January 10

IT’S SNOWING! And it couldn’t have happened on a better day than yesterday! As I watched the snow falling as the 10:30 am service ended yesterday, and then watched it fall even harder as we ended our church-wide Q &A, I was beaming with excitement and promise and it had to do with a dream God gave me seven months ago…

I am constantly amazed at how nothing takes God by surprise and He makes provision for everything we need. Just as Abraham had lifted the knife over Isaac not really knowing what would happen, God suddenly provided a ram. It was an amazing test of faith in which, for a moment, it looked like the promise was going to die and Abraham was giving back to the Lord that which the Lord had given him. Now there was another need—Isaac needed a wife.

Without this wife, the everlasting covenant would die with Isaac. It is never God’s will that His blessings die with the outgoing generation! He is the God of life, multiplication, and blessing, therefore, just as provision was made before, God will do it again. Long story short, God came through for Isaac and there was a marriage—not to just any girl, however.

This was a girl who was able to believe like Abraham. Abraham came to Canaan on nothing more that God’s Word and Promise that He would bless him and be good to him. Likewise, Rebekah came to marry Isaac on nothing more than the word of a servant that she would be blessed and that they would be good to her—it is the same order of faith that yields the same miraculous provision. God looks for people who can believe Him at HIS Word and resist the temptation to take another way out in the face of demoralizing situations. We, as Hillcrest Church, have laid our “Isaac” on the altar in faith—we have given it to the Lord. Now the Lord is making provision, and as Pastor Mark pointed out to us yesterday, it will be a possible adoption or a potential marriage. Isaac needed to be married not given to another father. Now back to my dream.

This past summer I awoke from a dream in the middle of the night. It was a strange dream that one would not expect to receive on a hot summer night, but I knew it was from the Lord. I had told no one of this dream except my wife. In the dream, even though snow is an infrequent occurrence in Dallas, God spoke to me saying that it was going to snow this winter and when it did, it would be His sign of provision. I believe His is providing a way forward for our Church. I believe the dream that He birthed through the ministry of Pastor Mark of an Antioch Church has been given life so that we can raise this promise to its fulfillment, not give it to another father. Let’s believe together that God is leading us to a place of fulfilled vision and provision that touches our city!

Blessings,

Pastor Kyle