Miracle!

I wanted to tell you a story I told my Mastermind group...

As many of you already know, I helped start a church with my father-in-law back in the early 90's.

We were meeting in an older strip shopping center, but we were growing, and needing to build on our own property soon.

The only problem was we did not have any property. We didn't have any extra money either. All the money we got in the offering each week was already being spent on the budget.

In spite of this, my father-in-law insisted on us making the phone calls, talking to brokers, visiting available lots, and generally just digging around anywhere and everywhere for opportunity to buy land.

After many many months, I was frustrated and tired. I thought, "How can a church with NO money buy property?" It didn't make any sense to me.

After all, it's impossible to make something out of nothing, isn't it?

And then one Saturday afternoon I went back to my office and called a phone number with an area code in Colorado. I found the number on a faded old 'For Sale' sign on an 8-acre piece of prime property located off the highway.

The man who answered the phone, after finding out who I was and why I was calling, suddenly said, "I think we want to just give you the property."

And there it was...something out of nothing!

Miracle? Yes, of course. No doubt.

The fact that it was me, the silent doubter, who made the call and heard the news first was especially miraculous.

However, I think there is more to this miracle than the supernatural.

At the risk of sounding blasphemous, I believe it all started with my father-in-law's insistence on continuing to move forward.

In spite of the difficulty, disregarding the facts, with no thought of the impossibility, he kept moving forward.

This lesson has been extremely valuable for me because there have been many times since when I needed to make something out of nothing.

How do you do it? Movement!

Push in the direction you want to go even when you can't see...or believe.

This is why I pay big money today to create movement (i.e. advertising, lead generation, marketing programs, new asset investment, etc.) I would rather move and lose money temporarily than sit still and get slaughtered.

A little bit of momentum can be enough to lead to incredible outcomes when mixed with a direction you want to go.

Some investments of time and money don't make sense in the natural realm. Put them on paper, work the numbers, and you still can't justify the ROI naturally.

But movement doesn't work based on natural principles. It works based on supernatural principles.

A little faith mixed in with the action of moving forward is the recipe for the miraculous.

✌ Mike