Prayer request for site Moderator Family

Saints,

We do not try and bring out every request publicly to SermonIndex for our family. We have let some intercessors and saints know about prayer needs. But I thought to send this out to saints this way to pray for our family.

We have re-located back to Abbotsford, BC and have found it very hard to find a suite to live in. There has been a real estate boom in just like the last 6 months and defieciency of rentals especially for small families.

We appreciate your prayers for a miracle of the Lord on our behalf. We can imagine many other people in this situation also so we will be able to minister and understand.

Lord, we do lift up this dear brother and his family to you during this time.
You said that you prepare a place for us and not only in heaven but here on earth, I know you have the perfect place prepared for Greg and Brandy and children. May they have perfect peace as you lead them there in your perfect timing. Thank you, Father, for these servants of yours who have given many of us hope. Give them joyous expectation on their journey. In Jesus name I pray
L

Greg, would you like us to also pray for your employment? What kind of work do you do to support your family?

Prayers for you and your family and may you be kept in peace.

Greg, would you like us to also pray for your employment? What kind of work do you do to support your family?

Dear brothers and sisters,

Thank you for your prayers, it is a blessing that believers will take the time to do such for our little flock (family).

Towards the questions from the brother, we have been trusting the Lord for our provision and he has been very faithful to provide for us without fail. I have tentmaked in the past with website work or other odd jobs but have not sought to do so for many years being busy with ministry.

At this point we are essentially in need of prayer for Favour from God towards finding a suite as it is very competitive and many times there have been multiple people looking at the same suite. We have been turned down also many times and there are waiting lists for 2 months in advance, etc.

May God do something for a testimony. Thank you for praying.

Definitely will pray for your situation brother

Amen Greg. Do what the Lord commands and He will reward your faith.

Please post an address when you are able.

Dear brother,

a po box is on the contact us page: https://www.sermonindex.net/contact.php

thank you for your prayers. I look forward to sharing a testimony after.

Amen sister, we will think about you everyday and pray the Lord will grant you a wonderful home for your family!

Ephesians 6:18 New International Version (NIV)

18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I am very glad that Greg humbled himself with this public prayer request.
I believe the Lord is calling us to get out of our comfort zones, our independent American lifestyles ( and I'm sure many have praise God) but I have a story to tell. In 2006, I believed the Lord called me to leave all and go to Virginia with my 11 year old. My husband had divorced me in 1999 and married another.

It was scary but I sensed that I needed to live not by sight but by faith.
I went not knowing anyone in the town I went to. I had enough money to put down payment on a place and pay rent until I could secure work.

In a nutshell I will tell you what we encountered. Although there was a a church on every corner and I had references from several pastors in Utah, every church I went to heard my story but there was "no room in the inn" for a divorced woman and her child. Though people lived in large homes with room for guests we were never invited into any. I spent $100. a night in a local motel as my money dwindled.

Pastors referred us to governmental agencies for welfare. I knew that was not God's provision. Finally a pastor told us there was an empty house near his house. We rented it from an absentee teacher for $700. a month. It was a mess and had no stove and the water heater was broken. This is after we had gone everywhere in town trying to secure a nice rental . The pastor and his wife were too busy to even talk to us. The never invited us to their home though they were next door to us. I began to feel the sting of rejection for being a divorced woman with no husband.

Since I was not at a very high faith level I began to get discouraged. Not one person at an organized church had helped us except to say "God bless you".

At that point, I was basically on my knees for every decision. I could not find work and winter was coming on. But we had food, shelter and a roof over our heads (and a hot plate). We also bought a tent and had sleeping bags just in case!

Amazingly God provided for us daily through little miracles and we learned, like Judy, that God's ways were not our ways.

I met some Mennonite believers in a prison waiting room as I visited a friend who was in prison. That is why I came to VA, because the Lord told me to visit the prisoner and I knew one man in prison.

I asked the Mennonite woman if they had a prayer meeting and she invited me to a ladies Bible study and prayer meeting in a home. That was the beginning of fellowship with true believers. And they supplied my child and I with a space heater when the furnace broke and was turned off in our rental house.

I'm telling you a very short version of a 3 year time of living by faith and not by sight. God supplied all our needs.....IN HIS TIME... teaching us valuable lessons all along the way and it was not painless! I cried myself to sleep sometimes wondering where the next provision would come from. But Jesus knew I had a head knowledge but the rubber hadn't hit the road in many areas of my trust in Him.

I had wanted to know what it was like when the Spirit said to Ananias "Go to Straight Street and there you will find a blind man named Saul..."
I was tired of doing my own thing and not really hearing the Holy Spirit be so specific....well the Lord heard my prayer and for three years the Lord trained me!!! And my child was observing and experiencing God's faithfulness.

I met the Body of Christ and the love of Christ was poured out in me, but it was NEVER ONCE through organizations, church or governmental. It was always through one believer here and one believer there.

Even the Mennonite Church did not have open arms for a divorced woman because of their hard stand on that issue. But individuals who loved Jesus would circumvent rules and regulations to love on a stranger who came to their town.

All that to say, Greg, if I lived closer to you, your family would be welcome to stay with me for as long as you needed until something opened up for you. My message to the church is to open up your lives and homes to the pilgrims and strangers God brings into your midst. Fear and pride keeps us from getting out of our comfort zone and sacrificing for one another. And this is still a battle even for me after what I went through.

A sister in Jesus,
L

Dear sister, the Mormons where you are at, excel better at taking care of their own, then the evangelical church does. That should be a slap in our face and a rebuke to us.

Bro Blaine,

Without taking away from the original prayer request (which I did) and am!
I just wanted to share that God takes care of His own. And He may
Have intentionally shut doors for me in Christian churches that may be open for others.

He leads in ways we cannot figure out!

And you know, while in VA, I could have gone to a local Mormon Ward and probably would have been helped just by virtue of being from Utah.
But I knew that was off limits. Yes, Mormons are organized and have outreach galore, but at the root of it is 'good works' and a religion birthed in a Satanic plot to keep people in bondage all their lives. To have been indebted to some unbelievers would have detracted from the testimony of being freed from the bondage of Mormonism. As it turned out I shared my testimony with more people in VA than here in Utah!!! And two Mormon missionaries heard the gospel from me when they knocked on the door of that rental house with no heat!!!

And thank God we are not as organized as the Mormons! If we look at them as a standard, we are doomed.

Also I had the shoe on the other foot years ago when I was in a Christian church. I was the secretary for a while. I tithed regularly and trusted that the "benevolent fund' took care of widows and orphans. Imagine my surprise when I found out most of the money went to the building fund.
A $9000. heating bill (yup, big, old building) and only a few hundred dollars allocated for benevolence.

Believers have to decide what is more important. Tradition or a living relationship with the God whose ways seem foolish to others. Like others here, we have come to the place of wanting to trust the Lord more but we have to help others and let them know the way of the Lord is so amazing and wonderful and we would never go back to our old ways.
Hope that is more encouraging!
Sis L

Dear sister it is encouraging. As was your testimomy Before long the remnant will find out nure what it us to trust God. Onky made the comoarison to Mormonism to show how far the American Church Has fallen. (Take I look at my post Visiting A Church Last Night)

Brother Greg will be praying about your situation trusting that God will provide suitable living or you and your family.

Blane,.

The Lord takes care of His people whatever men do or don't do.

He doesn't allow us to blame one another because we don't know His will for each other.

God has His reasons for blessing one and withholding from another and that is why you cannot compare His Church to another religion which does not have a living God.

Then brother pray that God will meet the need of our brother Greg and his family for suitable housing in British Columbia.