Exceedingly Abundantly!

Wow!  God does really provide exceedingly abundantly over and above what we can ask or imagine!

The idea of launching Rev Reuben's Anointed Sermons on iTunes was first mooted in December last year, and it was more "experimental" than anything else.  I had gone to the library to read up on podcasting and also browsed the Internet to see what was the most user-friendly and easiest way to get started -- and came across a site known as Podbean.

Podbean offers a free, no-frills, entry-level version, and so registration was done on 27 December 2011.

Registration on Podbean

Having created the podcast, the next step was to get it approved by the iTunes store.  That emailed duly arrived on 2 January 2012.

Podcast Approval

And so, the podcast was officially launched and made available on the iTunes store.

But what was unexpected was receiving the following email just 3 days later, on 5 January 2012...

Bandwidth Quota Warning

It was a message from Podbean notifying me that the bandwidth quota allocated to my free account with them had reached 80%!  In other words, there was a significant number of people downloading the sermons to listen to!  I had a make a decision quick -- either ignore the message and deprive other listeners from accessing the sermons or upgrade to a paid version.

I was prompted to choose the latter.

And so, I duly paid US$49.50 via Paypal, as a way of sowing into Rev Reubs ministry.

Sowing of US$49.50 into the ministry 

Having done so, I received the following email confirmation from Podbean that my account had been upgraded from Podbean basic - free to Podbean Advanced:

The upgraded version allows one to track the number of downloads as well as where the downloaders are located.  I checked out the statistics every now and then and saw that there was a steady stream each day.

But what was totally unexpected was that just about a month later, it started appearing in the iTunes store under "New and Noteworthy"and that caused the number of downloads to suddenly spike up!  God had caused the sowing to produced a harvest so soon and so overwhelmingly!  In fact, Anointed Sermons topped the category again just a week ago (17 Mar 2012) and was even listed as high as number 42 on the overall chart, among spiritual giants such as Joseph Prince, Joel Osteen, Rick Warren and Joyce Meyer.  Hallelujah!

The number 1 "New and Noteworthy" on 17 March 2012

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Reached number 42 on the charts

In celebration of the above, the following (which I consider to be my personal favorites -- authorship has its privileges) will be made available on the podcast over the next couple weeks:

#024 -- Gospel Vs a Different Gospel

#035 -- His Name Shall Be Called

#039 -- Rahab's Life-Changing Faith

#050 -- God's Family

#057 -- Cross-Purposes

#062 -- God is For Us

#078 -- Rich

#080 -- The Redeemer

#091 -- All Yes and Amen?

By the way, interest in these sermons also come from all over the world -- Canada, USA, England, Germany, Romania, Russia, Italy, India, Philippines, Brunei, Australia and of course, Singapore.

All over the world

Only Africa and South America have yet to show any interest, but let's call for it that they will very soon.  Amen?