Rivers in High Places

Isaiah 41:18-20 KJV

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:

That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

I have witnessed God do these very things for me and for my family. No, I have never seen a river open in the mountains or a lake in the middle of a desert, but I have watched God give

• Impossible answers to prayer from
• The most unexpected sources at
• The very moment it was needed

So many financial needs were met from so many unexpected places when we began the church in Astoria that I came to not fret over money even though we were, for almost three years, unbelievably poor.

• I almost skidded off a road near Jack Burkhart’s house (before I met Jack Burkhart) because the tires were so bald on my car. I did not tell anyone about our need (we had no telephone so I could not have told anyone) but Mike Riggs wrote me a letter and suggested I might need tires. He said if I could get to the Tri-Cities, he would have some installed.
• I prayed for two and a half years for a building and, at just the time I was ready to give up, God delivered the building we had in Astoria; complete with more than twenty extra members for our church
• When the mortgage company that carried our loan on that building went bankrupt, God provided a church I had never heard of to pay off our loan
• Without my ever asking, or even attending a meeting, God opened the door for me to be on the board of PCBBC
• Within two weeks of going on staff at the college, God opened the door that I would be executive VP.
• When I asked the Lord, I was called to pastor Liberty Baptist in Spokane
• When I asked again, I was able to return to the college, this time in OKC
• When I asked, God opened the door to pastor BBC in Puyallup.
• I have seen God open means for both of my children at desperate times in their adult lives

 I am not suggesting that things have been easy; they most certainly have not. But God has proven Himself

• Alive and
• Present and
• Very able

to open any way and provide any means when it is best to do so.

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