When I become a Diamond I will
1. Be debt free.
2. Take my brother on a fishing trip to Canada.
3. Have a raised bed organic garden.
4. Have a new Town and Country van.
5. Give $10,000 to the Honduran Church planting movement project.
6. Own a new pontoon boat.
7. Take a two week fishing trip on my new boat.
8. Take Christine to Hawaii.
9. Buy my sister a new car.
10. Make a cd in a professional sound studio.
11. Own a Kubota tractor.
12. Have an farm and raise vegetables and goats
13. Take my sisters and brother to Germany.
14. Own an Armani suit.
15. Teach high school students personal developement.
16. Buy Christine an Anniversary ring set.
17. Be a master gardener.
18. Have a Troybuilt tiller.
19. Take a mission trip to Siberia.
20. Develope my inventions and ideas.
21. Own an Imac, Mac laptop, Palm Tx, and an Iphone.
22. Meet and thank Kenneth Copeland.
23. Own a cabin on KY. Lake.
24. Parachut into Mongolia with Bibles.
25. Go to my 50th class reunion in 2012.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Good Horse Cents
Prayer is a key to abundance . We think it selfish to pray for ourselves or for an abundant financial blessing when there are people in other lands starving for food and the gospel. We then start praying for other people and stop praying for ourselves to have any of that filthy old money that corrupts our prayer life.
The problem with that is we literally end up getting the cart before the horse. The cart being the gospel that will carry the lost into the kingdom. We pray for God to move the cart without praying for a horse. It is our money that must be available to carry the gospel before the gospel will get anywhere.
Our money is the horse that pulls the cart of the gospel. No money equals no missions. Little money equals little missions. Abundance of money equals abundance of missions. We do not want to quit praying for the cart but we must not neglect to pray for the horse to pull the cart. Hey, if you don't know how to handle a horse then pray for someone that does to have two horses.
Prayer is a key to abundance . We think it selfish to pray for ourselves or for an abundant financial blessing when there are people in other lands starving for food and the gospel. We then start praying for other people and stop praying for ourselves to have any of that filthy old money that corrupts our prayer life.
The problem with that is we literally end up getting the cart before the horse. The cart being the gospel that will carry the lost into the kingdom. We pray for God to move the cart without praying for a horse. It is our money that must be available to carry the gospel before the gospel will get anywhere.
Our money is the horse that pulls the cart of the gospel. No money equals no missions. Little money equals little missions. Abundance of money equals abundance of missions. We do not want to quit praying for the cart but we must not neglect to pray for the horse to pull the cart. Hey, if you don't know how to handle a horse then pray for someone that does to have two horses.
Monday, October 27, 2008
The Road Map
We the members of the human race are born ignorant and we stay that way until somebody teaches us something. Whether or not someone purposely stops and takes the time to teach us or we observe someone who has learned to do what we are desiring to do, we need to learn one way or the other. Lets say someone decides to start a business. That decision is the big jump. So he opens his business and waits. Do people immediately flock to his door and he becomes a huge success because he made the decision to open a business? I don't think so. He must have a plan or a system to follow from the smallest to the biggest of details. He must have a road map to follow or he will get lost and fail.
Suppose you wanted to go to a certain street address in Santa Barbara. At the present you are in Mankato, Minnesota. If you have never been out west would you just jump in the car and start driving not knowing where Santa Barbara was or how to get there? No again. You need a road map.
Suppose you have made a decision to follow Christ. You begin to read the Bible and see that there is healing and deliverance for those in Him. You have made the decision to place your all on the alter and have dedicated yourself totally to Him. You know you need Jesus desperately and cannot gain the victory without Him. You have dedicated and rededicated dozens of times and prayed and asked for deliverance dozens of times. When it doesn't come and doesn't come you decide you are doing something wrong and rededicate again and place yourself on the alter anew. After years of re dedication and recommitting you finally accept failure and go on and do the best you can.
A road map would have been nice. After all there are those who are walking in victory. We are suppose to mark those and imitate them. Exactly what are they doing day by day? What are they saying and how are they praying everyday, everyday, everyday? Once we see the road map we must decide whether or not we want to go that route to gain the victory or stay where we are so as not to upset our own personal theology. It is my personal opinion that a big part of the church is ready to lay aside personal doctrine and begin to discipline ourselves to follow on to total victory. Would that make us "disciples"?
Tom Geerdes
We the members of the human race are born ignorant and we stay that way until somebody teaches us something. Whether or not someone purposely stops and takes the time to teach us or we observe someone who has learned to do what we are desiring to do, we need to learn one way or the other. Lets say someone decides to start a business. That decision is the big jump. So he opens his business and waits. Do people immediately flock to his door and he becomes a huge success because he made the decision to open a business? I don't think so. He must have a plan or a system to follow from the smallest to the biggest of details. He must have a road map to follow or he will get lost and fail.
Suppose you wanted to go to a certain street address in Santa Barbara. At the present you are in Mankato, Minnesota. If you have never been out west would you just jump in the car and start driving not knowing where Santa Barbara was or how to get there? No again. You need a road map.
Suppose you have made a decision to follow Christ. You begin to read the Bible and see that there is healing and deliverance for those in Him. You have made the decision to place your all on the alter and have dedicated yourself totally to Him. You know you need Jesus desperately and cannot gain the victory without Him. You have dedicated and rededicated dozens of times and prayed and asked for deliverance dozens of times. When it doesn't come and doesn't come you decide you are doing something wrong and rededicate again and place yourself on the alter anew. After years of re dedication and recommitting you finally accept failure and go on and do the best you can.
A road map would have been nice. After all there are those who are walking in victory. We are suppose to mark those and imitate them. Exactly what are they doing day by day? What are they saying and how are they praying everyday, everyday, everyday? Once we see the road map we must decide whether or not we want to go that route to gain the victory or stay where we are so as not to upset our own personal theology. It is my personal opinion that a big part of the church is ready to lay aside personal doctrine and begin to discipline ourselves to follow on to total victory. Would that make us "disciples"?
Tom Geerdes
Dog Lovers Economics
You and your financial world is as if you were a new little puppy dog. You come into an opportunity and you are turned loose in your little backyard. The problem is there is the BIG DOG. In a dogs world there is always the BIG DOG. As it turns out your big dog only has two legs and is about six feet tall. He says you can only play in this back yard and you can only eat this much of this kind of food and you have to sleep in this little house. That works out very well for a while because really, thats all you need. Then one day you are sniffing your fence line and you scents there is something more on the other side. You have been eating your puppy chow for a number of months now and you are beginning to feel the need for a little adventure. You could dig a little adventure so dig you do and under the fence and away you go. Then the first thing that happens to you is someone kicks you and hollers GO HOME, whatever that means. A few hours go by and a few hunger pangs later you hear the BIG DOG calling your name. You would think he would be glad to see you but Nooo. He actually hits you with a rolled up newspaper and sticks you back in that little back yard.
Next day comes. Lets try this again. The old hole is filled in so you dig a new one and away you go. When evening comes this time you hear the BIG DOG again. This time he beats you with that paper and actually chains you up inside your own back yard. You're a smart dog and catch on pretty quick, and you figure out that fence is as far as you dare go. The BIG DOG is merciless, cruel, and unwilling to let you go beyond his limits and if you do he will find you, drag you back, and beat and humiliate you.
Just in case you haven't figured it out yet that BIG DOG is not your boss. Your BIG DOG is your own belief system about yourself. Try as you will to escape he will always bring you back within his boundaries. Your big dog might be bad now but the truth is, just like any other dog, it can be trained. If you train it right it will take you anywhere you want to go. If you don't it will always and forever keep you where others have trained it to keep you. You will always be on his leash but that is just the way it is and you will have to learn to accept it. So for a new leash on life pick your dog training books wisely and work with your BIG DOG diligently until he is changed. Life is too short to have to do this rover more than once. I wish you good and speedy success in your new dogs life. Chow.
Tom Geerdes
You and your financial world is as if you were a new little puppy dog. You come into an opportunity and you are turned loose in your little backyard. The problem is there is the BIG DOG. In a dogs world there is always the BIG DOG. As it turns out your big dog only has two legs and is about six feet tall. He says you can only play in this back yard and you can only eat this much of this kind of food and you have to sleep in this little house. That works out very well for a while because really, thats all you need. Then one day you are sniffing your fence line and you scents there is something more on the other side. You have been eating your puppy chow for a number of months now and you are beginning to feel the need for a little adventure. You could dig a little adventure so dig you do and under the fence and away you go. Then the first thing that happens to you is someone kicks you and hollers GO HOME, whatever that means. A few hours go by and a few hunger pangs later you hear the BIG DOG calling your name. You would think he would be glad to see you but Nooo. He actually hits you with a rolled up newspaper and sticks you back in that little back yard.
Next day comes. Lets try this again. The old hole is filled in so you dig a new one and away you go. When evening comes this time you hear the BIG DOG again. This time he beats you with that paper and actually chains you up inside your own back yard. You're a smart dog and catch on pretty quick, and you figure out that fence is as far as you dare go. The BIG DOG is merciless, cruel, and unwilling to let you go beyond his limits and if you do he will find you, drag you back, and beat and humiliate you.
Just in case you haven't figured it out yet that BIG DOG is not your boss. Your BIG DOG is your own belief system about yourself. Try as you will to escape he will always bring you back within his boundaries. Your big dog might be bad now but the truth is, just like any other dog, it can be trained. If you train it right it will take you anywhere you want to go. If you don't it will always and forever keep you where others have trained it to keep you. You will always be on his leash but that is just the way it is and you will have to learn to accept it. So for a new leash on life pick your dog training books wisely and work with your BIG DOG diligently until he is changed. Life is too short to have to do this rover more than once. I wish you good and speedy success in your new dogs life. Chow.
Tom Geerdes
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