Love the Doing

There are many reasons why people enter into a ministry, but one thing that I have determined over these many years is that no matter what you do there is one thing that is going to have to happen for you to keep the burden for that ministry. That one thing is that you have to love the doing. I have thought about this numerous times and I put together an example of what I am talking about:
1. If you are in it for the crowd, what if only one shows up?
2. If your in it for the results, what if they don't come soon enough?
3. If your in it for the praise, what if you don't receive any?
4. If your in it for a person, what if they let you down?
If you asked yourself these questions truthfully I know they made you examine yourself. Now if you truly love the doing than you will answer these as follows:
1. If only one shows up, that one is still going to receive all I had for the many!
2. If the results do not come, I had an awesome time in the process!
3. If I don't receive any praise, I still love to do it!
4. If someone lets me down, I am still going to keep going!
Fall in love with what you are doing because if you do, it will be easy for you to adapt to any situation that comes your way. I love what I do and in some of the fields we work in, the number of kids changes from week to week. One week you may have 1 child and the other 10. We prepare for about 15 and we are not the least bit hindered by only 1 coming. If I have only one child I feel like Jesus knew that one child needed all that we had that day. Do all that you do for the Lord because in 1 Corinthians 15:58 Paul says "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord" (KJV). Basically fall in love with the doing because when you are doing it for him you know what you have done will never be done in vain. JHK

Welcome to "The Power of an Hour"

I read this phrase a few times that said "Don't just spend your time, invest it wisely" and in developing this ministry this statement became our objective. The Bible states in Psalm 127:3 "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD" (KJV), so what could be a better investment than to invest our time into our Lord's heritage? Prior to beginning this ministry we did not understand how much could be accomplished in the heart of a child during an hour of our time, but having experienced this first hand we can now say that it is more than we could have ever imagined. We now work with children a minimum of twice a month in the community and we have already began to see the fruits of our labors because these kids have become a major part of our lives. What is amazing is to know that these doors have always been there but they just needed to be knocked. I now understand what Jesus meant when he said "knock and it shall be opened unto you", because we knocked and it was opened unto us. The thing that was the most amazing to me was Jesus never put a numerical amount on what would be opened and I believe he is opening this entire community to every ministry in our church. Thank You Jesus! JK