Foundation for Mudroom Poured

The foundation for the mudroom was poured today. Sorry no photos - Tami took the camera to the Women's Advance in Chalis this weekend. But since I took the day off to be home with Ellie, we got to watch out the front door as the guys worked. It was a beautiful day.

By the time they left, the concrete was setting up nice so while Ellie slept, I got to go out and carve some stuff in the top of the foundation wall. "The Lord Knows Who are His" and "Let Everyone Who Names the Name of the Lord Abstain from Wickedness." This is from 2 Timothy 2 where Paul writes "Nevertheless, the firm foundation of the Lord stands with this inscription..."

This reminds me of the time here in 1999 when they were putting in the LDS stake house in our neighborhood. Our church took wooden stakes and wrote scriptures on them and pounded them into the ground at the four corners of the building where we knew concrete would cover. These scriptures were refutations of LDS heretical doctrine. We also walked through their baptismal praying that God would deliver all those who were dedicated to that false doctrine.

Although these gestures may seem purely symbolic or even ridiculous to some, they stand on the faith of those who do them. For example, Dick Eastman, president of Every Home for Christ, early in 1988 felt led by God to take a team of intercessors throughout Eastern Europe. Their mission was to confront the strongholds of Communism. In obedience to God's leading, they carried out a prayer walk around the Politbureau building in Bucharest, Rumania where less than two years later, Ceaucescu made his last stand after pridefully announcing his regime would last for a thousand years. He and his wife were shot on Christmas day 1989 after 25 years of oppressive rule.

While in Berlin, God led Dick Eastman to go out with a German friend in the middle of the night to face that still forbidding wall. Moved in intercessory prayer, they both laid their hands on the wall and prayed, "In the name of Jesus, come down!" The wall was opened November, 1989.

May the foundation of the Lord stand firm in my family's life and all those who touch it!

Steve