How can you be used by God when you're not ready?

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How do you deal with God's calling you to do when you don't feel prepared to do it? I recently found out that surveys show that if you lined up four people, it is most likely that three of them are going to have the fear of public speaking. I'm one of those three, and to the majority of you, I imagine you are, too. So, what do you do when God is like, "I'm calling you to speak. You go and talk to the people." Well, thankfully, Moses was also one of those three out of four people, and we have an example we can look to. Moses straight-up says, "I've never been eloquent. I am slow speech and tongue." So, let's look at how God tries to navigate Moses through this clearly doesn't feel prepared, but God has clearly called him to do something important. Remember, Moses is 80, God appears to him in a burning bush, says he's heard the cry of his people, the Israelites, wants to set them free. Then God says to Moses, "So, now go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt." And so, the unprepared, slow speech, not eloquent Moses says, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring out the Israelites out of Egypt?" And God's first response out of everything else is, "I will be with you." For God, that has to mean something if it is the first thing out of his mouth. Now, here's the thing. We've all heard that before, right? When we've been asked to do something we're not ready for, and people are like, "God's with you. It's okay." Now, I know it's true, but does it make me feel prepared? Not at all. And in Moses' scenario, God gives him signs, miracles, confirmation that God is with him. Yet Moses still doesn't feel prepared. And after receiving the signs from God that this is what he's supposed to do, Moses says, "Pardon your servant, Lord. I've never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you spoke into your servant. I'm slow speech and tongue." This morning I saw something I've never seen before. And did you catch what he said in between? "I've never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant." So, while interacting with God, he's calling out, "You're asking me to do this, and I'm not all of a sudden better at speaking. I'm not more ready just because we talked." So, how does God expect Moses to do something he still doesn't feel prepared to do? The answer is in God's response. The Lord said to him, "Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go. I will help you speak and will teach you what to say. God tells him to go and then he will help him speak and teach him what to say. But first, he must just go. Okay, well, that's just Moses' scenario, right? He's talking to God directly. That can't necessarily be our answer. Well, let's flip over to what Jesus said. When you are brought before the synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say. For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say. Which as Christians, when we accept the salvation of Jesus, believing he rose on the third day, proclaiming he's Lord, we receive the Holy Spirit teaching us what to say. Now, I don't know if we'll ever feel prepared. Moses didn't, the disciples that Jesus was talking to didn't, but I don't think that was the point. I think the point was getting us to trust God enough that we will go, do the thing, because we'll never feel prepared enough. But if he's called us to do it, he'll teach us what to say through the Holy Spirit in the process as we go. I'd love to know, what is that for you today? I'm praying for you today, friends. God bless.