One year ago

Praise the LORD!!!

   One year ago tomorrow, April 11, was the day that I stepped out of the boat for the first time. Well maybe not the first time, but the biggest ever to date. This is the day that I start my first attempted trip to Kingsville, Texas to open the ministries first office and operational center.

   To date, there has been very little done to set up anything that could remotely be called and office, operational complex or even a ministry! Why is this? The biggest reason has been the lack of funding of any type. I've been living in a host family's house for most of the time I've been here in Texas. going on seven months here at this house, plus there was another month spent at another home here in Kingsville. Not to mention the month and a half spent sheltered in Kentucky, on the first and second trips.

   Since getting blessed with this host family, I've been blessed to have a high speed internet connection, which most of you have seen the results of. I've spent a large amount of time online. Trying to put the name of the ministry and our purpose out before as many peoples eyes that I can. I've been networking over a dozen different social sites and  numerous other sites to do this. I've several blogs, this being one, and many of the other sites that I re post these too. I've even dabbled in some internet directories and advertising sites also. Basically I've done about the same that anyone in an internet business would do to place their site out before the masses.

   I've had several comments made along the lines of making donations easier to make by having the ability to do so online. Well truthfully I'm not a big fan of PayPal and the other internet companies that set up online payment systems. They've a tendency to charge way too much for the services that they offer and with this being a helps ministry, every cent should be used to the best possible means. I really don't count lining the pockets of some other business as doing this. So this will have to await my having the funds and paperwork to enlist under my current banking system.

   Most of the money that I've had since I've been here has been made doing small side jobs related to my fields of training. Carpentry, painting and  landscaping have been the means to providing my personal needs. but with the weather having been the way it has down this way, either cold or wet, these haven't been to prosperous and I'm about flat broke. I would of been, except I managed to make a little this last month on a couple of side jobs. For years since the ministry was originally created, June 05, most of all the money that I've used to provide for others in some way has come out of pocket. Even the work that I did along the Louisiana  and Mississippi gulf coast, this in over two hundred and fifty houses, was out of pocket also.

   I really thought that with the LORD leading me to step out of the boat like HE did, that this was going to change also. From what I've seen, it hasn't and there's a good possibility that it won't. Well you know what? I'm going to continue working for the LORD in just the same way I've done up until now! That's right, If I've got to run this ministry, even the world wide branches of it, out of pocket and totally by myself, I'm going to do it. People have told me that if it hasn't grown any since I originally started it, that it must not be of GOD. Well I'm going to tell you something. You don't have things happen, like those that have happened to me and them not be of GOD's hands. You don't have five major heart problems just disappear, well actually six if you count the two tears in my heart muscles I was born with! A prison sentence that in all rights should of been over twenty five years, end up being less then four years total, including halfway house. I could go on even more, for there are hundreds of miracles that have taken place during my life, but won't.

   Read my book, Out of the LIGHT (it's free and online and download-able), go over the ministry's website and run a few searches of my name. Check out that which I've been doing both recently and forever if you'd like. Just because I don't have a big reputation or a mega ministry, doesn't mean I don't have a heart to serve GOD. I could go on like Paul, the  apostle, and boast a little, but I'll not, because I'm not that way. What you've read here and online about me is about all the boast there is to me. Yes, there is much that I could add to blow my own horn, but you'll not get it out of me. That which you will hear and see from me will be the fruits that the LORD bless me to produce. I've no ideal what the future holds, besides that which HE's shown me in visions (which I've seen none of yet), but I do know that it will be to the glory of the LORD. Whether good or bad, whatever happens within my life, I account it all as that which GOD has allowed to happen and that in some way, shape or form it will end up bring glory to the most precious name of JESUS. What HE has in store for me tomorrow, I've no idea, and really don't care, because I know, that I live and breath to bring glory to JESUS in all that I do. Nothing else matters and I care about nothing else either, so LORD let it all be to YOUR glory, honor and praise  and let my name be not even mentioned!!!