"Lord, Give Me This Hill!"

  The building project has moved slowly in the last 2 months.  We found out that the bulldozer will not come at all to fix the road to BYT and level our property.  It must be leveled before we can collect materials because these heavy items will need to be near the building sight to make it easier on the builders. It is also a bad time to bring in the posts because it is mating season here for the elephants and they cannot drag in supplies.  I am disappointed again because now we cannot hire villagers to collect sand and rock for the cement because they are now planting their mountain rice.On top of this I found out 1 week ago that the people decided  not to let us have the hill that overlooks the village.   They need their cattle pen and when their children get married they want to build houses on that hill.Wow, I was disappointed again, but I knew God had a plan.  Who was I to be discouraged and doubt now after the Lord had done so many things to make this work a success!  We went up the mountain behind this hill to look again at the jungle property that was the only place to go now.  I was concerned about a clinic up so high that people would have to walk that extra distance.  I really wanted to live right among the people in the village, in order to be close to them. The village water supply would not reach that high up but the head man of the village assured me that there was water up that mountain enough to supply our house and clinic.With this information we prayed and went ahead to build on this jungle property.  It is indeed beautiful up there, quiet, and there is enough room for the 2 buildings.  A man from a far village came one day to find out where we wanted the ground leveled.  He put up markers and we told him what trees to save etc.  He was going to bring 4 men to do the work the following Sunday. To our surprise the men came on Thursday!  They heard we were in a hurry so they came early.  We told them that work on Thursday and Friday was fine, but we kept the Bible Sabbath from sunset Friday evening until sunset Saturday and they must not work on that day.  They were fine with that and so Blet Jaw and I took off on the motorbike to get food for them to eat and money to pay them.  When we returned to BYT we were very sad to discover that the men had left.  They will not return, but went to do the other job first!  Perhaps they did not like the Sabbath requirement, in any case we were back to square one and did not know what to do. Wonderful wonderful Sabbath.  What a blessing to have this day to pray about our situation.  I knew the devil hated what we were doing.  I prayed all throughout the Sabbath hours and when I finally went to my mat that night I prayed earnestly.  "Oh, Lord, I cried, please give me that hill. I do not ask for an entire mountain, I only want that hill.  You can turn the hearts of this family like water in Your hand. (Proverbs 21:1)  Please hear this prayer and turn their hearts so we can build on this hill!  But do whatever is Your will, not mine.  Thank you dear Saviour!"  Then I went sound asleep.  In the morning as I was preparing the curry for breakfast I saw the O-Bah-Dau (Man in charge of the buildings etc.) standing and talking with the neighbor and Blet Jaw.  I ran to join them in their conversation.  This is what I found out - The neighbor had gone to the people who owned the mountain and spoken to them about the property.  They said, yes you can have it, we only need 2000 baht to move the cattle shed to another location.  There is no problem, you can go ahead and have it. Thank you God.  How can I thank Him enough.  How can I even understand the goodness of God and His power to work out His will in every situation.  I know without a shadow of a doubt that this project belongs to the Lord.  He is in charge. He will make it a success because He loves these people for whom He died!  In speaking about 2Chronicles 14:11 Mrs. White says:  "When the God of Israel undertakes work for us, He will make it a success!"God has promised that  He will move mountains in answer to the prayer of faith.  I believe that moving a hill into our possession  is just as much a miracle!Thank you so much dear Lord.