God is not on our side.
But we can be on God’s side.

Who’s team are you on?
Your own team or God’s?

Often, we start on our team, we learn that that is not where we are meant to be, we switch to God’s team, and then, unfortunately, we convert God’s team into our team and wonder where God has gone.

How do we move from being on our team to God’s team?
How do we keep ourselves on God’s team?
What are the telltale signs that I might be trying to convert God’s team into my team?
And if I find myself having converted God’s team to my team and God seems vacant, how can I get back onto God’s team?

Kona to Manila.
Manila to Cebu & Surigao.
We got to help a number of people and bases with their Technology and Website needs.

From a conference in Manila to one in Tauranga, I think we have our quota.

Come in and see what else has been happening for us.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Thank you for such a good time in the Philippines over September and October.

From YWAM Together in Manila at the beginning of September, we then traveled down to Cebu and Surigao and then back to Manila at the end of October.

We got to work with many of you to see what you are doing, but more importantly, to see why you do what you do, to hear your vision, and see where you think Jesus is taking you.

Managing a website is not a part-time job; it is a focused job.

Just like someone in charge of the sponsorship program, accounts/admin, the kitchen, or a feeding program, making a website work is a 20-hour-a-week job.

Do you have new staff?
Do you have friends you want to introduce to YWAM?
Do you want to run an online bible study?

To whom much has been given.

Luke 12:42

A first read of these words of Jesus gives a rather harsh look into His thinking.

Or does it?

For one thing, this was a time of slaves and flogging. There was no HR department to complain to, no employment tribunal, and no police to call on to enforce laws of conduct. Even the courts were less than sympathetic if you were ways down the food chain.

A master was a position of huge power. And a steward was often a slave.

Yes much is required of us, but that which is required is going to come out of the much we have already been given.

Let your website work for you, even when you are asleep.
Make a schedule of emails and training and get them sent automatically.

In this example, you can subscribe to a new list I created of the 18 Values of YWAM.
You will get an email each day with the next value.
You can unsubscribe at any time.

The will of God is impossible to miss.
God is not so distant that you can not see Him.
God does not speak so quietly that you can not hear Him.
God is not so busy that He forgets you.
You are His delight.

Have you had any bad ideas recently?

Bad Ideas, Part 1.

We have a natural aversion to self-examination of events in our lives that go wrong, backfire, or cause us to come to grief.

It is because our egos get in the way, because of the shame or frustration we feel when things go wrong, and also because of the simple lie and idea that exists in our world that says, “I shouldn’t fail.”