"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor

wisdom." Eccl. 9:10

There is so much to do in this world and everyone is needed to help in the doing of it. There is something for every one of us to do.

The command: "Do it with all your might" implies putting your whole heart, and your back, into your work. It expects you to do it in a way that anticipates

your making a success of it.

God has a job for each one of us that comes into the world. This means that the world is going to be a little better by your having come into it, or it

could be made worse. Which one will it be?

None of us  can do the work allocated by God to someone else, because everyone has been given all the work they can do.

Do not think you are adding to your own load when you fulfil the command to bear one another's burdens. I am supposed to help you with your burdens; that

is part of my work and duty. In the same way, you are supposed to help me. We need each other. But I cannot do for you what you ought to be doing yourself;

I have enough to do. What you overlook will simply have to go undone.

A farmer who had five sons left them a list of jobs to do when he went away to market, organising the workload according to each son's strengths and abilities.

Coming home he found that four of them had finished all their duties and done them well, but the fifth son had only done a few of his allotted tasks. This

resulted in there being a neglected spot - a dropped stitch - which remained on the farm for everyone to see. If we neglect to do the work that God in

his wisdom has assigned to us, there will be a blank space in the Father's great plan that will show up for eternity.

Do not let any of the precious moments of your life fall away empty. Everywhere Jesus went, he left evidence that he had gone that way. What are you leaving along your way to show in the years to come that you have passed this way? Are you planting flowers and sunshine to lighten other people's hearts?

The size and scope of the part of his great work that is assigned to you is irrelevant. Whatever it is you should do it and do it well. It is your part.

If that work is not done well, the divine plan will not be complete. A single stitch dropped shows a flaw in the garment, so the most menial work is sacred.

The Qur'an tells of Gabriel's being sent to earth to do two jobs. The first was to keep King Solomon from becoming too busy with the affairs of his kingdom

and forgetting the hour of prayer. The second was to help a small ant who was trying to carry its load of food up a steep slope. To Gabriel the one task

was as important as the other one because both came into God's plan.

You should pay as much attention to helping a child get the knot out of a piece of string as you would in building a fine cathedral. Leave some footprints

here on the sands of time; in the years to come they may guide someone to doing something great and noble.

When you get to the end of your life, your greatest satisfaction will be in knowing that you have done what you could. Make something good out of the moments of time while you have them. They are going swiftly by; they will not wait for you. 

Revd Mike Endicott
Director: Order of Jacob's Well

 

UK office phone: 01633 483660

 

USA and Canada office phone: 647-932 3542

 

Postal Address:
Order of Jacob's Well, Forge House, Clomendy Rd, Old Cwmbran, Wales UK NP44 3LS

 

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Above all, beware of letting go the spirit of peace because of your faults. Humble yourself before God because of them, repent, make such reparation for them as you are able, and then do not dwell upon them any more.

It is often mere pride which frets at finding itself beset by the same often renewed faults,

and at its lack of spiritual progress. Do not deceive yourself into the belief that such disquiet is humility. A really humble soul accepts its faults with patience, and goes afresh on in confidence and hope.

Jean Nicolas Grou (1731-1803), The Hidden Life of the Soul, London: Rivingtons, 1870, p. 147-148

Revd Mike Endicott
Director: Order of Jacob's Well

 

UK office phone: 01633 483660

 

USA and Canada office phone: 647-932 3542

 

Postal Address:
Order of Jacob's Well, Forge House, Clomendy Rd, Old Cwmbran, Wales UK NP44 3LS

 

Facebook:
www.facebook.com/revd.endicott

 

Twitter feed link: 
http://twitter.com/simplyhealing

 

International Resources for you:
www.simplyhealing.org
and
www.jacobswell.org.uk

Long, long time ago a famous international Christian speaker told me: "If you hold a 'Lord, bless me' meeting you will always get lots to come. But if you hold a 'Lord, bless me so that I can go out and bless others' then you will get hardly anyone to come to the meeting.

Now this is super-important to me. I'm a Bible teacher trying to help ordinary Christians become extraordinary disciples and kingdom walkers, each seeing tons of kingdom advances and loads of healings etc. And all to the glory of His Highness.

Wouldn't you suppose everyone in the world of Christianity should be enthralled? I reckon faith without works is a pretty poor sort of faith, don't you?

Jesus had 5K turn up on the hillside for food, healing, teaching about the kingdom. But only 12 and then 72 went out training for kingdom ministry. Can't do the maths, but 84 is a pretty tiny percentage of 5k!

It's a lot easier to not get involved. So do we Christians go to church for what God gets out of it or just for what we get out of it? Ten lepers got healed but only one gave glory. This Grasping spirit that rules the world, has it infected holy church? Every  blessing - Mike

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To get healing going, we first need to understand the main purposes of God. Otherwise we can't trust him in what he's trying to do?

Going back to the other day and we were listing all the great good bits of Eden life. The blueprint of Eden looks fab....then there was the fall and things got terrible. Now we live in a mess of broken relationships and distrust and ill health and self-seeking and ignorance of God and insensitivity to him and to each other etc, etc, etc!

But, and here's the first bit of good news, at the end of time Jesus will come back and there will be no more mourning and no more sickness and no more tears. In other words, this is Eden restored. This is god's original blueprint reconstructed. Wonderful!

And Eden is at the start of the bible and the New Jerusalem, Eden restored, is at the end. Everything else and the cross is in-between these two. Jesus warns us not to get too clever about all this kingdom stuff but to look at it like little children or we'll miss it!

So here's that kid's-eye view – God's main purposes are to get us from Genesis to Revelation. His main purposes, his fundamental driving wisdom, is to see his blueprint working the way he intended it. His big idea is to get us out of this mess, to get us from the fall back to the kingdom.

And wow! In his grace, out of his grace, he says we don't have to wait till the end of time! He sends Jesus. Can't wait to write the next bit! Every blessing – Mike

Revd Mike Endicott
Director: Order of Jacob's Well

 

UK office phone: 01633 483660

 

USA and Canada office phone: 647-932 3542

 

Postal Address:
Order of Jacob's Well, Forge House, Clomendy Rd, Old Cwmbran, Wales UK NP44 3LS

 

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Hi all, I must encourage you that kingdom walkers see healing miracles on a very regular basis. Not every time, unhappily, but a dickens of a lot more than when they were just pootling along to church on Sundays and not much else!

Sometimes these miracles are 'big' but the 'smaller' ones are just as thrilling. Here's a note to share with you all from Anna-Marie.

"I would like to share my little miracle that happened to me. On Thursday (the last day of Mike's 3 day seminar) my colleague that I give a lift to work said that her chest felt very close (she had the 'flu). I then offered my (asthma) spray (I knew I had 2 in my bag), which she accepted. As I took the spray out my bag, I realised that I have not used the spray for 2 days. (I used it very often the last 2 months, like 8x a day). Up to today, I have not yet used the spray. Now,  that is shadow healing for

you! I did not even ask Jesus for healing for asthma, I just received it.

I still suffer from arthritis; I have not yet asked for healing, but I will!"

I'll have to write about shadow healing in a while – it's fabulous fun! Every blessing - Mike

Trying to pray for the sick|? Jesus had a good idea – he said to try "Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." But do we know what we are asking? Do we really know anything about the kingdom or are we just guessing that his will must be something nice so it must be OK so there's no harm done in saying it.

Someone said to me the other day, "God is in control. It's up to us to pray and up to him whatever he wants to do about it." A common thought.

God is in control? Where did that terrible piece of theology come from? If a member of the family is not healed and dies, is that  because God doesn't want to bother for some mystical reason that he's not prepared to share with us?

If I drive at 90 mph up the wrong side of the road full of wine and kill someone, where is this god who is in control? Should the dead driver's spouse shrug his or her shoulders and smile at me saying, "Well, god is in control – he knows what he's doing!" Don't think so!

So what's in our hearts when we pray the Lord's prayer? I've been charging around the world teaching this a lot. Would you like me to start putting some short teachings on the good news of kingdom and cross on FB like this? It might be something to learn, something to help you pray, help you to know what you're praying for?

I'll count the Likes in a couple of days and see what you think of the idea – every blessing, Mike

 

My Bible says that the power of god is in the message of the cross. I want to see that power getting through to us more and more, not just for our sake but for his sake, too. I want to see the whole world giving glory to the Father. Don't you?

Come to think of it, I want to see the whole church giving glory to the Father. Is that the best place to start? If so, how do we proclaim this message as Jesus reckoned we ought to?

Going on reading the Bible, I got a lot of answers out of it to share with you. I made some short videos containing a lot of what I learned from Scripture. They will start to make you a powerful carrier of a powerful message which you might pour out powerfully and see powerful results!

I put them all up for you on:

http://www.youtube.com/jacobswelluk

Have a go! Personally, I wouldn't want to waste a single drop of the precious spilt blood of Calvary! Every blessing - Mike

Just safely got back from Canada giving a long lecture tour. We taught 7 1-4 day venues in 3 weeks. We talked kingdom issues all day long, and some evenings as well!

Hope they liked  it!

You see, the western church as a whole is not so much kingdom but culture. And in so many places it's slowly dying out, but we can't say this in public. Interestingly we can chop the candle about as much as we like but we won't put out the flame.

So what will rise from the ashes of our church culture, the pile of ashes rising with the flame still burning within it? The answer will surely be a kingdom-centred church.

So anything I can do in the meantime to teach the good news of the kingdom of God to willing Christian hearts must be well worth it! Every blessing - Mike

Revd Mike Endicott
Director: Order of Jacob's Well

 

UK office phone: 01633 483660

 

USA and Canada office phone: 647-932 3542

 

Postal Address:
Order of Jacob's Well, Forge House, Clomendy Rd, Old Cwmbran, Wales UK NP44 3LS

 

Facebook:
www.facebook.com/revd.endicott

 

Twitter feed link: 
http://twitter.com/simplyhealing

 

International Resources for you:
www.simplyhealing.org
and
www.jacobswell.org.uk