I awoke and behold it was a dream.
Fast in secret and God rewards openly the book says. It's so. Those years I would fast and the day it ended he would give me a dream or vision.
I was in a race running along with others. Most were passing me as I chugged along. As they passed by many of them laughed at me because they were so much faster. I remember feeling ashamed that I couldn't do better.
The next part of the dream changed. I was still running along and as I did I saw lying alongside the course, runners that had passed me laughing. They were panting and spent. I especially remember their eyes even after all these years. They fixed their gaze on me as I went by. They had not set themselves for the long haul. They knew I would keep on. I could see it. More importantly God could see it being the author of the dream.
The principles for a runner and for a Christian are the same. You have to run through the pain. You have to keep on even through tears.
Don't let those that pass you discourage you. Run on through the pain. There is a reward for those that stay the course.
2 Timothy 4:7-8 KJVS
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: [8] Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
We live up in the woods. We have no church and rarely even see other people. Our son and daughter are not married as suitable mates today are rare.
Our lives have been strange and set apart since Jesus came to our rural wooded acres here in the Ouachita Mountains foothills and saved us. Baptized us, with his Holy Spirit. He promised and gave us a son then two daughters, taking one of them back.
The adversary, the devil says our lives are small, separated from christendom without even the benefit of a church or even neighbors to fellowship with. Give up he says. He'll tell you the same things. Don't listen.
We run on. You run with us.
Fast in secret and God rewards openly the book says. It's so. Those years I would fast and the day it ended he would give me a dream or vision.
I was in a race running along with others. Most were passing me as I chugged along. As they passed by many of them laughed at me because they were so much faster. I remember feeling ashamed that I couldn't do better.
The next part of the dream changed. I was still running along and as I did I saw lying alongside the course, runners that had passed me laughing. They were panting and spent. I especially remember their eyes even after all these years. They fixed their gaze on me as I went by. They had not set themselves for the long haul. They knew I would keep on. I could see it. More importantly God could see it being the author of the dream.
The principles for a runner and for a Christian are the same. You have to run through the pain. You have to keep on even through tears.
Don't let those that pass you discourage you. Run on through the pain. There is a reward for those that stay the course.
2 Timothy 4:7-8 KJVS
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: [8] Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
We live up in the woods. We have no church and rarely even see other people. Our son and daughter are not married as suitable mates today are rare.
Our lives have been strange and set apart since Jesus came to our rural wooded acres here in the Ouachita Mountains foothills and saved us. Baptized us, with his Holy Spirit. He promised and gave us a son then two daughters, taking one of them back.
The adversary, the devil says our lives are small, separated from christendom without even the benefit of a church or even neighbors to fellowship with. Give up he says. He'll tell you the same things. Don't listen.
We run on. You run with us.
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