God-centered resources from the ministry of John Piper

[Read an update on Hope Commons.]

Desiring God has been given new facilities for $1 a year. All we have to do is outfit the building for our needs.

And God has provided through more than 500 different people! As ofOctober 3, 2008, $1 million has been donated to help make Hope Commonsthe new launching pad for Desiring God. Please join us in praising Godfor this good and timely provision from his hand.

God moved in a mysterious, miraculous way to provide for this need.Since December of 2007, we have been bringing this need before God andbefore friends of Desiring God. After God quickly provided nearly$600,000 this spring, we made little progress for the next five months.

But God knew what we needed and when we would need it. So we gathereddaily to pray, to encourage each other to press on, and to rememberGod’s good provision to his people in the Bible.

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19)

And all along God was taking care of us. He knew before we did thatthe buildout of our new space would be delayed by several months. Andwhen construction began in earnest, God provided through his peoplemore than $300,000 in less than five weeks—during some of the mostdifficult economic times in memory.

God is not constrained by a credit crisis or inflation or the stockmarket. He reigns supreme and is lavish in his generosity to those whowait on him!

Thank you, Father, for your good provision through these faithfulpeople. Thank you for your word to carry us through difficulty:

But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. (Micah 7:7)

Thank you, most of all, for the greatest treasure in the universe - Jesus Christ!