by Gary Walsh

(A Christian man who lives in a van, and spends his days evangelizing online at the library and other places with wi-fi)

Gary Walsh's vehicle and home

The church has been under constant attack from the enemy since its beginning.  Happily, the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

The first thing Jesus said about the first church in Revelation is that some of them had lost their first love.  From there, His statements to the other churches gradually became worse, more severe.  

Losing their first love was the start of falling away.  He suggested for them to remember the excitement and enthusiasm they felt when they were first converted.  Maintaining a love affair with the Savior is only natural, as one day we, the Church, will be his bride forever.

Many churches have “lost that loving feeling.”  Eventually the Spirit departs.  They end up just doing the ritual and having events, pretty much dead from God’s point of view, useless for the mission. Sidelined.

The way to maintain the great feeling you had when you were first saved is to simply do what He commanded.  Most folks think that means to “be good.”   No, Jesus took care of the “being good.”  What He commanded for his children to do is to spread the good news of His resurrection to all nations.

Christian worship and fellowship are wonderful benefits, but they are done in the break room.  Our duty station is spreading the gospel to everyone, so they too have a chance.  Are we spending enough time at the duty station?

God wishes that none should perish, but that all repent and believe. Until the Great Day of the Lord comes and His final judgment against all the rebels left on earth begins, the free gift of adoption as His child is offered to each and every person – but we have to tell them.  Only He knows how each person will respond to the gospel news: that Jesus Christ was actually raised from the dead, but clearly our mission is to deliver that message.  God’s children are generally eager to do so.

All members of the church are commissioned as ambassadors, offering and sharing His terms of peace.  He is now willing to admit, accept, and adopt anyone who believes in his heart that God raised Jesus from the dead and who announces his conviction to others   

This means, of course, being subject to His lordship.  No problem.  He is a good leader.  His yoke is easy and the burden is light.  He always helps, never hurts.  He always leads in the right way.

The alternative is no answer from a fallen world.  

You can safely trust Jesus with you life and destiny, especially since failing to do so means personal disaster.

I am sowing the seed by the power of the internet.  It is so efficient!  The message is in the photo, and the internet delivers it to each set of eyes.  The condition of the viewer's heart (the soil) when he reads it is where the action takes place.

Gary Walsh - online evangelist who lives in a van

I am just a sower, simply delivering the photo to everyone and anyone.  The result is not my business.  Anyone can be a sower, there is no skill needed to throw seeds around.

Many Christians want to evangelize, but think they are not in a position to do so because they have to earn a living, care for the family, etc..  Email has changed all that.  Every time you hit the “send” button you give a lost sinner the seed.  If they happen to be good soil they will sprout up and you will have been the agent who served God and made it possible for Him to save another life forever!

One day you will hear the words of our Lord, “Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of the Lord.”  Why? Because you did more than believe.  You actually participated in the mission.  Faith without works is dead. Useless.

Here is how

1.  Make a Gmail mailbox just for this purpose.  Gmail works better than Yahoo for several reasons*.

You can send emails a few at a time and then do other things on the computer – just minimize the email window.

2.  Write a list of email address you find anywhere, Any and all email addresses are fine.  Never think about who you are sending it to or how they will respond.  Just sow seed.  That is your part in the play.  

Colleges, provide staff email addresses, often under the academics tab in department pages.  There will always be an address under “Contact Us.”  You  may find scores of names at one site, only one at another.  It doesn’t matter.  

The list to make first is of your local churches.  Christians are likely to resend the email.  Large chuches often don’t provide any email addresses, but the websites of individual churches always do.

3.  With your list in front of you, Hit “New Mail”

4.  Type in address,  i.e. “info@jonesco.com”

5.  Attach the photo and this document. (First copy them from the email and put them in My Documents.

6.  While they are loading, type “sowers seed” in the subject line and “share freely” in the text.

7. Hit “Send” and check off the name. 

*I found Gmail to be the fastest. The best feature is that the “sent messages” screen can be selected to appear after the message is sent. The number of messages in your inbox is displayed as well.  It is normal for one or two out of twenty sent emails to come back as undeliverable.

So here prescription for the modern church.  Do this evangelism task.  It makes you feel great delivering the saving to those who would not have received it were it not for your what you did   Your emails can  be the means to work with the Holy Spitiy to rescue many souls from eternal punishment.  It sure beats “Saving the Whales”.

In America, because our laws were made hundreds of years ago in a nation founded by Christians, it is perfectly legal to evangelize by any means.  In other countries, people doing this are killed as martyrs (more so at this present time than in the entire history of the church combined).  We are not in any danger as we do this, not even the risk of embarrassment or ridicule.  You will encounter resistance, the message of God is not popular.  Keep an eye in the number of messages in your inbox.  If more than 10% of your mail is undeliverable, someone complained and the webmaster shut you down.  This is normal.  Just get addresses elsewhere, no harm done.

 The world has changed, approaching a residence to evangelize in this post 9/11 world.  People now live on their computer screens.  That is how they are reached.  Not being asked for money, just being offered the free gift.

So its LIGHTS!, CAMERA!, ACTION!  

Action is the magic word.

Three frogs were sitting on a log.  One frog decided to jump off.  How many were left?

A.   Three.  The frog only decided to jump.   He didn’t actually jump. Nothing really happened.

It’s a simple plan

In his book Napolean Hills Keys to Success: The 17 Principles of Personal Achievement, Napolean Hill outlines the 17 keys to success.

Here, I've typed them out for you, and added, in my words, a brief description to help you implement them.

17 Keys to Success - Napolean Hill (with descriptions by me)

1) Develop a definiteness of purpose.



Figure out what your purpose is, then write down steps, and take action necessary to make that purpose happen. If you're not sure what your purpose is, ask a friend whom you respect. Often, friends can recognize our gifts, our talents. Incorporate these into your purpose. Sharpen your skills. Focus. Zero in on a niche, a speciality field. Put blinders on and head in that direction.

If you're not getting the right answers, you're not asking the right questions. Ask the right questions and get the right answers.

2) Establish a mastermind alliance.



Meet people who want to help you accomplish your goals. Become friends with people who are already where you want to be. Ask them advice. Take their suggestions. If your current friends are not serving to motivate, challenge, or inspire you in any form or fashion, find friends who will.

3) Assemble an attractive personality.

Recognize who you are attracted to, and ask yourself why you are attracted to that person. Then, break down your answer into personality traits, characteristics, dress styles, behaviour, everything. Start emulating them. Of course, you will be blending your own ways of behaviour as well.

Become beautiful. Demand higher expectations of yourself. Demonstrate value in some way.

One way that I demonstrate value is by listening, and asking questions. I remember being on a high school bus trip and sitting beside some guy I did not know. Initially what as an awkward situation become comfortable as I asked questions, basically pictching softballs--innocuous questions--to the guy during the trip.

Days later, his friend Fritz told me: "That guy said you were the most interesting person he'd ever met." It was ironic in that he didn't know anything about me. What he did know was that I had cared enough to ask questions and listen, a lost art in this information age where everyone seems to be talking too much and listening too little.

One way to establish an attractive personality is to read How to Win Friends and Influence People.

4) Use applied faith.

Read The Bible. Memorize verses. Act on The Scriptures by doing them. This way, you will learn them. God made us. He knows what is best for us. He wants what is best for us. Don't be stubborn. It is in your best interest to follow what The Bible says. Once you do, you will see the benefits of applying faith.

5) Go the extra mile.

Go above and beyond what is expected of you. Customer service is crucial and people will pay more for it, and gladly pay more.

Nearby where I live is a Hall's Hardware, a hardware store. It is small and located in an older part of downtown West Palm Beach, Florida. A few miles away is Home Depot. Although Home Depot is less expensive, I frequent Hall's Hardware. Why? They have terrific customer service. As soon as I walk in, someone approches me and asks: "How can I help you?" I tell them what I need and they walk me to where it is, then ask me again what specifically I want. When I tell them, they will often pick it out for me and take it to the counter. The few dollars more I usually pay for a tool is worth it to me. Why? I leave happy with a smile on my face. I will gladly pay a few dollars extra for good customer service. That's the kind of business I want to support.

When someone buys your product or service, give him something extra. Contact him. Thank him. Recommend a book he might enjoy or lend him one of yours to read.

6) Create personal initiative.

Give yourself a personal reason why you will succeed. Make it your own. This will provide incentive for you to reach your goals.

7) Build a positive mental attitude.



Instead of listening to the radio, listen to personal acheivement training CD's, ipod broadcasts. Or, listen to classical music. Did you know that classical music has positive effects on water crystals? We, you and I, are pretty much 60% water. Imagine the effect of classical music on our health.



In short, read books that encourage you to be positive. Listen to postive, uplifting music. Hang around positive people. Watch postitive movies, and programs on TV. Watch something funny, something that's funny without being cruel or gross or obscene.

Read The Bible. Act on it. Do what it says. Be inspired.

All of this will help create a postive mental attitude.

8) Control your enthusiasm.

Don't get enthusiastic about silly things. Reserve your enthusiasm for things that really matter.

I'm sure you've met people who get excited about everything. How can you trust them when they're trying to sell you something, or trying to get you to join their MLM? They get excited about everything. Bottom line: contain yourself. Control yourself. Give excitement to the people or things that actually deserve it. Weeeeee ....

9) Enforce self discipline.

Listen to this. No one really cares about you. If you don't have self discipline, no one will force it on you. However, self discipline is necessary to get what you want. So, make a list. Follow it. Be disciplined with your life. If you are, you will get what you want.

10) Think accurately.

Your thoughts are things. Did you know that thoughts affect plants? Months ago, I read The Secret Life of Plants which proves this to be true. It's an interesting read and will change the way you think about plants. Read it.

This rule goes in accordance with 7 - "Build a positive mental attitude". And how do you do this? Again, by carefully choosing what and who you are influenced by. This, my friends, is critical. Choose your influences carefully.

Read The Bible. Apply it.

Listen to classical music. Listen to training CD's, ipod broadcasts in your spare time, while driving, while on the computer.

Watch TV programs or movies that motivate, inspire, challenge, and teach you.

11) Control your attention.

See Rule 10.

12) Inspire teamwork.

Get others who are heading in your direction, and join them. Find others who want to end up where you are going, and ask them to join you. Be the change in this world you want to be. I think it was Ghandi who said, or wrote, that.

Be hard on yourself, and an encouragement to others. Remember, your life speaks volumes. What are you saying to others. What do your actions broadcast. No one is listening to what you say. Instead, they are watching what you do. Be an example. Then, get others to join you.

13) Learn from adversity and defeat.

Learn from your tragedies. Learn from your triumphs.

14) Cultivate creative vision.



As you move toward your goals, using your God given talents to blaze a trail in the direction of your dreams, continue to eliminate extrateranous baggage, continue to prune the dead branches of your life, continue to fertilize the soil of your imagination with seeds of inspiration from books, music, and others.

15) Maintain sound health.

Drink more water. Eliminate all forms of sugar. Dance for an hour every day, to positive, uplifting music. Swim. Walk.

Find out more by visiting www.naturalnews.com or by visiting www.watercure2.com.

16) Budget your time and money.

Ben Franklin said: "Time is the stuff that life is made of. Don't squander it." Budget it. Don't waste it. If you don't value your time, no one else will. So value it. Do the same with your money.

17) Use cosmic habit force.



Thoughts become actions. Actions become habits. Habits become patterns. Patterns become lifestyles. Lifestyles become destinies.

See the pattern. It's been said that we are the accumulation of our choices. If our choices are based on our thoughts, think of the devasting effect of impure thoughts.

Eventually, thoughts become actions. Develop clear, healthy, positive, good thoughts, so that your actions will be positive.

If you're not getting what you want in life, then it's time for you to do something different. Not try, but do. Trying leads to excuses. Doing is when you make a commitment to action. Take action, immediately.

Use these 17 steps to corral the tendency to wander.

Start moving in the direction of your dreams. Continue. Your momentum will draw others to help you reach your destination.

You can do it! :)

(This next part, the dream, team, and scheme idea come from The One Minute Millionaire.

You can get what you want in life, but this requires a dream, a team, and a scheme.

Dream

1. Knowing specifically want you want. "I want to be rich" is vague. "I want to earn $1,000 a day from working online, selling digital products, and only working 1 hour a day, having this run mainly on auto pilot by September 17, 2010" is specific.

2. Writing it down or typing it and setting a time and date for achievement. Post this where you can see it, and share this with close friends whose honesty, judgement, and loyalty you can rely on.

3. Both #1 and #2 are the dream. Being specific with your dream gives it legs, so eventually it can walk on its own.

Scheme

4. Making the plan on how you intend to make that dream/goal a reality. In the case of earning $1,000 a day online, you might break it down into daily steps, such as researching internet earners, following in their footsteps, reading books, e-books, watching videos, and taking action.

Team

5. Assemble a team of people who can help you reach your dream. For the goal of earning $1,000 a day, this might include meeting programmers, e-book authors, and joint venture partners through internet forums, social url's, groups, or simply posting fliers at the library, or calling website design companies and arranging a meeting.

Once you have the dream, the scheme, and the team, this three-strand cord is strong and ready to do some heavy lifting, drawing you up from the well of where-you-are out to the sunshine of who-you-can-be.

You can do it. Onward!

Kris Kemp
http://www.kriskemp.com

I have some ideas for websites, if any programmers, coders, designers, seo experts want to do a joint venture, please e-mail me at: bicycledays@yahoo.com

You know the type.

You have a friend who has some great talent that they don't use.  Perhaps they're an artist, musician, writer, or just a great life coach who knows how to listen, identify the root problem, and offer a solution that actually works.

It's frustrating to be around them, isn't it?  Especially when they don't do anything with their talent.

Sometimes, I get frustrated when I see people around me who have great talents that remain unused, while they fill their time with television watching.

Television has reruns.  If you miss a show, you can see it again, by renting the entire series on DVD, watching it on the internet, or seeing reruns on TV.

But your life cannot be rewound.  If you’ve been glued to a reality shows hours every evening and night, chances are you’ve missed out on meeting key people who can help you realize your dreams.

How?  Where?

You already have the answer to that question.

Think about it.

I’ll tell you one place where you won’t meet those people--parked in front of your TV.

A challenge for you

My challenge to you today is a an easy one.  Set aside an hour to go for a walk, or visit a coffeehouse or restaurant you’ve never been to before.  Strike up a conversation with a complete stranger and track your results.

If you do this with the intention of meeting someone who can help you fulfill your dreams, chances are you will meet that person.  Do not doubt.  Be clear about the person you want to meet and how that person can help you.  Let me know what happens.

One small step

If you set aside an hour a day to reach your goals, you will see results.  Then, you will set aside more time for bigger results.  I think it’s Tony Robbins who calls this taking massive action to achieve massive results.

You might be thinking:  How can I take massive action?  That requires money.  I don’t have any money.

You can take massive action when you have leverage.  Leverage requires the efforts of more than one person.  The more people you have, the more leverage you gain.  Thus, the importance of meeting people who can help you accomplish your goals.

Holding yourself hostage

Some people hold themselves hostage.  They sabotage themselves from ever reaching their goals.  Why?  They don’t want the responsibility of success.  Instead, they want to receive the attention and sympathy for having tried and failed.  Think about it.  These are the people you meet that mumble, “I could have been a singer,  but ... “ (fill in the excuses).

Witnessing this--people who have dreams but don’t do anything with them--is saddening.  Perhaps they would rather entertain the possibility of success than the reality of possible failure.  That’s understandable, but that should not be acceptable among your friends and peers.  Why?  Once you start to lower your standards, it’s difficult to raise the bar at some later tiime.

Still, trying and failing can be a learning experience, provided a person acknowledges this.  That person can try again, or try something new.  It’s those who never leave first base that will always look back on a life of what-ifs.

It’s better to try and fail, though, then not to try at all.  Those that do try and fail, can still feel rewarded knowing they gave it their all.  Why?  They’ve gained skills and confidence, and met contacts along the way.  If you honestly try to reach a goal, you will be rewarded, even if, in the end, you don’t utlimately succeed.

In short, find out what your skills, talents, and gifts are by asking your family, friends, acquaintances. Also, pray to God and ask Him to reveal to you what your talents are, and how you can use them to serve Him.  Then, hone in on those talents in pursuit of your dreams.  Spend an hour a day to reach your dreams.  At the end of the day, you’ll have less regrets because, even if you fail, at least you will know you have tried.

So, today, do something for an hour that you wouldn't normally do.  Go swimming at the beach or lake.  Go for a walk.  Visit that restaurant or coffeehouse that you've been curious about, but never actually entered.  Go to church.  Go somewhere you have not been.

Remove all preconceived notions about what will happen and just go.  You can do it!

Kris Kemp

http://www.kriskemp.com