{"id":6464,"date":"2012-09-21T13:51:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=6464"},"modified":"2012-09-21T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T14:07:07","slug":"exciting-times-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=6464","title":{"rendered":"Exciting times ahead….."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m feeling especially joyful this morning. \u00a0I’m headed down to Atlanta to call on a client and attend the celebration tonight for Dr. Charles Stanley’s 80th birthday. I’m so happy to get to do that with a friend I love so much. \u00a0Charles has been such a strong influence on me through out my constant need for growth as a Christian. \u00a0Of course, he has been that for millions of others, but I’m so happy to call him my friend. \u00a0I will be so thrilled for him, to see so many show them their great love and respect for him, after he has given so much to our faith. \u00a0It will be a wonderful evening I’m sure, and my prayer is that it is even better than he has anticipated!<\/p>\n

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I’m also feeling great joy because of His answer to my prayer for a ministry. \u00a0I’ve wanted so desperately to have an effective way to serve Him, and it was along time coming. \u00a0O.K. that’s not entirely true, we all have a way to serve Him, to love others as He has loved us. \u00a0I’ve been trying to do that all my life, but I wanted something more, but God was silent for a very long time. \u00a0I battled the fear that I was not adequate to serve Him, and I’m not, but that was not what the long wait was about! \u00a0God knows when we are ready, and I believe we are ready when we realize we will never be ready!! \u00a0When we know that it is only through Him that we can ever hope to be adequate for service to Him. \u00a0Thankfully He loves us and desires for us to serve Him, but He loves us so much, He won’t throw us into deep water, when we can’t swim!<\/p>\n

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It never ceases to amaze me, how much He loves us, and how much He desires for us to serve Him, but even with all that desire on both His and our part, He knows what is best, and He will never put us in a place where failure is assured. \u00a0When He finally opened the door for me, with this blog and \u00a0His Light Ministries, He had brought me to the place He could use me. \u00a0Don’t misread what I’m saying, I’m not implying that I had grown to some powerful status, actually quite the opposite, I had been knocked to my knees, and He allowed \u00a0me to understand that it is only through His wisdom, power, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that any of us can ever effectively serve Him. \u00a0Today I’m sharing our new logo because of my great joy about what is happening, happening because of Him, not me. \u00a0Jim and I have already seen miraculous things happen through the blog and the workshops, and we are anxiously waiting to see what He will do next. \u00a0I don’t know much, but I do know a few things for certain; God loves us, He is always, always looking out for our best interest, he can and will \u00a0make the right things happen in our lives to draw us closer to Him, and after all, that is the greatest thing that can ever happen in this life! \u00a0 He only asks one thing in return, that we accept Him and accept His forgiveness.<\/p>\n

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In Him,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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