Mountain Rain #1 – Faith December 3, 2008
Posted by jonesy24 in Books, Christianity, Church, Glasgow, God, Internship, Re:Hope, What's happening with me....trackback
Talk about being long overdue… One of the books I read as part of my Internship was Mountain Rain – a biography of James O Fraser by Eileen Crossman.
Re:Hope at the moment is in a building that we don’t own. We rent it out from the current owners who are trying to sell it. There has been a bunch of people with different prospects for the building come and check it out.
We are putting our faith and hope in God – for Him to intervene. For Him to provide the building, or to provide somewhere else. After all, He provided the building in the first place. We believe (unless otherwise directed by God) that this building is where we’re supposed to be.
Something that stuck out at me as I was reading Mountain Rain was James Fraser’s faith that God would move. In much of ‘his’ work, it was so clearly God that moved, that he believed God would continue what He’s begun.
I am clearly seeing God move in Re:Hope. In the building situation over the last couple of years, in growth (in numbers and in people’s relationships with God), in the transformation of people’s hearts and in people being saved.
God is intervening. He is moving in Re:Hope. My hope is in the fact that God will continue what He has begun, and with regards to our current circumstances… I believe He will ‘provide’.
The thing is – I can’t see the end result. It’s pretty much down to naked faith. Faith that my God – who’s moved before, and is moving… will move again.
That book is atop my top 3! Fraser´s crazy man! Running from nationals chasing him with gun and/or arrows…leaving a pristine life where he would have been playing piano for the richest people within England´s crown and more than compensated for it…foregoing the desires for a wife, because he knew that if he was going to have one, then God would certainly do the necessary work to mingle such circumstances into Jame´s sold out, middle of nowhere work for Him.
He left it all, health, wealth and prosperity, and provided us with a glimpse into a life that is more than glorious…it is Godly. He is where I got the idea for “prayer haunts”, which is what we would have been doing first thing in the morning over here celebrating your birthday.
Thanks for the nod to a truly great man and a truly great life lived for our God. It´s my prayer that many people find themselves before this book, open, honest, humbled and perhaps willing to “go” and be the next material for mountain rain!
Blessings brother.