Dead End Desperation: A Man of Extraordinary Faith

So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. "Let me kiss my father and mother good-by," he said, "and then I will come with you." "Go back," Elijah replied. "What have I done to you?" So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his attendant. 1 Kings 19:19 - 21

If you want to have an extraordinary faith the first thing you have to do is:

1. Be faithful where you are.

Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. Luke 16:10

 2. You have to be willing to say yes to God even though you don’t fully understand what you are getting into.

“He killed the oxen and he burned the plows.”  

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Rather it is a privilege. He went on to say, "Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger now and then with a foregoing of modern conveniences may make us pause and cause the spirit to waver and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I have never made a sacrifice." David Livingston