i sent this email to 16 friends over Christmas and think it's too good to not share. I am hoping some of the recipients will even blog about their experiences on this site. Or, you can choose to get involved personally after reading!
In 2004, I had the pleasure of meeting Leesa Belesi at our annual Women's Christmas Luncheon. She shared her story that day about the proposal she and her husband Denny had given to their congregation of 4000 at Coast Hills Community Church. It went something like this; after preaching on giving God your best, whatever that may be and illustrating the point with the teaching of the parables in Matthew 25. Denny explained that all we have and all we are is a gift from God. It is up to us to invest those resources in the Kingdom and watch Him bless us in the process. He said, I want this to be a parable we never forget! He then asked for volunteers for a Kingdom Assignment......., after the reluctant volunteers lined the stage, 25 from each of the four services, he took from his pocket $10,000 dollars and handed each volunteer $100 with these three conditions. First, they realize the money did not belong to them, it was God's money. Second, they were being trusted in a way that would further God's kingdom, and lastly, they must return in 90 days and tell what happened. In just three months, $10,000 had become over $100,000, thousands of people had been clothed or fed, the results were astounding. This "KA" lit a spiritual blaze in their church, won the attention of the national media, and influenced hundreds of thousands of lives across their community and around the world!!
Fast forward to Christmas 2010:
The Kingdom Assignment is alive and well. This year it has become my personal "Christmas Kingdom Assignment" and I hope you'll join me! As I finally finished unpacking from the move, I came across my autographed copy of "the book", reread it, and the truth that hit home the hardest was this: the benefits of Kingdom living can be realized now, without another moment's hesitation! If you are receiving this email, I think you're special and God does too!!!I will be sending you your own copy Leesa autographed especially for you. This book is about 100 people who decided to take God at His Word. They were commissioned to think and act like Kingdom people. It's the story of how that assignment changed their lives and the lives of countless others around them. With the book I am enclosing $100 and asking you to set aside the next hour and imagine you were in church the day the Kingdom Assignment was given. Sit in the the room as the excitement around these 100 people begins to grow and then explode in their individual worlds. I am asking you to take on a Kingdom Assignment of your own. If you accept....., be ready, because you'll never be the same again!!!
Let the God math begin!!!!
If you are reading this today, MAD Monday, my hope is it will inspire you as you are out and about, to look for opportunities you can do just that, make a difference, for HIM, today, and every day!!!
We are, better together :)
Terry, I accept your Kingdom Assignment and look forward to receiving the book and MAD money. Thank you so very much for thinking of me. I promise to dream BIG! And I will let you know how it goes. With faith in goodwill, Lisa ;- )
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