Dealing with Doubt Week 2
September 21, 2023

I Doubt God Can Use Me

Eph 2:10 - For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

God gave you the right personality,right gifts, right mindset, right temperament—Born at right time—To do the good works.
He planned before you were born—For you to do!

WHO DOES GOD MOST OFTEN USE TO CHANGE THE WORLD?

  1. God Uses the Insecure
    “But Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the whole tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least in my entire family!” Judges 6:15 NLT

2Cor. 12:8-9
Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ power may rest on me.

2Cor. 11:29-30
Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn? 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

Matthew 14:28-29
Lord, if its you,Peter replied, tell me to come to you on the water. Come, he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus.

  1. God uses the unlikely.
    1 Samuel 16:6-7
    …Samuel saw Eliab and thought, Surely the LORD’s anointed stands here before the LORD. But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward
    appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

1 Samuel 16:11
There is still the youngest, Jesse answered, but he is tending the sheep.

  1. God Uses Failures
    Luke 22:31-33
    Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed foryou, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. 33 But he
    replied, Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.

Luke 22:60-62
Peter replied, Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about! Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter…And (Peter) went outside and wept bitterly.

Acts 2:38, 41
Peter replied, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins…Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand
were added to their number that day.

Jacob was a cheater.
Miriam was a gossip.
Moses was a murderer.
Martha was a worrier
David had an affair.
Thomas was a doubter.
Jonah ran from God.
Paul killed Christians
Elijah was depressed.
Feel better?—God used them all.

Matthew 14:28-29
Lord, if it’s you, Peter replied, tell me to come to you on the water.Come, he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus.

What is God calling you to do?
What is the next step God wants you to take?