I am currently reading this book called God's Generals. It has a lot of cool juicy stuff about awesome men and women who obeyed God, why some failed and why some succeeded. I'm now on chapter three, but chapter two talked about this woman named Maria Wood-worth-Etter. She was crazy, God used her in amazing ways. She was a healing evangelist, back in her day women were not allowed to vote or preach. She thought how could she ever do what God was asking her to do, when she finally answered her call, people were falling into 3 hour trances at her meetings, people got healed left to right and many people I mean many people came to christ because she cared so much about people knowing God and so little about people who were persecuting her. Reading her story has me pumped up! Look her up people, its good stuff. God can use anyone, just got to be willing to do whatever it takes for Jesus. No matter what, no matter where. This lady was preaching till about the age of 80, going strong for the Lord. A couple things I got out of reading this was:

• Courage, this woman was fearless( she never knew when someone would strike but she always knew God was bigger than anything else)
• When you're called, you're called, and until you answer that call nothing else will be satisfying to you.
• The Holy Ghost is power, spend more and more time with the Holy Ghost.
• The word of God is power, we read to gain knowledge, to walk into things in the supernatural, to live according to the word. Do what Jesus did and more.
• To start your ministry, must start at the bottom. Preach to the people in your town. Can't expect to preach to 5,000 people when you're scared to preach to one single soul in the streets.
• Boldness, get out there and do what God called you to do, no ifs, buts or whys.
• Spending more time with God, let him pour into you so you can pour into others. Be filled to be emptied.
• People will always try to come against "you" they're really coming against God, let him take care of them.