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If there was ever a person with a Father's heart who wants to see you succeed in all you do...it's James Goll. He has sowed into so many peoples lives and many have felt the impact of him and his ministry!
As James shares from his own background, it doesn't matter how small or insignificant you feel...God has called you to greatness!
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Have you ever felt like you were too small to be used by God? If so, you are in good company. God is in the business of taking infinitely small things, mixing them with His amazing nature by the power of His Spirit, and then making something extraordinary. No matter where you've come from or how small your beginnings, God wants to grant you discernment to receive revelation from Him and then bring the Kingdom to bear on the time and place in which you live.
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"When Your Smallness Becomes Extraordinary"
James W. Goll, Franklin, TN
Have you ever felt like you were too small to be used by God? If so, you are in good company. God is in the business of taking infinitely small things, mixing them with His amazing nature by the power of His Spirit, and then making something extraordinary. No matter where you've come from or how small your beginnings, God wants to grant you discernment to receive revelation from Him and then bring the Kingdom to bear on the time and place in which you live.
Scripture is full of people who felt they were too small to be used of God. Even the Apostle Paul, who wrote more of the Bible than any other author, felt this way. In one verse he writes, "For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God" (1 Corinthians 15:9), and in another he says, "Although I am less than the least of all the Lord's people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ..." (Ephesians 3:8).
Small Beginnings
| "God's plumb line is all-important, not only for aligning crooked human life with His perfect uprightness, but also for discerning His voice in the first place." |
I often refer to myself as being like the prophet Amos, due to my similar obscure background and the nature of my prophetic calling. I grew up in Cowgill, Missouri, which had a population of 259 at that time, and is now even smaller. My family was not prestigious. No famous person has ever come from Cowgill, and there are no mega-churches or institutions of higher learning there.
It is a community in farm country, where people work hard for a living. In other words, absolutely nothing in my geographical, familial, or social background could have prepared me for the prophetic commission that I have been pursuing for my entire adult life. But as prophet Cindy Jacobs likes to say, "God knows!"
Back in Old Testament Judah, Amos started out as a "nobody," too—his family was not part of the nobility, he had never been associated with any school of the prophets, and he didn't grow up in urbane surroundings but in a rural setting where he took care of sheep:
"I was no prophet, nor was I a son of a prophet, but I was a sheep-breeder and a tender of sycamore fruit. Then the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.'" (Amos 7:14-15 NKJV) (Photo via James Goll)
Amos had never expected to hear God's voice, and he had not anticipated becoming a prophet. However, he obeyed his prophetic calling, and he applied himself to learning what he needed to know to be faithful to that calling. He is best known for making public a word about how God was setting a "plumb line" in the nation of Israel to measure the truth and righteousness of the people and their rulers. The Spirit of God gave him this vision... (continue reading)
