Bragging on God
For those of you that haven't journeyed with us since the beginning, we used to meet in a house every week. For months we prayed, begged, searched for a place to meet. We got a little spoiled (because we serve a good God) and asked for a lot. "The building must be:..."
- Inside of our target area. Central Mobile, close to the college. We asked for north of Cottage Hill Rd., east of Schillinger Rd., south of Old Shell Rd., and west of Azalea Rd.
- Affordable.
- Large enough to grow in to.
- Not a church.
What happened next is the stuff of legends.
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Not only the location, but every other requirement was met on an unbelievable level.
God taught us a lesson in sovereignty and also got a good laugh, I'm sure. We forgot to pray for a bathroom.
So long story short, God gave us exactly what we asked for and showed us how to pray in the future-- specifically.
"I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him." - 1 John 5:13-15