers…

What is it among your stupid sinner friends?

What is it among your coworkers? 

IT DON’T MATTER FOR CHATTER. God does not care what your reputation is, he just wants to fill you and use you. I used to pray this prayer, God kill me, fill me and spill me. Just ask God to continually fill you with his spirit and take a run at it.