Just Thoughts!

I tossed and turned last night as I weighed the options for Onething Prayer Center and for Ann Marie and I. Onething is located in a strip mall. We are tucked away behind some businesses in a courtyard that most people don't even know exists. It was what was available at the time and it has served us well in spite of no signage or front exposure. This past week a prime front location has become available so we are weighing all the possibilities. All open doors are not God. As I opened the word this morning I thought I was going to build upon my closing from Yesterday which was a single word "ENOUGH." I put in the word enough to do a search and this was what I got.

Exodus 23:29-30 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land.

Okay I have been writing that you don't take a verse and make it fit your situation but what am I to do with this...... call it coincidence? Our vision has been to eventually have the entire west end of this mall filled with ministry and Christian businesses or services. Am I facing step two of that process? Coincidence or encouragement to proceed according to God's plan and timing?

I must be true to my words about a verse to make a case for my circumstances. I must read and see the bigger picture around these verses. And I think for today I'll just read it and save comments for tomorrow should God allow.

Exodus 23:20 “Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My name is in Him. 22 But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. 23 For My Angel will go before you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off. 24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars. 25 “So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. 26 No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. 27 “I will send My fear before you, I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you. 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land. 31 And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea, Philistia, and from the desert to the River.[b] For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”