Dear People Who Keep Company With God,
We are in a key season. Rosh Hashanah, which is the Jewish New Year leading into Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), and the Feast of Tabernacles have been ordained by God to be an active time spiritually. On our calendar this began on Wednesday evening September 28 and will run through Thursday evening October 20.
During this time, some of the prophets have an encounter with the Lord in which they receive revelation for the coming year. Although I was not specifically seeking the Lord He did speak to me, but not about the coming year. He spoke about my past to help me catch my dreams for the future.
He asked me a question, “Do you remember how you got to Mooresville?”
In short this is what I remember. I was in a time of discouragement because I had poured myself out trying to start a church, but in the end I had to give it up or the church would fail. Ouch, that was another deathblow to my already bruised ego. I found myself in a mighty struggle with disappointment. So I sat myself on the back burner in terms of pursuing ministry or dreams.
Time passed and one day while grilling burgers for dinner I noticed my Bible and heard the Lord say, “Get your Bible I have a message to give you.” I thought why would You give me a message since I am not preaching any now? Yeah, we say some dumb things to God. About 30 minutes later I get a call from a friend in Mooresville. He asked, “Will you speak at our church next Sunday?”
This is the truth, if God had not spoken to me I would have told my friend a resounding no. I was on the back burner and was determined to be content there, but I knew that little word on the way to flip the burgers was God’s call for me to speak at my friend’s church in Mooresville. How little I knew this was the door my heart had been looking for.
Big doors swing on little hinges and small rudders turn very large ships (Jas. 3:4). I had a calling and dreams to be in full time ministry, but I had just blown another opportunity and I didn’t see any way or have any hope for my dreams to come true. Not to mention that Mooresville was not even close to my radar screen. But God’s little word and phone call shifted everything.
There are so many who find themselves on the back burner of disappointment in these days. Dreams seem more like illusions and callings feel like someone pushed the hold button. There are those who have blown it badly and for some it is just that life has taken its toll. We are hoping for a Damascus Road experience, that one big breakthrough that will fix it all. But it may be a little word that has no apparent connection with anything that really matters to you. Don’t discount it because it may just be the hinge that the door of God’s dreams for your life swings on. Sometimes we strain so hard to see our way into the future and miss God right here in the moment.
Many Blessings, BW