I MUST DECREASE!!!

My heart was so humbled this morning at Starbucks. I was reading Radical by David Platts. Platts reminded me that God wants to display His glory through unworthy and weak people such as myself.

Let's think about the beginning of the Christian church in the book of Acts. After Jesus was raised back up into heaven after the crucification the further movement of the first church was left in the hands of the 11 apostles who were uneducated and whom had failed to become rabbis. They were of a rural area and of a low class.

What did God do with them through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit?

-Grow the church from 120 - 3000 people (Acts 1-2)
-Do miracles through the same power that raised Christ from the dead
-Continue church growth OUTSIDE of Judea (Acts 8)
-Conversion of Paul (Acts 9) (God uses Paul to preach the gospel to the gentiles!)

This list can go on and on. The story of the church is told through the rest of the new testament.
God uses the SURRENDERED to do miraculous things to display his glory. God does not need us, but he chooses to uses us because of grace - because of what we do not deserve.

John 14:12 says that Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

This reminder excites my heart like no other. God HAS already promised that we can come along for the ride of his display of glory. God has made it clear that I should be afraid of nothing. He has made it clear that HE CAN AND WILL do the impossible with and through me.

Failing two classes of nursing school is not so bad afterall. If anything failing has humbled me. It has shown me that Raymond Auyeung YOU ARE NOT THAT SMART. Raymond Auyeung YOU NEED JESUS. You need to be on your knees and ask that the living God to do what you cannot do on your own. You need to ask your heavenly father to provide you understanding to learn.

Reading this has helped me to PRAY for the impossible to happen. It has reminded me and even taught me that I cannot just depend on my own ability to do ministry because it would not be the work of God but the work of Raymond Auyeung.

Recently I have been thinking in my mind I am of no use to CCUC or to New Life in Little Village. I have been thinking man I cannot help my brothers and sisters at CCUC to change. I have been thinking that I cannot be of use in Little Village because of my background.

HOWEVER, my whole perspective has changed. It is not about what I can do but it is about how much I pray for God to move at CCUC and at New Life in Little Village. I have been so challenged to pray EVEN MORE now if I want to see God work. I do not need to be good enough or adequete enough to do ministry. What I need is to SURRENDER myself more so that I may decrease so that Christ may increase and display his power to the world.

Let us ASPIRE to do the impossible such as raising the dead to life. Let us aspire and pray that God would do the impossible through us. Let us pray that Christ will bring unbelievers into his kingdom by doing the impossible through us.