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God Can Use Anybody
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| Elisha had an ambition for Elijah's anointing. | |
| He had a great ambition. | |
| Can you tell us what that meant? | |
| What a little more about that. | |
| You have mentioned how they were just ordinary people. | |
| Do you want to know what the preparation that Elisha had? | |
| Yes. | |
| Had not been to Oxford or Cambridge, Harvard or Yale. | |
| He was plowing corn. | |
| He was a farmer. | |
| And the Holy Spirit leads Elijah to him and says, you're to be my successor. | |
| Out of the blue. | |
| It just shows in order to be a man of God, a woman of God, you don't need a Harvard education. | |
| God will take you. | |
| And the desire for the anointing. | |
| And look at what God did with these men. | |
| And I would like to think that to anybody, God will do it with you. | |
| And when I think of myself, if God could use me, he could use anybody. | |
| I promise you, listen to me. | |
| When you get to heaven, you're going to find out the truth about me. | |
| It'll be all open. | |
| And what will surprise you, you'll say to yourself, I had no idea. | |
| If God could use RT, he could use anybody. | |
| That's not humility. | |
| It may sound like I'm being humble. | |
| I'm telling you the truth. | |
| You've no idea. | |
| But I come from the hills of Kentucky. | |
| I mean, you're from Minnesota, aren't you? | |
| No, I'm from Michigan. | |
| But I was in Minnesota for education. | |
| But you're a northerner. | |
| You see, you're more sophisticated than Kentuckians. | |
| But honestly, I'm amazed that God could use me. | |
| And I just want to encourage anybody. | |
| Yes. | |
| Amen. | |
| He's looking, God is looking for somebody that just, though. | |
| That's a highly respected church. | |
| It's called God's Sense of Humor. | |
| Yes. | |
| But you know, we meet people who have, they purchase every one of your books. | |
| That's right. | |
| Wow. | |
| So you're honored by so many. | |
| You are. | |
| You know, people want your book. | |
| You wouldn't keep writing books if people weren't. | |
| Because you teach. | |
| You're teaching is non-stop. | |
| But you have a wisdom. | |
| Yeah. | |
| That is an anointing. | |
| And I believe you have a double anointing. | |
| Do you know? | |
| I was brought up in Kentucky in the days when there were only 48 states. | |
| You're old enough to remember when it was 48. | |
| Yes. | |
| I was young. | |
| Well, we had a slogan in Kentucky in those days. | |
| Please forgive me for this. | |
| We had a slogan in Kentucky. | |
| Thank God for Arkansas. | |
| I love it. | |
| Why? | |
| Because in the days when there were only 48 states, Kentucky was 47th in educational standards. | |
| Only Arkansas was at the bottom. | |
| So we said, thank God for Arkansas. | |
| Oh, my. | |
| And that's the kind of education I had. | |
| And I'm telling you, I'm not making this up. | |
| And if God could use me, He can use anybody. | |
| And the fact that He could use Elisha. | |
| In fact, even James chapter 5, referring to Elijah. | |
| See, he's a man just like us. | |
| And so the idea that you've got to be extraordinary in order for God to use you, not true. | |
| Right. | |
| Just be obedient and say, yes, here's what I love, what you said about the anointing. | |
| And this is such, I mean, I can go on and on, but I don't want to take up the time, honey. | |
| And When you see anointing in your own life at work, at your job, with people, you know it is not you. | |
| Never, ever will you be able to take credit for any level of anointing. | |
| It is all down to the God of Elijah. | |
| I want more of his anointing. | |
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Beyond Your Limit
00:01:55
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| God gets all the glory. | |
| You see, I define anointing a little differently than some. | |
| The anointing is the Holy Spirit enabling your gift to function with ease. | |
| You see, we all have a gift. | |
| The problem with many of us, we think, well, I want his gift. | |
| I want her gift. | |
| And God says, well, look, I've made you like you are. | |
| And Romans chapter 12, verse 3 talks about everybody living within the measure of his faith. | |
| That means limit. | |
| We've all got a limit to our faith. | |
| The trouble is, many of us want to go outside our limit and say, I want a healing gift or I want a prophetic gift. | |
| And God says, look, I made you like you are. | |
| If you will be content with the way you are, I will use that. | |
| And that's what I try to get over. | |
| It's the enabling power of the Spirit to help you to function with ease. | |
| You see, here's what happens. | |
| You go outside your anointing, burnout. | |
| Boy, totally true. | |
| You see, you remember that book years ago called the Peter Principle? | |
| Yes. | |
| The idea everybody's promoted to the level of their incompetence and they have jobs that they shouldn't have because they wanted better pay or more prestige. | |
| Listen, the Holy Spirit will never promote you to the level of your incompetence. | |
| And if you live within the way that God leads you, there'll be no burnout, nervous breakdown. | |
| People want something they don't have, and God says, I didn't give you that. | |
| And that's what I hope the book will do for people. | |
| It does. | |
| Enable you to see that the way he made you is the way he will use you. | |
| And don't try to be the next president or the next Elijah. | |
| Just be what God has called you to do. | |