INTERNET MINISTRIES HOW RIDICULOUS!!!!
When I tell my friends about all the exciting things that are happening over the Internet - they really raise their brow at me. Of course most of them already thought I've gone over the deep end, that is of course except the ones that love their close walk with our Heavenly Father. They understand. I am going to attempt here to show those skeptics that The Lord really works in mysterious ways. I want to compile those precious times when the Internet has ministered to someone and changed their lives. Please e-mail me any of your experiences and allow me to make it a part of this unfolding work of love.
As I was surfing the Internet one night I was reading some poetry and my Spirit picked up a very troubled person. I e-mailed the author of the poems and told her that sometimes our poems reveals our innermost thoughts and that I had picked up a very troubled Spirit and that I felt the Lord leading me to send the poem 'Chambers Broken' found on Page 2 of this site. The next day I received an e-mail from the mother of this 15 year old poet. She said she really appreciated that I would take the time to show her daughter that some people do care. She said they had gone through a very difficult time and had almost lost her daughter last year. Not to drugs, but very low self esteem which led to very deep depression and very ugly thought and that the poem was right on target. The 15 year old e-mailed me back thanking me for sending the poem and said she would post it to her page - I told her this came to her special - but she could post it if she liked. She had a page devoted to a singer and I suggested that since she had come through so much and was so strong why didn't she devote a web-page to troubled teens and chat with them. She said it would be a lot of work but she thought that she would do it. Only God knows how many troubled teens this precious young lady will bring to the Lord. When we tune into the Holy Spirit He is always on target. This was strictly by His guiding - did I hear a voice 'No.' Then how did I know this was from the leading of the Holy Spirit? Many people think they do not hear from the Holy Spirit because they are listening for a voice or a sign or something other than that small sweet voice within. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. It's like God gives Jesus the command, Jesus imparts it to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit gives it to you as a very strong thought. You know it is not your thought, because they are sometimes foreign to you. Sometimes it comes with a very strong presence and sometimes it is just a strong thought or feeling. Sometimes we get turned off by those people who say 'God told me this or God told me that' and ask 'God - why don't you talk to me? I know I've been there. Tune them all out and tune God in.
A precious lady was signing my web-page guest book and saw that someone had connected a very evil web-page to my guest book. She sent me a copy to alert me about it. I e-mailed her back that I was on the team of Project Agape and that our function was to sign into these evil sites and sign the guest book and invite them to a Christian site and we sometimes got unfavorable results. She said when she was in prayer the next day, the Lord laid it upon her heart to stand in the gap for me and keep me covered in prayer. Praise God another prayer warrior to cover us. We got to chatting back and forth and I found out she is due for some very serious surgery in June and of course is very concerned. She said she was out in the country and just put her face in here hands and said "God - please take good care of me." When she opened her eyes there was an eagle circling over her head and she had great peace. The way the Lord has given me my poetry is when I see a hurting person, I ask the Lord if He has a word for them, this is my way of praying for them. So when I read this, I just ask "Lord do you have a word for her?" My heart become so filled and overflowed with this poem for this precious lady. ON WINGS OF EAGLES My child
I take you to the mountain top. Your
prayers are shafts of light. Each
time a tear rolls down your cheek, My sweet
child, have no fears. I
sometimes remove the problems in your life, She was a little overwhelmed that the Holy Spirit gave a poem just for her.
God meets you at your need. That is my favorite scripture. But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in Glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19
One lady was in charge of a Group for Abused Women and wrote and ask if she could use the poems on the web-page to give to her group because it touched so many of them in their circumstances. Only God will know the ones these touched.
WON BY ONE
How the Internet Changed My Life - by Jan Christiansen In April I attended "Ladies Time Apart" in Cleveland Ohio. During the weekend, I felt God leading me into a ministry. I felt fairly certain what that ministry would be, but I know me...I am so good at coming up with new business ideas, craft ideas, etc. that I wanted to be certain that this wasn't just another one of my "scathingly brilliant ideas." So I wrote down what I thought the ministry would involve, then prayed that if this was indeed where God was leading me that he would give me two confirmations, one from my husband and one from an outside source. I felt the ministry would involve encouraging and challenging women to go further in their relationship to God. I also felt the Lord urging me to write a book. I wrote both these things down and "hid them in my heart." I asked my husband to pray about a ministry God was talking to me about without giving him any details. Three days later he said he felt God was calling me to minister to women. He said he had noticed how in the last several months God had been drawing women to me for encouragement and to advise in their spiritual walk. I was getting even more excited, I was half-way there! The next Sunday at church, a friend asked me about a Bible verse I had given to her sister to encourage her. I was explaining what I believed God was showing us in that passage of scripture and she said, "You should write a book"! I just about jumped out of the pew and into her lap! I told her what had just happened and that there was no stopping me now. God had just used her to confirm the second half of his calling! I waited for almost a week, praying for God to give me direction in this new ministry. Would I be ministering in large groups, or one-on-one with ladies in my church? What was my next step? The Lord was silent, and my patience ran out. Saturday came and I just had to do "something"! I am involved in the Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian-based weight loss program. I had been sharing all the cool things God had been teaching me through this program with my fellow program buddies. They kept urging me to write all these things down for them. I decided to kill time while waiting for God to show me what direction to go in my ministry, so I sat down at my computer Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. and began to type. I chose to put my thoughts in journal form and then to make a website out of them. That way my friends could catch all the updates to the journal as I added to the pages. I got so absorbed in putting down all the things God had shown me that by the time I finished it was 11:00 p.m.! I uploaded the pages and zipped off an e-mail to my friends about the new site, called More of Him-Less of Me. Just before I signed offline, I went to the Weigh Down Workshop's Encouragement Board and posted a notice that read "Online WD Journal" and gave the URL for the site. The next morning I hurried to the new site to see if anyone had visited my pages. To my amazement, there were 55 new visitors by 8:30 a.m. and I had 15 e-mails waiting for me. Everyone was writing to say how much the sit had helped them! It has now been three weeks (May 30, 1998) since this site went online. There have been 1,675 visitors to the site and my e-mail box is loaded every day. I have "met" so many nice women and have read over and over again that they were at a low point in their spiritual lives and were greatly encouraged by my humble online journal. I thought I was killing time until God revealed my "true ministry," but suddenly I found myself smack dab in the middle of the most beautiful ministry ever. I am a web designer and love creating new web-sites, so this was the perfect medium for me. I have had many opportunities to encourage and pray for those who have written me. I intend to have the journal published in book form soon, so there it is in a nutshell - God had revealed His calling and fulfilled it all in less than 30 days! What a wonderful God we serve. I thank Him for the technology of the computer age to reach many more for Christ and to strengthen and encourage the children of God.
What is changing my life by Sharon Lambkin One paragraph from Jan Christiansen's web-page More of Him and Less of Me has wiped out 35 years of failure for me and started me on an exciting new adventure. That paragraph stated that when all else fails, picture the devil doing a belly laugh in Jesus' face because I love food more than Him. That picture became so embedded into my mind that I just cannot overeat or eat what I am not suppose to. But I have now turned it around - When I turn down food or push away from the table before I am full, I picture Jesus laughing in the devils face. I like that picture better. I have found that it is going to change my life. A couple of times, I could see Jesus frown at me because I was faltering and tempted and then when I turn it away, I can just see this beautiful smile come across Jesus' face and the devil crawling away defeated. I am just really getting started on this new path, but I am very encouraged and excited that something has taken the place of food in my life and it is not nearly so tempting. I have always eaten out of frustration, anger or being just plain put out for some reason or another, when I can see Jesus laughing, I even forget these feelings.
An excellent witnessing tool. By Sharon Lambkin I have found that people are so eager to help you on the Internet. I only obtained the Internet about two months ago and I was so excited about it. The Lord has been giving me poems for hurting people for many years now and I just carried them around in folders and made copies as the Lord led me to send to different people. Well I was so excited when the Lord led me to find a beautiful home for my poems that would give Glory to our precious Jesus. As I was frantically looking at other web-pages I came across this beautiful background and it gave the instructions to just take it and use it. I thought how wonderful - but I didn't know how to take it. So I really showed my lack of knowledge and sent off an e-mail and requested some information from this page and explained that I would love to have this background on my web page, but did not know how to do it, would they please explain to me and lead me through it. Well this wonderful lady picked up on my eagerness and lack of knowledge very quickly and offered to help. Well it was not help, she did it all. I had made a humble attempt at adding all my poems and struggled through a web page and I gave her the URL and she took it from there. She worked for many, many hours and up until 2:00 in the morning frantically putting it together because she knew I was so eager. Well finally the message came at 2:00 a.m. that it was done, I quickly opened up the URL and sat and cried for the rest of the time it took me to go through the pages of my web-site. It was beautiful. What a humbling experience it was to have this precious person spend so much time and did such a beautiful job for a stranger. Well we didn't stay strangers long - I have a beautiful and precious new friend for life. We have only met through the Internet, but I feel as if she is as good a friend as any I have.
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