"I don't have the kind of faith that sees God move powerfully."
How it sounds in your head: Some people are just wired for radical faith - they're the ones who see healings, miracles, provision. I'm just... normal. My faith is the generic brand. God does big things through big-faith people, and I'm not one of them.
"But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty."
-- 1 Corinthians 1:27Source: Celebrity Christian culture creating faith hierarchies and making God's power accessible only to spiritual elites.
The traveling evangelist has a healing line and everyone's falling over. Your youth pastor has crazy God-stories. You pray and it feels like talking to your ceiling. Clearly there's a faith-tier you haven't unlocked.
Amos was a shepherd and a fruit picker - zero theological training, no prophet pedigree, not even from a prophet's family. God grabbed him from tending sheep and made him a prophet to nations. Instant elevation with zero qualifications.
I REFUSE the lie that God moves only through elite-level faith. IT IS WRITTEN that God chooses the foolish and weak to shame the wise and mighty - my 'ordinary' is His SPECIALTY. There is no faith hierarchy in the Kingdom. I am a co-heir with Christ, seated in heavenly places, with the SAME access to the Father as any celebrity preacher. IT IS WRITTEN that the blessing of Abraham is mine in Christ Jesus - not because I've achieved some faith-level, but because Jesus GAVE it to me. I am a branch connected to the Vine, and the power flows from HIM, not from my ability to generate impressive faith. The Father delights in using the overlooked - and that's me.
The Father doesn't have a VIP section for super-believers. Like calling Amos from the sheep field, He specializes in using the 'unqualified' to show that the power was HIS all along. Your ordinary faith connected to an EXTRAORDINARY God produces miracles.