Teri

Sometimes dreaming big is not about what God is doing for us.

We’ve been staying with Jen these past couple of days.  She is a dreamer and she dreams really, really big!

She and her husband have a dream about opening up a bed and breakfast here in Florida.  They love to serve and, let me tell you, they know how to serve well.  They love hospitality.  They love food and they love loving on people (which has been very, very nice for us.)

They have been looking all over the world for the right spot but after years of searching, they realize they want to stay in Florida.  Jen’s eye is always roving around for that place.

She found that place in a newspaper article this week.   That place is on the market.  That place is just what they dreamed.  That place would in their budget if one of the zero’s at the end was knocked off! 

She’s had an internal dialog all week that went something like this, “No, there is no way that’s going to happen!  But…it is perfect.  And God is a big God.  But…NO it’s impossible!“

We talked with her about it.  We prayed.  We all felt that we just needed to go to the property and pray.  That maybe if the owner heard her story it might…DO…something.  What?  We had no idea.  But we felt led to go.

I must confess that I was really worried that it was only going to be a let down.  That we wouldn’t be representing God well if we dreamed so enormously big.  The Doubting Thomas in me was in high gear.

We went anyway…

We all thought it was a little crazy but we felt led to knock on the door.  Who knows?  Maybe the owner would be there and Jen’s dream would bless him somehow.  God is a big God after all.

We pushed through the fear and knocked.

The owner came to the door and we introduced ourselves.  Jen mentioned something about God and dreams.  The man came out of his door and talked with us for about 10 or 15 minutes about his life, his house, and his faith.  Then we prayed for him.

It wasn’t so much about Jen’s dream, although she certainly received insight.  It was more about him.  He needed us at that moment.  He needed to know that God is real and sends people on crazy errands to minister to just him.

We went assuming it was about a Kingdom dream.  Instead it was about God showing his love through us.

I wonder how many crazy errands God has tried to send me on that I pushed away thinking, “impossible” when maybe it wasn’t going to be about me at all?

I pray God sends you on a crazy errand today and you believe.