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Andrew Carnegie said, 'It marks a big
step in your development when you
realize that other people can help you
do a better job than you can do by
yourself.' (After all, you can't whistle
a symphony; it takes an orchestra!) Your
future is connected to certain people.
Without them your destiny will be
incomplete. If you're humble enough to
accept that, your possibilities are
unlimited. A key player in the Billy
Graham Association was his childhood
friend, Grady Wilson. In 1948 Billy
asked Grady to come and work with him.
At first he said no, but Billy
persisted: 'God's told me you're to come
and work with me. I need an evangelist;
somebody who knows me and my ministry,
somebody I can trust.' 'I didn't want to
come,' Wilson later recalled. 'After
all, I already had a successful ministry
of my own holding citywide crusades.'
But after praying he made the decision
to follow Billy Graham (and God). He set
aside his own dreams to be part of
another man's. That decision made a huge
difference, not only in his life but
also in the lives of the multitudes they
reached together until Grady Wilson's
death. Sometimes you have to sacrifice a
smaller dream in order to fulfill a
bigger one. It takes both courage and
humility to do that. But look at the
results. Heaven alone knows the impact
that Grady Wilson and Billy Graham had
together. And what was Wilson's take on
his decision? 'I never regretted it!' |