Saturday, April 30, 2011

Can I outdream God?

"Now when you dream, dream so big, that God has to be the one to fulfill them" said speaker Dan Baumann during lecture phase of DTS. I recalled this as I walked the streets of San Salvador. I remembered how it took such a big miracle to even bring me here. A huge financial miracle, that I could not do on my own at all. It seems that sometimes God has to remind us over and over again. "My daughter, my son, don't you remember what I did?" He says, and we respond bashfully. "Yes, I rembemer" It's crazy how many times God does a miracle, and we forget how miraculous it was. I mean, I just think it is sooo amazing that I'm here, in El Salvador having all of these opportunities! One day my team helped in feeding 100 hungry children in a poor gang infested neighborhood, another day we got to paint a beautiful miral of a waterfall and mountains with a Psalm written above it for a school, another time we got to do the life house drama for prostitutes who were moved to tears with the knowledge of the power of Christ and again and again we get to share our testimonies over and over about the power of God's transformation in our lives. And yet, I still question God's might and power. Why? It doesn't make sense. I have so many dreams, to travel to poor countries, counsel prostitutes and trafficked children, to love on forgotten children and to disciple youth. There are so many places I'd like to go. God has given me a heart for latin American countries, for Europe, Japan, and my own, there are so many things I'd like to do with God. I've been praying a lot about what I should do in my near future, and when an idea comes, I take it to God and all I hear is, "Yes" from Him. This has been a bit confusing at times. Especially when I'm literally running out of money. Should money be an obsticle, when God did this HUGE miracle in getting me to Belize! Why do I doubt His power? His ability. Could it mean that God is going to take me to all of them? Am I dreaming too big? Not when the dreams are planted there by God. Not when I serve a God so big! A God who made all of these countries, who owns the cattle on a thousand hills. He is a God who has taught me, all you need to say is yes to Him, and He'll take care of the rest. It's that simple. It doesn't always seem that way though, and there seems to be so much learning I have yet to learn about God's faithfulness and trusting Him. So, I just want to encourage you all, whoever happens to be reading my blog, dream so big that it has to be God who fulfills them. This was said from a man who was inprisoned in Iran for 9 weeks, and God got him out in a miraculous way and now he is travelling all over the world touching people's lives for Christ!

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