The Lost Has Been Found!

By Robert H. Schuller

Legend tells us that the beautiful Helen of Troy, over whom many battles were fought, was lost after one of the battles. When the army returned to Greece, Helen was not on any of the ships. Menelaus, at great personal peril, searched for her and finally found her in one of the seaport villages.

She had been suffering from amnesia. Forgetting who she was, she had stooped to the lowest possible level and was living as a prostitute. Menelaus found her in rags, dirt, shame, and dishonor. He looked at her and called, "Helen!" Her head turned, and he said, "You are Helen of Troy!" With those words, her head lifted and her back straightened into a posture of one who knows her worth. She had been redeemed!

You may be deflated and dishonored in your own eyes because you don't realize who you are. You are a member of the royal family. When you accept Jesus Christ into your life, you are a member of the family of God. You are no longer a lost soul. You have been forgiven and have recovered your honor!

LOVE - The Gift That Keeps on Giving

By Robert H. Schuller

What is the secret of real joy? Christians know the answer—it's the love that bubbles up from deep within your heart and soul when you tear yourself loose from selfishness and bear the burdens of someone else, caring enough to share yourself with that person. Then love activates and gives you the results of joy.

So, LOVE is, indeed, the secret to real joy.

Each of us distinguishes ourselves as individuals. Some have special talents. Others attract friends easily. Still others accomplish amazing achievements. But Christians should all be distinguished by the love they give away. It should burst forth with such enthusiasm that it could never be hidden. It should be patient, kind, trustworthy, persevering.

You won't even have to tell people that you love Jesus Christ. You won't be able to keep it secret, because love will give you away!

Think Bigger!

By Robert H. Schuller

"God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask, seek, or think." -Ephesians 3:20

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A man was fishing off a pier one day. Each time he'd catch a fish, he'd measure it with a little ruler he pulled from his tackle box. If it was ten inches or less, he threw it in a bucket to take home. If it was more than ten inches long, he threw it back into the sea.

Another man sitting nearby thought this guy was crazy for throwing back the bigger fish. He finally asked, "Excuse me, but why do you throw back the big ones and keep only the little fish?

The fisherman said, "Well, it's simple-my frying pan's only ten inches across!"

Now, you may laugh at that response, but the news I have for you is this-you and I are that fisherman! We're that fisherman whenever we throw away dreams that seem too big to accomplish. When God sends dreams our way, if they're small enough, we grab hold, but if they're too big and we're sure they're impossible, we don't follow them in fear of failure. In the process, we turn our backs on some of the greatest opportunities that life-and God-will ever give us.

God is going to stretch your arms today. God is going to stretch your dreams right now. God is going to allow you to think bigger even though it's risky because God's ideas are always impossible when we first get them. It's His way of ensuring that He's a part of it, knowing that we can't pull it off without Him.

So I ask you to pray this prayer today:

Dear God help me to catch the dream even if it's bigger and more uncertain than any dream I've dreamt before. Help me to think bigger. Walk with me and let's make it happen. Let's be in the miracle-making business, God, You and me, together. Amen.

I allowed God to THINK BIG through me

By Greg Anderson, Founder & CEO, Cancer Recovery Group of Charities

Everything I know about thinking BIG I learned from Dr. Robert Schuller.

It was the mid-1970s and following my discharge from the Army, I became a cynic—an impossibility thinker. But the bright spot in my life was meeting this cute girl named Linda. On one date, she brought me a gift, the book Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking. Its message ignited my mind and touched my spirit: “Catch the vision of the person God meant you to be.” “Attempt great things for God. Expect great things from God.” “Inch by inch, anything’s a cinch.”

I began to change, to believe I could make a difference in this world. Life was good and getting better. Then in 1984, my budding possibility thinking was put to the test. I was diagnosed with lung cancer. My surgeon gave me just thirty days to live. I wanted so much to live. But my mind was crippled by fear and doubt. Could possibility thinking be part of health and healing? The possibilities did not look promising.

My weight dropped to 112-pounds, my skin was ashengrey, and I was on morphine to control the pain. I prayed, Lord, use this—use me—show me what is possible to help the next patient, the next family, dealing with cancer. I held a vision of myself as vital and alive. I determined I would live the next hour, the next day.

God planted a seed in my mind: Cancer patients need to help and encourage each other. I made calls and invited people to meet. What started as a single Cancer Conquerors support group, today extends to every continent providing help, hope, and healing to millions of people every year.

I don’t always think BIG. But I do my best to allow God to think BIG through me. Then, I take one small step after another in an attempt to do something great for God. It has changed my health and my life.

By the way, that cute girl who gave me the book turned into a beautiful woman. We just celebrated our thirty-first wedding anniversary.

More information at www.cancerrecovery.org.

God Turns a Dream into a Miracle!

By Dr. Robert H. Schuller

The fear of failure keeps most people from believing that God can and will make their dreams come true. They are afraid to try. I often think of Christy Wilson, that great missionary to Kabul, Afghanistan. The major industry in Kabul was raising sheep, and the major problem in raising sheep was a disease caused by a worm that gets in the intestines of the sheep when they eat snails.

Now ducks love to eat these snails, but Christy noticed there were no ducks in Afghanistan. He wrote to a friend in the states and asked for some fertilized duck eggs. Twenty-four fertilized duck eggs were sent. His friend said, "They will hatch, provided the eggs are not dropped, they get there on time, and the temperature stays warm. In other words, it will take a miracle."

By the time they arrived in Kabul, some were broken; they were cracked and smelly. Christy said, "We'll just have to pray that we get at least one male and one female."

You can guess what happened: only two eggs hatched, a male and a female. They multiplied and eventually wiped out the snails and the sheep industry boomed. God took Christy's dream and worked a miracle because he decided to try.

- EXCERPTED FROM 365 Power Thoughts: Hope for Today and Tomorrow

Three new Hour of Power opportunities to reach ’round the world!

The reach of this positive televised church service is EXPANDING! In an ever-changing television market and even during an economic recession, recent miraculous developments are reversing a downward trend in ways only God could imagine and initiate.

The Hour of Power is now more widely available on Lifetime Network nationally, Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) around the world, and other international, self-supporting broadcast outlets. And now—there’s more!

In an increased effort to provide more programming in native languages, at no cost to our ministry, TBN is collaborating with us to televise:

1. Our Spanish-language church service with Pastor Dante Gebel on the new Enlace TBN network.
2. Our Arabic-language church service with Pastor Emeel Shenoda on a new network reaching the Middle East with the gospel of Jesus Christ. A third exciting development occurred when a friend of a Crystal Cathedral member approached the ministry with an amazing opportunity.
3. Rev. Joseph C. Nguyen, Chairman and CEO of Vietnamese Broadcasting Services—a TV network reaching millions of Vietnamese and Americans throughout the U.S., Canada, Saigon, and beyond—stepped forward with free television airtime for our English-language church service with Dr. Robert H. Schuller and Pastor Sheila Schuller Coleman every Sunday, 11 AM to noon.

Now reaching more of the world than ever before at a fraction of the cost, your gifts are essential in maintaining the English language Hour of Power base. Like loaves and fishes, your gifts multiply beyond measure as the Lord sustains, increases, and creates new possibilities bigger than our minds can even imagine! Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples in the seeds you sow into this ministry. God bless you for your fruitfulness.

Summer Saving Partners

The 40-year Hour of Power will NOT survive the summer of 2010 without thousands of supportive Summer Partners…partners who each pledge to give $30 a month for the four months of summer—$30 for June, $30 for July, $30 for August, $30 for September—or a one-time summer gift of $120. And, to thank you for your Summer Partner support, the ministry will send to you these exciting items:

1. The beautiful, "coffee table" sized book, A Place of Beauty - A Joy Forever, 230 pages featuring interesting, inspiring and historical information about the founding and evolution of the Crystal Cathedral and Hour of Power... articles on architecture, gardens, sculpture, artwork, and much more.*


2. DVD of Dr. Robert H. Schuller's Best Messages.*


3. CD (audio) of Dr. Robert H. Schuller's Best Messages.*

* The book, CD & DVD are all in current ministry inventory. So, no additional cost will be incurred to produce these inspiring items for you. All of your Summer Partner giving will go right into paying television airtime bills.