From
the Editor...
by Tim
Greenwood
Windows On The Word Videos Are Now In Full Production
Has God ever asked you to do something that you had no idea how to accomplish?
A few years ago, during my yearly advance, God asked me to begin
focusing on producing short, interesting, and informative videos.
Having no budget for a project like this we purchased a couple of
consumer video cams, pulled out a pair of tripods and after a little
planning made some cardboard cue cards and shot some video during our
vacation times. Well, to make a long story short, even though the
content was good, we weren't satisfied with the quality of the video or
audio of what we had produced and decided to start over.
After a significant period of research, a steep learning curve and some
expert advice, we established a budget and purchased the software and
the camera, sound and lighting equipment recommended for producing the
type of videos we had in mind, and began shooting new videos.
Now we understand why movies are so expensive and time consuming to
produce. It can be really difficult to wear so many hats at the same
time: being the script writer, talent, cameraman, sound technician,
electrician, grip and video editor while Marcia wears the hats of:
script editor, director, porter, caterer, and stand-in for framing and
focusing shots.
I must say though, that Marcia has really gotten into directing. Now,
whenever she wants me to be quiet, whether we are shooting video or
not, she just yells "CUT!"
At the writing of this article we have shot footage for eleven new
videos, have edited five, but have more planned for this year and next.
Should any of you like to become part of this exciting new phase of our
internet ministry and reach thousands of individuals with the good news
of what Jesus has done for them; feel free to contact us to either help
us financially offset the costs involved in this project or perhaps
even volunteer to wear one or more of these many hats during one or
more of our future shoots.
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How Does One "Build" His Faith?
by
Tim Greenwood
Your
FAITH is tangible, valuable and it is measurable. In actuality, it
refers to what bankers and lawyers call good faith contractual
relationships or contracts.
According to Romans 10:17, a good faith contract begins with an offer
which you must hear about. If that offer gives you the hope of
providing a solution to one of your wants, desires or needs, then you
must evaluate the offer's validity by reading the offer firsthand and
evaluating the reputation of the one making the offer.
If based upon that hope and your belief that the offer was made in good
faith and you decide to take that offer, then you do so by converting
it into a good faith contractual relationship (contract) between you
and the one making the offer, and commit to that contract verbally or
otherwise to activate it.
Now I said all of that to prepare for this:
Just as your contract is based on the validity of the offer and the
reputation of the one making the offer, your faith, belief and
confidence for healing or whatever, must be based upon an actual good
faith offer made by a reputable source.
Let's say the source of that offer, say for healing, is Father God
through Bible scripture. Take the scripture Isaiah 53:5, which states
that He (Jesus) was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for
our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with
His stripes we are healed - and you read it yourself to validate the
offer.
Let's say that offer provides you with hope for your healing, you
believe that offer is valid, and you believe that Father God made that
offer to you in good faith. Now you are to convert the offer into a
good faith contractual relationship (contract) between you and God by
taking God up on the offer and committing to it verbally or otherwise.
Now, if you just signed a contract with anyone else you might still
have a few lingering doubts about their good faith. But you just signed
a contract with Father God Who has NEVER failed to keep His word, has
NEVER failed to do exactly what He said He would do, has NEVER failed
to fulfill a contract, agreement or promise, and guarantees His good
word with His Godhead. In short - God's word is always good.
1John 5:14-15 says that this is the kind of confidence that we can have
in the Lord, that, if you ask anything that He has already offered you
in good faith throughout the Bible, then you already know that He will
always grant you audience to come to Him and to ask for it.
And since you know that He's going to grant you the audience, then you
also know that whatever you ask of Him concerning those offers,
actually, is already as good as yours.
If I were you, I wouldn't wait to start celebrating my healing! You may
not as yet be able to detect any change with your 5-senses, but based
upon your contract with God and His perfect reputation you should begin
celebrating your healing - because you already KNOW that it belongs to
you.
Another reason for you to be regularly celebrating and thanking God for
your healing is the fact that maybe YOUR reputation for keeping YOUR
word, fulfilling YOUR contracts, agreements or promises hasn't been
that great. God is NOT going to breach your contract, but He is
not so sure about YOU.
Regularly celebrating and thanking God for your healing, even before
you detect any manifestation of that healing, is YOU reassuring God
that you are still fully 100% operating in good faith as to fulfilling
YOUR part of your contractual relationship.
Do you want to please God? Operate in faith or good faith - always.
Operate in good faith with God and operate in good faith with your
fellow man.
Hebrews 11:6 says that it is impossible to please God without operating in faith or good faith.
How does one "build" his faith? One after another, convert God's
offers that you find in the Bible into contracts, commit to them and
successfully fulfill them in good faith - from one good faith contract
to the next and to the next and to the next - as an ongoing way of
life. TGM
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