Stay On Track

We are running behind on contributions to purchase a building on Lancaster! Although we are staggering it has not and will not defeat God's calling and direction for the Lighthouse. We have an additional month to come up with $65,000. I received these words early this morning :

"On track. I heard the steady sound of a night train traversing the tracks to its next destination. The sound of the train engines hinted of a train functioning well. Clearly the Lord spoke to my heart His word: Stay on track. I have already determined your destination. You will do well to keep moving according to the plan I have placed in your heart. This is no time to change tracks or for an unplanned stop. To do so would be disastrous not only to you but to proper functioning of My body. Keep moving steady and straight ahead. On track."

Hebrews 12:2 "We must focus on Jesus, the source and goal of our faith. He saw the joy ahead of him, so he endured death on the cross and ignored the disgrace it brought him. Then he received the highest position in heaven, the one next to the throne of God."

I pray the Lord keeps the me and Lighthouse on track completing the task he have set before us and if He returns today He will find us faithful doing what we have been called to do!

Phillip Yancy in his book Prayer Does It Make Any Difference? writes these powerful thoughts: "Prayer allows a place for me to bring my doubts and complaints---in sum my ignorance---and subject them to the blinding light of a reality I cannot comprehend but can haltingly learn to trust. Prayer is personal, and my doubts take on a different cast as I get to know the Person to whom I bring them."

God is faithful and He tells me and you: "He that begins a good work will bring about the completion of that work." Once more this journey with Lighthouse has revealed my utter hopelessness and need for the Father. It has revealed in me what I thought was a mature faith in reality struggles with the faith level of an infant just learning to walk. Stumbling, falling and bumping my head and crying for help and afraid to get up and continue the task set before me. Another thought Yancy shares in his wonderful book says this: "It occurred to me one day that though I often worry about whether or not I sense the presence of God, I give little thought to whether God senses the presence of me. When I come to God in prayer, do I bare the deepest, most hidden parts of myself? Only when I do so will I discover myself as I truly am, for nothing short of God's light can reveal that. I feel stripped before the light, seeing a person far different from the image I cultivate for myself and for everyone around me. God alone knows the selfish motives behind my every act, the vipers' tangle of lust and ambition, the unhealed wounds that paradoxically drive me to appear whole. Prayer invites me to bring my whole life into God's presence for cleaning and restoration. Self-exposure is never easy, but when I do I learn that underneath the layers of grime lies a damaged work of art that God longs to repair." "We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him"

I do not know all that God has for me or the Lighthouse--but the struggles and battles me and my family endure are designed to develop us into depended children that long even more today for our Father.

Please pray that we stay on track with the Lord and not let this building or money get in the way. Thanks for loving me in spite of all my blemishes. I pray that you will see the One who matters---JESUS!


Shalom,