Praying for Oregon Counties: Grant
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Canyon City I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the desirable and precious things of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory and splendor,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,’ declares the Lord of hosts. ‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and in this place I shall give [the ultimate] peace and prosperity,’ declares the Lord of hosts.” Haggai 2: 7-9 AMP I read an article recently on gold and God’s view of it. The beauty of gold, the fact it doesn’t tarnish, gives us a taste of heaven when we find it here. With our damaged human nature, however, the God-given value of gold can become twisted into an obsession: gold fever. The first gold strike in eastern Oregon was in Grant County, at Whiskey Gulch near what became Canyon City,...