Introduction

What do we feel God is speaking to us? From the beginning of God's nudge to us, Isaiah 49 has been a strong statement. This is what the Lord says: "In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances, to say to the captives, 'Come out,' and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!'"... Can plunder be taken from warriors, or captives rescued from the fierce? But this is what the Lord says: "Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you..." vv 8,9, 24,25. This encourages us to keep our eyes not on property or land, but on God's desire to see people freed from darkness to follow Him. We believe His word to A.H. Levin still stands- that Manitou Mountain, Indian for "Mountain of Creator God" be a special "God-soaked" place where young people can be trained in the Word, nurtured in relationship with Him, transformed, and sent into the nations with Good News.
This post was copied and pasted from the YWAM Ozarks website.