Dear Friends, Partners, Members, and Ministers,
The reason that there is a church site is 1) for those of you that
cannot make it in to see us on Sunday Morning, you can go to the site and see what God is telling us so that you may be strengthened
it. 2) for those who do make it in so that they can study what God told us for they may have missed something on Sunday or
heard something they want to look at more closely. 3) to minister to those who are in other countries that need to hear God's
Word, so that they can be uplifted by it and uplift others by it.
The 3rd reason is the one that I want to talk
to you about. We have been contacted by various ministries overseas that need our help. They need many things from Bibles
to basic items to survive. They need most of all prayer. Pray for them. Pray that God will minister strength to them and prosper
them. Pray for those that you do not know for in so doing you expand your horizons and enable God to open your mind to new
things.
Too often we think about everything we want for our lives and forget those who are
in need. In the early church they considered others first before themselves. Several of these ministers tell me that they
have to hike 3-8 hours to get to the villages so they can minister. Help us bless them! Help us to minister to their needs.
Bless us so that I can tell them yes my membership would like to help you! As the Pastor I represent God to you and you to
God, I also represent you to the ministries that we contact, so I want to make you aware of what they tell me. I also
have the charge of putting the money you give me to go where the Holy Ghost tells me to put it , and making sure you
know where the money is going. I have Spiritual Accountability and Financial Accountability before you. The 2 things are not
necessarily separate for many times are linked together.
I want you to understand that
when I send requests for giving it was not for me. It was so that we could be on a more secure financial footing and be able
to minister to those that God sends. I have asked prayerfully that you would send to us what God put on your heart. I am praying
that you do not say I have no money so when I have it I will give it. I would encourage that you give your first fruit to
God.Ask God for a figure and give what he says. I have full confidence that God will supply all we need but I would like to
have money so that I can bless others as well.
We have been contacted by ministries in Liberia, Nigeria,
Kenya and the Philippines. We were previously in contact with a ministry in Italy. We had contact with a minister in India.
We have made a covenant with ministers in Kenya, Nigeria, and the Philippines. God has opened doors for us that were not there
previously. This time Word of Grace is not just a church to meet at the YMCA and have a small meeting. We see God doing things
in our midst and He is causing us to reach new people. God is opening doors and even causing ministers in other countries
to be directed to us even though you have to still know where we are to find us on the net. God knows where we are and he
directs people to our site. God is causing His angels to move people to come to us. He is expanding Word of Grace
by his doing. He will continue to expand it until He comes.
God is doing something new that
He did not do with John. When John was here he prepared you and I for what God is doing now. IF John did not prepare us then
we would not be doing what we are now. It all fits together. John planted and Natalie and I watered but God gives the increase,
( usually the one who waters is the one who sees the increase, but if the seed was not planted there would be nothing in that
ground to grow)
So Father, give them a heart to sow. Give the people here a heart
to participate financially in what we are doing at Word of Grace. Open their hearts and minds to show them that they
have more then what they need and that you will provide a seed for them if they will say Yes. I do not want them to say yes
to me, I do not want them to say yes because they feel obligated, I want them to say yes for any other reason other
then because they are saying Yes to you and are giving to you not from their head but from their heart. He that hath pity
on the poor lendeth to the Lord, and God said I will repay, and let me tell you something you do not have to worry
about God - He repays all his debts. God does not want to have anyone say Lord you did not repay me.