Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a short practical podcast that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, how-toes, and fantastic interviews for the listener on the go. I'm Lisa Whittle,

and I welcome you to just a few minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be time well spent.

Let's talk about work today, in particular, small work versus big work. Seems like in the kingdom of God,

we get sort of weirdly caught up in doing quote unquote big things for God. So here are the

things I want to dive into for a minute. Is there such a thing as small work and big work?

Is it wrong to want to do big things for God? And how do we truly not despise small beginnings in a culture that says you have to be big, aka noticed and notable, to be relevant as a human being? Let's dive in.

When I was 21 years old, having lived my first part of college, really away from God, and coming

to a place of pretty radical surrender in my sophomore year of college, I felt such a call of God

on my life to serve him. I knew in my gut that he wanted to use me. And being a visionary and a big

thinker, as is sort of my personality, I thought in big

terms. So couple that with my dad who was also a visionary and a big thinker with a big personality,

who believed in me so strongly and used to say things to me when I was growing up like,

you can be anything you want to be Lisa girl. It became sort of a no-brainer that I would think big about how God would want to use my life.

I didn't know exactly what that meant, but I just knew when I felt this call of God on my life,

God wants to use me in a big way.

But I learned quickly, and this was before the days of social media,

by the way, that I was too young to be given much cred or clout. People weren't exactly throwing

microphones at me or dying to put me on a stage or use me to do much of anything. And by the way,

I don't want to get caught up on a side road here, but do not get me started about how God can use people in their youth to do

amazing things for God. I researched, remember the Welsh revival of the early 1900s, and

Florey Evans, this young woman, known to be a teenager, who really was one that sparked this revival, this amazing revival of

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