What does take to change the world?

What is it in your deepest foundation that makes you who you are? That has created the cracks in your foundation. That has brought the gifts and the curses from the crucible of your upbringing. What is holding you back… is it your trials? your sin? Your lack of gifitngs… 

Where am I going with this…. I want to know what is truly needed to change someones life, to change someones world… change their future.

Why do we have this fascination with the belief that we must have some great track record of success, riches, fame or intelligence to change someones life. 

You can change someones life simply with a tank full of gas… 

My wife just recently changed a woman’s life by simply driving over to her house and handing her $200. How did $200 change someones life? Well this woman has been involved in the dark arts, in the new age movement and in spiritualism. My wife runs into this woman quite a few times a year for personal and health reasons. They have built a relationship… my wife has many times wondered the best way to share the Gospel with her… but has always just felt like it was not the right time. So a few weeks ago this woman found herself at her kitchen table crying out to - who else? God… the one she doesn’t believe in…. God… if there was one… that she could not pay her bills. She needed $200… God if you are really there I need $200… it was a real deep cry from her heart. My wife on the other side of the city heard God speak to her clearly… go take $200 to this woman. When my wife showed up at her door the woman lost it. She kept asking how Kim would know to do this… Kim simply said “God told me you needed $200”. It completely changed how this woman saw Jesus, how she understood you could have a relationship with God… it is a sense was the proving ground to believing she also could know Jesus”. You will never read about my wife’s world changing accomplishments, Her fb, instagram and have about 200 people total. She is not super smart, she is quite beautiful, but thats about it… but she’s not known for her beauty… how could a housewife, a simple homemaker change someones life? Simple, listen and obey! 

You have never heard of Edward Kimball changed America and the church… causing the gospel to reach millions and millions and probably still has an impact today. He was a simple Sunday School teacher who felt one day he needed to go the the shoe store and tell one of his students about how much Jesus loved him. This young man was DL Moody. Who later became one of our greatest preacher, teacher evangelists in our history.

When we reach eternity we will be shocked by who ultimately did the greatest reaching and changing of lives… we will also be shocked at how many TV evangelists and preachers will be overlooked. We will also be humbled at the fact that we could have been one of those greatly used by God… but we let our instagram account and facebook cred… stop us. We thought we were not spiritual enough, gifted enough, smart enough, talented enough, rich enough, biblical enough, well spoken enough… when all it took to change the world was a listen and a simple deed.