God’s Dreams - How They Work
By Pastor Tim White

It happened during an all-church prayer meeting praying for Peter while he was in prison. They were ready to pray all night. But their prayers were interrupted by Peter knocking at the door. They couldn’t believe it was him, so they kept on praying even after Rhoda told them it was Peter. They left Peter knocking at the door.

How many times are we stuck praying when the answer is knocking at the door, but we just can’t believe it.

A long time ago we had a chance given to us by the City of Redmond to put up a beautiful electric sign outside the church. When we got the bid on it, my heart just sank. It would be $40,000. That was way out of our league. I went to my bedroom and got on my knees and started to pray. I was having a great prayer time that lasted over two hours. And from the first words of prayer when I told the Lord of my problem, I felt in my heart that God spoke to me and told me very clearly. “Don’t worry about it, Tim. $40,000 is a lot to you, but it is very little to me. Don’t worry, I’ve got this”. But I did worry, and I kept praying for two hours, still hearing the same message repeatedly for two hours but never believing it. Jackie interrupted my prayer after two hours and said, “Your dear friend from the Tri-Cities, Bob Johnson is on the phone for you.” When I started to talk to him, he was excited and told me that the Lord had just spoken to him and told him to give us $40,000. You can imagine how excited I was as I went back into my bedroom to thank God. When I did, God seemed to ask me the question, “How do I know Bob has the money and will give it to the church?” I thought, “That’s a good point, I don’t know how many times someone has told me they were going to give money to the church only to inform me later they decided to keep the money or give it instead to another charity.” And then it dawned on me, why didn’t I believe God when he told me this is easy, he had it. But I believed my friend Bob Johnson when he told me over the phone.

I got up thinking I was so stupid. What a mistake. But I learned a valuable lesson. Come to church Sunday at 10:30am either on-line (You Tube, Facebook Live or the Church Apps) or to the in-person service as we discuss How Dreams Work. I think we will all learn something very profound and life changing.

Your friend for life,

Pastor Tim White