John 14:12, Luke 24:49, Isaiah 1:19, James 5:17-18, Mark 9:23, Acts 10:38, Isaiah 33:13, Psalm 62:11, Acts 9:32-35, Acts 5:15, Matthew 7:7, Zechariah 4:10

Men and brethren, we have not yet begun to realize the illimitable power, wonders and resources which God places at the call of His people’s faith and obedience. These wonders also include the manifestations of His providence in answering prayer, in removing difficulties, in breaking down barriers, in providing means for the carrying on of His cause, and in all those wonders of providence and grace of which so many examples have been given in our own time. Jesus said ‘He that believeth in me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do because I go unto my Father’ John 14:12. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

The Christian church today is failing, and failing lamentably. It is not enough even to be orthodox. We need authority and we need authentication. It is not that God withdrew; it is that the church in her “wisdom” and cleverness became institutionalized, quenched the Spirit, and made the manifestations of the power of the Spirit well-nigh impossible. Is it not clear that we are living in an age when we need some special authentication—in other words, we need revival! A revival is a miracle, something that can only be explained as the direct intervention of God; the truth is that men can produce evangelistic campaigns, have great ideas even giving alms; we can give who first came to our meeting an award but they cannot and never have produced a revival. Jesus told the apostles ‘Tarry ye and don’t go until you will be endowed with power Luke 24:49. We have churches opening in every street without the word ‘Tarry’ we have people jumping into career, jumping into marriage, jumping into studies, jumping into business without ‘tarrying’. We live in a besieged world that demands and commands us to ‘function beyond the usual’ to eat the goods of the land Isaiah 1:19.

Do you live in the usual? Do you see yourself as very usual, ordinary; and there is nothing extraordinary about you. Are you of the generation that likes cheap things, everything you do is cheap. You believe in quantity rather than quality. The bible says, Elijah was a man of like passion but he functioned in the “unusual”. James 5:17-18. It is a fact that cheap things cost twice the price of expensive and good stuff in a matter of time. Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible Mark 9:23, Matthew 19:26.

Are you of the generation that reward cheaters, deceits, losers rather than promote excellence? Do you promote excellence, do you promote hard work. Men and brethren, hard work is priceless and God knows how to flavour your labour with favour. He makes every day extraordinary and transforms the ordinary to become a celebrity. 2 Thessalonians 3:10, Acts 10:38

Right where you are, extraordinary thinkers command the supernatural provision through daily living in the word of God. Our key to greatness lies in who we are and what we can give to other people in a way that when they walk away from us, they are able to say in their hearts that they have taken away something with them which is quite extraordinary. It is in the so called common place that the extraordinary is found; it is when we choose to see things differently that the supernatural reveals itself Isaiah 33:13, Psalm 62:11. We must not seek phenomena and strange experiences. What we must seek is the manifestation of God’s glory and his power and his might. We must leave it to God, in his sovereign wisdom, to decide whether to grant these occasional concomitants or not

Peter was an ordinary man, living an EXTRAORDINARY LIFE, How did he do it? He worked on the EXTRA every day; no wonder the bible says his body became a transporter of the consecrated presence of God, As soon as it was seen, the ordinary, the one who denied Jesus became extraordinary. Acts 5:15, Acts 9:32-35. Heaven has called us and we must change our mentality from low living, colourless living to higher living; you can become a high flier. If you can dream it you can have it. But when you dance around, hang around, ponder around cheap things, you get cheap things as reward Proverbs 23:7.

How do you pray for the best, and yet outwardly desire the ordinary. How do you go out seeking for the ordinary things and expect to find the best things. When you seek the ordinary, you are asking God to give you the cheap, the ordinary, the usual. Matthew 7:7. Therefore, when Christians are baptized by the Holy Spirit, they have a sense of the power and presence of God that they have never known before. Why? The baptism of the Spirit is a new fresh manifestation of God to the soul. You have an overwhelming knowledge given to you of God’s love to you in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This is the greatest and most essential characteristic of the baptism with the Spirit. It is experiential. It is undeniable. There is an immediacy that goes beyond ordinary experience. It fills with overwhelming joy. It turns advocates of Christ into witnesses of what they have seen and heard. The purpose, the main function of the baptism with the Holy Spirit, is to enable God’s people to witness in such a manner that it becomes a phenomenon and people are arrested and are attracted and not for showmanship or predicting when the next airplane will crashed or the doom of your country when you are supposed to be interceding for her. Attraction is the fundamental purpose for power, as you connect to the power of Jesus and utilise it to do extraordinary things in your communities, non-believers will be attracted to Christ and the power of his grace.

We are living in times that are not “normal.” What has been normal for us in our prayer life and experience of Christianity will not suffice for this hour. God is calling us to extraordinary prayer! How will you respond? If you pursue happiness, goodness and mercy, you are an ordinary person. If happiness, goodness and mercy pursue you, you are an extraordinary person. Men who dwell in the house of the lord, in God’s comfort zone do not chase happiness, goodness and mercies; because they are product of His presence Psalm 23:6. Therefore, if you want to lead and live an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don’t do it.

Let us together decide to beseech him, to plead with Him to do this again. Not that we may have the experience or the excitement, but that His mighty hand may be known and his great name may be glorified and magnified among the people

I challenge you to begin living every moment of your life as though you are miraculous and deserve to live an extraordinary life. Fake it if you must and keep faking it until it’s real to you. The gift you will be giving yourself is a lasting passage of discovery, one that is unlimited and infinitely rewarding. Begin the journey. We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it is tiny Zechariah 4:10.

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