IMPORTANT Answer to MANY Prayers TODAY

INTRODUCTION

Many have been praying for me for many years.

God always answers prayers in His timing and in His ways.

Our challenge is to keep the faith while waiting patiently.

Keep watching for the answers with relaxed high expectations.

Then notice when the answer arrives.  

Then both thank Him privately and testify publicly.

SO this is my testimony of many prayers by many people over many years.

SUMMARY

Here is a summary and the details follow.

Lord willing I will offer these separately soon.

I have wanted to teach online for more than 20 years.

There is not a single book or college course to teach all about it.

There are lots of parts including the planning, creation and marketing.

There are plenty of technical skills required.

I have been self taught from a wide range of online experts.

Each one is an specialist.

None of them know much or teach about the other areas.

TODAY the Lord led me to a ONE PAGE flowchart the puts the parts together.

This eliminates my confusion and overwhelm.

This is my roadmap.

Pray for God to bless me to use this flowchart and start teaching online SOON.

BACKGROUND

I am a lifelong learner. I enjoy learning EVERY day. There are several subjects that appeal to me currently. Mostly I consume Youtube videos, blog posts and some online courses.

It is not a good day unless I have learned something. A HUGE appeal about being retired is that I have LOTS of time to learn daily.

Before the Internet I would invest MANY hours at the library and checked out books, tapes, and videos.

Over the decades I have taught myself such subjects as the basics of management, marketing, writing, public speaking, computer skills, psychology, creativity, time management and many facets of history. ALso I have carefully studied Bible doctrine, theology, apologetics, comparative religions, church history and much more about Christianity.

More than 20 years ago I began to gain an interest in teaching what I had learned. I believed then and now that it could help others. I could offer simple summaries of the huge volumes that I had explored.

After a near death accident on my bicycle I spent a year in rehab in 1996. During that time I took classes at community college on computer software and web publishing. Since then I taught myself to blog, publish short videos and slideshows online.

Later I studied online how to write ebooks, create ecourses and create online communities.

DISUNITY

Due to my small income I could only afford the free lessons, videos and podcasts. Most of those that teach online have a specialty. They give away generous samples of their lessons. This attracts paying customers. Then the prices are like 99, 499, or 2995 dollars.

They share testimonials of those that used their lessons to build an online business. These are not get rich quick schemes. They are ways that real teachers connect with real students and gradually grow an income so that they can afford to leave their corporate jobs.

In order for this to work in the long term the online teacher needs to tap into their passion for the subject and the audience. It is like a marathon with lots of difficulties so passion is needed.

I have lots of passions so one of my challenges has been to FOCUS. I struggled to narrow the MANY potential subjects down to Let’s Pray Better.

I have dozens of mind maps that I have made over the decades. On the mind map for Let’s Pray Better I have hundreds of tiny ideas and a dozen outlines that I used in my Saturday sermons.

I knew that the long term big picture includes weekly short videos with worksheets, short ebooks, an ecourse and an online interactive community. That would be promoted using social media and email subscriptions. I had learned all these facets over the many years from those that were specialist in those fields.

BEFORE today I was just going to start putting part of it online and hope for the best.

BUT by the grace of God things changed for the better TODAY. I believe it was due to answered prayers.

ORDERLY

I came upon a summary that was EXACTLY what I needed TODAY. I had saved the attached document back in 2012. I was not ready then. But I am NOW.

That attachment is 10 pages long. But it is the 1 page flow chart that is EXACTLY what I need TODAY.

The name of the attachment is The Teaching Sells 20-Step Process for Building an Online Business.

This is like a map of the interstate highways that this company has use to lead thousands of others like to go go from zero to livable income. It is like a filing cabinet with 20 folders arranged in a logical way for me to organize my many notes and ideas.

I can start at the early part of the 20 steps and have peace of mind that the other steps will follow when the time is ripe. My problem before had been that my thoughts and feeling kept jumping back and forth all along this timeline.

I have put these on an online  mind map at www.comapping.com that is like my workshop.

I will still need the Convert Kit and several other tools. But now they have a context that will serve not only to get started but also make improvements as needed.

Pray for God to use this to guide my research, plans and especially ACTIONS.

Shalom

John