HOLD ONTO YOUR SOCKS!
In
the prayer of Jabez, Jabez offers up a prayer to God;
1 Chr 4:10
Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and
enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I
will be free from pain." And God granted his request.
I
believe as we desire to seek God’s will and by enlarging “our territory,”
enlarge God’s territory, God will bless.
It’s about His glory and promotion, not about ours.
I believe the reason that God granted Jabez’s request is because of his
desire to expand God’s kingdom, not his own.
We have our own kingdom
expansion mission we’re involved in…
In September of last
year I was discipling 10 men (by most standards, a fairly small effort)…
Today, Business Life
Today is reaching over 400 men & women 5 days a week 52 weeks a year.
We have 6 weekly fellowship groups involving over 40 men, 1 couples life
study, and 9 involved in One-on-One discipleship. To God’s glory and
credit, we have also had two outreaches with over 475 people in attendance.
And a large percentage of these that have been reached have either come
to Christ, been encouraged and equipped in Him, and/or been sent out to do more
expansion of the Kingdom of God on earth. Thank you for the co-laborers in the
harvest, men like Homer Myers and Rudolph Uys. Certainly, this is God’s work;
we are just joining Him in his work.
It is interesting to
note that Christ started His ministry off in a very similar way.
12 men He chose and invested His life in and the world has never been the
same. He had all of the resources
of the God of the universe at His disposal.
We
do too. We know God is going to
provide for the work He wants to do in the next year.
We’re just looking for whom He wants to provide through. You may be one of those individuals that can help provide the
resources for the next “kingdom expansion work.” We went from 10 individuals to over 750!
Who knows what God could do next year given the resources?
Here’s
some of what we’re trusting God for the next year:
(Excerpted from the Ministry
expansion plan)
Initial Staffing Ramp $50,000
Formation, Legal & Accounting
Sales and Marketing 50,000
Chaplaincy Start-up and brochure development
Website Development 100,000
Technology, Software, Communications
Homebuilders Video 175,000
Video Development Curriculum Pilot
Operation Timothy Re-Write
30,000 Revision of Primary Discipling tool
Facilities & Equipment 25,000
Servers, workstations, telephones, & furnishings
TOTAL $430,000
Please
just respond to this e-mail with an email request. It might give you the information you need to pray about and
consider coming alongside us.
Most people would say I'm nuts. But, I'm not crazy; I am just
relying on God's promises. On May 19,1990 God gave me a vision to reach 100,000
for Him. He told me the what, he just didn’t tell me the how!
|
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
|
Reach |
1,000 |
10,000 |
100,000 |
|
Number of people in
discipleship Man-days |
100 |
1,000 |
10,000 |
Let's see what God's word has to say.
Luke 6:38
“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down,
shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the
measure you use, it will be measured to you."
Mal 3:10