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Listening Carefully

I have pondered the story in 1 Kings 17 where Elijah (v. 10) was instructed by God to ask a non-Jewish widow in Zarephath to feed him during a drought that was severely limiting food supplies. I wondered how I might feel today if someone from a different nation; someone I had never met; asked me to feed him out of what I had…and to do it before I took care of my family.

I marveled at the widow’s response and wondered how I would have responded in the same situation. Was it the way Elijah asked? Or his tender smile? Or maybe his anointing? When I read the story a little closer, I found I had missed verse 9. God told Elijah, “I’ve instructed a widow… to feed you.” (MSG)

That’s my discovery today. Listening to God. Listening carefully. Hearing all that He says.

Do you ever miss something God tells you? Or give into fear? “Perhaps I heard wrong, or maybe it wasn’t even God? Good sense tells me, I need this for my family. Maybe, if there is a little something extra, I can give some to him.”

And God knows us very well. He knows fear is a real human emotion. When Elijah asked the widow to feed him, he also said to her, “Don’t be afraid.” He then told her that God would never allow her supply of food to run out. So she did what he asked and God did what He promised.

Today, the Aglow headquarters is in Elijah’s situation. And we are looking to our nations and our people….our tribe… Aglow women and men… who are experiencing some of the same things we are. The specter of hard times around the corner is looming. Will we have enough?

Let us encourage ourselves by saying, “I will do what God prompts me to do, and believe He will take care of me. I will not give into fear. When I trust God, He can do what He says He will do. I will be blessed. God will be glorified. That will make a difference!”

2024 Aglow U.S. National Conference

Aglow’s conference team has been busy pulling together details for our 2024 Aglow U.S. National Conference. This year we are excited to announce that our conference held in Dallas, TX will be the 50th time Aglow has come together for our annual conference! You won’t want to miss it!

We can’t wait to see you all there and experience all that the Lord is doing in, and through, this ministry. This year’s conference theme is “A New Day”! Registration and Housing open on April 1st, 2024.

Visit www.conference.aglow.org for more details including hotel rates and registration fees. We are very happy to announce that Early Bird and On-Site registration are back!

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Cultivating Leadership for a Time of Chaos

In 2016, during the Leader’s Summit, Graham Cooke presented a message entitled, “Cultivating Leadership for a Time of Chaos”.  I felt this bears looking at again today.  In the actual transcript, you will find 36 keys and it would be good for teams to review them at the next team meeting.  2016-Leaders-Summit-Graham-Cooke.pdf (aglow.org)  And if you have the DVD, you might take the time to watch it together.

Here are a few of the keys:

• Key 2 – There is an absence of Kingdom leaders in the earth and we must rise to this challenge.
• Key 7 – Our Lighthouse must transform and pulsate with life as Kingdom communities that produce other Kingdom communities and Kingdom people until the whole earth is covered.
• Key 8 – God is standing before us, asking us how far we want to go as His people, His army, to train and equip others and to shift atmospheres over nations.
• Key 18 – Every country needs people who can prosper when the rest of the nation is in fear so that the power of the Kingdom can be seen.
• Key 22 – We determine how we are going to fight battles, not the enemy.
• Key 25 – Great leaders create momentum that those around them can step into.
• Key 32 – Determine how you will show up in every situation you face BEFORE the situation comes.

On page 3 of the transcript, Graham poses questions for all Lighthouses.

Here are the questions:

• In every Lighthouse, we need to take a good solid look at ourselves and ask,
• Is what we are doing enough to win this world?
• Is what we are doing enough to save our culture and society?
• Is what we are doing enough to turn around this city?
• Is our Aglow group a fortress in the midst of chaos, or are we just a refuge from change?

Then Graham makes this statement and I will close with it.  “If our gatherings are only about encouraging people, this movement is going to collapse under the pressure.  We must produce around the world, hundreds of thousands of warriors and champions and to do that, we need extraordinary leaders at every level of what we are doing.”  

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