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Me:\u00a0 This is a nice brick church.<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Yes it is!<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 I hope God uses it.<\/p>\n

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This is from the book The God Who Hung on the Cross by Dois Rosser Jr. and Ellen Vaughn<\/p>\n

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In one such case, the government granted a group of believers a swampland for church construction.\u00a0 It took six months, but the Christians packed the marshy bog with fill dirt-wheel barrow by wheel barrow.\u00a0 Once they prepared the site, they could not obtain any bricks to construct their building, so local officials permitted them to tear down a nearby unused nuclear missile silo, a relic of the Cold War in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

When the believers started dismantling the silo and carrying the bricks away-again, wheel barrow by wheel barrow-one man found a fragile slip of paper, rolled tightly and stuck between two bricks.\u00a0 The others gathered around as he carefully unrolled the old paper and smoothed it flat.<\/p>\n

“These bricks,” he read out loud, straining to decipher the faded ink, “were purchased to build a house of worship.\u00a0 But they were confiscated by the government to build a missile silo.\u00a0 May it please the Lord that these bricks will one day be used to build a house to His glory!”<\/p>\n

And so they were.<\/p>\n

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If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.<\/p>\n

Matthew 21:22<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

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