The Blessings of Reminders

These past two or three weeks have brought us several reminders that we are following God’s leading and are in the center of God’s will. Here’s two or three examples.

On Sunday we received a special gift of $300 from a church that loves us and believes in what we are doing. This was a benevolent gift. It happens that our small but growing financial support was running a little short this month and we had bills that needed to get paid. We were humbled again to know that God answers prayer by moving the hearts of his people to give to needs that he reveals at just the right time.

Today I am grading papers from a Church Planting Bootcamp class that was held last April. God blessed us first by my being asked to serve as the Instructor of Record for this class of seminary students. Second, I was unexpectedly asked to help teach a couple of sessions in addition to coaching the 20 students. Third, I am being blessed by reading the papers, one of which is a launch plan on how each student will uniquely begin a church plant among a people and at a place the student might start a new church. I am awed by such potential for God’s kingdom expansion represented in each project. Wow!

Also today I received an e-mail from a denominational leader in Canada who wants to discuss how I might be best used to help coach and train his group as they seek to plant more churches to reach new people and people groups.

A few days ago I opened a Twitter account and have begun to use it to encourage church planters, pastors and church leaders through a powerful social network tool that many new generation church planters are using for the glory of God and the advancement of his kingdom. I was reminded again that through such tools as Twitter and Facebook, blogs and web sites, your kingdom ministry can truly be world-wide and cross-cultural.

Thank you, Lord.