# God Chooses the Weak to Show His Strength

Key Passage: 1 Corinthians 1:25-31
Date: August 19, 2023

And turn your Bible to First Corinthians, chapter number one. Sometimes it’s kind of good to change everything up for us, Baptist anyway. We get stuck out of ruts. It reminded me of the years when church had first started; we were in the daycare, a very small facility.

You know, when you start a church, it’s always interesting. You start from scratch. Someone described it this way: They said the gospel light sometimes attracts awkward and weird bugs, you know. And you just get everything in the world coming through. But we had some folks come in that little daycare, and they came. They drove up in a Corvette, dressed to the T’s, and he owned a construction company. This is not saying much, but it was full. Now, that facility was very small, and I don’t know what we had that day, but it was full. All this area was full. We had two chairs over here on the side, kind of like overflow, and they had to sit there. The bad thing is everybody could see them, and it was full there. They were sitting over there on the side.

Here’s another very, very bad thing about those days: I had to lead singing then. We didn’t have a piano, and we didn’t have a song leader either, you know. I can’t remember what song it was, but I tried to hit one of those high notes—some of these songs go so high—and my voice just cracked. We had a country fellow from old Waverly who was in town working, very country. His voice cracked about the same time. He just sounded like a bunch of mules out there, something bellowing, you know. It struck the majority of us as funny, and the vast majority started laughing. It was all I could do not to laugh. This couple over here, you know, they looked like, “What did we just walk into?” They just cracked up, and it was just like it’s funny. Tammy was back in children’s church nursery—everything was in one room in the back. She said it just like a wave went through their little church; they started laughing back there. They didn’t know what they were laughing about, and it was all I could do to keep my composure, really. We made it through the song, and in the midst of all the laughing…

The blessing is that couple got saved at the end of the service. If I remember right, four or five—five months to the day—he was just a picture of health. I think it was an aneurysm; he dropped dead. But he’s in heaven. You just never know what God will do. It was all the service, but God blessed it in a great, great way. It reminded me of leading singing back in the day. It reminds me of those days.

First Corinthians, chapter 1. Isn’t it funny, last Wednesday we had snow all over the place, and we had from our living room to your living room, and then my truck, you know, on the day I said 73. I noticed this afternoon what a change. We shifted gears last week, and we’re just going to stay shifted a little bit tonight. We’ll go back to the life of David later on. But 1 Corinthians, chapter number one, this truth is such a… I hope it will be a blessing for you. Nothing new for many of you, but I hope it will be a blessing to you. First Corinthians 1. We’ll start in verse number 25. Would you please stand as we read God’s word together, 1st Corinthians 1 and verse number 25.

God’s word. The Bible says, “Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, plural, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”

“For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.” Is it funny sometimes—and I did the same thing—that a person is very wise? We need a wise order to go get them. That’s not the formula that God typically uses.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. And God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen. Yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught the things that are.

How many ever heard of Lesteroloff? Old Lesteroloff. He was at a preacher’s meeting one time, and he came out and said, “You fellas, knotheads.” And he said, “Yeah, that’s what the Bible says. He chooses the things that are not.” A bunch of knotheads out there, you know. Just to fault—we’re going to get praying just a second here—but just the fault, you know, sometimes we want to take something that’s been great in the past; we just want to get a hold of that. Sometimes young guys want to take a church that’s been mighty in the past, or different organizations. Nothing wrong with that, but that’s typically not what works. The things that are not—they’re not there, if you will. The typical way God works: the things which are not, to bring to naught the things that are.

Here is the purpose of it: “That no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. That, according as it is written, ‘He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.’”

I, for years, would try to go and play basketball, typically with my son, you know, on these courts around here. You guys have played ball around here; you know how it is on the pickup courts. First of all, you go out there, you’re dribbling, you shoot a little bit, and everybody’s—you’re not really shooting, you’re watching each other to see who’s good and who’s not, you know. Then you shoot for a while, and that can be tricky if you look too good. It can be disappointing when you play a game, you know what I’m saying? But I never had that problem to look good then or at the end of the game. Anyway, so it comes to a point: you’ve got to pick up teams.

Several ways they do that. RJ and Kate, men, they’re into this; that’s them all the time, you know. Sometimes the first five, they’ll typically start at the three-point shot. If you get real bad, it takes too long—forget that, man—go to the free throw if you can’t make the threes. First one to make, first five to make the three-point, whatever, that’s your team. The second five is another team. Sometimes you do it that way. Sometimes they’ll just say, “Hey, first two to make it are captains.” Then you pick. Those two captains pick, first one to make, first pick. Ever once in a great while, a miracle happened, and I would throw that ball. Now, it was headed about three feet above the whole backboard, you know, but an angel would stop that ball in midair. Have mercy. It makes you nervous. You’ve made one. Now you’re supposed to look good in the game, you know, and the angel would put it through the net. Now the second thing on my list after that is, I need good players. I need somebody that will make me look decent. They’ve got to be really good to do that, you know. So I’m looking for the best players out there. I hear Brother John say amen. You’re right, too, brother. I’m looking for the best because, man, I need help. Usually, I’m always like, “Oh man, I made that.” That’s not good, you know. You’re supposed to be the captain then. So you’re looking for the best out there, and hopefully you pick well because it’s not going to be me who wins the game; it’s going to be them who wins the game. That’s the way we pick. RJ, Kate, y’all have been there. God’s not like that. God doesn’t look and say, “Let me find the best; I’ll pick you.” God… Imagine this: imagine if you were the best basketball player in the universe—that is not LeBron James, by the way, all right, it’s good preaching—and you are so good, let’s just say you are so good you could beat any team out there by yourself if you wanted to.

If you pick good players, it’s not going to make you exert yourself very much at all. They could probably win the game on their own. But if you pick weak players, it would kind of make you exert yourself. Now, you can beat them on your own, but God, He’s a team player. He wants you to be on His team. See? God says—typically God says—“I don’t pick the good ones.” God says, “Not many mighty, not many noble.” He said, “I choose the foolish, the weak, the base.” Why? That way He gets the glory.

Have you ever thought about that verse? Second Chronicles, look it up if you want; there’s a great verse. Second Chronicles, chapter 16, verse number nine. It’s a great, great verse to claim. Second Chronicles 16:9: “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth.” It’s amazing. God’s looking for something. Here is a phrase I want you to notice: “to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him.” Excuse me, in behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him, and that’s done foolishly, therefore, for Him.

Now, here’s the thing: If I chose—just say I was the best, and I could beat any team on my own—but I chose those weak players so I could show myself. That’s what God is saying over here. He said, “My eyes go everywhere.” Now, “the heart perfect toward Him”—if you look at the context, it talks about somebody that’s relying on God. It doesn’t say you have a perfect heart because we would all be out, but a perfect heart as far as what He means by that is a heart that’s relying on Him, not a sinless heart, but a heart that is totally relying on Him. If you read the context, you will see that. But He says, “I want to show Myself strong,” not in their behalf, but He wants to show Himself strong. If He has the best players in the world, it’s not going to make Him look good, but if He has weak players, He is going to have to really exert Himself. So God says, “Look, I choose the weak.”

Look at this. If you’re riding down the road—Brother Josh is going down Ambeville Road in the morning, and he’s going… that guy buys cars. He spends literally millions of dollars buying cars. Now, it’s not Brother Josh’s money; it’s his company’s money, but it doesn’t matter. He spends millions of dollars. How much have you spent in the last week? Do you say, “Brother Joe, what do you think? Wouldn’t that be a fun job, just to buy with somebody else’s money?” Ladies, man, that’d be the dream job. Some of the days say, “Hey, it’s he.”

He’s leaving in the morning, and he’s going to buy those cars. He sees a car broke down on the side of the road, and he says, “Maybe I should help him.” But he looks at you—a young guy, 25 or 30. He has a mechanic’s coat on. He has a cell phone. It looks like he’s got a big old toolbox in the back with all the tools. He looks like the mechanic himself. Well, Josh says, “Man, I can’t be late. I was late yesterday; I can’t be late two days in a row.” No. Good chance, if he’s like me, he may say, “That guy’s fine, man; he’s good.”

But let’s say he rides by there, and somebody broke down on the side of the road, and it’s this little old lady. She looks like she’s about 140 years old. She doesn’t even know how to pop the hood. She’s looking for the button. She’s so old, she doesn’t even know what a flip phone is, much less a smartphone, you know. She doesn’t have all that. If she had a wrench, she probably couldn’t lift it. Now, tell you what, good chance Brother Josh is going to stop because she’s weak.

We are made in the image and likeness of God. You see, God is attracted to weakness. Sometimes we want to appear so strong to God. I said, “No, I typically don’t choose those people.”

Have you ever thought about the Bible and the people that God used? The nation of Israel is just… Not very many. I really started one man and talked about Sunday night: Abraham. What about Gideon, that man that God used to deliver the church—the Midianites? Gideon, when God chose him—remember, it’s Judges 6:15—Gideon says this: “Behold, I am not the one.” He says, “Behold, my family is poor in Manasseh.” Manasseh was kind of a split of Joseph—Manasseh, Ephraim, you know. He says, “My family is poor in Manasseh, and I’m the least of my father’s house.” Gideon said, “Me? We’re a poor family, and I’m the least of the family.” God says, “You are the one I want to use.”

What about when God needed someone to kill big-mouth Goliath over there? He had the Army of Israel over there. He had the Rangers, the Navy SEALs, the Marines. Come over, we got it. He had them all, all the special ops. He had everything. Their army was there, ready to go. And I said, “Let me find that little fellow, one of the teenage shepherd boys, with a slingshot. That’s the one I’ll use.” You just mark it down: typically, God uses the weak. There’s just a pattern, and that’s what He’s saying: not many mighty, not many noble.

God said, “I need a lady to raise a boy to be a prophet, and she’ll be willing to give him up pretty early,” to be the mother of Israel’s really first prophet, the great prophet Samuel. God said, “I’ll choose that lady over there. She can’t even have a baby; she just can’t even bear children.” But I’ll use her. That’s just the typical way God works; He chooses the weak thing.

Have you ever thought about Joseph? Joseph was just a carpenter. He could have found a king or a professor at a university to raise Jesus. And God said, “I’ll just choose him; he’s just a carpenter. He goes to work and works with wood.” And God said, “Yep, that’s the one I want to be my only begotten Son’s stepfather, if you will.” And a little, little teenage girl married from Nazareth. They said, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” God said, “Yeah, that’s what I want to use. That’s the place I want my Son to be raised: Nazareth.” Mary, Joseph.

God often… Have you ever thought about the apostles, the 12 apostles? Half of them—just by half of them—were fishermen. At one point, let me read for you what they said about them. It’s Acts 4:13. “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, Peter was the top, if you will, of the apostles. When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men.” The mighty 12 and the leader of the mighty 12. When they perceived they were unlearned and ignorant—that’s what your King James Bible says—and God says, “Yeah, that’s what I use typically.” That’s just God’s play. So can I just say, hey, you say, “I’m not all that”? You’re a good candidate for God to use. That’s the good part of it.

Sometimes God says, “You’re too strong.” What about the Apostle Paul? He had that revelation; he went up to the third heaven and said, “Oh, man, I can tell you some things. I’ve got an abundance of revelation. I’ve been there. You can read about it and talk about it, but I’ve been there; I know.” And I said, “Yeah, let me bring a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet you.” That means the devil sent one of his little imps over there, and he’s beating the tar out of Paul. That’s what it means in the Greek you studied: messenger of Satan to buffet. Paul said, “Lord, you got to take this thing away; it’s killing me, Lord.” You know the verse. God finally said, “No, no, no, no, no, My grace is sufficient for these.” It’s over there in 2 Corinthians 12, verse number nine. He said, “My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Paul, you’re getting too strong. I’ve given you some revelations unless you lift it up in pride. I just need to make you weak because My strength is made perfect in weakness. God didn’t answer his prayer, but God changed his heart. Finally, Paul said, “Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” God said, “I need you weak.”

What about Gideon? We were talking about Gideon earlier, remember? Gideon got that army together, ready to fight the Midianites. He had an army of 32,000. Now the Midianites were like a multitude, innumerable. I can’t remember; I’m not going to put a number out there. But God said, “Hey, Gideon, they have a lot more. You have 32,000, which looks pretty good. But let me tell you something: you still have too many, Gideon.” Gideon said, “I couldn’t hear you, really. What was that, Lord?” God said, “You’re too strong.”

God said, “Gideon, I want you to tell them, hey, if you’re afraid—if you’re, as we say in Tennessee, if you’re scared—just go on home.” Gideon thought, well, maybe three or four or five. Gideon said, “All right, if you’re a little afraid, go home.” They started walking away by the thousands. 22,000 left. Starting off of 32,000, God says, “You have too many.” He ended up with 10,000. And God said, “Gideon, you’re still too strong. You’re just too much of yourself; you just have too much going for you on your own.”

God said, “Hey, let’s go down over here and let’s get some water from the river over there.” You know the story. He said, “Watch those ones that just go a whole hog in there,” and He says, “Send those boys home.” Those other ones are just kind of ready to go; keep them. I wonder—God must have made it very clear to Gideon what that meant. Because I think Gideon would have said, “Well, they all look pretty alert to me, Lord. They’d be out there swimming in it. Why, they look alert to me, Lord; they’re good to fight.” We must have made it very clear to Gideon.

But you know the story: Gideon ends up with 300. From 32,000 to 300. God said, “Now, Gideon, I’m ready to use you now. I’m going to do something now.” Why? To show Himself strong. Not many mighty, not many noble; it’s the weak. I’m just saying, friend, if you feel, “Man, I’m just inadequate,” you’re a good candidate for God to use. Young people, you say, “I don’t have what everybody else has, or I don’t have the homes they have, or I don’t have the intelligence or whatnot.” You’re a good candidate for God to use if you give yourself to the Lord, you yield, you’re flexible, you’re pliable, you let Him mold and use you. God usually uses the weak.

Just a couple points about this. We’ve already mentioned one, but five points real quickly. Number one: That way God gets the glory. That’s verse number 29 right there, 1 Corinthians 1. The purpose of this thing—why does God choose the weak? When He’s choosing that basketball team, He doesn’t look for the good ones; He looks for the bad ones. Why is that? Verse number 29: “That no flesh should glory in His presence.” Verse number 31: “That, according as it is written, ‘He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.’” That’s the reason for it; that’s the purpose of it. I wonder, maybe sometimes God says, “I can’t use you anymore because you get full of yourself.”

You’ve heard me tell this illustration—number 35, you know that one—about the woodpecker that was pecking on the tree. The storm came up and knocked the tree down, and the woodpecker went through the forest saying, “I pecked so hard, I knocked the tree down.” We’re like that. God says, “I use the weak that way, so nobody can glory in My presence.” How good am I at giving God the glory for the good of my life? Can I say this along that line? Sometimes we are so worried about what we do in front of people. That’s really… You know what talks about humbling yourselves? It says, folks, you can tell—this is one of those nights, I got a hole in my pocket, my chains coming. Might as well just be honest about it all, amen. Praise the Lord, my pocket knife didn’t fall off. Hey, the weak things. Where was I at now? I’m going to have to get my composure. My wife’s starting to laugh over here, so I’m glad to give my composure. We’re going to laugh about this. All right, we’re going to bow our heads and close. Warren’s turning red in his face up here. We’ve got to get composure here. What is He saying about that? He says, “Humble yourselves, therefore, in the sight of God.” We can look all humble in front of everybody else, but that’s not the big deal. God—it doesn’t matter what people think; imagine what God thinks. “Humble yourself, therefore, in the sight of God.” And I’m in the hand of God in another place. That’s the key. The Lord knows. We can fool people; we can’t fool God. And that way, He gets the glory for it all.

Years ago, John and I went to Louisville, Kentucky, and visited the Louisville Slugger Museum. You go through there, and they show you all the wooden bats they make. I did not know until that time that they make the major leagues use wooden bats today. They can’t use the metal ones; they are so much better. They break all the records of the past, so they have to use wooden bats today, and they show you all these bats. It’s interesting: these players have a specifically designed bat for them, these major leaguers and all. But there are regulations on it. As you walk through, you learn all these things, and you’re like, “Hey, we’re making these bats over here for so-and-so, C. C. Fielder back in the day, whoever it was.” But then you come along, and there are some bats in these glass cases. That bat right there is worth $40,000 or whatever. It looks like all the other bats, but it was special because that bat was at one time in the hands of Ted Williams. You take just an ordinary, weak Christian, but if you put yourself in the hands of God, that’s what makes you special. God usually, more often than not, uses the weak things. That way, He gets the glory.

Number two: It’s not a matter of how strong you are, but a matter of what you’re doing with what you have. Look over in Revelation, chapter number three. You’ll remember this; I think it was last year, it was our verse that was up on these banners we have. When we bought the property, this was really our verse that we used so much. Revelation 3, and verse number—let’s get verse number 7 in there also. Revelation 3, verses 7 and 8. He says, “Unto the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David; he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth. I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.” Watch this: “For thou hast little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.”

That’s weak, folks. That’s a little strength, but with that little strength, you have kept My word and have not denied My name. If I would stop worrying about what I don’t have and worry about what I’m doing with what I have, the Lord will take care of the rest. He said that church right there, “I’m going to open the door, and nobody’s going to shut that door.” It’s not because you’re all that; it’s because you have a little strength, but you have been faithful to that little strength, and you’ve kept My word, you’ve not denied My name. It’s a matter of what I’m doing with what I have.

Number one, we’ve said that: God uses the weak so that way God gets the glory. Number two: It’s not a matter how strong we are; it’s a matter of what we’re doing with the strength we have. Number three: When God uses weakness, it requires faith. And you know the verse, Hebrews 11:6: “Without faith it is impossible to please Him.” If you’ve got all kind of strength, it doesn’t require faith, but if you’re weak, it requires faith. And faith is what pleases God. That’s why God often uses that person who just feels so inadequate. You say, “I can never do that, never do this,” and just feel so inadequate. God says, “Yeah, I want to use you.” Why? Because it requires faith. You’re not believing in yourself; you’re believing in God. And that pleases God. God often uses weakness.

Number four: We won’t be alone. We’re done in just a minute here. If you know you are weak, you’ll be more apt to pray. It’s been amazing buying this property over here. We know that’s bigger than us. I hope you know that for sure; it’s bigger than our church, bigger than me and us for sure. As far as I know, we don’t have any millionaires in our church. If we do, you’ve been holding out because I didn’t know anything about it. It’s bigger than us. But it’s been amazing when God’s people prayed. Man, we were trying to purchase that property; we were just spinning our wheels, spinning our wheels. It just seemed like when God’s people started praying, that’s when things started happening. What a good thing if we realize that’s a whole lot bigger than us—maybe we’ll be more apt to pray. Prayer is the key. God loves to hear the prayers of His people. Proverbs 15:8: “The prayer of the upright is His delight.” You’re trying to live for Him; you’re sincere and not perfect, but you’re trying—it’s upright. God says, “I delight in it when it’s upright to pray.” He delights in it; He likes to hear from you. James 4:2: “Ye have not because ye ask not.”

I remember when Sarah was little; she has a curse from her sweet tooth, and I got it bad. She has it pretty bad, too, you know. If I had some candy or something, or those little packs of Sweet Tarts—Smarties, Smarties. When I have a pack of Smarties, you know, and I’d be sitting in the living room, and Sarah would be running around—a little girl—she’d come over and say, “Daddy, I want some of them.” I’d give her like one or two. Now, honestly, Brother Frank, you’d say, “Man, you’re selfish.” Goodness gracious! I need some myself, brother. No, I’d have plenty of packs back there; I was holding out. I had all kinds of packs. But I’d give her one or two because I want her to come back to me. She had to run around the living room: “Daddy, I want more.” I wouldn’t give her the whole pack. If I gave her the whole pack, she’d be gone. I’d just give her two or three. Sarah’s little girl used to back up to me when I sat on the living room chair or whatever. She’d back up and say, “Lap, Daddy, lap, Daddy.” And I’d put her on my lap. I loved it. God’s the same way; He likes it when you pray. He wants you to… Why does God often choose the weak things? Because you’re more apt to pray, and He likes it when His children come to Him and just ask. He likes that.

Number one, that way God gets the glory. Number two, it’s not a matter how strong you are; it’s a matter of what you’re doing with the strength you have. Number three, when God uses weakness, it requires faith. Number four, if you know you’re weak, you’re more apt to pray. Number five: If you know you’re weak, you’re more apt to obey.

Let’s just go back to that car scenario. Let’s just say Brother Josh did pull over and help that mechanic guy. Brother Josh knows cars; he knows how to buy them. I know that; I don’t know about all this other stuff. But he could tell the battery cables are loose—that’s all of us. It’s loose. You know, take it off, clean it, whatever, tighten it up, whatever. He tried to tell the fellow; he said, “Have you checked the battery cables?” And the guy said, “Buddy, I’m a mechanic; I don’t need your help.” He said, “Well, why don’t you just go check it?” “Man, I don’t need your help; I know what I’m doing here.” Well, Josh said, “Fine.” He’d get in his car and spin out, take off, burnout. All right, fine, be broke down.

But maybe—maybe we’ll say it’s not the 140-year-old lady, but maybe a teenage guy. And the teenage guy says, “I don’t really know.” And Brother John says, “Well, look at that positive post over there; look at that corrosion on it. Why don’t you take that off and clean that and put it back on the right way?” I said, “Well, I need some help for sure. Okay, I’ll do it.”

Look, we’re more apt to obey God. We are so much about, “Well, I read on Pinterest,” just obeying God. If I realize I can’t do it, I don’t know how to do all that, we’re more apt to obey God. God more often than not didn’t choose that good player; He chooses the weak player. That way God gets the glory. It requires faith. We’re apt to pray. It’s not about what you do; it’s about what you’re doing with what you have. And then number five, you’re more apt to obey.

By the way, God looks for weak people to use. That’s what He looks for. He said, “Not many.” I didn’t know about that; He’s just looking for weakness that surrendered. My pastor for years—your brother—is in heaven now. He pastored a country church in Texas, and there was a man that everybody was praying for him. Back in the day, you know what it was: Everybody would pray, “Sister So-and-so comes to church, but her husband wouldn’t come, and he wasn’t saved.” So everybody in the church would pray for Sister So-and-so’s husband to get saved. One night he came to church. Man, the buzz was, “Hey, So-and-so is in church! We’ve been praying for him to get saved.” The preachers would often change the message a little bit to get salvation in there. They were praying for Mr. So-and-so. He’s here tonight, no soul. Pray.

When invitation time came, the man didn’t come. The preacher even went down—they used to do this stuff; I don’t know if you can always do it nowadays—but that preacher even went down and spoke to him a little bit and said, “Hey, you know…” And talked. And the husband said, “No, I wouldn’t get saved.”

The preacher went back up, and a mentally handicapped boy knew what was going on. He wasn’t real sharp about it, but he knew this guy was trying to get saved. He went over there and talked to the guy. The guy by the church thought, “Oh no, he’s going to ruin it all.” The boy said just one sentence, only like a mentally challenged person can do, and he couldn’t even say it very clearly. He just went over and said, “Won’t you get saved so you don’t have to go to hell?” And God used that mentally handicapped man to break him. And that man came down; he was saved.

Not many mighty, not many noble. God has chosen to use the weak things of the world to confound the wise. Why? That way He gets the glory; He gets the credit.

Would you bow your heads and close your eyes tonight? I think it would be just a good night for us just to come present ourselves to the Lord. “Lord, I’m not much, but would You use me?” That’s what He wants. Present yourselves to the Lord. That’s only reasonable. It’ll be a good night to say, “Lord, I’m not all that. I know that, but I sure will give You glory.”

“Lord, I’m not all that. I know that I’m not all that. But Lord, I’ll be praying a lot. I’ll grab a hold of Your shirt tails. I’ll hang on.”

“Lord, I know I’m not all that, but what little bit I have, I’ll give it to You. Lord, it’s going to take a lot of faith, but I believe You’re a mighty God, and I’ll just step out and obey in faith.” Would you come just present yourself to the Lord tonight?

“So, Lord, I sure would like to do You.” Would you please stand tonight if you would? We’ll have a word of prayer. Arrangements to play. Would you come spend some time with the Lord? Thank You, Father, that You use us—weak, flawed, messed up, wounded, weary—and yet You use us. Thank You, Lord. It’s a blessing. What a privilege, Lord, that You’ll come put Your hand on us. It’s an honor. Thank You, Lord. Help us tonight to come present ourselves to You again tonight. Help us to do so.

Well, thank You, Lord, for what You do. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. Would you come as our instruments play? Just come present yourself to the Lord. Amen.

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