The toughest and most powerful lesson of my life..

Throughout my life and ministry God has always tried to pull me back as I often ran ahead of Him. Not always, but as a high "D" driven type and with a driven work ethic it was always a challenge for me to wait.

I now have come to realize that God has placed me in the Disciple Driven Church Project because it requires "wait" and total reliance on God to lead my every steps. Through adverse circumstances in recent years, God has used them (didn't cause them), but used them, to teach me things I may not have learned otherwise.

God is causing me to "wait" in all things. Let me the use fund-raising part of my ministry involvement as an example: As I trust God for our personal financial support and needed Disciple Driven Church Project resources,I have finally "sold out" in the truth that it has everything to do with God. I "dare not" do anything ahead of God without He and He alone first preparing the hearts (soil)and the work He wants to do through Michelle and I. There is nothing I can do to move people to give, God must speak into their hearts. It's a total God thing. God has called us to a Holy Spirit prepared work.

Now the hardest but most effective lesson born through "trials" is the lesson of "waiting" or "going" or "doing" only as God leads. It is during these periods of God appointed "waiting" or "going" or "doing" that the greatest fruit is harvested.