Jan-09-Word For The Week

Title:- WORD FOR THE WEEK - SUNDAY JANUARY 09th-2010

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BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS

Whispering Word leadership course adds up through successes and failures

By Peter Wooding
Europe Bureau Chief for ASSIST News Service

LONDON, ENGLAND (ANS) -- Whispering Word ministries is launching an innovative course called Managing 4 Multiplication to empower Christian leaders to grow in their ministry by drawing on experiences of successes, failures and how they overcame them.

"Churches that have seen growth are because of good management and good visionary leadership from the people in charge. I thought it would be great to get some folk together who have succeeded in terms of church multiplication to share some of the secrets of their success, not just that but also share their failures," said Reverend Victor Robert Farrell, founder of Whispering Word.

He added: "It's great to see the pastor up front leading a church of thousands but it's good to know that he's also spent several visits in hospital for stress related symptoms going through the process. You've got to have the two there because whenever there's any kind of growth there's always resistance from the enemy and people need to know some of the difficulties that other folks have gone through what they've been able to overcome, so really what I'm interested in is not just sharing successes but sharing some failures and some things that have been overcome as well."

Each one day course taking place over eleven Saturdays starting in January 2011 will cover four sessions, featuring teaching from some of the country's most respected Christian leaders will take place at Premier Christian Radio in Central London.

Reverend Farrell says the sessions will cover Visioneering, Pillars and Killers, Triple E and Reaching Targets.

"We'll look at how to get vision, how to keep it, how to continually define it and make sure that the fuel of that vision is always there at the forefront. The second session is called 'Pillars and Killers' - in other words how to identify those things which are going to be pillars to the vision which will support it, how to promote those and how to avoid the practices and people that actually prove to be killers of the vision as well.

"So I think it's quite important looking at pillars and killers knowing that the two are there. Then in the third session we look at the need for 'Triple E' - excellence, enthusiasm and exclusions. We'll look at how to implement excellent business practice, enthusiastic visionary leadership and how to be very brutal about excluding those things and those people who'll destroy you."

"The fourth session to going to be 'Reaching Targets' - how to identify these targets how to correctly impact them in a post-modern and pagan society and then how to measure the response. We want to be biblical and practical and a key phrase here is we believe being biblical is being practical.

"We want to make sure that the Kingdom of God is beginning to pull together by sharing successes, failures and how to overcome them."

For more information see: www.the-m4m-course.info

To book your place call: +44 7975805323

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Key Word:- CONFIDENCE

Title:- Indescribable, Un-containable and Completely Unstoppable

Genesis 50:20-24
And Joseph said to his brethren, “I am dying; but God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Surely there was no one more qualified to speak such a certain and faithful word as Joseph did in today’s text? However, Joseph, dreamer of dreams, viewer of visions and well beloved of his father, was nonetheless hated by his brothers and sold as a slave by the people he longed to have love him. Imagine that!

To compound the horror even further, he was then falsely accused of rape and imprisoned for years, only to be left rotting in a dungeon, finally it seemed, forgotten by everyone, even God! Then, maybe as far as Joseph was concerned; after far too many years, God moved into action placing him second in command of the then greatest nation on the planet. God through Joseph would save millions of people from starvation and preserve and restore one of the most dysfunctional families in history, from which, God would also grow a nation that would follow Him and give birth to the promised Messiah, Jesus, the Saviour of the world. What a story!

May I then paraphrase Joseph’s summary of all he had seen under the sun during his long sojourn among us? Here it is: “I am dying, I am leaving the scene. So what! I have learned and truly know, that no matter what may happen, what God has promised to do, He will accomplish. God is faithful, indescribable, un-containable and completely unstoppable! He will fulfill His faithful word to you.”

So let me ask you my friend today, “What promises has God made to you in the years gone by? What mountains of mess, what swamps of sewage, what cold hearted indifference, what ingrained indolence and tight fisted rebellion now seem to stand in the way of the fulfillment of His words to you?” As you look, as you consider, let God’s Spirit blow upon the dying flame of your lost confidence today. Believe dear friend; believe what He told you in all the years gone by! For is anything too wonderful for the Lord? No of course not! God is able and intent, yes and intent, on fulfilling all of His promises toward you. So today, dwell upon the unstoppable purposes of Jesus the Christ, in and over your life this year. If he can do it for Joseph, he can most surely do it for you.

Listen: - All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand or say to Him, “What have You done?” Daniel 4:35

Pray: - Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come. In me this coming year O Lord, please fulfill all Your seeming long lost promises made to me and those redundant dead end purposes which might cul de sac my life right now, in Jesus name I pray, amen!