Year of the lagomorph

The other day I went to a Chinese New Year's party. In honor of this I want to point out that this is the year of the lagomorph (really!). According to Wikipedia, the first lagomorph fossils are indeed from East Asia (China), so this is appropriate. I was also stunned at some of the differences between lagomorphs and rodents- check it out.

Of course, lagomorphs are another name for rabbits.

Wind storm

Friday night we hosted a concert of prayer for the Jersey Shore Will Graham celebration at Ocean Grove in May. Leaders and intercessors from many churches came together to pray. The theme was Ezekiel 37, life coming into the valley of dry bones. Person after person prayed that God would send his spirit and wind to the dry bones of the church.

What amazed me happened when I stepped outside the doors of our church after the service was over. An incredible wind was blowing, our trash cans, wood bench and door mats were all being blown away. As I retrieved them, I realized that we prayed for such a wind. I believe that what we prayed for and birthed in the spiritual was being manifest prophetically in the physical realm right after.

Let the wind blow!

Prophetic rodent?

We can all note that the weather is notably warmer, without any more snow storms, since Groundhog Day. This raises the question of whether Phil (and all his other rodent friends) truly were prophetic in their predictions that winter was coming to an end ("no more 6 weeks, we have had enough snow"). Today is nice and sunny- I want to affirm Phil's word of faith.

What do you think?

By the way, I want to note that I predicted the Packers would win by 7 (they won by 6), and the Jets would lose by 5 (exactly correct). It is amazing how much respect I have gotten over this. Maybe I have a new career in predicting, along with Phil.

Super Bowl- who will win?

I will unfold this issue from the Scriptures in church tomorrow, don't miss it! Check out these verses for further guidance- Exodus 20:15, Ephesians 4:28, Psalms 37:35 (original King James is essential for the correct interpretation), and Psalms 23:2.

In our new building...finally!

What a great achievement... the day I returned from India, we received our certificate of occupancy in the afternoon. This meant that we could officially meet there.

God truly helped us at so many stages of this process. For example, we had to pave the parking lot before the weather turned bad. As soon as we paved, it snowed the first and huge storm, and has not stopped snowing since!

We had a glorious celebration that Sunday, with many new people present. The building looks so big, and the stage seems so high and far away from the people! It will take some time to get used to. But it has a good spiritual feel to it. Last week I was praying in it alone several days, and God was very present then. For those who don't know, our new property holds the marl pits (in the rear) which Marlboro is named after and which caused it to grow (ask me about the spiritual significance of this).

We certainly needed more room to grow. Now we have enough parking for a while too, and no one has to walk across the street! The challenge for us is to work and exercise our faith so that God can fill this building also.

Thanks for all your prayer and hard work which made this possible. I am so proud of our church and how we came together as a team to build this, with God's help.