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God in Unexpected Places

Hearing God in Disappointment

# 2 in series of 4

Luke 1:5-25

Do mature followers of God ever feel inferior or deeply insecure?

Do saints have prayers that don’t get answered as they had hoped?

What lessons can we learn from John the Baptist’s parents?

1.     Frequently those who seem to have the least problems have the deepest problems.

2.     We are never too young or too old to be used of God.

3.     God chooses his leaders and his special servants by different standards than we do.

“God let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.”

David Brainerd (1718-1747)

4.     One of the most beautiful word pictures of entire sanctification is found in Mary’s attitude: “I am the Lord’s servant, may it be to me as you have said.”

5.     It was at an ordinary service on an ordinary day under ordinary circumstances that God chose to bring the good news to Zechariah.

6.     True spirituality will always result in God-centered praise.

Sometimes God doesn’t answer our prayer because he has something much better in mind for us.

God is still in the business of using ordinary people, in ordinary places, in ordinary circumstances to pull off extraordinary accomplishments.