Monday, December 6, 2010

Why ifJUSTforONE?

ifJUSTforONE started as a Project at North Central University.  That project has now become the launching point of our Evangelistic Ministry.  The purpose of our ministry is to reach the lost with the Love of God!  Many times in Ministry the focus is on reaching the masses.  Our focus is to bring it back to the individual.  Jesus would have come to this earth if it was JUST for ONE person, and likewise, our ministry is to reach the world ONE person at a time.  We also want to empower believers to reach ONE person at a time!  It is not that we don't minister to groups in hundreds and thousands, but we see the individual in the hundreds and thousands. 
  
        We try to accomplish this through speaking truth and hope into this generation through various Outreaches, Retreats, Church Services, Prophetic Nights, and Training.  We believe whole-heartedly in the power of the Holy Spirit and freely operate in the giftings of the Holy Spirit.  We also focus on empowering the believer to understand who they are in Christ, and who they can be!  We love people! 

Sunday, November 28, 2010

i want...

i want
i want beauty from pain
i want to be blind so i can see
i want to lose myself so i can find myself
i want it to be dark so i can shine
i want to go through pain so i can grow
i want to fall down so i can rise up stronger
i want to be told i can't do it so i can prove to someone that i can
i want to be loved so i know how to love
i want to forgive so others can have a second chance
i want to reach past the sky and dance on the stars
i want the call to find me so i can walk in the anointing
i want to walk in fear so i can have courage to overcome it
i want to tame the wild things so they don't rule me
i want to tell the truth when lies try to quench it
i want an army to surround me so i can look outside my eyes and through His
i want to walk into the valley of death so the dead can find light
i want perfect love to quench impurity
i want immovable mountains to be moved with a whisper
i want the enemy camp to tremble with the march of one
i want a saviors love to find a lost one's fear
i want an oceans depth to be the chains of the bound
i want the stars radiance to be the freedom without the chains
i want the unshackled's message told and retold
i want

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

People Get Ready: People Get Ready...

People Get Ready: People Get Ready...: "I was listening to a song by Misty Edwards, and in her song “People Get Ready” there was a line that really got me thinking about the times ..."

People Get Ready...

I was listening to a song by Misty Edwards, and in her song “People Get Ready” there was a line that really got me thinking about the times we are living in.  “He’s not a baby in a manger anymore, He’s not a broken man on a cross, He didn’t stay in the grave, and He’s not staying in heaven forever.” 
WOW.  I was talking to a young man I was mentoring a few months back, and asked him, “if you knew Jesus was returning tomorrow at 9pm what would you do?”  We don’t know the day or the hour and there is now way that we will ever know because only the Father in Heaven does.  However, if we look at the signs of the times, and read the scriptures that talk about them (Matt 24, Mark 13, Revelations, etc…) we will see a recurring theme that Jesus is returning. 
I want to challenge those that read this blog with this question.  Even if the signs of the times were not presenting themselves the way that they are, even if we didn’t see the technological capabilities that we do now to make all of these “end times” type of things happen, and even if we did know the day and the hour that Jesus was going to return, would you change anything about the way that you were living?  The answer to that should be a resounding NO!  We should already be living out our faith because our desire should be to do what pleases HIM!  Our King has asked something of us, and it’s time, was time, and will be time to answer HIM with our words, actions, time, love, and life!
Truth is truth, and will always be truth.  Jesus is alive and will always be alive.  You and I have opportunity to reap the greatest harvest that this world has ever seen, and yes bigger than our heroes of the Faith, David, Moses, Isaiah, Elijah, Esther, the disciples, Paul, etc…Imagine the scene in heaven after the return of Christ.  Moses walks up to you and says, “What was it like?  What was it like to be a part of the greatest harvest in the worlds history?  What was it like to not only be a part of it, but to lead the charge?”  This is not a rhetorical statement, but one that can very well be asked of you when you walk through the gates of eternity.  By shear logic, there are over 6.5 billion people living on the planet, with the networking capabilities to reach nearly anyone in the world with the push of a few buttons or a few clicks.  Our opportunity far outweighs those that have come before us. 
“He’s not a baby in a manger anymore, He’s not a broken man on a cross, He didn’t stay in the grave, and He’s not staying in heaven forever.” 
The answer to the question was, “I would go do anything I could.  I would run down the streets.  I wouldn’t sleep that night.  I would tell every friend, enemy, person that I could find.  And I wouldn’t care what they would think.”
Now I say to you.  Live out the words of this young man, but not because we know the day and hour of His return, but because we couldn’t do anything else but please Him till we breath our last, or He comes.” 
Nike…Just do it…
ifJUSTforONE,
Caleb Wampler