I've been reading more of Peter Morden's book about C.H.Spurgeon - The People's Preacher. It's a facinating read and really informative on the people and events that shaped his early life leading up to his conversion and into the early days of his new found faith.

What is really interesting is that a number of people involved were nothing special in the eyes of men. He was converted in a sermon led by a Primitive methodist preacher who had little ability to preach and mainly kept repeating his text from Isaiah over and over again. And yet at one point he fixed his eyes on Spurgeon and implored him to be saved. "Young man, look to Christ. Look. Look. Look. You have nothing to do but look and live". And there and then Spurgeon looked and found Christ.

He says much later  in his life;"many days of christian experience have passed... but there has never been one which has had the full exhileration, the sparkling delight, which that first day had. I thought I could have sprung from the seat on which I sat and called out with the wildest of those methodist bretheren who were present "I'm forgiven, I am forgiven. A monument of grace. A sinner saved by blood"

God does not need the clever or the skillful, he just needs an open and willing heart and a willingness to be a channel through which His power can flow