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Table stakes for active participation in God’ s kingdom is whatever He has entrusted to you. He didn’ t make a mistake when He made you or called you. He was wise and deliberate when He gave you your talents, skills, and experiences, your physical stature, family of origin, and personality. Ditto for spiritual gifts, drive, common grace, saving faith, the Holy Spirit, and on and on. He doesn’ t wish you were richer, taller, buffer, smarter, or better with directions. He sees you as the Einstein of whatever He entrusted you with. There’ s no one like you! qualifications. He selects what man rejects.
That’ s just life in his upside-down kingdom, where dying leads to life, losing leads to winning, and serving is the precursor to ruling.
That means that whatever you currently have in your hands is precisely what God wants you to use to play a vital role in the miraculous. He wasn’ t disappointed when the little boy had only five loaves or embarrassed by David’ s slingshot. He didn’ t think to himself Ugh when Nehemiah offered up the cup in his hand or roll His eyes when Mary said she had never known a man. These seemed to be limitations, but in God’ s eyes they were
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Levi Lusko is the founder and lead pastor of Fresh Life Church located in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Utah. He is the bestselling author of Through the Eyes of a Lion, Swipe Right, I Declare War, The Last Supper on the Moon, and Roar Like a Lion, the 2022 ECPA Christian Book Award winner for young people’ s literature. Levi also travels the world speaking about Jesus. He and his wife, Jennie, have one son, Lennox, and four daughters: Alivia, Daisy, Clover, and Lenya, who is in heaven. 21