Dream Sharing

Publisher: dwinger Volume No. 3 Issue No 8 Date Mar. 30, 04

 

I was driving the kids down the road, and I decided that I needed to share with them what God had been doing in my life. I like talking to the kids in the car about hard things. They are a captive audience, and even if they pretend not to be listening I find that they are.

 

At the end of the “Walk to Emmaus” retreat I attended a few years ago, a man got up and asked us to close our eyes and try and think of someone that we knew, who didn’t know Jesus. I closed my eyes, and I remember thinking to myself that I really didn’t know if I knew anyone who hadn’t heard of Jesus. All of a sudden a picture came into my head! It was of a farmer friend of mine, and it was even in color. I remember thinking to myself, “No…” and kind of shaking my head. All of a sudden here this picture was again in my head!

 

After the retreat was over I rode home with my friends, but didn’t mention the incident. After all, I didn’t want them to think I was crazy, and if anyone had told me a story like that I would have been one of the first to scoff. The next morning I felt the conviction that I should share this with others. I was very careful whom I told because I didn’t want anyone to look at me funny. I didn’t know what to do, so I just asked others to pray for this man and that is what I proceeded to do. I noticed after I told a few people it was easier to tell a few more. I thought about approaching the man, but I never really had the right opportunity and maybe I was just a little to afraid. So I just kept praying.

 

Days went by and they turned into months, which turned into years. This man eventually quit farming and moved away from Gruver. Occasionally I would think of him and say a prayer. One day a friend of mine heard that this man had been baptized in a Baptist Church where he lived. Wow! I thought that was great, and may be the reason God prompted me to pray for him.

 

After sharing this story with the kids, a small voice speaks up, “You were just sharing your dreams with others Daddy and they came true.” It was Leigh Anne and once again I said to myself, “There He goes again speaking through my kids.”