I wouldn't be an honest Preacher if I wasn't asking for money.
I am not exactly on here begging for money, but if you happen to know any billionaires I think God gave me a plan for truly turning this world around.
I remember when I was a lost heathen there was this song, If I had a million dollars....he sang If he had a million dollars, I would buy you a house (and repeats...I would buy you a house....) If I had a million dollars I would buy you furniture for your house...maybe a nice chesterfield or an automan.......i would buy you a monkey...haven't you always wanted a MONKEEEE?
The downside of this post was that song has been in my mind most of the night!
Anyway, before I share my vision, here is one thought.
12 disciples sold out to Jesus Christ turned the world upside down. 12 million or however many actual Christians in this world today are basically not making a dent. True revival as I stated before, and as AW Tozer stated, impacts the morality of the community around you. Back in the day, when Billy Sunday preached a year later liquor stores were closed and bosses knew their employees were changed. One young servant girl was asked how she knew that Jesus was now real to her. "I sweeps the floors clean now" was her reply. Jesus sweeps in and you are never the same.
Today's shiny polished glowing evangelists come through town and a year later their converts are new additions to the bars and strip clubs. And give one more reason for no one in America to take us seriously. The Muslims are dead wrong and they will kill you once they get to be the majority and their laws are the laws of the land. One major thing the Muslims have is due to their unity and refusal to back down is they are taken seriously. If you have any doubt, ask anyone who lives in England.
In America we think we are persecuted because the toll lady said no thank you when you offered her a track. Speaking of tolls the funniest encounter I had at the toll booth witnessing was coming home from soulwinning with my friend Greg some years ago. We were at the Grand Island Bridge tolls and he handed the toll booth guy a "Ticket to Heaven" track. These are designed by Ray Comfort's Living Waters ministry in California. They have neat gimmick tracks and are excellent ice breakers, though they use his Evidence Bible translation instead of the KJV. He uses the good manuscripts of the KJV but "modernizes" the thees and thous and ye's. However, God translated the KJV when English was at the purest form. The plural version of You is important. The poetic reading of the KJV is unsurpassed. The THUS SAITH THE LORD is authoritative. We don't need new translations but we need transformations from those reading the original bible and we might have some hope.
Anyway, the ticket to heaven tract is meant to be unrippable. It has a thin plastic piece inserted in the single page tract so if you tear it, it will not rip. It says "If you don't think you need this, rip it up." Then it gives a message on the back. Well Greg handed the guy this tract and he started laughing this devilish laugh and said, "I worship SATAN!!!!" and he went to rip it up in front of our noses. He was shocked it wouldn't tear and in his frustration he threw it out his window and it blew away down the bridge. It was funny on one hand and on the other you saw the supernatural work of God. I remember preaching at intermission at the Sabres game with some guys and the crowd was outside drinking, smoking, and not wanting to be preached to. They started tossing their lit cigarettes and beer bottles at us. I am convinced that God protected us because these cigarettes were going right toward us and would fall flat like they hit an invisible wall.
Before I go down any more rabbit trails, I will share the vision.
Like I said 12 disciples turned the world upside down.
We can't get the job down now with over a million times that today. What gives?
There is a combination of things, which by God's grace I will address with my initial ministry, the End Times Vol. Fire Co. The idea was that of a volunteer firefighter mindset and pulling the lost from the fire.
If I had 12 volunteers who were sold out to God, like John Wesley had stated, I could shake up the world.
However, 6 years later I see how the affairs of this life have taken its toll on the time I can be a volunteer firefighter!!! I love my job as a pharmacist, as a father, and as a husband. Despite my business the Lord still has been able to give me time to keep up with 3 blogs, I have a website (ETVFC.org), I published several tracts (the 13 Firemen, Stanley Cup Trivia, Taste and See, How God brought us together --the story of Mike and Michelle, Game 7 Sudden death overtime, What in the World happened to Mike?, Fish Oil Salesmen, and Yes Virginia there's been a savior born. The next tracts to get out there will likely be Jesus is Not a flu shot, Don't recruit with the Fatted Calf, 2 minute warning, Inside Information and Global WARNING. I have preached in several countries and on the street corners and in a few pulpits. I have been on a radio broadcast in Guyana. I have 500 possible hits on my blog each month. I have given out with some help a couple thousand tracts at least in just a week preaching on the streets of St. Lucia. Yet, I don't think I have done enough for the one who did everything for me. I am not saved by works, I am saved for works. I am not buying God's acceptance. I am not working to earn God's love.
Yet something is in me that wants this whole world saved. Today I was about to take my son to school in my car but last minute my other boys woke up and I ended up taking the van with two of my boys. We gave out all the tracks yesterday that I had in my wifes car when we went to Wendy's after church and went and bought the boys cowboy boots. They think they are cowboys!!! I took the van this morning and forgot any tracts. Our church is right by a Tim Hortons and today after I dropped my son off I saw a huge drive thru line at Tim Hortons. I saw windows open. I so much wished I had tracts on me to bring them. I probably gave out 30 tracts last night in WalMart as I shopped. I had some need encounters and ran into a guy who used to work with my brother in law that lives right by our church. I invited him and my brother in law had invited him before. That was a good seed. I gave out the website to people and told people to hold on to these tracts because things are going to get worse. When things get worse as the Bible promises, they will remember this encounter. I didn't lead 30 in prayer but I did plant some legitimate seeds by the grace of God.
By the end though I was out of tracts and so much wanted to get more witnessing in. I wrote my website on half my receipt and gave it to a guy in line with a fireman t shirt on!
Anyway is the theme of this post today.
Anyway.....
I thought about the disciples. You had a lot of men united for a cause and they didn't have constant conflicts with their professions. They left their professions. Peter had a wife but he didn't leave his wife. But he did give up his fishing profession.
You will not be able to get 12 guys to be able to just go off and quit their jobs today. You basically can't survive in America without some sort of income. Well, you can and it is called welfare. But really you need to work and you need an income.
However if you had a full time job that was your ministry your job would be getting the gospel out.
I will tell you what I would do with 5 million dollars in the next post.
But one vision is this.
Hire a bunch of on fire guys who are out in the secular world full time to be PAID firefighters. Our full time jobs would be preaching the gospel, giving out tracts, traveling to events and churches, sharing testimonies at churches, praying and fasting together weekly, and disciplining people. The possibilities are endless. We could still maintain a part time job just so we have a door to those workers but everything would be tied to witnessing and evangelizing and reaching the world.
To reach the world you can use the Internet, send bibles, go on mission trips, etc.
If I had 5 million dollars, I could hire you full time!
Maybe I will soon be taking applications!
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