My Dreams

Taking off from the worship service today, I have several dreams which I would like to see accomplished. The Pastor suggested we write down our dream and then list 5 steps we can take to accomplish them. I highly recommend doing this for any serious Christian reading this blog!

I first thought about the matter that I would really like to see all of our grandchildren get married to Christian spouses of like mind and see them commit themselves to a life of service and ministry, whether their lives would be spent focused in mission or a vocation in which the call to bring Christ to the world in some way would be a central goal of their lives.

The second goal came to my mind, that of wanting to live after this life in the future generations through my writings, realizing that we know so little of the character of our near ancestors beyond where they lived and moved around.

A third dream is to see a better world where there is peace, basic sufficiency, and a knowledge of the Gospel. This we are working on by intercessory prayer for missionaries, for God's spirit to enlighten the hearts of those who hear the gospel, and for God to tame down the madness of men and ethnic groups and nations so that humanity might have security and decent living.

The first goal of a continuing legacy can be worked at by

        a. Fellowship with the youth as much as possible and have a relationship with all of them;

        b. Praying they will find spouses of equal commitment to service and mission;

c.       Let our concern for a mission be an example to inspire them;    

 d. Intercede for them regularly as they make choice and  training for life.

The second dream can be worked at by

           a. Learning how to market my writings by relating to a professional in publishing;

           b. To learn what can be done through the social media of website, blogging or other;

           c. To continue writing but with an audience and media in mind;

           d.  Relate to family through mass e-mail of current  and new writings.

The third dream can be worked at by

           a. being informed specifically of world events in the nations and evangelism and relief efforts        by organizations;

           b. Praying intercessory for missionaries and relief workers;

           c  Pleading for God to work by his sovereign powers to bring down government and ethnic strongholds that destroy human society through oppression, violence, and corruption;

          d.  Praying for the national churches to be burdened with the needs of the world and the churches and God to call forth workers into the global field of needs;

           e. Praying for political sanity and wisdom  in our government to work out problems that are for the good of this country and other countries;

           f. Helping with our own financial resources as possible to support the work of churches in carrying out the gospel mission of message and alleviation of poverty.

                                                                                                   September 2012