Revival Blog

Some may chalk this up to being super spiritual but check this out.

We had a birthday party for our son this Saturday at a park in town. In between running around getting things together, Isaac and I stopped at a garage sale. We did not have time to stop there, and in fact, there was nothing that caught my eye that caused me to stop. I actually turned the car around and drove back after passing it. The sale was not even on the front lawn, it was inside.

There was nothing in the house but a few pieces of furniture and a couple books. I saw a little model of a church that I liked and asked how much the books were. I offered $3 for one of the books and two little church models. The woman told me that they had some “religious books” in another room if I was interested.

I went through the empty house to a back room and saw this and

The pictures are really bad and there were more books than I captured in the pic.  We got to talking and I told the folks that I was planting a work downtown and this was a real find. As I gazed around the room I saw books by Hinn, Wigglesworth, and other Pentecostals. This was a find indeed! They told me that their father had moved to Colorado and they were charged with doing something with what was left. As I began drooling over examining the books, they said to me,

If you want them, they’re yours!

I brought a friend to help load the books into my van the next day and it took us a half hour to move them all. As if that was not cool enough Holy Spirit reminded me a prayer I made about two months ago. I asked that “one day” I might be able to have one of those multi-volume bible commentaries. Well, in one day I got a half dozen of them including the 12 volume Interpreter’s Bible, the 23 Volume Communicator’s Commentary, the 23 Volume The Pulpit Commentary, the 31 Volume The Preacher’s Homiletic Commentary, at least two other full commentaries, the entire Tozer Pulpit Series, and about 200 other books. Here’s what it looks like in my bedroom after dozens of trips from the van, up the stairs, to my house. I am going to need a larger bookshelf.

So check this out. Less than a month before I am leaving my church to start my new ministry I receive the entire library from an AG pastor who has left the ministry not even a mile from my house. To me that is a prophetic sign.

btw, the book that I bought that triggered this windfall? God’s Smuggler. A story about a man that took the Word into oppressed areas by God’s supernatural provision. I just read it in two days.

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