Counting the Cost

Great change is coming to the body of Christ in the next 5 years and I want to encourage you not to have the mindset of “same thing, same time, same place”. The Lord is placing his troops in strategic positions. Don’t worry about how you can make this happen. You can’t.

Consider this. Did you know that every day the children of Israel in the wilderness needed:

• 1,500 lbs. of food – that’s two trains each a mile long
• 4,800 lbs. of firewood – that’s another two trains each a mile long
• 11,000,000 gallons of water – that’s one train 1,800 miles long

To get across the Red Sea at two abreast would have taken 35 days and nights. To get across in one night, they would have marched 5,000 abreast. That’s a 3-mile wide opening in the Red Sea. Camp for one night required 750 square miles. That’s an area three-quarters the size of Rhode Island. Do you think Moses thought about this before he took out across the desert? I think not. We cannot prepare for the unexpected. But God is never surprised and He had has a plan.

I would never in a million thoughts have been prepared for the aftermath of a church being burned at the hands of arsonists. Yet, like Moses and the children of Israel, I am forced to deal with it. I could not if so many of you had not responded with cards, calls, offerings and, most importantly, your continued prayers. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.