The desires of our heart.
The dreams within us.
They’re there for a reason.
We let the opinions of others cloud our thoughts. We tend to bury dreams because of things we’ve experienced. We filter things through the experiences of life. I’ve done that.
I do that.
When the Lord put such a crazy idea in my head and a desire in my heart, I couldn’t tell anyone. God forbid someone judge me and remind me how crazy I knew the idea already was.
But how? That’s impossible.
That was my reasoning. A bit rudimentary, but self explanatory. It goes against all human understanding.
One thousand dollars. Not just one thousand dollars, but one thousand dollars in four days? Four. Days.
Let’s recap. I’ve raised $5000 in eight months. How on earth would I raise in four days what has taken on average over a month to do?
It made no sense.
Often, the best things never do.
My birthday was this past Saturday (February 13th) and last Sunday-ish (February 7th) God told me to raise $1,000 by my birthday. In my head I figured I could keep that goal between me and the Big Guy and if it happened then GREAT! But if it didn’t happen, no harm no foul. No one knew so no one got disappointed.
Let’s be real. I totally didn’t want to tell anyone because I didn’t want to be labeled as a failure. Super Jesus-like, I know. (sarcasm, guys)
That saying, “delayed obedience is disobedience,” just popped into my head. Thank the Lord for grace, am I right?
Tuesday evening (February 9th) I finally decided to tell people. I, however, wanted to only set the goal at $500 so as not to put such a high demand on God (I’m so funny. To think another $500 would be such a burden. I’m learning.) because you know… You know. [Insert well thought out excuse here.] Yeah, I can’t think of one either.
I decided to listen and ask for $1,000. It was out there. It was up to God to go from there.
By the next day God had blown my $500 “goal” out of the water by bringing in over $650 by lunch time. Less than a day. He likes to show off sometimes.
O ye of little faith.
To cut it short, He met the deadline. Four days. 6pm on Tuesday to 8pm on Saturday. $1,022 raised.
It’s amazing, the things He does through people who are willing and obedient. People like you helped do the impossible. People are great. Friends are great. Sometimes you need friends to show you the cool things like how He brought in $22 more than your goal for your 22nd birthday. Just because He can.
Dreams become reality when you trust God to bring them to life and boy am I glad I stepped out of the boat and trusted the Lord. To learn that He isn’t just a $500 God, but a $1000 God. And not just a $1000 God, but a $2000 God and a $17,000 God.
He will meet your needs according to HIS riches.
His riches never run out.
He can do infinitely more than we can imagine.
Well, I can imagine a little bit more now.
Here’s to more dreaming and less disobedience!
