Jehovah-jireh
It was like déjà vu, sitting there on the bench just outside the restaurant in Burbank. I was wearing the same ball cap. The same shoes. The sky was bright blue and dotted with the same puffy white clouds.
I saw Bruce's car pull in. As he stepped out of the car, I stood up. Greeted him. "Hey, brother! How you doin'? Good to see ya!"
That took me back...to the first time I sat on that bench, waiting.
Right now I'm feeling a sense of déjà vu. Or another way to put it is we're back on first base. But, there's something different about it. There's a new level to it. A new movement -- a kind of unseen spiritual momentum that only God can do, and only God is responsible for.
Even Bruce's time spent in his father's hospital, and my time spent in my own hospital -- I feel those were an "inauguration" of some kind (if I can say it that way) in this Kingdom adventure we call JOHN. Prayer Chain #2 confirms this in my spirit.
Because this is for souls. This is for the gospel. This is for the Name of Jesus. That is what's at stake. His Name. And so, our God Himself goes before us in this.
Check out Bruce's comment about the picture below, of a major newspaper in South Africa with an article about a guy who was declared Not Guilty:
The Lord showed me through this that He can do in the blink of an eye what man can't do. Putting my book on the front page of a national newspaper that goes out across the world in the online edition, across worldwide news agencies... It's a publicist's dream -- AND GOD DID IT WITHOUT EFFORT, no publicist, no cost, no nothing... Just the stroke of His Spirit's favor. He spoke to me through that photo of what He'll do with JOHN -- Him doing what only He can do -- in the blink of an eye. GLORY!
So we keep praying. We keep knocking. We keep seeking. We keep sharing the vision for JOHN. We keep sending out those emails. We keep making those calls. Because we know our God goes before us, and we believe Jehovah-jireh (The LORD will provide).
