My Grandfather was an old time street preacher. He started preaching when he was only sixteen. He always told me that God revealed things to him in his dreams. Many times he would lay down in the afternoon to take a nap and he would wake up telling my Grandmother, what God had showed him and where he had to go. Sometimes he left out hitch-hiking with just a few dollars in his pocket. "The Lord provides," he'd always say, and so he always did. He told me a story about waking up from a dream and telling Grandma, "God said I need to go to North Carolina. I must go and preach. The Spirit revealed this message to him, Go feed my sheep."

In his vision he saw an barn loft, full of hay and grain. On the ground he could see sheep mired up to their knees in the mud. The sheep were starving to death. They were dieing for lack of food. The sheep represented God's starving children, that needed to hear God's word. The barn loft full of hay, represented the word with which they needed to be fed. He left with thirty five cents in his pocket. He walked to North Carolina prepared to preach. Thing is it was raining, when he arrived.

He looked around and there wasn't anybody about, but God told him to preach anyway. So he held up his Bible and went to preaching in the rain. While he preached there wasn't a single person out on the street and none even passed him by. Faithfully, he preached his message and walked, cold, tired and hungry, down the street to a little cafe. He went in to get warm and dry. He ordered a cup of hot coffee to warm himself up, while he pondered how he would get back home. His pockets were empty besides some small pocket change.

While he was having his coffee, a strange man approached him and asked, "Are you the man standing on the corner only a few moments ago, preaching in the rain?" My Granddad said, "I am the man." The stranger reached out and hugged him with tears in his eyes and told him, "My daddy lays in a room upstairs over the corner where you just preached. He was on his death bed." As God would have it their window was open and this strange man and his father, heard the message my granddad preached. Both men were saved then and there. The strangers father died, just after accepting Christ. The stranger thanked my grandfather, bought his coffee and a hot meal, then gave him money for bus fare to get him safely home. Granddad always said, "A workman is worthy of his hire. God takes care of his own."

Sometimes when God leads you to do something, you may not be able to see or understand why he has lead you to do this thing. Step out on faith, trusting one who never fails. You will be blessed and rewarded for your obedience. God will show you things in many ways. I am always receptive to my dreams and God uses this method of communicating with me many times. He has showed me visions of things that were yet to come.

I can always distinguish between my silly dreams and the ones where God is trying to show me something of importance. I pray often and answers to my prayers are revealed to me through my dreams. Open your mind and heart and let God use you. There are many of Gods lessons to be learned from our dreams, if we only listen with our hearts and minds, then seek and hearken to what God is trying to reveal. God will never send you or show you something that is in vain. Trust and believe in his purpose. God never fails.

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