This has been quite a week for me. From dealing with my daughter\u2019s tragic accident which left me both thanking God and asking, \u201cGod, why are you picking on me?\u201d to my trip to Lakewood Church which rekindled my vision for what I am doing yet again – being involved in starting a movement for God here in Nashville. Let me tell you another thing God has done. I was sitting in a meeting with the head of marketing for Lakewood Church and Joel Osteen Ministries and received several phone calls, all at once. Like many of you, I certainly couldn\u2019t bear to turn off my phone, so I had it set to vibrate so I could see who was calling.<\/p>\n
I noticed I had gotten a call from my wife, Paula, and I thought, \u201cI\u2019ll call her back in a few minutes.\u201d And then I got another phone call within the minute, from my editor. And I thought, \u201cThat\u2019s odd, I am supposed to speak for my publisher tomorrow on the unveiling of my newest book, \u201cA Renegade\u2019s Guide to God,\u201d maybe he\u2019s calling to cancel.\u201d Next I get a call from the Director of Publicity for my publisher and then I thought, \u201cSure enough they are trying to cancel because now they are both trying to call me.\u201d Right after that I got a phone call that I recognized as coming from the New York area. And I thought, \u201cHey, my publisher, Rolf, is always in New York my editor and publicist have called, maybe something\u2019s happened to him.\u201d Then my wife called back. And then the publicist called back. And I thought, \u201cThis is too many coincidences all at once. Something bad must\u2019ve happened.\u201d Still reeling over the bad news phone call I had gotten earlier in the week, I dismissed myself to retrieve my messages.<\/p>\n
The first one was from my publicist who was all enthusiastic saying that NBC had called them and requested that I be on the Today Show next Tuesday morning to serve on a round-table discussion on the place of Faith in American culture. I was absolutely blown away. I had to ask several times \u201cAre you sure it\u2019s the Today Show?\u201d She said, \u201cYes, are you willing to do it? I need to call them right back.\u201d And I said, \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n
The next phone call obviously was to my wife Paula and I said, \u201cHave you heard?\u201d and she said \u201cYes. I\u2019ve just been on the phone to New York and they are going to fly both of us up there, put us up, be met by a limousine, and take us anywhere we want to go, all at the expense of NBC.\u201d And I thought, isn\u2019t this just like God? I remember last year having an opportunity to go to New York and I said to someone, \u201cI think New York is a great place, but the only way I\u2019m going to go to New York is if someone else is paying for it.\u201d And here was this prophecy coming true.<\/p>\n
After what I\u2019ve been through this year, all the stress of changing churches and losing jobs, and children going off to college, and careers being up in the air, and books being written and released, here is God\u2019s one more sign that He\u2019s been working overtime in my life. I\u2019ve gone in the last three months from the lowest lows to the highest highs. And it\u2019s almost as though God is laughing, \u201cI want to keep your life interesting. I don\u2019t want you to get bored. I know that your mind tends to wander so I am going to make your life more like a roller-coaster than a straight interstate highway.\u201d Yea God!<\/p>\n
But you know what? He wants the very same thing for you. How about you? Does your week go from one extreme to the next? Can you see the divine hand of God\u2019s providence in it? Here\u2019s what I want to ask. Pray for me as I go fly up to New York and prepare to appear on this panel. Pray that God would give me wisdom to be able to speak words of grace and healing, that I wouldn\u2019t be just another religious guy on TV with \u201cstupid\u201d tattooed across his forehead, giving the same, old, inflammatory, divisive answers to the same old questions that maybe people intend to trap us by. But there is a more gracious, loving, and thoughtful answer.<\/p>\n
Having contemplated speaking in this arena, I feel the Holy Spirit reminding me, \u201cGo up and strike the themes that are the themes of your life. Go up there to help. Give them hope, give them encouragement, give them love, and make it practical. That\u2019s what I want to do. As a matter of fact, that\u2019s not a bad way to live, is it? If you want to help change the world, if you want to help the world with a message of hope while it\u2019s swimming in pain, give them hope, give them encouragement, give them love, and make it practical. That\u2019s how I spell HELP.<\/p>\n
More to come\u2026 Get all your friends to watch Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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