Day 6: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary

Day 6:

MAKING THE ORDINARY EXTRAORDINARY

READ: Acts 4:1-20

In this passage, Peter and John have been arrested after preaching with conviction and power that Jesus had been resurrected. 5000 were saved that day! Peter and John are then called to give an account for what happened. Their response is equally as bold and powerful as the previous day.

Jesus has the power to make the ordinary into something extraordinary. Peter and John were fishermen and as such were not educated, but here they were before some of the most educated men of the time and preaching with power! Where did that come from? It could only have come from Jesus and the power of His gospel.

Have you ever limited yourself by saying “I’m just a _______”? Jesus takes the broken vessel that you are and uses it for amazing things.

2 Corinthians 4:7-11

⁷ But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. ⁸ We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. ¹¹ For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.¹

While we serve in country, it will be important to always direct attention to Jesus, we have amazing power but that power comes from God and not from us. 

CHALLENGE: Spend time praying today, asking God to use you with power while we are in Guatemala. Ask Him to experience his presence in tangible ways while on mission! Ask God’s forgiveness for when you’ve limited yourself.

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The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. 2001 (2 Co 4:7–11). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.