Being Controlled By Mission

To make your life really count, you must develop a sense of mission, a sense of purpose, meaning and destiny in life.

Conrad Hilton said, "To accomplish big things, I am convinced you must first dream big dreams".

If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out. So develop that sense of direction, that sense of purpose and meaning in your life because if you don't know where you're going, you will probably wind up somewhere else.

True success is a by-product of following the right principles. Richard M DeVoss said "The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible".

It is my desire through this article to let you see what your life can really achieve if only you'll set your mind to do it. It never ceases to excite me to see how ordinary people, because they develop a purpose in life, become extraordinary.

'Act as if what you do makes a difference, it does - William James

"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete - you can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals"- Sir Edmund Hilary

The development of ambition is so important. You see ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.

Successful people are purpose driven people. Where will you be when you get to where you are going? In attempting to recruit John Sculley, the 38 year old President of Pepsi-Cola, Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple Computers, issued a tremendous challenge to Sculley. He asked, "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"

Some men die by shrapnel
Some go down in flames
But most men perish inch by inch
playing little games

Develop a sense of purpose, a vision for your life.

Winifred Newman said, "Vision is the world's more desperate need. There are no hopeless situations, only people who think."

Never leave well enough alone if you want your life to count. The leaders and achievers that I have met in life have a sense of purpose. Every one of us deep down wants our life to count for something. Everyone with an idea has at least one or two followers. "If you really know what you want out of lift, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out."
John M Goddard.

Principles of Success

Let me share with you some key principles that will make a dramatic difference in your life.

1. Plan Your Destiny

Henry Ford asserted, "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do and then do it".

You have no doubt heard of the four key points of really achieving in life and they are:
1. Dream
2. Believe
3. Create
4 Succeed

"Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood, make big plans, aim high in hope and work".
D J Burnham

Start to expect that things are going to happen in your life. You see the atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles. Start to plan and work at your destiny. The old Scottish proverb is so true; "He who would eat the fruit must climb the tree".

So many have been helped by Lee Iacocca's wisdom. Here is another one of his pearls; "If I could sum up in one word what makes a good manager, Id say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but, in the end you have to set a timetable and act".

It says to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

2. Cast Off The Weights

Don't run in army boots and a great coat, trim down.

You can get so bogged down in life with so many things around you. You need to streamline your life and get rid of so much clutter. You think of all the things you cannot do in life, but remember, never let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

ears ago when riding horses around the mountains, I remember thinking what a disaster it would be in pulling in a horse's head when he is leaping. Yet half the failures in life arise from doing exactly that. Don't hold back in life; get rid of the weights.

3. HardWork
Marie Curie, the co-discoverer of radium was one of the world's great scientists. Twice winner of the Nobel Prize (in 1903 for physics and in 1911 for chemistry), she knew both the power of personal confidence and the hard work it takes to succeed. She once said, "Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained".

Jan Paderewski, the renowned pianist and the Prime Minister of Poland in 1919 was once asked if he could perform a recital on short notice. He said in reply "I'm always ready I have practiced eight hours daily for 40 years". The man who asked him, also a pianist said, "I wish I had been born with such determination". Paderewski answered "We're all born with it, I just use mine

Tony Dawcett said "The reason a guy like myself has achieved some success in lift is that I've worked

very, very hard to do so".

Michelangelo said, "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all". If you really want to develop skills in life, you have to work hard. There's no traffic jam on that extra mile, so keep at it. What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put into the hours.

It was said of Sam Walton, who founded Wal-Mart stores, "There has never been a day in his life since I've known him that he didn't improve in some way.

4. Have patience -Patience is Power
Always keep at it. Nothing really worthwhile in life is achieved easily. You've got to develop perseverance. How do you become a person who perseveres and overcomes the odds? Let me give you a few key factors:

a. Decide what you're really committed to.
The first step in achieving any goal in life is to decide what's really worth pursuing and only you can decide this. It's different with everybody. Decide what's really important to you and go for it with everything you have.

b. Keep going back to your outline of goals. Go back to your goals constantly to really persevere. Write out your goals on paper. In other books that I have written, I talk about goal setting in depth. It's one of the great keys in really achieving in life.

In the making of goals, it's really very simple. Firstly make them very, very specific. Secondly, make them measurable. What you can't measure, you can't monitor. Thirdly make them reachable. Make them attainable. Don't discourage yourself by making unrealistic goals for your life. Keep your goals visible before you and never lose sight of them.

c. The third key is planning. Plan out the steps you'll need to take to reach your goals. Work out your long-term goals and arrange them in short term efforts.

d. Reward yourself as you accomplish your goals. Don't be so intense with life that you fail to enjoy it. Don't be so obsessed in climbing the mountain that you don't stop to enjoy the view and smell the flowers. Give yourself a break and relax and say to yourself 'hats off to the past and coats off to the future'.

e. Keep coming up with fresh new ideas. Don't lose your creativity. Go away, spend time quietly, thinking. Dream your new dreams and plan your new plans. Keep yourself fresh.

f. Re-define, re-evaluate and try again. Even with the best of efforts, nothing goes entirely to plan. There's always a better, more efficient, more productive way to do everything. Keep asking yourself 'How can I do it better?' You need to constantly re-think and attack again. There will be times of defeat and failure and maybe even circumstances when a complete turn around is called for.

g. Refuse to give up except in the face of good common sense. There are times when you may lose a battle but not the war. It would have been far more sensible to withdraw the troops from Gallipoli and have them fight in another way. We would have saved so many precious young men's lives.

Harriet Beecher-Stowe, who promoted the end of slavery in America through her book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", said "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you can not hold on a minute longer never give up, for that is just the place and time the tide will turn ~. William Booth's daughters were working hard in Europe and wrote back to their dad in England after much persecution. His reply to them was so simple. He said, "Don't watch the waves, keep your eyes on the tide -. You may be facing waves of adversity right now but the tide is going to turn.

Calvin Coolidge's quote has been used so often but still stands strong. "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." So keep dreaming. Never give up. I've often quoted Sir Winston Churchill's speech at Harvard's commencement. "Never give up, never give up, never give up". And then he sat down. Winston Churchill knew what he was talking about.

I well remember going through his war cabinet rooms in London that were so heavily fortified during the Second World War. There they were, left just as they had been used during those oppressive days. He was a bulldog because he was convinced he was right. The job could be done and in the end, it could be won. If he hadn't had such conviction, he could never have aroused England during the onslaught of Hitler's military invasion. Remember his words to the English people during that time:

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, and we shall fight in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British fleet would carry on the struggle until, in God's good time, the new world, with all its power and might steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the old".

Sir Winston Churchill never gave up. His dogged determination was the thing that caused the English to survive. So keep on persevering. Patience is power, keep at it. Never give up.

5. Build in Reserves

Night always follows day. One of the great keys in life is knowing how to grow through defeat. Overcoming the odds must become a passion for you. You will experience defeat, failure and oftentimes setbacks. How do you respond to defeat and setbacks? I have read about a man who was born in 1879 to poor Jewish merchants. Because of the anti-Jewish attitude he encountered in his homeland, he suffered a harrowing sense of inferiority much of his life. He learned slowly and was shy, introspective to a fault. His parents even had him examined by a specialist to see if he was normal. In 1895 he was not admitted to the Polytechnicum School in Zurich, Switzerland because he failed the entrance exams. A year later he tried again and was received. Years later he was awarded a doctorate at the University of Zurich and obtained a job as a patent examiner in a Vern office. During that time he tinkered with the ideas that he had about the universe and his world. Eventually he came up with a theory to explain how time, space, gravitation and the world worked. He called it the "theory of relativity". His name was Albert Einstein.

Use defeat to learn about life and yourself It is true that if at first ~ you don't succeed, try, try again. Perhaps we could say it a little ~ better. If at first you don't succeed, analyse the reason for your defeat and then try, try again.

An employee of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, the 3M Corporation was trying to find a new kind

of glue. He just happened upon a glue that would stick but not so tight that it could not be removed nor leave a residue. Unknowingly he had invented the little yellow 'Post-it' notes so popular today. It's hard to believe these little notes made him a fortune and yet it all originated from a mistake. Mistakes can work for us and we can be the better for them.

6. Adversity is the Great Teacher
This point flows on from the previous one. William James said it so well. "You have enormous untapped power you'll probably never tap, because most people never run far enough on their first wind to ever find they have a second". You see success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Diamonds always look beautiful when they glint in the light but you all know that they are just a piece of coal formed under pressure. As you look back at your life, you will see that the times of adversity, the hardships that you have gone through have been the best times for you ultimately in that they have formed character and helped you to better cope with life.

7. Clear the Mind
There is far too much muddy thinking today. If you truly want to be successful, you have to clear the mind. I must confess I am a fan of Sherlock Holmes. Everytime he had to think through a certain problem he would take his pipe, sit in the corner and concentrate on it so that he might solve the case. After some time, what was so confusing to Watson became elementary to him.

Minds certainly are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

"Identify your highest skill and devote your time to performing it. Delegate all other skills." Ronald Brown

This would have to be one of the most perceptive quotes that I have ever read. It's time to focus, to hone in, so that you can do your best and then persevere with that and delegate as much as you possibly can to other people. The clearer you are in your thinking, the more you will achieve in life.

So start working hard at clearing your mind. You can't help the past, that's done and we haven't arrived into the future so you must live and work in the present because that is where you have the power to actually accomplish something.

8. Act
Act now. When problems come in your life, they immobilize you but the best way to escape from a problem is to then and there, try to solve it. Don't run from it. It's time to take risks in life. Don't worry about falling off the bottom rung of the ladder. A year from now you may wish you had started today. If you are in doubt about anything, go ahead, risk it. Henry Ford used to say "You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."

'A good plan, vigorously executed right now, is far better than a perfect plan executed next week". General George Patton

The old English proverb is so true; 'One of these days is none of these days'.

So whatever you plan to do, do it now, act now, get on with it, make it happen. There is nothing more fatiguing than the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

If you want to change your circumstance, it's going to require action. Forget your feelings, forget your circumstances, and start to act right now. Dr William Glasser said, "If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behaviour". In other words, begin to act the part of the person you would rather be as well as you can. The person you most want to become. Gradually the old fearful person will fade away. Remember Henry Ford's words, "whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right".

German poet and novelist, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, once said, "Thinking is easy acting is difficult and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world". Move into action, start making progress in life, don't wait around until all the circumstances are perfect, that will never come. President Franklin D Roosevelt remarked, "It is common sense to take a method and to try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try."

The Chinese very wisely say, "Be not afraid of going slowly but only afraid of standing still". Don't just stay in a continual state of contentment. President Abraham Lincoln said, "My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure."

9. Be Your Best Self

People say to me, 'Well, I just want to be myself', and I say back to them, 'Well, be your best self'. Develop what you have, keep training yourself, be the best that you can possibly be with what you have. Develop your personality, develop your people skills. Mike Murdoch says, 'Never complain about what you permit'.

10. Time is Fleeting
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, when taken at the flood, leads on to fortune - omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries."
William Shakespeare

So learn to seize the day. Seize it by seeing the potential in other people. Seize it by encouraging them to reach their potential. Seize it with a loving heart and a giving spirit. Seize it by helping as many people as you possibly can along the way.

As you grow older, don't slow down, speed up. There's less time left. Time is the most precious thing that you have. If I give someone my time, I am giving them part of my life so time is precious. Use it, don't abuse it and remember - never mistake motion for action.

Millionaire industrialist Henry J Kaiser said, "The evidence is overwhelming that you cannot begin to achieve your best unless you set some aim in lift". President Theodore Roosevelt gave us some good advice when he said, "Do what you can with what you have where you are
Get out of the rut.
A rut is just a groove with the ends knocked
out!
Tomorrow depends on the choices you
make today and remember

CHOICES - NOT CHANCES -
DETERMINE YOUR DESTINY
SO -
CARPE DIEM!
(SEIZE THE DAY)

Our Eternal Identity

Eternity means forever. It means that yesterday, today and tomorrow are not all there is. Eternity means that there can be life beyond the life we now live.

What do you feel is the best way to be sure we have eternal life?

-Keeping the Ten Commandments

-Gifts to charity or the church

-Doing your best

-Living a good life

-Good works

-Trying to obey the Golden Rule

-Going to Church

-Believing in God

-Praying to God etc.

The Bible says that all these things may be good in themselves, but they will never guarantee eternal life.

It may surprise you to know that good people don't necessarily have eternal life.

Eternity: 2 - God's Plan

The question now is “How can I be sure that I have Eternal Life?”. The Problem is we have broken God's Laws and Commandments and stand guilty and condemned. However, God can forgive us and give us eternal life. The Bible says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son (Jesus Christ), that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 What is Eternal Life? Jesus said, “Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” John 17:3

Eternity: 3 - Our Problem

People by nature are separated from God. We have all disobeyed God and gone our own willful way. The Bible says, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23 Roman 6:23 adds: “The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” People have tried to bridge this gap in many ways … without success.

Eternity: 4 - God's Answer

God's love bridges the gap of separation between God and us. When Jesus Christ died on the Cross He rose from the grave, He paid the penalty for our sin. In the Bible, it says, “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8 Jesus Christ also stated, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6

Eternity: 5 - Our Response

God invites us to respond to His love by crossing by crossing the bridge through trusting Jesus Christ. It means trusting Christ's death on the cross as Payment for our personal sin and trusting our lives to him as our personal Saviour and Lord. The Bible says, “I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and receives Him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; He has crossed over from death to life.” John 5:24

Eternity: 6 - God's Invitation

Will you right now choose to cross over by taking the step of totally committing your life to Jesus Christ, making Him the Lord and Master of your life? What to pray to receive Eternal Life: “Dear God, thank you for loving me. I confess I have sinned against you. I believe that your Son Jesus Christ died on the Cross to pay for my sin and rose again from the dead. I now put my faith and trust only in Jesus Christ to forgive me and save me from the penalty of my sin. I confess Jesus as Lord. I thankfully receive your gift of eternal life. Amen.”

Eternity: 7 - How To Be Sure

The Bible tells when we give our lives to Christ we can be sure we have eternal life. “And this is the testimony; God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.” 1 John 5:11-12

Eternity: 8 - Your New Life

This is just the beginning of a wonderful new life in Christ. To deepen this relationship you should: 1. Get to know Him read your Bible regularly 2. Talk to Him begin to pray about everything 3. Tell of Him talk about Him to others 4. Worship Him enjoy worship, fellowship and service with other Christians 5. Represent Him in a needy world your new life is shown by your love and concern for others

About My Ministry

"And He said. It is alight thing that you should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob , and to restore the preserved of Is ra-el: I will also give You for a light to the Gentiles, that You may be My salvation to the end of the earth" (ISAIAH 49 : 6).

The Light World Mission (L.W.M) is an International, evangelical inter-denominational Christian organization fully committed to the Life Ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ in Multinational fields, working to bring mighty Revival, Discipling and Mission Movements among the churches and Train Christian Workers for the Remaining Task of the Lord in the 10/40 Window of the unreached.

Our calling is to preach the Truth of Jesus Christ as the Light of this World and Plant Churches of Jesus Christ in the unreached places.

Our Goal is to:

1. Train & Send 1Million Indigenous Missionaries to reach the unreached in all over the world untill Jesus Christ comes back.
We motivate and challenge christians in the nations to become Missionaries for the unreached. The Indigenous Missionaries must be the main power to evangelize the unreached in their own countries and neighboring countries.

2. Establish The Training Centers(TrainingColleges) at strategic places all over the world.
At the training, we focus on God's Word as we establish students in one to one level.

The purpose is to Equip the Saints with both the Fire of the Holy Spirit and the Power of the Word of the Living God across the continent of Africa so that the unreached may be reached, the church will be unified, strong and become the vessel through which healing, provision and joy will come to the oppressed, sick, and destitute, and beloved people of Africa.
The ministry is currently established in 3 countries of E-Africa: - Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and is now spreading the wings to other countries of the Great Lake Region:Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire and Sudan.Through reaching out, conferences and meetings LWM is equipping the church and reaching out to help meet both the spiritual and physical needs of the people. We are reaching out to preach the Gospel, help widows, orphans, those infected with HIV/AIDS, street children, old age mothers, those in need of food and/or clothing. Going to meet these dear ones with maize, beans, clothing, and blankets is an open doorway to show them the Love of Jesus Christ."That you may really come to know through experience for yourselves the love of Christ..." Eph. 3:19 .

MISSION ACTIVITIES:

We concetrate on the following consecative activities as we mobilize World Christians and Churches for the Remaining Task:
1. Mobilization Mission.
2.Training Mission.
3.Sending Mission.

Personal Profile

Rev. Fredrick & Pamela are full time Missionaries and General Directors of the Light World Mission, an Evangelical Interdenominational Christian Mission fully committed to the Life Ministry of the Lord Jesu Christ in Multinational fields, working with Churches to bring Revival, Discipleship, and Mission Movements among the churches and Training christian Workers and Leaders all over the world.
Rev. Fredrick & Pamela are married with children and are very humble servants of the Lord who are being used by the Lord in increasingly powerful ways through Miracles, Signs and Wonders, helping to bring mighty transformation as people begin to believe in their Identity in Christ, become Saturated with the Holy Spirit's precence, begin to move out to show theGlory of the Lord as they become relevant expression of the Living God on earth and equipping the Saints with both the Fire of the Holy Spirit and the Word of the Living God, bringing the empowerment of Heaven into the lives of the people.
Saved in 1986, they started to preach the Gospel and become very active in Christian service upto date even resigned their teaching career in obedience to the call of God for them to become full time in the Ministry. They have been growing Faith, Courage and Competency, manifesting the presence of the Kingdom in their lives and Ministry.
They are speakers who understand the needs of human hearts.They addresse the needs of the individual, the family and society.
They speak with compassion and yet is objective.Their ability to communicate is such that people of all ages and walks of life readily listen to and find hope in their messages.
They have been involving in Evangelism Crusades, Seminars, Conferences, Leaders Training, Discipleship Training, Workers Training, Missionary Training and Church & Mission Planting in E-Africa and the Great Lake region of Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi and Sudan.
Many Christian leaders and Churches have received a lot of blessings through their powerful teachings and ministry in the areas of Discipleship, Word of God, Leadership, Revival, Anointing, Evangelism, Mission, Church growth. They have un hidden love all people and compassion for the un-reached and all non- Christians.
They are knowledgable in the Word of God and help to give intensive study courses in the Bible at the Bible Colleges and experience in Missionary Work, leadership, and Church planting and Managament since leaving their teaching careers.
In their work with other leaders,they have become highly respected national and international statesmen. They are honoured by the endorsement of National Church leaders, Government Leaders and Civic Authorities for their positive contribution to the church and the society.
We realy thank each of you for your support and prayers and also thank God for all the steps He has led us to achieve.