At 7am this morning, I woke to the sound of walls being torn down... literally. One of the apartment buildings here in John DeShields has been abandoned for about 2 years. It has been a hide out for homeless people and crack addicts. It's an eye sore. One of my passions is for God to use us to rebuild and restore this city to be even more prosperous and more beautiful than it EVER was in the past. And I believe one of the ways He is going to do this is by tearing down or restoring the many old abandoned buildings which stand here in East St. Louis. About 9 months ago we prayer walked around this building and asked God to tear it down. But, it continued to sit there, month after month and I wondered why. When I prayer walk in the mornings, I would walk by it and just ache in my guts for it to be torn down. About a week ago, a Godly anger rose up in me because it still hadn't been torn down. And right then the Holy Spirit reminded me of when JESUS said in Mark 11:23 that we could speak to our mountain, believe in our heart that what we say will happen and it WILL be removed. This building was definitely a mountain in this neighborhood! So, I walked in front of it and spoke to it, commanding that it had to come down. This morning I got to watch it get torn down! As I watched, I just sensed that the bulldozer is like God. He is tearing down the walls that have stopped Him from reaching people's hearts in East St. Louis. He is rebuilding His city, on the outside (how it looks) and on the inside (people's hearts).
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