gods girls ministry

     
   
Volume 1 Issue 2         February 6, 2007
 


God's Girls Ministry
359 Hiden Blvd. Box 6214
Newport News, VA 23606
(757)-240-4607
www.godsgirlsministry.com


From the Desk of Lesa Ankney


 
GOD-SIZED DREAMS
 
 
 
Have you ever had the guts to dream without limits? You know, like when someone asks “If money were no object, what would you be doing?” I have at times dared to go there in my thoughts. I have even stepped out on a limb at times and done things that that were totally motivated by my dreams and had little evidence of common sense! Though I don’t consider myself a big risk taker, I have at times taken big risks.

I had the pleasure of visiting Kansas City last spring for some ministry training. I met lots of people that really blessed my heart and my life, but one woman stands out above the rest. She is a wife, a mother, a church leader and a woman with a dream much bigger than herself. I listened as she shared small pieces of her dream and watched as she sought God for answers even in the midst of training. What amazed me was the quietness of her soul. Her vision was big, but somehow she knew her God was bigger. She was patient, willing to do the hard work of waiting when necessary, not wanting to run out before her God. I was touched by her. My heart changed by the encounter, challenged by her faith.But most importantly, inspired by her to seek God sized dreams.

As most of you know, SOZO Clean is up and running. It looks different than I pictured it but somehow I get the impression that it looks just like God wanted it to. Gods Girls Ministry is also serving women and God’s Office is a prayer room worth visiting if you haven’t been there yet.

Our God is so faithful. It amazes me how small I see, how little I am willing to settle for time and time again. I want to have all the answers to all of my questions. I want a big check book, I want a dozen confirmations from a dozen different people and then I want writing on the wall just for posterity. It is rare if ever that God works that way. He wants our hearts to trust him. He wants us to talk with him, look to him and depend on him. He told Abram “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land that I will show you.”(Gen.12:1) He told Moses “Go”. (Exodus 3:10) He told Joshua as he was about to lead Gods people across the Jordan “Be strong and courageous”. As a matter of fact, he told him that three times in the first 10 verses of Joshua chapter 1. What amazes me in each of these stories and many others recorded for us, is that God always promised to go with them. And he did every time. He provided the words to speak, manna to eat and whatever else was needed to fulfill the promise.

Some of you are probably thinking that it is everything you can do right now to just make it through the day. You are less concerned with changing the world and more concerned with changing your husband. Some of you are wishing you had a husband. Big dreams are relative to where you are on your journey. But the one thing that is consistent with achieving big dreams is that there are many steps that are routine and mundane. Often it is here that we fail. We want the miraculous, the splendid, the grandeur but we aren’t willing to do the work. The key to achieving God sized dreams is to be willing to take baby steps until we grow into the dream. The journey is just as important as reaching the goal. Dream God sized dreams, expect him to go before you and prepare the way and don’t expect to have all the answers today. It will be bigger and better than you have imagined. Because that’s our God, that’s just who he is!

 
 
 
  SOZO CLEAN CUSTOMERS ACTIVE MINISTERS!  
 

 

As a SOZO Clean customer, you participate in ministry in our community and all over the world. Besides having your home or office cleaned by professional staff you have:

 

v    Provided an offering to a local women’s ministry to use for their retreat

v    Provided a fruit basket welcome gift to one of God’s Girls as she visited the country from Africa on retreat

v    Gave an offering to a local youth group raising funds for World Vision, to support food missions

v    Sent a local Pastor’s wife to a Day Spa for a much needed and deserved day of rest and pampering

v    Provided tickets to the circus for another Pastor, his wife and children for a family night out.

v    Provided an offering to another women’s ministry to purchase plants and flowers for a garden area on their campus

v    Provided an offering to Steve and Kim Reitz, missionaries in Bosnia, who have committed their lives to sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ in the poorest country in the world.

v    Provided an all expense paid trip to Missouri for a local women’s ministry leader for training that will better equip her to serve the women of our community.

v    Provided dinner and a night out to 5 women who were faithful to participate in a 31 day prayer challenge.

 

Your dollars have also opened God’s Office; a prayer room in the business community that offers a prayer room setting in an office environment. Its goal is to encourage people in the work force to include prayer as a part of their daily lives. Prayer requests are posted and those visiting are encouraged to pray for the community and the world.

In March, God’s Girls Ministry will begin two new Bible studies at the SOZO Clean offices. Tuesday nights beginning March 6 we will begin a bible study “Walking in the Power of God.” It will focus on Jesus Christ and him crucified and what his sacrifice made available to us as his followers. And on Thursday nights, beginning March 8, we will begin a less formal but equally important time of prayer and fellowship. It will be a time of sharing and praying together as God’s Girls. I expect God to do great things during this time set apart for him. Both of these evenings are designed to encourage and equip women to walk in the fullness of what it means to be one of Gods girls and to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with those that do not know him yet.  

Who would have ever thought that you could accomplish so much just by having your house cleaned. God knew!! Thanks to all of you who support SOZO Clean and the God sized dreams he has given us.

 

 
     
   
         
     

Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional

 
    c. 2006, 2007 God's Girls Ministry. Permission to use with copyright information attached.