Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Romans 8:26 NKJV
I want to share with you today about something that happened several weeks ago. My hope and prayers are that it will uplift, encourage, and give someone hope today.
One morning, I nervously prepared for a radio interview about my new book, Eyes of Faith. I have done several radio interviews, but this was the first with a national platform. Actually, it was online, making it available internationally. My mind drifted back about eight to ten years ago. I wasn’t a writer or a speaker then but a listener. I tuned in to a weekly Christian program for women where guests shared their stories about what God had brought them through. They told how God worked in the situation, and what they had learned from such tremendous trials.
In my heart, I longed to tell my story. I wanted to encourage other women when their husbands received a cancer diagnosis like mine had. I wanted to tell them there is hope with God. He is still in the miracle business. I wanted to lend a shoulder to the woman with a wayward child like me.
I shared it with my husband almost jokingly. It was one of those things too far fetched to really happen.
But it did happen. I never prayed for it. Speaking to a large audience was a forgotten dream from long-ago. Then I read this verse in Romans:
Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. (Romans 8:26)
Had the Holy Spirit prayed for me concerning this dream? Had He interceded on my behalf because I never uttered the words? Maybe, I will never know for sure.
That same day, as I tidied up, I found a rock laying on my guide dog, Iva’s bed. Where did a rock come from? It had fallen from the bookshelf. I had kept the rock from a She Speaks conference I had attended four years earlier. Somehow, finding my forgotten rock and my forgotten dream blended together. Four years earlier, I had wondered how God could use me, a blind woman with lots of flaws to bring Him glory when hundreds of women had the same desires. But Peter says in 1 Peter 2:5;
you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house,
It takes many stones to build a house and if one is missing, you have a hole. We each matter.
What is your long-ago forgotten dream? Maybe, it’s time to wipe the dust off and take it to God in prayer.
Lord, I thank You that You care about our dreams. You have even planted some of them in our hearts. You water, fertilize, and nourish as they flourish. Lord, if our dreams are Your plans for us, let them proceed. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
DIG DEEPER
Ephesians 3:20 NKJV: Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
HIKING THE TRAIL
Find someone in your church or community who may have given up on a dream. Take it to the Lord today along with your dream.
Originally posted on September 6, 2020 @ 2:23 pm