It's All About YOU!

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Ten years ago this September I had the opportunity of a lifetime to travel with some of my dearest friends and partners in ministry to General Santos City in the Philippines. It was one of those Immeasurably More times in my life, in all our lives.

The last night we were there, we were in the backyard of one of the friends we had made during our stay. Larry and I had been having this ongoing conversation all week long. You see, with all God was doing in my life I was certain the trip was all about me. But with all I had seen God do in Larry's life (and everyone elses too) I could see that Larry had a very good argument to why he thought the trip was all about him. So here we are in the middle of the party trying to make sense of it all, when there out of nowhere stepped Pastor Rodney Moore from Beaumont, Texas and handed me his Walkman. He said there is a song that I feel like you should hear. Well guess what? As soon as I finished listening, I passed it on to Larry and said "you are not going to believe this!" That Rodney, wow, that Jesus... there are no words.

When we got back on American soil Larry made it a priority to make sure we each had a copy of it. The original was by Dave Fellingham, but I could not find his version on the Internet.

I say all that to say that I love how God works things and people and places in our lives and 99.9% of the time I think we are oblivious to it. But then, every now and again He lets us have a tiny little glimpse into what He is doing.

One of those times happened to be June the 12, 2008 at six thirty in the evening, a small group of eight met at LifeSong Church in Lyman for the first official board meeting of Wellspring Living SC. To most people we would have looked like a group of misfits with not a lot in common with each other. But as I looked around at the group God was assembling, I knew that they each realized it is all about Him, and His plan of grace, mercy, redemption and restoration. The sweet thing is, it will not just be for the Wellspring Women who will live in our Wellspring Home, it will be for all of us too. I realized as I sat there that each of them possess a great gift of hearing from the Lord and moving in what they hear. As thoughts of the meeting and the faces continued on in my head, what I also realized about our little group is they all love to worship the Lord out loud. They are not silent, nor ashamed of their love nor their convictions.

As the meeting came to a close we had our to-do-list. Was it filled with business agendas and people to call and decisions to toil over? No, it was a simple prayer list of specific prayers we need to be praying.

Father, we acknowledge that this ministry reflects your heart beat and we submit ourselves to you, your wisdom and your way, after all... it is all about You....

We, your servants love and adore you...