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Devotional Thought for the Day | When GOD Interrupts Us

I was frustrated last night as everyone in the house was sleeping early and no one was keeping me up for the first time in months and yet I could not sleep…

Praying, I let GOD know how off this was due to my need to heal and mend from having the flu over Christmas and this was my first chance to recover.

Out of nowhere, I did not hear a resounding voice over everything, I did not see a vision or have a dream, no thunder and lightning, no burning bush, I simply sensed an urge…

This burning in my gut is something I have learned is not simply a rush of emotion, a hormone, a chemical in my brain. It’s burn and origin of the burn is not of this world. I knew, Jesus’ Spirit was up to something and from the center of my being, I was captivated.

In a matter of 2 and a half hours, I had completed the framework and half of the work of my newest book. With both of the books I have written in 2014 and this book now that will be done in 2015, I give GOD credit. I am really not a writer even though my natural gift is story telling. However, when the Holy Spirit directs, I cannot help but do whatever HE is bidding.

If you are out there and there is something you have always wanted to do like writing a book, starting a business, doing some kind of ministry, don’t just go out and learn how to do it from courses and classes. Begin a conversation with Holy Spirit who lives inside you if you have Jesus as LORD. And listen. He may start the conversation with a deep drive to repent of something or go back and start by doing something he told you to do before that you did not do. Then do it, start there. Repent and run back to HIM. Start by inviting HIM to mess up your plans and keep you up at night. Then when the urge hits, run with it. HE still burns in my guts this morning. It’s the best thing in the world to be intimately aware of GOD’s nearness.

Just do it!

Dustin

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PIR & SIRI & Great Results from GOD (a brief timeline of 2005-2010)

Well, let it be known and I mean KNOWN that I am truly considering doing some serious investing now. AND that I want to give a short timeline of the last year’s investments and what GOD has done for us from 2004-2010 while we have been planting the Tapestry and working bi-vocationally.

QUICK TIMELINE:

1 – Lori and I decided NOT to buy a house in 2004 & 2005 because I sensed that the market was being inflated by speculation and that debt was creating bubbled prices. I actually began telling all my friends NOT TO BUY. (The Realtor at the time told me that we would regret not buying the house that ended up later being worth 1/2 what it was selling for that day! I told her GOD could do anything! We left that Realtor and walked away.)
2 – We totally got all of our invested money out of the market and went to cash in 2007 with all Lori and my investments. I just had a gut feeling and I had no peace to move in the market from my prayer times.
3 – We then sat on our cash until Fall 2008 after the market crashed and I began to pick up hammered down stock.
4 – We closed on a house for a 41% rebate on the price! And moved in January 9-10. (Our Realtor said we couldn’t get one that cheap, yet she was faithful through our insane bids.
5 – We went all in to the market on March 9-11 because I had a sense GOD was leading me.
6 – I picked up SIRI the night before they were to go bankrupt at ~.08 a share.
7 – I picked up PIR when it went down to ~.11 a share.
8 – I have been selling to cover my investments and making huge profits and have been reinvesting in strong, safe, companies. I set the triggers and when they hit my target prices, I sell and reinvest. I have simply prayed and moved slowly.

Due to this, Lori and I have now invested 10’s of thousands into others this year, we have helped people with debt, we have invested in ministries and non-profit work, we have given to invest in startup companies of people we mentor in order to give them a start and teach them how to become socially responsible.

And the kicker is that no matter how much we give, the LORD outgives US! We keep coming back in awe. Those thousands of shares of PIR for .11 are now worth 7.10 today!

You can check out my earlier posts here where I was sharing my steps. Just research from 2008-2009. You can see that I really did do what I am saying here. The blog time-stamped it all.

Folks, ONLY GOD does this! I am just a simple, obedient guy. And I love helping others with wise moves and tough accounting and discipleship. And this has truly given me a catch up for my retirement that I was behind on due to ministry in the church AND funds to help the world.

So, side-note, don’t contact me with your project unless you have already started it, you have it running and you are working hard on it yourself. THEN, if you have stuff to prove what you’re doing, I might be inclined to do some micro-lending (with much prayer and discipleship) and see where it takes you!

I will fill everyone in later on some of the successes we are seeing in our projects worldwide.

Just a praise today!
Blessings!
pd

PIR Stock Quote | Pier 1 Imports, Inc. Research

Pier 1 Imports, Inc. (NYSE:PIR)

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Let’s Celebrate with My Mom, Vickie Hedrick!!!


Hey Everyone,

 

I just want to take a moment in front of all of you and say, “Let’s celebrate” with my mom;

Vickie Hedrick.

 

It’s official, she is now a published AUTHOR!!!!!!

 

And let’s not just celebrate that she is a published author, but as well, let’s celebrate the many years she spent in the classroom teaching and training teachers that led to this!

 

Check out her book here: http://www.asq.org/quality-press/display-item/index.html?item=H1389&xvl=76097805

 

Way to go mom! I am so proud of your hard work! I am your biggest fan!!!!!! And seriously, thanks for teaching that class of kindergarteners back in 1979-1980. You will never know what an impact you had on my life as my first teacher!!!!!

 

Blessings!

d

ASQ: Continuous Improvement in the Language Arts Classroom

Continuous Improvement in the Language Arts Classroom
Vickie Hedrick

This latest entry in the Continuous Improvement in the Classroom series describes the first-hand experience of learning how to build a system, put processes into place, and use tools to make sure our processes are effective and efficient. It will work with any program and with any way that you already teach. Rather than creating new work, it shows how to continuously improve what you are already doing. It is about judging if there are things that you do that need to be abandoned. It is about the thinking you do before you begin the work. It is about training the workers in order that they know how the system works and feel confident about being able to succeed in your system.

If you have ever wondered what it is that teacher down the hall is doing that helps him or her figure out how to get such great results, it is not the programs they put into place but how they figures out what is best for her classroom and her students. Author Vickie Hedrick describes the things she and her students worked on and the processes they put into place to build a system where everyone has the opportunity for greatness.

Available in July 2010!

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WOW! Is This Really the Truth? Tiger Woods Reveals Our Western Hubris

Say it ain’t so…

Tiger Woods: I am not perfect | the Guardian
But apology or no apology, Rubenstein believes the image of Tiger Woods the perfect husband and family man has been shattered. “I don’t think it will ever be restored.” Yet that might not prove to be as disastrous for Woods as it sounds. “It might matter to his wife,” Rubenstein said, “but most people have got used to the idea of philandering. We are not in the Victorian era.“

Yet it is so. One more of our role models has fallen. And the thing that mystifies me about it all is that we have such a lack of care or remorse for the end of yet another public commitment. Have we really gotten used to the idea of “Philandering?”

Did this really happen? Have we changed so much that you wives out there really don’t care if we men act like animals? Is it really alright now to mess around on your covenant partner? And if this is the case, when did it happen? How did we get hardened? Was it when the internet made everything so accessible? Was it due to the shows we watch hardening us like “Desperate Housewives…”

I don’t know. All I know is that I do hope Tiger works it out. He really was one of my heroes. Was is the key word. Now, he is one that I pray for. I hope that family can be restored. I am so very sorry for him and I am so very sorry that this had to become such a public spectacle. It is just so tragic.

I guess the really sad thing about all of this is that this is a true signal that there has been a breaking down of the family unit. We are in an era that is a moral vacuum of sorts. I hope for the day when the “hearts of the fathers turn back to their children and the hearts of the children to the fathers.” Where a man finds his satisfaction in the bosom of the wife of his youth.

Where we can marry and grow old together. And sit outside on a porch and hold hands as we rock in rocking chairs, watching the grand-kids grow up.

I know that I am as accustomed to failure as anyone else and I am probably the chief of all sinners to tell the truth, which worries me even more with my own heart and values. I am going to covenant today again with my eyes not to look lustfully upon a woman as Job stated.

I want to grow up before I grow old.
I want to make all the important decisions right now before I am in the heat of battle.
I want to be the one my kids grow up with.
I want to be the one my family looks up to.
I want to be holy.
I want to be simple.
I want to live fully.
I want to make sure that everyone else is better able to succeed because they can see a little further due to the opportunity to stand on my shoulders.

I may have to spend some time in the public eye. If that is the case, then LORD give me the ability to stay on my knees and keep my head bowed down before you so that I won’t sin against YOU and make YOU look bad.

pd

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Our Home Buying Story & the $8000 Credit Use…

I just posted this on CNNMoney.com. They actually put it up and stated that they might use it in a future story from the post on the site. No matter what happens, I just wanted to put the link up from the first retelling of the story and then the comment below for what we have been doing to help others.

Here is the link to the original post:
http://holyworldwide.com/dustinhedrick/?p=918

this is the link to the story and comment below:

Blessings!
pd

Talkback: What did you buy with your $8,000 tax credit? – CNNMoney.com Talkback

My wife and I live outside Washington, DC in Silver Spring, MD and we bought our house January 5. We used our return to finance a micro-loan helping some students with their school locally AND we were able to work to start a co-ventured foundation, “the Global Access Foundation” globalaccessfoundation.com through which we were able to give funds to fight poverty, help refugees, work with medical, education and more in Kenya. The effect has already been large, but we see there is so much more to come from this story. We were so thankful to have been able to get a house for 47.1% (change from the comment. actual savings) off the value. So, we decided to do as much as possible to help others with our return. It was our way of giving back!

renaissanceofasoul.com
Posted By Dustin Hedrick, Washington, DC: August 25, 2009 12:54 pm

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