Immeasurably More

"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."

Ephesians 3:20-21

Well, He did it again. God surprised us, caught us off guard, blessed us with more than we could have asked for or imagine.

Months ago when God laid on my heart to invite women to read through God's Word with me I went to LeAnn and told her about how God was leading me. I assured her that if she would invest the ministry in buying some Bibles that God would sell them. God set the schedule for the running of the devotion. (His timing is always perfect and on time.) He and I set down to write. I submitted the devotion and waited.

The Bibles arrived, 20 of them. I will admit, I panicked a little. The day the devotion ran I went to work. I walked back to the resource room (Contrary to what most people think, we have a resource room, not a resource warehouse.) and counted the Bibles again. One had sold already. I told the the Lord (Did you catch that? "I told the Lord.") that we (We? What we? What was I thinking? I am so fleshly.) had to sell those Bibles. Then I saw the error of my ways and restated my position, "Lord, you only have to sell 19 Bibles." He was probably looking right at me with a grin on His face that went from ear to ear. He probably wanted to say, (with a little sarcasm) "OK, Wendy I will make sure the 19 Bibles move out of here."

The rest of the story has to be told in a picture:
Well, actually this is not the rest of the story, this is only about 450 of the 743 Bibles that have sold at the time of this post. Isn't God amazing? 743 women (and men) have committed to read through God's Word in 2009. Watch out world, change is coming. We packaged, mailed, and prayed over all the Bibles before we "sent the Word forth."


I will be adding a new link to my blog called "Wordly Wise" because those who read will be becoming wise in the Word. In 2009, we will read the Word together; posting our thoughts, fears, frustrations, excitement, fresh insights, basically holding each other up during the adventure. Through out the year, I will refer to those who are reading as "The W2s."

How do I feel about all this? I still can't believe it. Not that "I" wrote something that led to this movement because apart from the Holy Spirit's inspiration, I can write nothing. I can't believe that over 700 people will be joining me in this great adventure. Wanna Come? Here is the link to the Bible and this link will take you to the devotion that started it all.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

Did you know that I am crazy about this book?!