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Big Grizzly Bare (no login)
Posted May 13, 2009 12:41 PM
Hi guys;
Thanks for all the great advice. Joch I am ashamed to say that I used to be in sales. I got disgusted and quit when I noticed my gift could cause people to buy things they could not afford. My heart has always been to help people, not take advantage of them. Sometimes when the bills come due the temptation is too great, so I quit.
Ram, I really like that last line you wrote. I have been trying to set that frame of mind in the church for years. God has blessed me with 2 very smart people who are a couple. She is my clerk and he is my deacon. They have been a HUGE blessing! He is one of the wisest people I have ever met. He has helped me set up the church government and budgets, out-reach, and business meetings. He has focus on business side of ministry so I can do what I do best (Listen to God).
As for my mate, well, we do everything together. Where I go she goes. The weekend I went to Avalon was the longest we have ever been apart in 9 years of marriage. She has changed recently, she has went from just wife to also being my disciple. She used to pick at me saying she knows everything I do. However one night at a IHOP we were coming back from a spiritual warfare conference, and she began to ask me how I do what I do. I have begun to teach her all I have learned about ministering by the direction of the Holy Spirit. A few weeks later her great-uncle was in the hospital having a small stroke. We went to pray for him and was told that a major stroke was on the way. I told her first we would pray and ask God how he wanted us to pray. When we finished I asked her if she heard or felt anything. She said she felt a burning on the right side of the head, so I told her to pray on that side. During that prayer God moved on all 3 of us. God healed that man right there. He went from not being able to talk to doing a comedy performance in the bed. We all talked and laughed for a while. The next day he called and said after more tests the stroke that had been about to hit the right side of his brain was gone as was any damage from the first one. Praise God! |
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