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May 2025 Partner Letter
Called To Be Extraordinary

Dear Partners,
This month’s Partner Letter, I pray, will encourage you and strengthen your faith. A few days ago, I was talking with a young businessman about his day. At the end of our conversation, he said that he was feeling extraordinary. I asked him why he felt that way, and his response was everything in his business was going great. After about ten minutes of him explaining to me the extraordinary things that was happening, I giggled and said “brother, as Believers, we are called to be extraordinary”.

Let’s look at a few definitions of the word extraordinary.

Webster’s Dictionary says; "beyond the common method, unusual, irregular".

Greek; "teras-wonder, marvel, the miracles, an extraordinary event that is supernatural".

Greek; "paradoxos-contrary to opinion or expectation".

Beloved, when one ponders the work of salvation, it is contrary to the natural realm. Salvation is an extraordinary event from heaven that moves a Believer out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary. God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that ever handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and evil spirits left them (Acts19:11-12 NIV). Peter said in Acts 10:34-35 NIV “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism, but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right” .

God chooses the foolish things of this world to confound those who’s beliefs rest in logic and reasonings. Beloved, God isn’t looking for extraordinary people to do great things too fulfill His eternal purposes. He is looking for ordinary people…like you and I to do extraordinary things through. (2 Chronicles 16:9a KJV) “For the eyes of the Lord run to and from throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him”.

God who has begun a great work in you, is committed to fulfilling it. The feelings of inadequacy that sometimes invade your life, has no power over your destiny. Beloved, you don’t have to work so hard to do something great for God. The only work that we should be employed in is, faith in God's ability, and the rest of God. Hebrews 4:11 says “Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.”

Jeremiah 29:11 NIV tells us “for I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope of a future”. You can rest in God’s promises because they are forever settled in heaven. Beloved, a life of extraordinary was provided for you at Calvary. Throughout the Bible we have examples of ordinary people living extraordinary lives.

1. David’s brothers saw him as ordinary, but God used him for an extraordinary victory.
2. Isaiah acknowledged that he was a man of unclean lips, and ordinary man that God changed into an extraordinary mouthpiece.
3. Peter was told by Jesus that he would deny Him three time, and yet Peter was the most prominent and influential of the twelve apostles.

Beloved, the story of the Bible is God using broken, rejected , and sinful people in extraordinary ways. Our failures, our missteps, our rebellion, or whatever we deem as shortcomings, are no surprise to our Heavenly Father. The path from the ordinary to the extraordinary is available to every Believer, but not every Believer will walk in the extraordinary.

Matthew 5:6 NIV tells us “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled”. You may be thinking ‘what does hunger and thirst for righteousness have to do with walking in the extraordinary?’ Because righteousness means being in right standing with God and being in right standing with God mean that we:

1. Walk in forgiveness.
2. We confess our sins.
3. We walk in equity toward all men.
4. We love truth.
5. We sanctify ourselves.

When we are in right standing with God, we are abiding in Him and His word is abiding in us, therefore we can ask whatsoever we will and it will be done for us. Beloved, God chose you and I to walk in the extraordinary. If you are in right standing with God, great! If you are not in right standing with our Heavenly Father, repent and turn away from whatever is separating you from living in the extraordinary.

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth!

Bless You,
Pastor Howard