God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Satan may even attempt to convince us that our shortcomings render us useless to God and to His church. But Christ’s choice of the apostles testifies to the fact that God can use the unworthy and the unqualified. He can use nobodies. They turned the world upside down, these twelve (Acts 17:6). It was not because they had extraordinary talents, unusual intellectual abilities, powerful political influence, or some special social status. They turned the world upside down because God worked in them to do it.
It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.