“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

In January 2020, I purposely spent time in prayer regarding the unfolding season of life that was ahead of me. And as I prayed, a word kept coming back to me with increasing clarity, the word “WRITE”. Little did I know then that my comings and goings would soon be severely restricted by the emerging Covid crisis and by the deterioration in health of my eldest daughter which would require my wife and I to make priority time available to care for her on a daily basis for the last 4 years without a break.

In this season of writing, one of the goals that emerged involved a series of articles entitled, WORDS THAT HAVE SHAPED MY LIFE. My initial goal was that I might write 30 articles, but as I followed the unfolding prompts of God, I find it amazing that this article you are reading is number 100 in the series. I have entitled it IMMEASURABLY MORE. I based it on the words of Paul in his letter to the Ephesians, “Now to Him who is able to do IMMEASURABLY MORE than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work in us.”

Writing these 100 articles has been a good reminder that when we partner with the father who is already at work and follow the prompts of the Holy Spirit, we find ourselves achieving IMMEASURABLY MORE things that we could have ever imagined. Jesus said, “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much.” Luke 16:10. God’s IMMEASURABLY MORE has much to do with us living lives of faithfulness. I have no idea as to how many more articles I will write and how many more people I will impact in this series of WORDS THAT HAVE SHAPED MY LIFE, but even though I have already written IMMEASURABLY MORE articles than I could have imagined, I am not intending to call a halt just yet.

And as I write, I will keep in mind the words of Erwin McManus from his book, The Last Arrow, regarding the fact that we live with choices throughout our lives. He said, “When you get to the end of your life, will you be able to say, ‘I gave everything I had,’ or will you have a hollow feeling inside of your soul that you quit too soon, that you expected too little, that you did not strike the last arrow.’”
Perhaps this is another way of encouraging us to live with the IMMEASURABLY MORE that God created us for.

And as I continue to write, I will surely recall other IMMEASURABLY MORE experiences that have shaped my life since leaving the business world in 1980 to begin a life with my wife, Sue, in full time ministry that has taken us all over the world through the open doors that God has led us.
So, on the occasion of this 100^th WORDS THAT HAVE SHAPED MY LIFE, I commend to you our God of IMMEASURABLY MORE and trust that maybe one day you might find yourself in a season where you too pass on your own words that have shaped your life to a waiting generation.
(Written on my 78^th birthday)