i'm dreaming of a ....

this is probably not going to be a typical seed story, but its on my heart to write. so lets begin.

many years ago, when mike and i were first starting off in life, a beloved friend, worship leader and later our pastor, recieved a word of knowledge for us. we were excited, scared, touched, and overwhelmed when he told us what he had heard from the Lord. in the beginning we told many people about the "word from the Lord" sure that God was going to something miraculous in our lives and soon. but as the years went by, nothing seemed to happen. we soon stopped talking about it and only occasionaly between the two of us would ask the other "do you think its ever going to happen?" "what do you think about it?" we very rarely even think about it, as it seems our lives have gone down a path that is far from the one we forsaw in the "word from the Lord".

last nite i had a dream. in my dream i was asking someone about "the word of the Lord". i wanted to know if it was truly from the Lord, and was going to come to pass. the person responded: why yes, it is from the Lord and it will come to pass. the Lord gave you a word 3 times and therefore it will come to pass.

after i woke up i thot about it. in my dream i hadn't quite got the details right, it wasn't given 3 times, but rather there were 3 parts to it. as i walked down the stairs to start my latte, i thot about how it feels like my life is the furthest possible spot from the implementaion of the "word" the Lord gave us so many years ago. i wondered if this is how joseph felt about the dream he had been given as a teenager, years later when he was in jail. did he see no way out of his situation? did he trust the Lord or did he feel that he was the farthest anyone could be from being a leader and commander that he had seen in his dream. i have a feeling that Joseph continued to trust.

i dont' know why it came to mind and i dreamt about it last nite. i dont' know if the dream was from the Lord, i like to think so. i don't know if it will soon be fulfilled or is still a ways off. but just like the rest of the story of joseph shows, i know the Lord hasn't forgotton me or is unaware of where i am at this time in my life. i love that He is the God who sees. He is in control, and He is sovereign. i find peace resting in palm of His hand, wherever that might be here on earth.

til next time, gail

the joshua project

a couple months ago on my challenges and adventures blog, i put up a little box from the joshua project that shows an unreached people group each day. a picture of a person within that group is the first thing you see. then you might notice the population count of the group, whether several thousand or over a million. the language they speak, and the main religion of the group is also revealed.

what an enlightening discovery this has been for me. each time i check on my blog i see another people group who has not had the gospel shared with them. as you might guess, most of the groups are in the middle east and asia. my heart breaks for these people as i see them trapped in deceptive religions of islam and others. i am amazed and saddened at the amount of people are still unreached. thousands, the size of the small town i live in, hundreds of thousands the size of a few counties, reaching up to a million and more, the size of a large metro area. add each of those numbers each day, week upon week, month upon month and we're talking real numbers here!

my heart yearns to reach these people in some way. it is a reminder to pray for these people each day, but i want to do more. maybe someday the Lord will place me in a position to do more, or maybe it is my place to continue to pray daily, fervently for these unreached people.

if you want to add this box to your blog or website there is a link in the box that will take you to the the joshua project website and show you how to add it to your spot.