Me:  This is a nice brick church.

Prodigal:  Yes it is!

Me:  I hope God uses it.

 

This is from the book The God Who Hung on the Cross by Dois Rosser Jr. and Ellen Vaughn

 

In one such case, the government granted a group of believers a swampland for church construction.  It took six months, but the Christians packed the marshy bog with fill dirt-wheel barrow by wheel barrow.  Once they prepared the site, they could not obtain any bricks to construct their building, so local officials permitted them to tear down a nearby unused nuclear missile silo, a relic of the Cold War in the Soviet Union.

When the believers started dismantling the silo and carrying the bricks away-again, wheel barrow by wheel barrow-one man found a fragile slip of paper, rolled tightly and stuck between two bricks.  The others gathered around as he carefully unrolled the old paper and smoothed it flat.

“These bricks,” he read out loud, straining to decipher the faded ink, “were purchased to build a house of worship.  But they were confiscated by the government to build a missile silo.  May it please the Lord that these bricks will one day be used to build a house to His glory!”

And so they were.

 

If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.

Matthew 21:22

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org