When I was in my second year of Master’s Commission, we had chapels every Thursday. Our Thursday morning schedule looked like this:
9:00am Prayer
10:00am Community Time(we would share what we were learning, dealing with, going through, etc. unless staff had something else planned.)
10:30am Chapel
One Thursday, Justin(support staff), came in with a milk crate full of rocks and called us all in for community time.
He challenged us to ask the Lord for a dream and to write it on the rock. Justin led chapel that morning, where we went on a 3 mile or so walk without speaking to each other. We could pray, worship, listen to music, or whatever really. We all came back together at the end and I don’t really remember anything that happened.
What I do remember is what I wrote on the rock I took from the basket.
I asked God what I should write, and the Holy Spirit spoke clearly to me, “Lead nations into My presence with the songs that I give you.”
It was a small rock. So I wrote, “Lead nations into His presence.”
I kept it on my dresser until the day my apartment burned down, but I have always remembered that dream, and I’ve had the Lord remind me of it on several occasions.
Jeremiah 29:11 NASB ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.’
At church, yesterday, I was given the opportunity along with Caroline to do a special song during the church service. Initially, I tried to learn a worship song in Spanish. I realized on Saturday morning, when I was trying again to sing the song and play it at the same time, I wasn’t going to do it.
I felt the Holy Spirit prompt me to do the song I wrote this month. (I asked the Lord if I could write a song in each country and if He would help me to. He told me yes.)
Caroline agreed, and it was settled.
As I was setting up my guitar at church, I felt the Lord remind me once again of the dream He had given me. Holy Spirit told me that this was only the beginning of this dream, and there is more to come.
I have learned over the past several months that I am talented and need to acknowledge that because the Lord has given me my talents, my musical ones included. (In other words, I struggled with knowing my identity in Christ and that I had God given talents. Good news: I am now confident in Whose I am and who I am. Still working on it though.)
Romans 11:23NASB for the gifts and the calling of the Lord are irrevocable.
I’m excited to see in the future how God continues to make this dream come true.
Thank you for doing life with me and following my journey.
Prayer Requests:
My teammates to be fully funded.
alexandcarolinefowler.theworldrace.org
candiceanderson.theworldrace.org
I would learn what it means to live a life of abandonment.
The Lord would anoint, guide, bless, direct, and connect our connections in this second half of the month and He would provide for us daily.
