Just realized that I haven't said a whole lot about "Creator's Call Broadcasting Network" lately. (This is the youth-media ministry that God led me to be a part of over a year ago, here in Loma Linda CA. ) Actually, there are many things to be said...

Earlier in the fall, I blogged about our considering the possibility of buying a TV station. We learned a lot through the negotiation process, but in the end, decided that we didn't feel that God was leading us to step forward in that direction at that time. However, we have continued to move forward...organizing our resources, talents, and programming. Currently we are working on re-doing the website, and catching up on all our back-log of editing that has been stacking up for a few months. The most exciting thing though is seeing how God has continued to provide for our needs and encourage us along...It's almost like He is impatient for us to get to work and get busy.

Yes, time is short....you see the instability of the times around us and you know that as it shares in Matthew 24, Jesus coming really is drawing near! Are we ready to meet Him??

Back to the amazing things that have been happening with CCBN: A little while back we did a summary on our donations and realized that we have received over $70,000 so far for the project - camera equipment and various expenses and needs. And all of that was unsolicited (we never have done any fund-raising, but only prayed to God about our needs). Each of the donations have been timely, arriving at strategic times of need.

God says, "Before you call I will answer, and while you are yet speaking, I will hear." Isa 65:24

The most recent miracle came just a few weeks ago as members of our team were praying for the resources to buy a Web Server. This is a $20,000 piece of equipment and would enable us to have a full professional Internet TV web site. Just like other channels. And as most young adults are on the Internet now, it's a huge step towards reaching the masses with the love of Christ. Miraculously, an anonymous $20,000 donation came in....just as we were praying about this need. Isn't God incredible??!

So, step by step, we are preceding to move forward by faith as God directs. As one of my fellow teammates said "I think God is telling us to think bigger.... and maybe we need to think outside the bank account too." As she encouraged all of us, her paraphrased Bible verse went like this:

"For if you budget based solely on the money that is already in your hands and limit God's work by waiting for more money to come in before moving forward, what reward do you have? Do not even the worldly businesses do the same? And if you continue on with business as usual, thinking only in human perspectives despite the fact that the world is about to end; what more do you do than the others? Do not even the Wall Street stock brokers do the same? Rather, attune yourself so closely to Your Father's will, that your business becomes His, and His methods become yours." ~ Matt. 5:46-48 (paraphrase)

All I can say is, Wow!! Do we trust what God says in His Word or not??

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isa 55:8-9

If His ways and thoughts are really so much higher....shouldn't we be dreaming, praying, and thinking higher...??

"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us." Eph 3:20

Wow!! What precious promises we have been given to hold on to! I pray that God will lead me to trust Him in even deeper ways...and that we will all learn to truly take him at HIS WORD!!!

One exciting miracle happened just a couple days ago to one of our team members. She's taken the call of God very seriously in her life and has been seeking to put her all on the line for him. She's working full time ministry (partly CCBN and partly other ministries), and has not had a job for awhile. Well, her bank account was getting low and a bill came in the mail that she was not expecting this last week. It was $200 more than she could afford. She wasn't sure what to do, but one of our team members encouraged her to hang on and pray and just trust God.

The next morning she had run out on an errand. Ten minutes later she returned and found a couple bags of groceries and an envelope with $200 cash on her front door step. No idea where it came from or how it happened!! Was it an angel?? Was it someone else? The only person that she'd confided in about her need had no idea either....as he didn't even know where she lived. Isn't that incredible?? Truly God does take care of His own....what miracle!!

So I ask again, partly for myself, and partly for all of you readers...Are we willing to take God at His Word?? Are we willing to trust and see for ourselves what a Great God we serve??

"For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him." II Chron 16:9