Quote from the audio message, Busybodies and Overseers. Here we had eight girls, my wife and I, a family of ten. Accommodation in London at the end of World War II was almost non-existent. If a person succeeded in renting a house they would move in and sleep on the floor because if they didn’t occupy it immediately, somebody would move in, squat in the house and you couldn’t turn them out. So, I went to the phone directory and I looked up what you’d call here in America real estate but in Britain they call them house agents. I wanted to look under the heading of house agents and there was no classified section in the telephone directory but there was one house agent whose name was House. That’s the way I got to know him. I found him, we went to see him, we told him what we needed and he looked at us. Accommodations for ten people in the center of London! Unheard of! He said, “There is one house. The top half of the house is available; it’s got about six rooms. But,” he said, “it’s under contract. The purchase is going through; there’s no hope of your getting it.” My wife said, “Would you let us see it?” Just to indulge us, you know, just to keep us quiet, he took us out and he led us up this house and we got to the top floor. There was a large room that would comfortably seat well over fifty people, partly furnished. The Lord had given me that Scripture, “He shall show you a large upper room furnished.” While I was talking to this real estate man, I couldn’t say any more because the Holy Spirit was bubbling up inside me. If I had spoken I would have spoken in tongues! He said, “You can’t have it.” My wife said just one thing. “If that deal falls through, will you notify us first?” Two weeks later, he phoned and said, “The deal has fallen through.” I said, “We’ll take it.” When we moved in and told our neighbors in the street that we found that accommodation, they very nearly fell over backwards. One lady said, “I’ve been in this area for two years looking for housing and I couldn’t find a thing.” God had a place and He had a work because that “large upper room, furnished” we used for eight years for regular meetings. We had five meetings every week in that large upper room. And hundreds and hundreds of people in those eight years found the Lord as Savior, Baptizer, Healer and so on. I learned it matters where you go. God has got a place. And, in most cases, your work is related to your place.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:00:00 +0000