"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."    — G.K. Chesterton The call of Elisha has always stood out to me. Here is Elijah hiding in the caves for fear of his life. He had just shaken his culture by humiliating and killing the prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18). God shows himself with such power that those that witnessed this epic confrontation of ideas fell to their knees and repented. Yet a threat from Jezebel, who was angry at the killing of the prophets of Baal, thrust Elisha into hiding. We then read the conversation between God and Elijah in 1 Kings 19:1-18. At the end, God assures Elijah of the 7000 men who have not turned their backs on God (vs 18). Thus the call of Elisha. “So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. Elis...

A team is as good as its leader. Being involved with my wife’s business for the last twenty years I have heard many quotes, yet this is the one I use the most with my teams and their captains… "The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang." -Mary Kay Last weekend I headed back to my Ala Mater for the annual Alumni Game. It had been twenty years since I set foot on the field I once played on. I was excited and couldn’t wait to put on my cleats and kick the ball around with other fellow alums. As the time came for the announcement of players I was getting excited! Then I heard the announcer voice each alumni’s year they played. “2005…..” “2007…..” “2009…” “2010….” “Ed Limon….played between 1986 and 1991!” At that moment as I made my way to the center of the field, I felt so old! I was the oldest player there! Then the announcer named the starters for Vanguard University. “From England……” From Ireland….” “From Senegal…..” “All Conference…..” You get the picture. It was hu...

e-van-tre-pre-neur [ih-van-truh-pruh-nur] n. a person who uses business or other venture to share their faith in the marketplace I was about twenty thousand feet in the air on my way to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. My brother and I were on our way to meet his father-in-law who was building an orphanage in a small town outside La Esperanza. As I sat there on the plane it was time to pull out the book I was reading and get some good reading time in! You know those moments were you do not want to be bothered, yet the title of my book caught the attention of my neighbor, “Anointed for Business” by Ed Silvoso. “Is that a good book?”, he asked. That one question once again proved how God sets up divine appointments. You know those appointments that come out of the blue and you walk away saying “Wow! Wow! Let me throw in another…WOW!”. Come to find out through our conversation, this gentleman was a missionary! Yet he was not your inside the box missionary who went into the country with the tit...

This last month I was one of the many millions who watched the USA Women’s soccer team defeat Brazil in the Women’s World Cup in Germany. It was the knock out round…win move on, losers, go home! USA, ranked number one in the world, was down a player, due to a red card. Playing a man down the game was tied and sent into two fifteen minute overtime halves. Within two minutes, Brazil scores! For the next twenty eight minutes I saw a team so determined that you could sense something was on the horizon. With less than one minute left and on the verge of going home, the USA scored! My house was in an uproar as we joined in with millions shouting and screaming to what we just witnessed! As overtime ended and headed into penalty kicks, the USA came out on top and moved on to the next round! It is times like these that inspire people to do great things! What an inspiration to millions of people as they watched a group of women with so much determination to scream out the motto: NEVER GIVE UP! ...

Every Wednesday you will recieve a short, encouraging words of wisdom. To receive Irrevocable Call Words of Wisdom email me at: e.limon07@ymail.com No cost. No gimmicks! Just a short word to get your day going! Here is an example: Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison I know our culture has a tendency to "talk things out". Believe me there are times to "talk things out", but there are times that require a "fight". I personally believe that this attitude of "talk things out" has created a generation with no backbone who want to be told what to do. C.S. Lewis put it this way, "The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own." I am talking about the "fight" that goes through fear. Doubt....

Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. - Daniel 6:3 In preparation for this series I have come to love the passage, Daniel 6:3. It sets the tone for all of us who step out into the marketplace to find our ministry. Let’s take a quick recap of the major points on our lesson on Daniel, before we indulge into this passage. The leadership role of Daniel can be defined through a process. One: A leader stands up for what he believes in. Two: God’s favor falls on a leader. Three: A leader will receive opportunities to use their gift. Four: A leader is ready at all times to use his/her gift! Daniel’s marketplace ministry opened doors for God to show himself to a lost and pagan nation, thus asking ourselves the following questions, One: Do those around you know who you serve? Two: Is God the center of every part of your business/job? A marketplace ministry...

Before teaching I was a youth pastor of a pretty good size church. I was living out my call. All was good! After three years of serving the church a new senior pastor came in and decided there needed to be some changes, which included me. Leaving as if I had failed, I was devastated. It was hard to get over. I had prepared for ministry for years and now there was going to be a change. My idea of ministry at the time was one needed a pulpit to make a difference. I was never told that my job/business is my ministry! Fifteen years ago when I first started teaching I would run into some church friends from my old stomping ground. After some small talk, they would ask what I was doing? When I told them I was teaching I would get the “Oh that’s nice, what happened to ministry” look! I even received the look from pastors as if I was a washed up preacher who gave up on “church ministry”. The very first class I taught was a 5th/6th grade combo class, which only fueled my doubt as to what I was ...