Using Stained Vessels

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”

And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

Isaiah 6:8

I am awed each time I try to figure out the character of our God and every time I try to consider what He looks for in the people He chooses, I reach a dead end. It is difficult to point out what God must have seen in the people He uses, the only common trait I notice in all is their "availability" Here I am send me.

The message of the Gospel has become so urgent that God is not waiting for perfect people to proclaim his word, He is looking for people who are available even though they are stained, Just like a starved man who will not mind to eat with unwashed hands. This leads me to the question why is God so urgent about his gospel? (Hold that thought)

It is no longer news to see so many men that have been used mightily in the proclamation of the Gospel only to find out they still battle with what they preach against, or some of them fall into sins you never would be caught doing with or without the knowledge of the Gospel. Should they be crucified? No, the critics of these men should be crucified in their place, it is because of these critics that God choose such men.

This beautiful song from Mike Guglielmucci " I believe you my healer" still a powerful song anointed to inspire faith to trust God. Was he perfect when he sang that song? No! he was actually living a lie that he had cancer, he even had a tube in his nose to be more convincing in his act, but the Holy Spirit still ministered and still ministers through that song that was created from the act of deceit. Now why?!

When the righteous ones are laid back about proclaiming the Gospel, God will use the babes, the stones to cry out in their place. Luke 19:40 "And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. This imperfect people that God used greatly were actually substitutes for the real ones who refused to answer the call to provoke the elect to jealousy. In Matthew 22:8-10 when the invited guests didn't turn up for the wedding, the feast was open to everyone they could find on the street, now see it reads "the good and the bad alike" The gospel will not stop because you refuse to preach it, God will pick the unlikely to speak his word and if these imperfect ones fall along the way due to their immaturity how can you condemn when God has justified them? He enables them with more grace that even when they stumble they will rise again.

Now why is the gospel so urgent that God calls the good and the bad alike to this feast?  Matthew 22:8-10  demonstrates that the position cannot be empty it must be filled, as it has been declared by the word of The Lord " the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God as the waters cover the sea Habakuk 2:14 so people must keep circulating this word irrespective of who tells the good news. Romans 10:14 "...and how shall they hear without a preacher? 

The most intriguing part of this pattern is that these stained vessels after being used mightily of God if they don't clean up their stains right on time THE LORD WILL DENY THEM EVEN WHEN THEY PROCLAIM THEY DID MIRACLES IN HIS NAME.  Matthew 7:20-21 "...So then, you will know them by their fruits. 21"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22"Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'…

Ask, so why did God use these men even when he knew they where stained? when an urgent message needs to be delivered especially of life and death any messenger available will be sent if the others are occupied, some masters have even trained animals to be effective messengers, when there was no messenger to Balaam, God used his donkey to speak to him!

God will use anybody and anyone to carry his message but if you are privileged to do this do not ascribe the miracles God is working through you to indicate his presence, check daily that you are still in the faith lest you become a castaway yourself. 

Real messengers, what is keeping you occupied that you refuse his call? the fall of the substitutes is your shame and not your glory.

Would you allow the stones to cry out in your place? Rise up and take your place today.

The message is urgent because the time is near for his coming