MEN WHO DREAM

I've never really understood whether God chooses men who dream or if He gives dreams to the men He chooses. I do know that much of what has been done for the glory of God was born of dreams.” ---Ron Boutwell, 1978

Monday, February 16, 2015

MARCHING TO VICTORY #19

(From my column “Looking Forward and Glancing Back” in the SGT monthly newsletter, July, 1988.)

The battle is almost over and victory will be ours, but we still need your help—each and every one of you! As you receive this newsletter, we will have little more than a week to go in the year-long battle to raise the $60,000 needed to purchase our “Promised Land.” We can and must succeed. If God is for us, who can be against us?

Last month I told you of our symbolic crossing of the river Jordan as we stepped over the halfway goal— $30,000. Since that time, Praise the Lord, we have made a giant leap to $38,000 plus. Yes, that’s right; in fact, in eight exciting, miraculous days in June 8,000 dollars came pouring in. It was unbelievable! After several months of inching our way along, to suddenly have such a glorious outpouring from God was just the affirmation we needed! Once again, we felt God’s hand upon us. How precious and wonderful it is to know that God is with you!

Remember the last part of Joshua 3:5? “For tomorrow, the Lord will do a great miracle.” Well, He did! Thank You, Father! Praise Your Holy name! We truly thank You and give You all the glory, for You alone could have made it all happen! We love You, Father, and praise You with all that is in us!

Yes, we have $40,000 now, and hopefully much more by the time you read this. (Please feel free to call the Theatre for an exact update.) While this is exciting, we cannot let up until we have complete victory—$60,000 by August 1. At times, this still seems unachievable; however, before we started, $40,000 seemed impossible. Until this special year the Lord has given us, our most ambitious projects had been raising $1000 for lights and $1000 to get us out of debt. Those seemed like next-to-impossible projects for us then, so you can imagine how we felt when the Lord set $60,000 before us. But all things are possible with God! However, the Lord did not set the goal, the dream, before us without the knowledge that we must all work to reach that goal. Just as the children of Israel had to do battle to claim their promised land, so, too, we must do battle as well. As certain as life itself, the Lord is with us and will help us to win if we fight. When we began a year ago, the Lord gave us a battle scripture—Joshua 1:9. “Yes, be bold and strong! Banish fear and doubt! For remember, the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” However, I don’t believe He will help us if we retreat or just stand around and wait for Him to do everything. No, indeed, we must all do everything we can. I believe that we could have victory in a matter of days if everyone whom the Holy Spirit has prompted to give would respond. I’m sure there are many who know of our struggle and have thought, “I should help,” but have delayed doing that which they felt led to do. Please, I urge you not to tarry any longer. We’re almost out of time. Please join us NOW in our march to victory!

It’s going to be a glorious victory for which we can all praise the Lord! Thank You, Father! Praise Your Holy Name, Jehovah!

COMING NEXT: WE ARE NOT MOVING . . . YET!

Was the commitment to go into the Promised Land debt free a mistake? Will God be pleased with a compromise?