FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS
JUST A TESTIMONY OF THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD!
I have always encouraged young people to follow their dream, especially what I call a God given dream for their lives. When God has given you a dream for the future you, don't throw it away because it just seems impossible, people laughed at you, and you just couldn't vision that for yourself. We serve a God that takes our impossible and makes it His possible, He is a faithful God and we think that dream is long gone, suddenly God will show up 45 years later and there it is that dream came to pass. Now I am not talking about our night time dreams, I am talking about that dream to become a writer, a singer, etc.
A number of years ago my pastor preached a message from Ezekiel 37, this is where the angel took the prophet Ezekiel to the valley of dry bones and said to speak to those dead bones. In the message pastor said that perhaps you have allowed your dreams to dry out and die and now it is time to speak to those dreams that they would rise back up. (That is strictly from memory, so not an exact quote). Yet, it spoke to me and I remembered my dream at 30 years old I was just a babe in Christ, and even when this message was preached I was right at 70 years old. So I just said to myself I am too old.
So what was my dream, at 30? My dream was I saw myself sharing the word of God to thousands. You laughed didn't you, that's okay I did also. Now I am not talking about being a pastor, I am talking about speaking at ladies conferences. Believe it or not in the beginning I was invited to speak at a few small groups of ladies. But God began to use me within the church to teach senior adult ladies and children, at home I would have adult Bible studies for all age women. Plus I worked in the public and had some opportunities to share Jesus, though a large portion of my working years I spend angry at God and my life and running from God instead of towards Him, and this was after I was saved for 12 years.
But seasons change, I no longer work, no place for outreach except social media, and I hear so many negative comments about how bad social media is, and I am thinking but your missing it! Your missing the opportunity to share the goodness of God. I have a passion for sharing Jesus, and as I see the condition of this world around me I have an urgency to keep sharing. On Facebook when I share about Jesus I post public, my silliness and family stuff are for only friends. Do you know why I do that? Of course you do.
Many of my friends are probably tired of hearing about these reels I have been learning to do. And this will probably be the last time I talk about them on social media, I will just post them.
I am unsure how long ago I started being drawn to reels and how to make them. About that same time my pastor had a message and in that message he said "We are in a season of learning new skills". When I got home I realized learning to do these reels was my new skill I was learning. So I continued, made mistakes, but continued to learn. About 87% have exceeded more than I could imagine into the thousands of views.
A couple have had over 8,000 views, and each day all are growing. I say this not to point to me, but to point to my Lord. What was my dream, again, I had at 30 years of age? That I would share Jesus with thousands, I am 75 years old and I am sitting here crying at the faithfulness of my God, that a dream He gave me and I gave up on would actually come to pass in a way I could never imagine 45 years later.
My encouragement to you; it's never too late, you are never too old to follow that dream you thought was dead and buried. To be honest when I began this new technology I wasn't thinking of or even remembered that dream of mine, until two days ago and I was looking at the views on the reels and the Holy Spirit in me reminded me of what I had dismissed, so I could praise the Lord for His faithfulness even in my ignorance.
FOOTNOTE: When God is doing it He will accomplish it.
Now I have shared my story I hope all my friends take a moment to read, because you will understand me a little more.
Oh and if you don't know Jesus in a relationship I just want to say this. Jesus Christ loves you He sees value in you, He left heaven, came to earth that by taking our sins upon Himself, He would restore our fellowship with God the Father. His Holy Spirit draws upon your heart and is calling you to come to Him in faith and repentance (repentance means; we turn from the direction and thinking we once had and we turn our direction to walk with Jesus). He calls upon you to come to Him and receive His gift of salvation and eternal life. He died and on the third He rose up out of that grave and He conquered for you, death, hell and the grave. Do You Know Him?
Be blessed everyday is a new beginning. ❤️❤️❤️
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