Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death

Song of Solomon 8:6

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  1. Dear Catherine

    Thank you and O by the way where prayer is concerned I’m not sure if you know about the work of a very dear lady and friend of mine Dr. Mary Stewart Relfe in Montgomery, Alabama. She has been working for a number of decades now on getting community prayer going through her organization the League of Prayer. It is a truly magnificent work and one in which you I believe would take a great interest in. Moreover given this dear ladies access to high levels of government and business leaders in both the state of Alabama and Florida and her writings on what she sees happening in the financial markets and you would be most pleasantly surprised. She in fact is in many ways like you highly, highly educated with a great deal of insider information. Her website can be found at http://www.theLeagueofPrayer.com.
    In the mean time have a look at this also where the weather is concerned regarding what occurred in a place called Swan Quarter, North Carolina back in the year 1876:

    “There are only two possible explanations for what you are about to read. It was either the most phenomenal coincidence that ever occurred-or it was an act of God.
    Literally!
    And remember, as you learn what happened on that rainy Thursday afternoon a hundred summers ago, that a stack of sworn statements and legal documents say that it was so.
    There was just one problem with Swan Quarter, North Carolina. It was lowland, so naturally the choicest real estate was on the highest ground. In the event of a heavy rain, the closer you were to sea level, the harder you were hit.
    A little more than a hundred years ago the Methodists of Swan Quarter, North Carolina had no church, and the only lot available on which to build one was a plot of low-lying property on Oyster Creek Road.
    It was far from an ideal location, but they acquired the land and construction began.
    The church was to be white frame, small but sturdy, propped up on brick pilings. In 1876 the building was completed and on Sunday, September 16, a joyous dedication ceremony was celebrated.
    That was Sunday, September 16.
    Three days later, on Wednesday, a terrible storm lashed Swan Quarter. All day the wind howled and the rain came down in a gray wall of water.
    By nightfall, devastation.
    Much of the town was flooded; many roofs were ripped from homes by the cyclonic turbulence. The storm raged on all through the night and into the bleak morning.
    By Thursday afternoon the wind subsided, the rain all but stopped. For the first time in more than a day, there was an almost eerie calm. One by one the citizens of Swan Quarter threw back the shutters and peered from what was left of their homes.
    Most saw only a desolate waterscape, a community ravaged by nature. But those within sight of Oyster Creek Road beheld the most incredible sight they had ever seen.
    The church-the Swan Quarter Methodist Church-the whole building, intact-was floating down the street! The floodwaters had gently lifted the entire structure from the brick pilings on which it had rested and had sent it off, slowly, silently, down Oyster Creek Road.
    Within minutes, several concerned townsfolk were sloshing about in the street, waist-deep, fighting the rushing current, trying desperately to reach the still moving church so that they could moor it with lengths of rope.
    The ropes were fastened, but the effort was in vain. There was no stable structure secure enough to restrain the floating chapel.
    And as the building passed by, more attention was attracted, more aid was enlisted. To no avail. The church moved on.
    By now the building had made it to the center of town, still on Oyster Creek Road. Then as dozens, amazed, helpless, watched, the Swan Quarter Methodist Church, still floating, made a sharp inexplicable right turn and continued down that road, as though the chapel were alive-as though it had a mind of its own.
    For two more blocks the townspeople fought the ropes to hold it back, unsuccessfully. And then, in the same decisive manner with which it had moved, the church veered off the road, headed for the center of a vacant lot…and there…stopped.
    While the floodwater receded, the church remained-and is there to this day.
    Over a hundred Septembers have passed since the little white-framed church removed itself to the most desirable property in Swan Quarter.
    In the process of making up your own mind as to how and why what happened happened, you ought to know this one thing more, THE REST OF THE STORY.
    The choice highland lot where the chapel settled was the first choice of the town Methodists for the site of their church. And the shrewd, prosperous landowner whose property it was originally turned them down.
    But the next morning after the flood-after discovering the church in the middle of his lot-that same landowner went to the Methodist minister and, with trembling hands, presented him with the deed.” {pg. 190-192 Paul Aurandt}

    Cheers

    Jerry

  3. Dear Catherine

    If ever we needed words from the bible it is we today and perhaps none more so than king Solomon who wrote prophetically…
    “before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say I find no pleasure in it
    them.” Eccles. 12:1
    In what exactly? Well his laws surely and by all appearances if that doesn’t hold true for our day and age. The lawlessness is frightening isn’t it and it is perhaps why we are now seeing the weather take such a terrible toll upon the world. Again the words of King Solomon “…and the clouds return after the rain.”

    Or better yet the words of Isaiah…

    “See, the Lord has one who is powerful and strong. Like a hailstorm and a destructive wind, like a driving rain and a flooding downpour, He will throw it forcefully to the ground.” {Isaiah 28:2}

    Or perhaps more significantly the prophet Jeremiah:

    “See the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. The anger of the Lord will not turn back until He fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will fully understand this.” {Jeremiah 23:19-20}

    God is speaking these days but apparently not too many are listening and you know if that don’t beat all especially when it comes to something like this that occurred over the city of Singapore back in the early 1980’s.

    “Last year, the business leaders of Singapore got a vision from the Holy Spirit. They were to sponsor a national crusade to reach all of Singapore. They rented the local soccer stadium, which seats 70,000 people. One business leader alone, Mr. Wy Wy Wong, paid for the total advertising in every newspaper in the country. The committee was composed of pastors, professional people and businessmen. These men and women had one thing in common. They had a burning desire for revival in Singapore, which had a small Christian population. Night after night, for five straight nights, the rain came in torrents. But by six o’clock every evening, the sky would clear and we were able to have large crowds gather to hear the gospel. The total count of people that came forward to accept Christ amazed me. I repeated nightly. ‘Please only those who want to accept Christ as their personal Savior for the first time in your life, only you come forward.’ Yet, we counted more than 50,000 people making decisions for Christ.” {pg. 130 Cho}

    Industrial pollution is hardly the cause of what we are experiencing and if one wishes to learn and understand the truth of this well just check out the book and/or website http://www.cropcirclesandclimatechange.com/exceprts

    Cheers
    Jerry Lesac

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