Do you like to pick up heavy things? I like to pick up heavy things. For the past 6 months or so I have been lifting weights 3x a week. And I enjoy lifting kettle bells. I like kettle bell swings, and overhead presses. My favorite is the snatch, where you pick up the weight off the ground and snatch it up into the air. But when it comes to kettelbells, or lifting weights, or lifting heavy things in general, the more conditioned your muscle is, the better you’ll be able to pick up the weight. If you aren’t used to picking up weights you’re going to have to start small and build your muscle in order to go heavier.

Now if you have some heavy things to lift, and you don’t lift weights very often, you can choose to do it yourself and that might be difficult, or you could get some help. Let me get a volunteer . . .

As you can see from that simple illustration, you can be a lot more efficient, and get a lot more done if you have help. The same is true in our spiritual lives. Sometimes we try to do our spiritual lives, or ministry, on our own. We try to do it in our own power and our own strength. And when that happens, we might be able to get it done. We might be able to make some things happen, but not as well as if we were doing it in the power of God. It’s in our attempts to serve God that we must come to realize a very important truth which we learn from our text today:

Big Idea: Our best ministry resource is God himself. Because God is our best ministry resources, we need to rely completely on the power of God for service to him