Safe House
NEW HOPE VILLAGE
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It didn't look like a normal church, the Sunday School classrooms and Meeting Hall had been transforned, as if someone had come in and set up teh building specifically to be a safe house. It was dirty, as if it had been abandoned after it had been built, but was neat and fully furnished. While searching the rooms, he found a note that had ony "1 John 4:7-8" written on it.
He headed for the chapel and searched Bible after Bible until he found one with a piece of paper inside at that very passage. There were several scriptures written on the paper, so he walked to the dining room and sat down to decipher the message. He pulled a pen from his shirt pocket and made noted by each passage as he read them in the Bible, noticing that certain words in each passage had been underlined. When he was done, he read over what he had wrote and new from the underlined parfts that this house had been made by believers for believers. He immediately set about inviting others to come and live and worship with him,
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of shelter.
1 Kings 20:6
Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoeveris pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put in their hand, and take it away.
Genesis 30:30
For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming; and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
John 20:10
Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.
Ezekiel 34:27
And the tree of the field shall yeild her fruit; and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
2 Chronicles 7:20
Then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
Numbers 18:6
And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levited from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service if the tabernacle of the congregation.
Ephesians 5:1
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children.
