Preston Gillham

Changes. There are adjustment changes in life, like adjusting the picnic due to rain, or adjusting to a new position at work, etc.

There are also disruptive changes, changes that fundamentally alter our lives. Our world is full of disruptive change right now—economic, technology, climate, balance of power.

The spiritual rhythm of life is in flux also, just like everything else around us, and it is disruptive. While this feels dark, it isn’t bad.

In fact, I think God is behind the disruption. Status quo spirituality is not cutting it—not for God, and not for us. We need a transformation, a reformation, a redefining of what it means to be sons and daughters of a passionate, engaged God.

I wrote No Mercy to fuel disruption. I wrote to illuminate a path in the midst of disruption. I wrote to cast a vision of how to embrace disruptive change—especially spiritual change—turn it to your advantage, and emerge transformed.

In disruptive times, it helps if we have someone to follow, to emulate. We need a guide, someone who discovers the path through disruptive darkness into the light of reformation. The life and story of Hank Henderson, the main character in No Mercy, offers us such a man for consideration.

We will never return to business as usual on any major front, including spiritually. Given this, I wrote No Mercy.

A true revolution changes the way people fundamentally behave.

People say we have had a technology revolution. I disagree. There has not been a technology revolution because the way we fundamentally do what we do has not changed—it has only gotten faster.

Google is a glorified card catalog. Accounting is still double entry. Documents continue to be stored in files. Social networks are not fundamentally different from the social networks of forty years ago, and so forth.

One of my mentors, Peter Drucker, argued that the next revolution would be a knowledge revolution. I agree. And this conviction has formed much of what I wrote about in my book, No Mercy.

How do we manage what we know and how will our lives be revolutionized?

In the book, the main character, Hank, wants to live his life like he’s always lived. But the crux of Hank’s story hinges on a true revolution within him and the concerted battle to thwart transformation.

It takes a lot of courage to do what Hank does in No Mercy. This is one reason I wrote the book. We need a pattern, a mentor, a guide along the way to show us what a revolution really looks like. A trusted colleague, even if fictional like Hank, bolsters our courage.

It is not good enough to have knowledge. It is not good enough to say you know God, or you know the Bible, or you know what’s right. A revolution will fundamentally change the way you behave and do what you do.

Until this revolution occurs, we will continue doing what we have always done. And sadly, what we know will stagnate and mold inside our souls.

A revolution like Hank’s awaits us all.

As the fall season approaches most of us enter into new routines. The prayer focus of our Tribe for the next couple of weeks is for pastors and educational ministers, book club and small group leaders to choose No Mercy as their Fall study material.

On another note, Preston and Di are reentering their routines after summer travels. Di is back to the classroom and Preston is arranging coaching jobs and business travel. They covet your prayers for the next season. Preston is thinking about the sequel of No Mercy and is seeking the best time and place to get away and write. We are praying that Father will grow the sales of No Mercy so that Preston will be able to write the sequel and will not need to take on a full time job. This is where the work of the marketing team is so important; please continue to lift us up.

An important blessing and result of your intersession is that Preston’s parents are currently in stable health and back into their own home. Rejoicing!

These are some thoughts for you to fellowship with Father about. As you talk to him about what is in His heart regarding No Mercy, please share either in the comments section of the blog, or via email or on the No Mercy Facebook page. We have quite handsome Facebook Tribe as well.

Be blessed as you share,

Reny Madjarska
Head Prayer Tribeswoman

Thank you for praying for the very first book singing. Pictures are posted on the No Mercy page on Facebook. The No Mercy team is very excited that the first promotion of the book occurred in a bar. After all, the fist century bars were the kinds of places where Jesus hung out. We are encouraged that Father would choose this location to bring His love to the people and we are so grateful that you are contending for them in prayer.

The team recognizes the importance you have in the endeavor that we are all in. We agree that the force of the Prayer Tribe was the final push in the birth of the book. We also agree that the spreading of the word about No Mercy and the impact on people’s lives will be propelled by the behind-the-scenes sacrifice of the Tribe.

If it was just a matter of book marketing, there are millions of books out there and well established promotional paths to follow. We are not following a well established marketing plan. In fact, the only plan is to trust the Lord daily and rely on His instructions of how and where to talk about the book. He is the One writing the plan, but He is giving it to us in small chunks. Knowing myself, if I had the whole layout, I would take it, run with it, and it will be many miles and many days before I remember to check in with Father. The Lord is not interested in our self-reliance or our contribution to His cause. Father can take care of His causes, promote His ideas, carry out His plans and accomplish everything He’s set out to do. He does not need my help, Preston’s help or any marketing guru for that matter. Just like the King told Hank, He wanted to walk with his son, be with him, share His journey with him.

Father wants to popularize No Mercy His way. He intends to use people with open minds, hearths, ears, relying on a daily infusion of fresh ideas straight from Heaven. To be able to receive these ideas, the extraneous things of life have to be put aside, focus has to be in place, time and fellowship with the Lord is imperative. Would you pray along those lines? Would you pray God’s creativity downloaded and infused into all of us and discernment and obedience to carry out all He shows us regarding No Mercy’s promotion?

Be blessed as you pray creativity from Heaven to earth,

Reny Madjarska
Head Prayer Tribeswoman

The first official book signing of No Mercy is today, in an hour to be precise. This is fantastic news. It gets even better. The location of the signing is in a bar, not just any bar, the Dog Bar and Grill in Cuchara, Colorado, to be exact. Father must have something special for this bar, its clients and the town of Cuchara. I plan to ask for His thoughts on it.

Preston promised to take pictures and share them with the Tribe. Stay tuned and continue to pray, believing Father for great things in the lives of people who will read No Mercy, draw closer to Him, overthrow the yoke of the enemy and walk in the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

On another note, Preston and Di were able to take much needed R&R this week. They could use another month to fully recover but please ask Father to multiply their time and accelerate the restoration of their bodies, souls and minds. Our Lead Super Fan, Victor, is also on vacation with his family. Please remember him and the important publicity work he does for the No Mercy team.

Thank you for your prayers for my IRS audit. God’s grace came against what could have been a huge time drain. A number of good opportunities are coming my way, but recognizing the importance of Father’s work with No Mercy, I must stay focused and distinguish between that which is good and that which is excellent. It is not self-evident but it is imperative.

As another week comes more complimentary copies of No Mercy are going out to key individuals. We need people on Facebook and the in the blogosphere to share about their transformation as they read No Mercy. If you have been impacted already, share your thoughts.

Be blessed as you pray and live a transformed life,

Reny Madjarska
Head Prayer Tribeswoman

No Mercy

Official No Mercy Facebook Fan Page: facebook.com/NoMercy.Book

In case you are wondering how is Father answering your prayers, check out the official No Mercy page on Facebook.

Your intercession is making a difference in the lives of people. If you are tempted to pause, get distracted, or God forbid, quit praying, hear the words of this reader, “I am so grateful for this book and believe it will be a tool used by Father to heal our relationship.” Experts suggest that for every person who writes, there are many more that feel the same way but do not communicate. That is quite alright. We would like to meet the people who have been touched by No Mercy but it would be enough to know that more lives are changed and more of God’s kids are set free to love Him without the bondage of religion, legalism, Satan’s lies, self-imposed ambition.

To reach out to greater number of people we need readers to share about No Mercy, recommend it to their Facebook contacts, email their list, gift it to their friends. The download is free, so cost is not an issue. As you pray, ask the Lord to add an excellent Facebook developer to the No Mercy team. Ask Him to show us how to encourage the growing group of blessed readers to share their experience and the free download with their friends.

Be blessed as you bring many to Father’s love,

Reny Madjarska

Head Prayer Tribeswoman

Prayer Tribe warriors all hands on deck! The enemy has devised a new plan to derail the No Mercy team. And not just the team. The readers of No Mercy are getting hit as well.

Consider this: each person on the No Mercy team has faced demanding life circumstance in the last week. Not coincidentally in the last week we began our Facebook campaign and have seen great results.

For each team member the circumstances at hand are important and intensely personal, time consuming and with no option to delegate. Among other things, continue to pray for Preston’s full time care for his parents; Victor (our Lead SuperFan) was given an additional department to manage at work and all the demands that go along with it; I (Reny) am gearing up for an IRS audit at work and trying to discern God’s direction for a new relationship.

The readers of No Mercy are consistently telling us that Father is drawing them into His love and exposing the lies of Satan in their lives. Alongside of the spiritual transformation a number of readers have experienced unusual physical struggles – strange pains and aches with no apparent cause.

At the end of the day the book and the liberated lives of people are Father’s deal. He is fully able to take care of what needs to be done. We give it our best shot. We are privileged to participate in what He is doing. I do not want to miss out on any of His steps, intents, plans or passions. I do not want you to miss out as well. Glad you are apart.

Be blessed in your conversations with Father,

Reny Madjarska
Head Prayer Tribeswoman

The readership of No Mercy is growing daily. The feedback is very positive and exciting. But I am very interested in feedback from you all, the Prayer Tribe.

If you have started reading you probably realized that the book demands that you pause frequently and consider what you have just read. If you are anything like me, you pray. You wrestle with conviction. You search your heart. Or you ask Father to search your heart. And after you have dealt with what he has revealed, you pick up the book again. Few chapters later, or even few pages later, you pause again. You consider, you pray, you are moved to tears, you are encouraged, you feel unconditionally loved by the Father. You would do well to pause and soak in the awareness of His love. Few pages further you realize that you have been cheated by Jester and you have bought into his lies, adopted them as your own thoughts and anger starts to brew inside you. You may be hard on yourself and you wonder, “I know better, how I could fall in the same trap that Hank did?” So it is a process. If you are not zooming through the book, do not be discouraged. Keep reading, keep praying, keep talking about it, keep sending the link of the free e-book or keep giving copies away.

There is a lot more to No Mercy than what I described above. I do not want to give it away quite yet. I do want to hear your thoughts. You have prayed for this book over four months now. Father has given you intimate experience in your discussions with Him. Post your thoughts, comments, prayer here or send an email.

Be blessed as you read,

Reny Madjarska
Head Prayer Tribeswoman

The first week of the e-book launch is behind us and as expected struggles and victories abounded.
The bad news first.
- Preston’s mom is in much pain and needs round the clock care as well as your prayers
- My mom is back from the hospital with a lot of pain in her leg and no doctors’ diagnosis. She needs your prayers too.
- Our team member Lindsay, the amazing e-book designer, has been struggling with an upper respiratory problem for over four weeks now.

In all these cases please pray like you would want to be prayed for. Make a stand against the one who attacks the sons and daughters of the High King.

The good news.
- Downloads of the e-book are steady.
- The first orders for shipment of entire cases were international!
- Comments of impacted readers are coming in daily. One lady said, “I resent having to go to work in the morning because I have to put the book down.”

The distribution of the book continues. Important tools such as Facebook and various web-sites need to come together. Would you pray that the Lord provides people to assist in utilizing these tools.

I have such passion that No Mercy sets free not only believers but also touches the non-believers who read in the genre of No Mercy. Please pray for miraculous open doors into those circles. If you have any thoughts please do not hesitate to send.

There will be much happening in the next weeks. Be ready. Be alert as to what Father is showing you about our Prayer Tribe and the journey we are on. And please, do not forget to share.

Many blessings,

Reny Madjarska
Head Prayer Tribeswoman