God Uses The Weak To Confound The Mighty

1 Corinthians 1:27
27But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.

When you are looking desperately for powerful means to combat the big challenges that you are facing, you are not thinking the way God thinks.

The Bible tells us that it pleases God to use weak, foolish, base and despised things of the world to bring to nothing things which are mighty.

“What is that in your hand?” God asked.

“A rod,” Moses said. And with that rod, he performed miracles and confounded the might of Pharaoh.

“Five loaves and two fish,” a little boy said. And with that little boy’s lunch, Jesus fed 5,000 men besides the women and children, and his disciples gathered 12 basketfuls of leftovers.

“The jawbone of an ass,” Samson said. And with that, he slew a thousand Philistines, who were the enemies of God’s people.

“Five stones and a sling,” said David the shepherd boy. And with one of his stones and the sling, he brought down Goliath, the mighty Philistine champion dressed in full armour.

At a recent conference for Hokkien-speaking pastors, Pastor Mark, who pastors our Hokkien•Mandarin ministry, realised how his Hokkien pales in comparison to the refined and flawless Hokkien spoken by the other pastors there. Yet, it pleases God to use Pastor Mark’s kopi-tiam (coffeeshop) Hokkien to lead many dialect-speaking folks, especially the elderly, to Christ.

Many of these elderly folks are testifying that for the first time in their lives, they are set free completely from fears of debilitating diseases, loneliness, deep-rooted superstitions, generational curses, the dreaded old age and even death. And the Hokkien service, which has experienced rapid growth, now has more than 1,000 worshippers on a regular Sunday!

This pastor knows that the many blessings and miracles he is seeing in his ministry happen because it has pleased God to use a weak vessel like him to bring down strongholds and set precious lives free!