Hank and Brenda’s Ministry Dream

Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World

This flow traces Hank and Brenda’s shared movement from disappointment and financial strain into ministry, healing testimony, and public service.

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The Seven-Year Word The Seven-Year Word from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Seven-Year Word Hank receives a troubling word that his path will resemble Joseph’s through accusation, rejection, and delay.

The Seven-Year Word from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Seven-Year Word Hank receives a troubling word that his path will resemble Joseph’s through accusation, rejection, and delay.

The Seven-Year Word Hank receives a troubling word that his path will resemble Joseph’s through accusation, rejection, and delay. A Promise with Pain The message does not sound like immediate promotion. It predicts a long season in which ministry hopes will appear buried. A Costly Interpretation Hank and Brenda must hold together divine promise and humiliating circumstances without knowing how the two will meet.

The Lost House The Lost House from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Lost House Hank loses ministry employment and then secular work, forcing the family to sell their first house and move without financial security.

The Lost House from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Lost House Hank loses ministry employment and then secular work, forcing the family to sell their first house and move without financial security.

The Lost House Hank loses ministry employment and then secular work, forcing the family to sell their first house and move without financial security. Dream Against Circumstance The practical collapse seems to contradict prophetic expectations about ministry. Shared Endurance Brenda and Hank continue seeking God while confusion and self-doubt threaten to redefine the dream as punishment.

The Omaha Commission The Omaha Commission from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Omaha Commission God instructs Hank to pastor and begin a church in Omaha, turning a long season of delay toward action.

The Omaha Commission from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Omaha Commission God instructs Hank to pastor and begin a church in Omaha, turning a long season of delay toward action.

The Omaha Commission God instructs Hank to pastor and begin a church in Omaha, turning a long season of delay toward action. A Clear Direction The new command is more concrete than the earlier promise. It gives the dream a place, a role, and a next step. Shared Beginning Hank discusses the call with his pastor, and the ministry dream begins to move from inward conviction into public structure.

The Church Expansion The Church Expansion from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Church Expansion A threatened eviction from a small rented space unexpectedly leads Lord of Hosts Church into larger facilities.

The Church Expansion from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Church Expansion A threatened eviction from a small rented space unexpectedly leads Lord of Hosts Church into larger facilities.

The Church Expansion A threatened eviction from a small rented space unexpectedly leads Lord of Hosts Church into larger facilities. Doors Threatened The property manager appears ready to lock the church out before a Sunday service, creating immediate institutional danger. Opposition Reversed A stranger negotiates a new arrangement, and the church expands from one bay to several. The crisis becomes an enlargement of vision.

The Miracle Man The Miracle Man from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Miracle Man Brenda’s father enters septic shock, medical coma, and multiple organ failure, while the family prays around the clock.

The Miracle Man from "Don't Leave God Alone: How to Get God's Attention, Remain in His Presence, and Even Change His Mind to Make a Difference in Your World". The Miracle Man Brenda’s father enters septic shock, medical coma, and multiple organ failure, while the family prays around the clock.

The Miracle Man Brenda’s father enters septic shock, medical coma, and multiple organ failure, while the family prays around the clock. Medical Impossibility Doctors give him less than a fifty percent chance of survival, and the family watches machines sustain a failing body. Gradual Restoration Signs accumulate slowly until physicians call him a miracle man. His recovery becomes the family’s most intimate evidence that their dead dream of his life has returned.

during Hank’s early ministry uncertainty

after Hank is dismissed from ministry

seven years after the original word

during the early years of Lord of Hosts Church

during Brenda’s father’s septic illness