September 21st, 2008 was Harvest Brampton's first prayer meeting. We crammed ourselves into Keith and Sylvia's living room, dining room and part of their kitchen. I remember trying to address this eager group of believers on couches, folding chairs and the floor on the importance of prayer in getting our church started.
One of the things that we prayed for that night was that God would provide us with a place to worship Him. The handout we distributed instructed us to pray that God would lead us to the right location and that He would grant us favour in the site of municipal authorities and business owners.
Today is July 29th 2009. That's ten months and eight days after we first asked the Lord to give us a place to worship Him. But who's counting?
To those of you who are counting, it has been:
44 weeks
or 7 464 hours.
or 447 840 minutes
or 26, 870 seconds
But seriously though, who's counting? The Lord is going to build His church. He will place us in His location at His time. Because we know this, we are still waiting on the Lord and working hard to explore every option available to us, but most importantly we are continuing to pray to this end, knowing that God will answer us.
God says "Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known" (Jeremiah 33:3). Let's continue to call out to the Lord with confidence that in the end He will blow our minds by doing "far more abundantly" in and through us and thus bring Himself immense glory (Ephesians 3:20-21).