The drill rig is positioned and the tower raised
In Isaiah 44:3(a) the prophet declares the Word of the Lord stating “I will pour out water to quench your thirst and to irrigate your parched fields” (NLT).
Today I want to write a quick blog to bring you up to date on what we trust will be the literal fulfillment of this prophecy for the Casa del Obrero, and to ask you to be in prayer with us for the miracle that we believe God will provide.
But perhaps I am getting ahead of myself. Let me start at the beginning…
If you will look back to the last posting dated June 20, 2014 you will see that close friends of ours provided money to begin the drilling of the water well for the Casa del Obrero. I will paste the pertinent paragraph here from that blog:
“Our dear friends Kevin and Jackie Penner have donated money to drill a deep water well
The bit is positioned over “Ebenezer” – my touch point of blessing
on the Missionary Training Center farm. The well is to be called “Wesley’s Well”, and it will transform what can be done there. Water is literally life, and in our climate especially, it means the difference between productivity and bareness. This is a very exciting thing. Thank you God for your answer to our prayers, and thank you Kevin and Jackie for being used by God to bring the answer”.
Today the drilling rig arrived on the property and was set up to begin operating tomorrow morning. What an incredible answer to many months of prayer!
As Christians we believe in a God of miracles, but we do not believe in magical thinking; that is, believing that one event happens as a result of another without a plausible link of causation. Or, stated differently, the irrational belief that one can bring about a circumstance or event by thinking about it or wishing for it.
I say this because I want to take you to another blog of some months back. If you will look at the posting dated January 19, 2014 titled “The Breakthrough Begins!” you will read about our good friend pastor Moisés Gamboa, and how God used him to begin a chain of miracles for the Missionary Training Center. However, specifically, I want to take you to a paragraph in which, during a time of prayer, we drove a stake into the ground in an act of faith, believing, as did the prophet Samuel that “up to this point the Lord has helped us!” (1 Samuel 7:12).
I include the paragraph below from the January 19 posting:
It may not be a thing of beauty, but it sure is beautiful to us. Please pray that God will cause an abundance of water to flow from this well
“And God did something! There began to be a change evident in the heavenlies – something that broke through into the natural and began to bubble up in our heart in new hope.
After our prayer time at the construction site I felt God urging me to have pastor Moi drive a wooden stake into the ground of the farm as a prophetic symbol of the fact that this day was a day of new beginnings and a point of breakthrough for the vision of Casa del Obrero. From this point onwards we were going to see a change. This we did in faith, our eyes as yet seeing nothing”.
This stake has become my “Ebenezer” on the farm, and a place close to my heart when I need a point of reference, a stone of remembrance concerning God’s supernatural provision and his purposes for the work. Again, I wish to be quick to explain that I believe with my whole heart in a supernatural God of the miraculous, but not in a god of magical thinking that we create to fulfill our wishes.
When we needed to decide where to place the well, I chose what for me was an obvious
Wesley’s Well is to soon become a reality for us. Thank you Lord!
solution – the place, the touch point where God had promised his blessing to us, and to the ministry of the Missionary Training Center – the stake that we had driven in the ground back in January.
There were also left-brained reasons for choosing this spot – it was close to the building sites (the present “galera house” staff house, as well as the proposed future site of the larger buildings and dorms), it is close to where we hope to have electricity, it is close to where we hope to have greenhouses and shops, it was easily accessed by the drilling equipment etc., etc. But still, my choice of this exact spot was due to the fact that it is a place where blessing has been spoken over the ministry.
So now, the drill rig is set up and the bit is ready to begin the hunt for water. This is where I ask you to intercede for us. Please pray that God will not only bless us with abundant water, but that he will surprise us with subterranean rivers and massive aquifers which will be profusely bountiful and immensely and enormously blessed. Pray that there will be such an excess that we can be a point of blessing for the neighbors around us – that we can give away and bless by “pouring out water to quench their thirst and to irrigate their parched fields”.
I will keep you posted on Wesley’s Well. I trust that the next entry will be an exclamation of praise at the blessing of the Lord.
Please pray.
Also, for our Canadian friends: Happy Canada Day. For our American friends, your day is coming on the 4th.
Be blessed,
Steven and Theresa
