By Fred Pruitt
Hello all,
1. This is just a quick “thank you,” both to the Lord, and to all of you as well. I am very excited about our new blog. It has given me the chance to reorganize all the stuff from the Single Eye website, as well as being a new platform to continue the things we have started.
Currently we have two series going. The first one is the John series. I’ve been sitting on the John 1:12 for over two years, the Lord’s perfect waiting time, mainly stuck on a single phrase of the Gospel of John, all this time. It may seem as if I started it way back when and never completed it, but I have learned not to write until it wells up inside me and I have a direction. It seems such a time now for a new move.
The others series is the “Last Shall Be First.” That’s where I put what people call my “long, complicated stuff.” I know the length of some of those articles may put people off, and I can’t blame them, since I’m put off by “long” reading which are sent to me. But even knowing that these things are not read as much as the other, shorter pieces, I am still compelled to get these things out. I am not tooting my own horn with these as much as I am tooting the Spirit’s horn. I think there are great riches in these articles. As I wrote them the Spirit took me to places I’d never been before, clarified things that were not as clear before, and gave me a sense of what “all this” is about as I’d never seen it before. So for those brave enough to dig through and mine for gold, I think they will find a rich vein. For me it is sharing with others the “treasure found in a field” that has opened my understanding into the Godhead as nothing else has.
What prompted me to write today is that with the blog I have reached a milestone that I wanted to share with anyone interested in what we are doing and why. While I know we’re not supposed to be paying attention to “numbers,” it is so easy to check the stats of viewers and visitors on the blog that I find I can’t help myself looking. And it is good to know we are reaching folks and that our work in not in vain, even as the Lord promised. It is good to know the fruit, and we do have biblical precedence also, because often in the New Testament they told the number of the crowds that were there. And that was usually a count of just the men, without including women and children. Of course we are including all, as God truly does, since in Christ Jesus there is neither male nor female, but all one in Christ.
The milestone I wanted to share is this: I posted my first article on the blog on July 21st, not even a month ago. Just yesterday the number of “viewers” as the stats called them, went to over 2000. I am just stunned. Even now as I write it is approaching 2100, and this just blows my mind.
So thank you all for supporting this work, with prayers, with love, with encouragement, and some with the coin of the realm. Bless you all. We trudge on every day in faith, sowing our seeds, with the Promise of the Lord that we WILL bear fruit because it is His fruit of His vine, and we believe. But it is also nice to see some of it come home in our sight. I am elated.
2. The other reason for writing is to make an announcement of some changes for us. We have been happy in our solitude for over a year in Pensacola. It has been a great time alone with the Lord. We have only made a couple of friends here, but most of the time we have been by ourselves. We’ve been away from other people we know and all the activities that we had normally been doing. That is about to change. Though before a few weeks ago this had not entered our minds, out of the blue Janis’ nephew called us from our home town of Rome, Georgia, and wanted to invite us to come and share his house with him. He has a large house which sits empty most of the time because he drives a truck on the road 5-6 days a week. It is also very beneficial to us financially, and will help in that area a great deal. So we gave it some time to settle in the Spirit, and then a couple of weeks ago we made the decision to take him up on his offer.
We have not lived there in 16 years, though both Janis and I were born there, (delivered by the same doctor, my great Uncle Tom), and have lived much of our lives there. We have numerous family and good friends still there. The thought of moving back had not entered our minds until Tony called, but now it has taken us over and a new excitement has welled up in us. We know it is time to go back.
So, the announcement is this: we will be moving up to Rome the weekend of September 11 & 12. We are continuing as always to trust the Lord for His supply and continue to be thankful everyday that just as He clothes the lilies of the field and provides food for the sparrows, so He does for us, and in us.
I appreciate all that all of you are to me. Thank you for the privilege of being able to be in fellowship with you in these ways these past years. From the beginning we have known it is the Lord Who gives the increase, and we are seeing it day by day.
The website is still viable and there are many things there, that have not yet made their way to the blog, such as the video page, the books page, and the audios. So please continue to visit there as you like.
And as noted above, the new blog “Voice in the Wilderness,” is going great guns and I can only see that increasing and increasing more and more as the days progress. Please visit there as you desire. There are likewise things on the blog that are not on the website.
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Wow! Your blog has literally exploded! I am so happy for you and the message you so boldly proclaim!
Thank you, Ole! And I’m glad to know you survived the pesto attack! I was worried about you. But if you ran a 5k, then you must be ok.
Luckily the allergic reaction abated during the evening, and the 5k went okay. I must admit I was worried a spell myself.
Fred, so glad to have come across this blog. Feeling a bit numb about our local expression today….will take delight in reading the attending church messages.
Thank you, Chris. God is faithful and always has been!