In Ecuador my squad practiced listening prayer.
Listening prayer is a world race-ism. It is sitting and listening to the Lord’s voice.
During a squad meeting, we formed two circles. I stood on the outside with my eyes closed, someone came to me, stood in prayer, listening to the Lords voice and told me what He said.
Kerri got a vision of me as a little girl, running in fear through a field of tall grass. She could tell I was running in the spirit of fear, but not sure from what.
Weird, right? Well, LP was a VERY foreign concept for me. Although what she told me was really cool, I wasn’t sure if I could get on board and believe what she told me.
Okay, so the next activity, we all sat in silence, and wrote something on a sticky note. A Bible verse, a vision, a word we got, pretty much anything. All 54 of us crumpled up our sticky notes and threw them in the middle of the circle. We were then instructed to pick one up and pray into what was on it. Again, such a weird concept for me!!
Well, I went upstairs and un-crumpled my paper to find “ laying down in a fresh cut field of grass”, I chuckled, but didn’t think too much into it.
However, from that point on, that vision has stayed with me, but continued to grow each month.
In Peru, I stopped running; I faced my fear, turned around and stopped what was chasing me. It was a lion. I found a fresh cut patch amongst the tall grass, climbed the tree, and searched for Jesus.
Throughout Africa, I continued running, the lion now my protector. The longer I ran, the older I became. The tall grass had run out and in front of me was a field.
In Montenegro, I was even older, and I could see people, fences and buildings off in the far distance. The closer I get to the end of the race, the clearer the vision becomes. Just recently, I could see the fences were white, buildings, a red barn, a house, and yellow flowers.
So what does all of this mean?
Well, it’s my dream.
The house will become a place for at risk (foster) girls to come. It will give them a safe place to understand their worth, learn about Jesus and experience the love of Christ.
The barn will house horses that will be therapy horses for the girls. Something to call their own, to help mend the scars of their past, something to give them responsibility.
The extra building will become a bakery. This will give the girls another chance to learn skills and be able to earn an income to support themselves.
This vision all along has slowly encompassed all of my passions.
I’ve always been the girl with a plan, even if I knew it wasn’t happening, I would have something that sounded good.
The world tells me I need to have a plan that is safe and secure, but the Lord tells me to trust Him.
I know this journey is going to be long and hard, but it’s a God sized dream and I know He will put people in my path that will help me accomplish it.
“What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
Luke 18:27
