The visiting missionary team stands in front of the Casa del Obrero building at the Training Center
Day three: 22 meters (72 feet) at the close of today’s drilling. No new water has been found. It is estimated that the well is currently producing enough water for a one family household if it is used sparingly, and if it is pumped continuously into a reservoir tank (a tinaco) on the roof.
This is not what we have been praying for, nor what we need for the Missionary Training Center. We simply need more water than this! We are praying for an extravagant miracle of abundance to meet all of the needs of the Center.
Matthew 7: 7-8 says: “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened”.
Right now it is easy for me to start second guessing – did I make the right decision? Should we have placed the well over there, or there, or maybe there? Should we pull the plug? Should we go on? Etc., etc.
But then I come back to several factual, non-emotional things that give me hope again: this well is to bless God’s work. He has provided funds to begin the drilling. Much prayer has entered into this event. We can neither make water appear “down there”, nor have predicted exactly where it would be (or for that matter, if there even would be a good source of water on the land at all). We cannot force God’s hand. But the water is to bless His ministry, and to expand the possibilities of the Training Center. And most of all, we have, and serve a very, very big God, and he loves us and cares for us.
So it comes back to this – please pray! Please hold this need before God again when you open this blog (Friday). We have decided to keep going in faith, but the funds will run out after one more day’s drilling if we do not hit water.
Today we had a wonderful time of sharing the vision of the work and of prayer on the farm with the team from the north (all Mexican nationals, but some of them now living in Texas). I believe that our prayer time with the team today was another pivotal point spiritually – a defining moment in the heavenlies for the ministry.
We await a miracle.
Please hold us up in prayer. Friday will mean God’s blessing and success in the quest for water, or basically a dry hole.
We wait with you with bated breath and a prayer on our lips,
Steven and Theresa
