Captain’s Blog

#72 - Money Meetings

June 8, 2008 on 8:36 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off

THE DOLLAR BILL

Thank you for your prayers during these days of traveling to Cairns, Australia and focusing on one of the most challenging aspects of Kingdom work… money. Obviously this is not just in mission work… it’s in life! Isn’t money something?? Can’t live with it. Can’t live without it. Well, it’s just not true that we “can’t live with it”, we not only must live with it, we must pursue bringing it into line with God’s design - one of my theories (I have a bunch of theories) has been that if we personally don’t take charge of it with God - it’ll take charge of us. Whoever we are, whatever we do or don’t have. Whether we are spenders or pennypinchers… how about in Kingdom work?

THINKING AHEAD

For us in the South Pacific as we try to put detailed plans on paper two years in advance at a time. We ask God for guidance in relation to money, as humanly we sometimes bounce from the extremes of either making sure that all the work, ministries, institutions, expansion plans, vision, projects and programs… are pulled down to fit within the parameters of known funding… or on the other side the extreme of wild and crazy ideas and plans, aggressively pursuing with abandon what must be God given vision by faith, disregarding wisdom which is also sometimes referred to as lack of faith!!

NEITHER / BOTH

What do we do? Well, we feel like God often leads us to a variation of both extremes at the same time. We pray fervently for God to give us wisdom and He does exactly that, requiring the highest levels of stewardship and planing and accounting. We also pray no less fervently for God to give us God sized passion and vision that scares us to death and forces us to step way out, risky, totally requires Him and puts to shame human wisdom… and He does exactly that! This photo is taken from Mars (I didn’t take it). We serve the One who made that planet as well as this planet we reside on (see speck). Aren’t you glad He knows your name? Aren’t you glad that through the cross of Christ we know Him personally and He holds us in the palm of His hand! What an AWESOME God!!!

Don’t stop praying, He hears, He responds!! - Harmon