No act is too big, or too small

"All I did was pray. If it is His will for things to be, it shall be."

That's when I reacted with the first tinge of astonishment, "Huh?".

"I don't ask anyone for anything. I never have. You know.... expectations creates problems".

That's when I reacted with the second wave of astonishment, "Huh?" again.

My initial reaction was that life can't be as simple as pray and let things happen. Or in some instances, hope that something good turns out of the prayer. But this is the truth that a pastor I spoke to believes in. In fact, something similar was said to me by a lady whom I know serves at a temple frequented by my grandparents.

"I live my life everyday doing the will of God. When I pray, God speaks to me and tells me what He wants me to do and I just do it trusting Him to provide me with all the necessary enablers to execute what He wants done. It can come in the form of financial assistance, physical help and a myriad of other forms. It's all about service."

I had to know what he meant by the above.

"Take this church for example. When I started the church believing in his voice telling me to start this church, I had no idea how to start, where to start, who to start with. But I prayed and I prayed. Eventually, God pointed me to the right direction. Believe it or not, it was as simple as looking at the morning paper's classified. In fact, I didn't typically looked at the classifieds section until that morning when I suddenly found myself browsing through it. Surprise, surprise, there was this shop lot unit for rental at a very low rent rate and I decided to rent the shop lot with whatever cash I had.

That solved one problem. Next was getting the furniture for the place. Again I prayed for guidance. I immediately started by putting up blog posts, facebook requests, and all avenues I could think of. Then slowly, slowly, I received donations in the form of used tables, used chairs, someone even donated a used keyboard. All I did was pray for guidance. Really!

No church was complete without worshipers, again I prayed and asked for guidance. I simply started reaching out to my friends, friends' friends, friends' friends' friend, neighbours, anyone who I could speak to. People of course didn't start flocking in but we started off with 5 members. Today we have well over 600 worshipers after only 3 years of service.

As we grew larger in numbers, I prayed for guidance. Soon enough, one of our members dedicated a part of his large office lots for our church. I just prayed for God to bless us, trusting Him to meet our needs and enabling me to serve all the church members.

All I want to do is for God to use me to reach out to as many as possible. There is nothing to fear because I know He will always provide for me to serve Him. In serving this church, no act is too big, or too small. From the first chair we received to the wonderful premise from our church member, it was a service to God. It's something we can't do on our own without God's hand holding our tiny hands walking us through our walk of faith.  "

Amazing, a miracle, or someone delirious. I leave that to your judgement. But the point here I wanted to bring about is how much conviction one man can have when he really believes in something. Maybe it really was God's blessing or maybe it was simply that he had so much belief in the cause he was participating in that it all fell into place for him. It's amazing when you look at how he built the church he serves.

No act is too big, or too small when it comes to doing what you believe in is right. From the first tiny step of having the initial thought in your mind to actually doing it. It all forms part of the cause. Believe in yourself and every act to achieving what you want will fall into place..........