An "Impossible" Prayer Request

For with God nothing will be impossible."

Luke 1:37

I read this verse on a friend's Facebook wall the other day. Blinked, and read the verse that came up at the top of my newsfeed. 

It came at a moment when my heart was heavy with doubt, drowning like Peter in doubt, and the Lord once again mercifully lifted me out of the waves. 

You see, I have an impossible prayer request--a request that's been burning in my heart for years, since I was a teenager, when the Lord first placed this calling upon my life, this ministry upon my heart. 

An impossible prayer request . . . and I bring it before you who are my friends and I ask that you would pray for me, pray for my husband, for my family, for those who will be involved. 

With man, it is an impossibility. In my present situation, an impossibility. 

But God works through seemingly impossible situations so that all of the glory may be His. 

Through a shepherd boy with only a sling and five smooth stones . . .

Through Gideon's army of 300 small . . . 

Through a little boy's lunch.

God works through the impossible to show His power and provision and protection and grace. 

When we surrender completely to Him. 

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends. (George Muller)

Years ago, the Lord placed a burden upon my heart to "build a place of rest" for fellow believers.  The following is an excerpt from a letter that I wrote regarding this calling that the Lord continually presses upon my heart --a calling that my husband and I share together. It is my "impossible" prayer request:

We want to eventually open our home to any Christian who is in need of solitude, direction, time away in a quiet setting for prayer, any Christian who would like to come away and seek the Lord for a time, who is weary, going through a severe trial and needs a respite, etc.

We would also like it to be open to Pastors, missionaries, laypeople who are seeking a time of rest and refreshment in prayer, solitude, working on a book project, seeking direction in their life, etc.

We would greatly appreciate your prayers.

What we would in essence like to do is to purchase a piece of land in a somewhat secluded setting, but close enough to a town, city, etc. where we could be connected with a local doctrinally-sound, Spirit-filled church.

Our hope is to first set up our home as a resting place and later possibly add small cabins where people could come and stay without charge.

We desire to develop the property in such a way to preserve the land in its natural beauty, but also to eventually add walking trails, benches, gardens, maybe a small chapel, etc. as a place of beauty, quietness, and prayer.

We are also hoping to have a time of fellowship, prayer and singing hymns once a week for anyone staying at the time and for anyone who would like to join us.

Years ago, I felt it placed upon my heart from the Lord to call this place Herrnhut (“The Lord’s Watch/Shelter”) after the Moravian Count Von Zinzendorf’s establishment  for persecuted Moravians.

We are asking for your prayers . . . please uphold us and lift us before the throne of grace as the Lord places it upon your heart. Our desire is that He would be glorified and that as E.M. Bounds says, 

"What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer."

Please pray for us . . . 
Thank you, dear friends. 

So I share these things with you and I ask for your prayers. Ask that the Lord would open a door that no man could shut and that He would turn this impossible situation into an opportunity to show His glory. We have come to a dead end, humanly speaking, but the Lord is able to make the desert into springs of water and the wilderness a road. 

These are the specific ways that you could pray for us:

• For my mother's house (on the market now) to sell. We live with my mother and are waiting until her home sells to move forward with the ministry that the Lord has placed upon our hearts.
• For the Lord's direction and provision.
• For the Lord to place our need for prayer upon His people's hearts. 

Thank you for your prayers. 



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