UNDER DIVINE CONTROL

In times of trial and tribulation, Prayer becomes the divine connection to Godly rescues. This is something often overlooked when we are overwhelmed by the chaos that results from events like hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes and this Covid Pestilence. In the latter part of March 2020, we learned of the horrible impact of this invisible virus. Now what?

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.-Rom 8:28

  For Linda and me at CESM [Christ Eternal Senior Ministries] Our Lord not only heard our prayers and pleadings, He granted us remarkable favor by returning to us a method to continue preaching the Good News of JESUS CHRIST to the precious souls that were now protected and sequestered behind doors and walls; all others would have to wait outside. When the doors closed, we prayed. God opened another door for us through the WORD. 

Here is the story:

From one Sunday to the other everything suddenly changed. No longer could we conduct in-person church services and preaching the Gospel was reduced to a double sided printed Sunday sermon.

We prayed, "O Mighty God of mercy, Precious Lord Jesus, open a door to us to a method to continue reaching and preaching to the nearly 50 children of Yours now imprisoned behind these walls. Father, Give us a solution, Amen". That very night as I was paging through a realtor's website on the internet, I saw a photo of a small low-power FM transmitter. The realtor uses this device to play a repeating message to potential clients as they drive by a house for sale. GOD provided the answer to our prayer in that immediate moment. {God has shown me that COINCIDENCE is not real. God is!}

Over the next three weeks, door after door was opened to us pointing out what we needed, where it was located, and how much we already had and did not know it! By Easter Sunday, we had all we needed to deliver LIVE the Gospel of Jesus Christ unhindered right through walls and beyond closed doors directly to the ears of our loyal and precious souls who join us remotely via FM Radio!!

Our car is now the Sunday morning pulpit providing three 45-minute full church services to three facilities. Two by direct broadcast, one indirect. The entire services are broadcast from inside the car. Here you see us set up in the parking lot at one Assisted Living Facility. The old survey tripod was collecting dust in the garage, along with the mast that used to be a tree saw that broke years ago. The antenna and the FM Transmitter in the car were complements of AMAZON.

Microphone, headphones and sermon is clamped to the steering wheel.

The inexpensive audio mixer came through Best Buy. I already had the laptop and the 300 watt inverter on the floor board.

In the back seat rests the FM Transmitter, the 1/2 watt unit does the job for us. The fellows who build this device are up North and really, by the grace of God,  arranged for all the pieces to fall into place so that we could go LIVE on Easter Sunday. The First LIVE BROADCAST was at Pine Level Baptist Church carrying a LIVE Service to cars parked in the church lot --properly distanced- with Pastor Brian at the Pulpit. It was WONDERFUL.

From that day to today, and into the immediate future, our tiny SERMON in a SUITCASE Ministery continues each week as we Preach and share the Good News of Jesus to those Senior Light Bearers as the church comes to them every Lord's Day on Sunday. Everything we need we carry with us. For the exception of the mast and tripod, it all fits in this carrier that GOD arranged for us to have.

No matter what you face, always go to prayer FIRST, and constantly plead. Prayer works!  None of this progress would have been possible absent prayer.  PRAYER WORKS through HIS divine will to accomplish HIS plan and deliver HIS word.  PRAYER WORKS!

THANK-YOU ALMIGHTY GOD, YOUR WILL BE DONE!

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?

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