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What would you do?

21 Oct 2008 by Helen

So last week our pastor posted this blog and asked for comments.  It struck a cord and I started thinking what would I really want to do if money were no issue and if i could only preach 3 sermons what would I preach.  My first response was I would be a stay at home mom.  Then I started thinking….is that all I’d do if money were no issue…if I could do anything I wanted to…what would that be.  I had no idea.  All I really knew was that I wasn’t doing what I wanted to do.  I wanted to be home so I would be free to do other things…but what.  So here is what I came up with…

If money were no option I would

  1. Quit my job
  2. Devote at least one day a week to being at school and volunteering in my children’s classroom or if not in their room at least at their school.
  3. Make sure my house was clean, errands were run, and dinner was ready before my kids get out of school and before my husband got home so that my time could be devoted solely to my family.
  4. Teach a Bible study for women one day a week and volunteer at Life Line Crisis Pregnancy Center
  5. Take my entire family for a month long mission trip every summer.
  6. I recently went to Boone and had a discussion with our old college pastor.  The Lord had given us some things to share with him and I asked him a very pointed question…I asked him if you could do everything you wanted to do right now how much money would you need to do that in a year…his response $100,000.  I’d take care of that part of his vision.
  7. Of course I would help finance Rock church’s dreams
  8. I’d spend at least an hour a day working on my writing…the ideas I believe God has given me that I have not done anything with.
  9. I would create
  10. Since Christmas if my favorite time of year…I would take my family to play Santa Claus and bring gifts to needy families in our community in the middle of the night when no one would know who brought them.
  11. I would put a $100.00 bill on the windshield of every car in the parking lot at church on Sunday morning and watch peoples reaction when they found it.
  12. I’D MAKE A SCHEDULE TO MAKE SURE THAT I STAYED ON TASK AND DIDN’T LOSE WANDER AIMLESSLY THROUGH MY DAYS ONLY TO REALIZE I HAD ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING
  • Oh, and after I had done all that I would probably get myself a car that had a working driver’s side window, a working passanger’s side door, and 4 hub caps….I’m just keeping it real.

That’s all for now…I’m still thinking.  As far as the sermons, you’ll have to just wait.

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Exciting Dream…God is amazing!

09 Sep 2008 by Helen

I have to tell you about what happened to me today just because of how exciting it was. Sometimes God has given me dreams, but until recently most of the times I didn’t understand what they meant or why I would feel certain ways when I woke up from certain dreams. Recently I read a book called Understanding Prophetic People by R. Loren Sandford and it provided me a lot of insight in regards to these things. So last night when I had a dream that left me feeling a little unsettled in my spirit, I woke up and started praying. As I prayed I realized it wasn’t a sad dream, but an exciting end to a sad situation…God was about to open eyes, restore relationships and heal hurts. I was so excited I was calling the family it was in regards to at 6:30 in the morning. I got the voice mail :)
So I prayed all day (even with 17 kids in class today I just couldn’t forget about it). I tried to call after school – no answer, so I tried this families home number – disconnected…God – why would you show me this and not let me tell them…OK,OK maybe I’m just supposed to pray…and minutes later the phone rang…it was the person. He was concerned if we were OK because he hadn’t heard from us in so long and all I left on the voice message was to please call. When I assured him we were fine, I told him I had a dream about his family and wanted to share it with him. I did and I shared what I believed the Lord had showed me…as I spoke I could hear the excitement building in his voice and I knew it was bearing witness with his spirit, but I didn’t have a clue how much until I finished sharing. He shared with me things that had happened in the past week that were right in line with what God had showed me. I share this first of all because it is exciting to me and a great reminder that God is God all the time and He will turn things around when we least expect it.
And secondly I share this to remind us all not to take lightly the things the Lord shows us. I could have easily assumed it was just a crazy dream, moved on with my day… and just been left with a funky feeling inside. Or I could have just prayed but never taken the time to make the phone call, or I could have just been so consumed with my prayer list of my needs that I didn’t take time to pray for this need that the Lord made me aware of.
The truth is I prayed for my class all the way to school yesterday and had a HORRIBLE day. Today I prayed all the way to school for this family that God had put on my heart and didn’t have time to pray for my class at all except the quick pray with my TA before the kids walked in…and we had an incredible day at school. I know this may not make a lot of sense to you and I so wish I could share more, but for now you’ll have to trust me that is an amazing story of what God is and is about to do in lives of people Johnny and I dearly love and who so deserve it.

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