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--The New Do-It-Yourself Revolution!--Part 3

SACRIFICIAL GIVING OF MANPOWER!

         1. Though it may seem a sacrifice for the moment to split up some of these Homes & send out some pioneer teams, it's going to pay off in the long run just like any other kind of investment. But the people who SIT AROUND, just like the Banker who sits on his funds & never puts the money out for INVESTMENT, are going to go BROKE! The guy who sits around on his talent because he doesn't want to take a chance on losing it or sacrificing a little bit or risking the investment of it, is just going to go plain flat busted! "Nothing VENTURED, nothing GAINED!"
         2. If you don't start investing some of that manpower & personnel & get it out to the World, beloved, we are going to stagnate, grow stale, solidify & die! So we have GOT to do it, that's all there is to it! It's ALWAYS a sacrifice to send out MISSIONARIES!

SACRIFICING REAPS TEMPORAL & ETERNAL REWARDS!

         3. It's a sacrifice to give up some of this personnel, it's a SACRIFICE to FINANCE them & SEND them, EQUIP them, find them a PLACE to go, furnish them with TRANSPORTATION & find them a happy new Heavenly HOME if possible. But the DIVIDENDS you're going to reap, most of all the ETERNAL dividends in SOULS, are going to FAR surpass any sacrifice you could possibly make!
         4. But I believe God is going to bless you not only eternally with the SOULS that are going to be with you FOREVER, but He's going to bless you FINANCIALLY & ECONOMICALLY & NUMERICALLY & every OTHER way in the bargain!

THE PARALLEL OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN: "I WILL REPAY!"

         5. There's a wonderful story that fits what we're doing--the good Samaritan! It's about the poor guy that got beat up along the road by thieves & the good Samaritan picked him up & took him to the inn & told the inn-keeper, "Whatever you spend, I will repay you." (See Luk.10:30-35)--And who WAS the good Samaritan really?
         6. The good Samaritan was really the Lord, & the inn-keeper is His steward like you or me!--And whatever we spend to RESCUE these people & SAVE SOULS, He will MORE than repay! I've been in the Lord's business all my life & I can tell you it really pays in EVERY way! It pays ETERNAL dividends, SOULS--& funds! I'm better off now than I EVER was, praise God?
         7. Have you suffered from joining the Lord's business? Are any of you worse off financially than you were before you started serving the Lord? Hasn't He blessed you financially as well as every other way?--FINANCIALLY, PHYSICALLY & with heavenly HAPPINESS--& BEST of all with SOULS!--ETERNAL EVERLASTING dividends, thank the Lord! So who's LOSING?
         8. God not only gives you everything you need but even everything you want if you really please Him!

PREPARE AHEAD!

         9. Prepare ahead! Remember, it's better to do as we did in the army: They always told me in mess (the army kitchen) that it's always better to cook TOO MUCH than NOT ENOUGH. If you cook TOO MUCH you may have to feed it to the PIGS. But on the other hand, if you DON'T have ENOUGH to eat you may have a RIOT!
MISCELLANEOUS: WHAT IS IT?

         10. Miscellaneous: Every time I see that word "miscellaneous" on someone's budget it just makes me furious! I want to know what the hell IS this "MISCELLANEOUS"? It costs us more money than ANYTHING! If I were you I would get RID of "miscellaneous" & it wouldn't cost us ANYTHING--whatever it is! If I don't know what it IS, I figure I can do WITHOUT it! It's probably a whole helluva lot of stuff that nobody really NEEDED & is just plain pure FAT!--If NOT, what is it?--I wanna KNOW!

MOVING: MOVE & TRUST THE LORD!

         11. Move & trust the Lord, that's what we do! Why don't you just move & trust the Lord that by the time you get thrown out of one place He'll have already prepared another place for you! Don't fiddle around! Trust God! I've done a lot of things when I just stuck myself out on a limb trusting the Lord--"Here I am, Lord. You'll have to take care of it since I've got no place else to go!"

REPORTS: DESIGN'M, TRY'M, APPROVE'M, USE'M!

         12. I want you guys that design & require reports to go through it & fill'm out a few times just to have the experience & see what it's really like for the poor guys who've been doing them way down the line for all these years. God have mercy!
         13. I know you always get nothing but compliments on'm for some reason or another, but maybe they're afraid to tell you anything else!
         14. Sometimes the only thing you can believe is a negative report! I mean if EVERYTHING you report is ALL so good, & you NEVER have any problems & NOTHING'S ever wrong, if you haven't got ANY persecution & ALL men think well of you, then you're not "LIVING GODLY in Christ Jesus!"--2Tim.3:12. "When ALL men think well of you, beware!"--Luk.6:26. So let's revise & revamp this report according to what the KIDS need & feel is best!

GOD'S WILL: ARE YOU AFTER HIS BEST?

         15. God may still use you even if you miss the highest & best thing He wants you to do. He'll still use you for whatever He CAN use you for. It doesn't mean that everything you do is BAD, but you just may have missed God's BEST.
         16. You may have missed the boat that could have gotten you to where you'd really have accomplished something. Still, even if you're left behind, you may piddle around & do SOMETHING, God will usually use you for SOMETHING. So what you DON'T want to do is miss His BEST. I'm telling you, I'm not satisfied with SECOND best or THIRD best or HALF best!
         17. I'm shooting for the stars & I want to hit the CEILING! I want God to do with us the most He can possibly do! I want to see what can happen & I want to try to make the jump! Even if I MISS it, I've at least got the satisfaction of knowing I TRIED!--And I don't believe we're GOING to miss it!
         18. I think we're going to make it, because we're obeying God & I know that when we OBEY the LORD, GOD will not fail us! He'll stick out His hands a little further & we'll make the NEXT trapeze, even if we DON'T jump hard enough!

DAVID PRAYS FOR HIS CHILDREN!

         19. (David prays:) Amen Lord, bless all these boys & girls, every one of them! Give them the divine anointing of Thy Spirit, the mantle of THY power. We could ask no more for them, Lord, because then we know they'll always be on the right track led by THY SPIRIT, protected, supplied, blessed & prospered by THEE.
         20. We're not satisfied, because we haven't finished the job! We haven't reached the WHOLE WORLD, Lord. We're not in EVERY country & we haven't preached to EVERY creature. So help us Lord to KEEP MOVING, keep REVOLUTING until we DO or DIE TRYING, in Jesus' name!
         21. Thank You for all Thy precious co-workers, Lord, who are SO faithful, SO wonderful! They have been so faithful to Thee & to their sheep, & done SUCH a marvellous job to help & preserve Thy Kingdom & to carry it on & advance it & increase it!
         22. Thank You Lord that You have entrusted them with such precious responsibility. May they not take it lightly but seriously as good stewards of Thy Kingdom, to realise what a GREAT responsibility & what a GRAVE responsibility it is to have all these lives in their hands, Lord, & be responsible for their leadership.
         23. Help them to take good care of their sheep, Lord, & their undershepherds, not to fail them nor neglect them. Help them be GOOD shepherds as YOU were, Lord, even laying down Your LIFE for the sheep.--Jn.10:11. Thank You for how they have already, dying daily, sacrificing, & You have rewarded them. They have so many things to be thankful for!
         24. We have many victories behind us. We have very little to worry us, Lord, we have nothing to complain about. You have never failed, You have blessed us. You have provided, You have protected, You have prospered & we're still on the MOVE, Lord, & we thank You for it! Amen! PTL!

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