"There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
There might be an exception somewhere in the world, but as a rule, the Lord wants to use people like you and me to meet the challenges, just His ordinary people. Most of the time, this happens just under the radar, so to speak.
We are a team of ordinary people rising to the challenge to do great things in this world.
Ordinary people change nations.
I’m sorry to say thought; it’s not as profound in the USA as it is in other nations. (But that is going to change)
Here is something to chew on.
Brazil in 2008, had over 6500 Married for Life, 1500 Parents for Life, and over 700 One for Life groups. In one year! Can you imagine how that can change a nation? They do this with ordinary people like you and me. Many other nations are experiencing that same excitement, maybe not to the same extent, but we believe someday they might.
(Just a side note: if you want a challenge, do what Brazil does. They won’t allow a group to start, unless it has two unsaved couples in the group first. They are having almost a 40% conversion rate. Tell me again, that won’t change a nation!)
We have a challenge in America, and that is that we have too many choices. We probably have a couple of dozen marriage type ministries to choose from, where other nations maybe have a couple. This is a challenge for us, but not one that can’t be overcome.
We need your help as a board of directors; we need to hear from the ordinary people, (that’s all of us) your ideas on how to reach our nations. Please ask the Lord to give you His strategy for taking your nation. Would you be so kind as to send your ideas to us? (Send them to our attention please and thanks in advance.)
This challenge is not about a person; God has told us it’s about teams of people, ordinary people, doing extraordinary things. Let’s rise to the challenge by sharing the vision with other “ordinary people”.
U2R1 4 a reason
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
“Battles of Life”
"Life is formed from the inside out. What I am inside determines the issues in the battle of life."
Dr. William Hornaday
I have come to understand something the hard way, God is after our hearts. He doesn’t work on the outside first, He works on the inside. Yes, The Lord is interested to see the changes on the outside, but they happen because He did His work on the inside.
This is the biggest battle we will have in our lives. It’s not about behavior, which is a thing of the mind, (Do you know the greatest distance in the world? It is the distance between the head and the heart.) It’s about our hearts; this determines the “Battles of Life”.
One of the greatest things about the 2=1 ministry; we share transparently and get to win the “battle of life”, because the enemy can’t use our stuff (sins) against us any longer or the sins of others. 1 John 1:9.
The hook is gone, and he (the enemy) can’t jerk us around any longer. We tell our story and someone else gets healed, how cool is that, and by the way, so do we, every time it’s shared, we get more healing.
We’ve seen lives transformed by a couple’s testimony.
The wife of one couple had been sexually abused from the time she was three till sixteen. You would think that would be too terrible to even mention, right? If you could have heard the way they both shared, so gracefully and with such love, you would have wept like all of us did that heard their story. They were so anointed, and never once gave the enemy any credit with ugly details, just the most awesome testimony of forgiveness we’d had ever heard. There were at least two others that got healed in the class because of their transparency. That’s how God works at times. He will take the worst and use it against the enemy every time, if we let Him.
God is trying to form us, from the inside out. I love this about Him, He takes up residence then set things in place, so that we will have the willingness to be like Him.
So what are you on the inside? Where is your battle? Are you winning, or are you whining?
This determines how you are going to be formed and used of the Lord, if you will be determine not to give in but to give out, so the “Battle of Life” will be formed in you as useful and beautiful tool, you’ll see the Lord work in others lives.
Keep up the good fight, stay in the battle, it has been won already!
What is your story, that the enemy would like you to hide?
U2R1 4 a reason
Dr. William Hornaday
I have come to understand something the hard way, God is after our hearts. He doesn’t work on the outside first, He works on the inside. Yes, The Lord is interested to see the changes on the outside, but they happen because He did His work on the inside.
This is the biggest battle we will have in our lives. It’s not about behavior, which is a thing of the mind, (Do you know the greatest distance in the world? It is the distance between the head and the heart.) It’s about our hearts; this determines the “Battles of Life”.
One of the greatest things about the 2=1 ministry; we share transparently and get to win the “battle of life”, because the enemy can’t use our stuff (sins) against us any longer or the sins of others. 1 John 1:9.
The hook is gone, and he (the enemy) can’t jerk us around any longer. We tell our story and someone else gets healed, how cool is that, and by the way, so do we, every time it’s shared, we get more healing.
We’ve seen lives transformed by a couple’s testimony.
The wife of one couple had been sexually abused from the time she was three till sixteen. You would think that would be too terrible to even mention, right? If you could have heard the way they both shared, so gracefully and with such love, you would have wept like all of us did that heard their story. They were so anointed, and never once gave the enemy any credit with ugly details, just the most awesome testimony of forgiveness we’d had ever heard. There were at least two others that got healed in the class because of their transparency. That’s how God works at times. He will take the worst and use it against the enemy every time, if we let Him.
God is trying to form us, from the inside out. I love this about Him, He takes up residence then set things in place, so that we will have the willingness to be like Him.
So what are you on the inside? Where is your battle? Are you winning, or are you whining?
This determines how you are going to be formed and used of the Lord, if you will be determine not to give in but to give out, so the “Battle of Life” will be formed in you as useful and beautiful tool, you’ll see the Lord work in others lives.
Keep up the good fight, stay in the battle, it has been won already!
What is your story, that the enemy would like you to hide?
U2R1 4 a reason
Monday, January 18, 2010
"Circumstantially Possessed"
Even if you're on the right track, you won't get anywhere if you're standing still.
Will Rogers
So many couples that have been called of the Lord to minister to marriages seem to be "Standing Still". This thought troubles me, as I know one day we'll stand before the Lord, and He'll say you were on the "Right Track".... what happen?
I know there are times of meaningful rest (and we all need that, even the Lord took those from time to time), but after that period of time, He was up and got back in the saddle again then did what His Father told him to do. He was never "Circumstantially Possessed", as we seem to be.
I know when I've taken a "Standing Still" position; I hear the Lord in my heart saying, are you going to obedient and do what you're called to do? I thank Him that He is a gentleman about it though, He will never go against our will, but we sure can and do.
When you answered the call of God to minister to marriages, I very much doubt that it was a one group call. I know you had great things that the Lord did when you went through the class, and in some ways it would be very wasteful, if it was just for you. I know there are many "good" things that come our way to distract us from the call. That is, by the design of the enemy most times; he (the enemy) doesn't want you doing what you are called to do, that is; being the instrument that God uses to bring other couples their healing, and even you're continued healing.
You started out on the "Right Track", is the Lord telling you not to "Stand Still". Marriages are hurting more now than probably any other time in history. Time is short and the enemy knows it, so he is shooting his sharpest arrows at the shiniest marks, and they are the marriages, especially believer's marriages.
If we can help you in anyway get your focus back, just let us know. We will be there to serve you, in answering that call.
Have any thoughts let us know.
U2R1 4 a reason.
Will Rogers
So many couples that have been called of the Lord to minister to marriages seem to be "Standing Still". This thought troubles me, as I know one day we'll stand before the Lord, and He'll say you were on the "Right Track".... what happen?
I know there are times of meaningful rest (and we all need that, even the Lord took those from time to time), but after that period of time, He was up and got back in the saddle again then did what His Father told him to do. He was never "Circumstantially Possessed", as we seem to be.
I know when I've taken a "Standing Still" position; I hear the Lord in my heart saying, are you going to obedient and do what you're called to do? I thank Him that He is a gentleman about it though, He will never go against our will, but we sure can and do.
When you answered the call of God to minister to marriages, I very much doubt that it was a one group call. I know you had great things that the Lord did when you went through the class, and in some ways it would be very wasteful, if it was just for you. I know there are many "good" things that come our way to distract us from the call. That is, by the design of the enemy most times; he (the enemy) doesn't want you doing what you are called to do, that is; being the instrument that God uses to bring other couples their healing, and even you're continued healing.
You started out on the "Right Track", is the Lord telling you not to "Stand Still". Marriages are hurting more now than probably any other time in history. Time is short and the enemy knows it, so he is shooting his sharpest arrows at the shiniest marks, and they are the marriages, especially believer's marriages.
If we can help you in anyway get your focus back, just let us know. We will be there to serve you, in answering that call.
Have any thoughts let us know.
U2R1 4 a reason.
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