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| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 2478 Registered: 3-2004  |
I really like sharing this one. It shows that faith can move mountains. Enjoy. Diana Mountain-moving faith: A small congregation in the foothills of the Great Smokies built a new sanctuary on a piece of land willed to them by a church member. Ten days before the new church was to open, the local building inspector informed the pastor that the parking lot was inadequate for the size of the building. Until the church doubled the size of the parking lot, they would not be able to use the new sanctuary. Unfortunately, the church with its undersized lot had used every inch of their land except for the mountain against which it had been built. In order to build more parking spaces, they would have to move the mountain out of the back yard. Undaunted, the pastor announced the next Sunday morning that he would meet that evening with all members who had "mountain moving faith." They would hold a prayer session asking God to remove the mountain from the back yard and to somehow provide enough money to have it paved and painted before the scheduled opening dedication service the following week. At the appointed time, 24 of the congregation's 300 members assembled for prayer. They prayed for nearly three hours. At ten o'clock the pastor said the final "Amen". "We'll open next Sunday as scheduled," he assured everyone. "God has never let us down before, and I believe He will be faithful this time too." The next morning as he was working in his study there came a loud knock at his door. When he called "come in", a rough looking construction foreman appeared, removing his hard hat as he entered. "Excuse me, Reverend. I'm from Acme Construction Company over in the next county. We're building a huge shopping mall. We need some fill dirt. Would you be willing to sell us a chunk of that mountain behind the church? We'll pay you for the dirt we remove and pave all the exposed area free of charge, if we can have it right away. We can't do anything else until we get the dirt in and allow it to settle properly." The little church was dedicated the next Sunday as originally planned and there were far more members with "mountain moving faith" on opening Sunday than there had been the previous week! Would you have shown up for that prayer meeting? Some people say faith comes from miracles. But others know: MIRACLES COME FROM FAITH! | ||
| Cw Registered user Username: Cw Post Number: 11 Registered: 4-2006  |
Diana, we need stories like that. My wife and I are in two small home groups from our church and one of them met yesterday-the subject of discussion was faith. Wouldn't it be easy if Christ would simply sit in our small groups with us and assure us that all is well? But then I guess we would just become fat and lazy in our faith huh? CW | ||
| Lydell Registered user Username: Lydell Post Number: 745 Registered: 7-2000 |
Neat story. Reminds me of one a couple of members of our church tell. He is a retired pastor. They were doing some work on a country church many years ago. It became obvious they were going to have to remove a very large tree from the church property for the expansion on which they were working. Had no extra money to hire anyone to do the work for them. So, they all gathered around the tree and prayed that the Lord would make a way for the work to get done. They had already cut the tree down and removed the debris. It was the stump that was the problem. A bit later a bulldozer came down the road toward the church. They flagged him down and explained the situation. The operator quickly agreed to help them out. After he was gone, the pastor suddenly realized he'd forgotten to thank him and hurredly began to look for him. He went down the road in the direction they'd seen the machine drive off. Funny thing tho. A short ways down the road, the machines' tracks just suddenly disappeared. He and wife went back the other way to ask folks along the road coming toward the church if they had seen the bulldozer and might know where it came from. No one had heard it or seen it. Their daughter tells me she was pretty young when this happened and was really impacted by it. God does whatever is needed. |
