I am amazed yet again at how God uses seemingly inconsequential things in a life changing way.
I picked this book up from the library today. I had been meaning to read it for some time and had forgotten that it was on order. When I flipped it open this afternoon, I read something at the bottom of page 231. It went like this, “It was a sermon preached by an old family friend, a pastor named Richard Porter.”
Soooooo?
Well, Richard Porter was the name of the head pastor at a church we attended about 7 or 8 years ago. We had just come out of a very difficult place in our spiritual life. We had given a lot and been hurt a lot and it was in Pastor Rick’s sermons that we found balm for our wounded souls. We grew a lot during that time. So when we moved to a new town in the fall of 2002, we were amazed to hear that back at that church there was some major upheaval. It blew us away as it was so different from what we had experienced there only a few months prior.
I encourage you to read the whole story, but in the mean time, let me give you a glimpse into the work that God is doing in me these many years later through a second hand retelling of Pastor Rick’s teaching. Apparently God used these same words to make an enormous impact on Phil Vischer as well.
“… what does it mean when God gives you a dream, and he shows up in it and the dream comes to life, and then, without warning, the dream dies? What does that mean?”
And this is where I am at right now.
The happy part in this? The answer to that question? Well, read the book. Bottom line, it isn’t about the dream at all, but instead it is about the dream giver.
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