I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to be nearing completion of our new Jesus Alliance website. It has taken over two years of hard work, dedicated prayer, and thoughtful interpretation of the vision that the Lord has provided for this movement to get to this point.
I was telling a buddy just yesterday that much of building the site was drudgery. It required writing, editing, re-editing, selecting photos, asking friends from around the country (and indeed the world) to make videos, working with animation experts to replicate revelations from God about how He views His Church, working with technical problems and so forth. My tiny team and I have worked intensely on it day after day, from early in the morning until far into the night for the past several months.
It will be released on schedule on September 1st.
Yes!
I have worked on many projects in my life and achieved fairly significant results. To take something from vision to reality is no easy task. It requires much prayer to fight off discouragement from others. Believe it or not the naysayers who are ever present can be a formidable show-stopping obstacle, if one allows their constant sniping and harping to take hold and fester. I view it as demonic, pure and simple.
I heard one lady describe my efforts to accomplish this mighty work of God as being akin to the demonic world hearing about it and amassing their troops to rise up against this threat and fight it. She said she could envision hordes of demons arising from every nook and cranny, even to include pushing up sewer covers and emerging from their lairs, the sewers below, to run through the streets determined to stop this effort dead in its tracks.
I don’t think it is any small coincidence that this year has been one of the most difficult for my family and me, particularly in the area of health problems. We are definitely under satanic attack on a daily basis and it has been a very difficult season in our lives.
I don’t know why I’m so stubborn, but I’ve determined that the devil will just have to kill me in order to stop me from working towards completion of this project. And if God allows that to occur, I can RIP because I’ve left a firm foundation for others to carry it forward. Like a runaway train roaring down the tracks, the Jesus Alliance movement cannot be stopped now, regardless of what might happen to me.
God has blessed me with a will that sheds discouragement. It reminds me of a whitetail buck that sheds its antlers. The old dead antlers die and drop off, but immediately new ones begin to appear that will grow at an amazingly fast rate to become far more glorious than the former. The whitetail will spend hour upon hour polishing and sharpening them, rubbing against trees and bushes and will ultimately use them as weapons against those enemies who dare to oppose them.
Discouragement over health issues, finance, those who turn their backs upon you, mock you, belittle your ideas, commit treachery against you, and lie to you is commonplace when attempting to accomplish great things, especially if what you are attempting has the potential to glorify God globally and thus help change the world for the better. Through it all we must continue trudging forward towards the goal.
If you want to accomplish something significant in your life, keep fighting through it until you succeed. Learn from setbacks, but keep fighting until you are sitting atop the peak staring down below reflecting on the trials endured to get there with a huge smile on your face.
Developing a decent website and our first social media video are big steps in the right direction; however we are just getting started. Neither of them is perfect, and in fact our first attempts are far from it, but we will now have a foundation upon which to build.
And build we will. The next step is to get people to look at the site and encourage others to do so as well. Then we need to motivate them to take action. Then we need to . . .
Here we go again, it will take effort and there will be setbacks; however I anticipate seeing a day when the Jesus alliance website will reach people all over the world and will have to be translated into many different languages. And those who love our Savior as well as those who have never heard of Him will be greatly encouraged as they receive the Hope of Jesus Christ.
Don’t let discouragement and satan’s minions discourage you and kill your dreams. God is with you every step of the way! Shed those old antlers and grow yourself some new ones.
John 16:33
“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
August 20, 2015 – Click here to listen