[Faith-talk] FW: [thefamilyoffaith] Inherit My Holy Mountain

[Eric Calhoun]

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From: "Joe Diaz" <revjoe2701 at comcast.net>
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Subject: [thefamilyoffaith] Inherit My Holy Mountain
Date: 
Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:08:09 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

By Bill Bright

Campus Crusade For Christ

"Let's see if the whole collection of your idols can help you when you
cry
to them to save you! They are so weak that the wind can carry them off! A
breath can puff them away. But he who trusts in Me shall 

Inherit My Holy Mountain

"Let's see if the whole collection of your idols can help you when you
cry
to them to save you! They are so weak that the wind can carry them off! A
breath can puff them away. But he who trusts in Me shall possess the land
and inherit My Holy Mountain" (Isaiah 57:13).

It was the very last week prior to our deadline for raising two million
dollars to purchase the property at Arrowhead Springs for our
international
Campus Crusade for Christ headquarters. A dear friend had offered a
$300,000
matching fund as a gift if we could raise the balance of the $2 million
by a
certain date.

Because of a very heavy speaking schedule at both the student and faculty
conferences held at Arrowhead, I was unable to make any significant
contribution to the raising of funds. And yet somehow in my heart of
hearts
I knew that God was going to supply our need in a miraculous way.

The late Dr. V. Raymond Edman, then president of Wheaton College, was one
of
the featured speakers at the conferences. At breakfast, one day Dr. Edman
shared with my wife, Vonette, and me this very meaningful verse in Isaiah
-
a verse that God had impressed upon him that morning to share with us as
he
prayed about our urgent financial needs.

Now we were all the more encouraged to believe God in an even greater way
than before. We truly expected to see Him provide the remaining funds -
miraculously. In the evening of the day of the deadline, I was informed
that
we still needed $33,000 and that every possible source of revenue had
been
exhausted. There was nothing more, humanly speaking, we could do. Yet,
through a series of circumstances between 11:00 and midnight, those funds
were pledged, and we met the deadline. Exactly at midnight, the last of
God
s miracles had been wrought and the goal had been reached. God had
promised,
"He who trusts in Me shall possess the land and inherit My Holy Mountain"
-
Arrowhead Springs.




Bible Reading: Isaiah 57:10-15




TODAY'S ACTION POINT: Whether the need be for funds, for health, for
wisdom,
or whatever, I will believe God to supply my every need as He has so
wonderfully promised in His Word to those who trust in Him.

By Bill Bright

www.todayspromise.com