Comments on: I Believe…In What? http://impactforliving.org/blog/2009/03/i-believein-what/ Impact for Living Blog Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:48:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: randie flynn http://impactforliving.org/blog/2009/03/i-believein-what/#comment-38 randie flynn Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:11:30 +0000 http://impactforliving.org/blog/?p=69#comment-38 I love my brother! I love my brother!

]]> By: M. Arcadi http://impactforliving.org/blog/2009/03/i-believein-what/#comment-21 M. Arcadi Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:59:49 +0000 http://impactforliving.org/blog/?p=69#comment-21 "Economic Times" - It's my observation that these uncertain times has served us in a way that has perhaps been over looked. In my line of work I speak a great deal and hear numbers of others speak and it's the mantra of "success minded folks" to highlight the great opportunity that times like these offer. That is certainly an important and relevant perspective - however, it's not one to become lost in... I am a firm believer of the power of positive thinking and faithful stewardship of our minds but too many books (and ministries, quite frankly) focus on the prosperity mentality and forget about the deeper issues. Too many churches are too busy building buildings or heading large concorprigations - (a word of my own invention to describe church leaders who have decided to run a corporation at the cost of the congregation, many times) Good luck to day in many churches to get an appointment with the Sr Pastor, or should I say CEO? What am I saying in all this? Here's is what I have seen this economy do... It has brought to the surface the heart of the matter. The very message you so eloquently shared with us above. How many people, especially us men - have been living that quiet life of desperation? Prosperity has masked it or at best postponed it's side effects. When that security blanket of success is ripped away, when all the sand has been blown away and there is no where to burry your head, when it's every where and there's no where to hide... One must face it! That can be very scary, indeed. What a great opportunity to reach out and be transparent ourselves in order to really make a difference that might not have been possible if it weren't for time such as these. I have been looking for such mentorship my entire life and was forced to come to the conclusion that such help for me just didn't exist. I think I remember someone else said the very thing my Grandfather used to say to me; "Mike, if you can't find who or what you need, become it." It's hard becoming something in a vacuum and there are many times it does seem I will never reach what burns inside of me! Mr. Whitaker, I appreciate your ministry. I attended the last function at Idlewild with Coach Dungy and was deeply touched! I wish it didn't go by so fast. Thanks for being obedient to God's obvious calling for you - it is a very critical service us men need today. I know I do! I hope there a more like you who will see the real opportunity that is before us today. What I would love to see come over that horizon are real men of God who know who we are again. Men who are courageous and powerful yet posses compassion and meekness. Men who are not afraid of political correctness or what the special interest groups might think. Men who are the leaders of their homes and no longer allow society to emasculate us. Men who are the heros to their wives and children; men that will fight the system for them. Men who can not be bought or sold. And men who will not sell our birthright for security! Strong men of the living God who will be WARRIORS again!! I so want to be a man like that and desperately seek examples. They are so hard to find, and if you think you have, many times they have no time to mentor. I teach my people all the time that the mind does not think in words... I can lecture you for hundreds of hours and you will get some of it - or I can show you what it looks like in real life and now you can copy me. We think in pictures; If I tell you then it's up to you to imagine your own picture of what it looks like (that's called trial and error) - if I show you now you have a full color, living example and anyone who wants to can copy that! A man seeking real men... M.A.A. “Economic Times” – It’s my observation that these uncertain times has served us in a way that has perhaps been over looked. In my line of work I speak a great deal and hear numbers of others speak and it’s the mantra of “success minded folks” to highlight the great opportunity that times like these offer. That is certainly an important and relevant perspective – however, it’s not one to become lost in…

I am a firm believer of the power of positive thinking and faithful stewardship of our minds but too many books (and ministries, quite frankly) focus on the prosperity mentality and forget about the deeper issues. Too many churches are too busy building buildings or heading large concorprigations – (a word of my own invention to describe church leaders who have decided to run a corporation at the cost of the congregation, many times) Good luck to day in many churches to get an appointment with the Sr Pastor, or should I say CEO?

What am I saying in all this? Here’s is what I have seen this economy do… It has brought to the surface the heart of the matter. The very message you so eloquently shared with us above. How many people, especially us men – have been living that quiet life of desperation? Prosperity has masked it or at best postponed it’s side effects. When that security blanket of success is ripped away, when all the sand has been blown away and there is no where to burry your head, when it’s every where and there’s no where to hide… One must face it! That can be very scary, indeed.

What a great opportunity to reach out and be transparent ourselves in order to really make a difference that might not have been possible if it weren’t for time such as these. I have been looking for such mentorship my entire life and was forced to come to the conclusion that such help for me just didn’t exist. I think I remember someone else said the very thing my Grandfather used to say to me; “Mike, if you can’t find who or what you need, become it.” It’s hard becoming something in a vacuum and there are many times it does seem I will never reach what burns inside of me!

Mr. Whitaker, I appreciate your ministry. I attended the last function at Idlewild with Coach Dungy and was deeply touched! I wish it didn’t go by so fast. Thanks for being obedient to God’s obvious calling for you – it is a very critical service us men need today. I know I do! I hope there a more like you who will see the real opportunity that is before us today.

What I would love to see come over that horizon are real men of God who know who we are again. Men who are courageous and powerful yet posses compassion and meekness. Men who are not afraid of political correctness or what the special interest groups might think. Men who are the leaders of their homes and no longer allow society to emasculate us. Men who are the heros to their wives and children; men that will fight the system for them. Men who can not be bought or sold. And men who will not sell our birthright for security! Strong men of the living God who will be WARRIORS again!!

I so want to be a man like that and desperately seek examples. They are so hard to find, and if you think you have, many times they have no time to mentor. I teach my people all the time that the mind does not think in words… I can lecture you for hundreds of hours and you will get some of it – or I can show you what it looks like in real life and now you can copy me. We think in pictures; If I tell you then it’s up to you to imagine your own picture of what it looks like (that’s called trial and error) – if I show you now you have a full color, living example and anyone who wants to can copy that!

A man seeking real men…

M.A.A.

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