the agony of defeat, AND the thrill of victory (note: I rename it below)
Randy Clark has a classic message - "The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat" (which came from the old ABC "Wide World of Sports" where he talks about the realities of supernatural ministry - namely the successes and the defeats. I entitled this blog post as such (reversing the order in the title) because it seemed that the defeats this past weekend outnumbered the victories. Isaac of Ninevah and I were traveling again, and overall I felt like my attempts to minister to people in public didn't go that well. I "missed" alot of words for people - i.e. "Do you have pain in your _______"? "No, why?" seemed to be the common response! However, whereas I need to be honest about the discouragement, the fact is that God gave us a couple of powerful encounters with people. So, enough about the defeats, here were the victories: On our first night, I approached a Gulf Arab family after getting a word of knowledge about a problem in t...