When God Gives the Dream

God has brought so much encouragement into our lives! 

We go through moments of emotional ups and downs, but when we need encouragement God brings that at just the right time. We have been very blessed by some new friends that we really just started connecting with about our dream one week ago. Since then I have seen how God has allowed a dream they had to become even larger. When we saw how God put them into our lives, and how excited they are about what He is doing, it was just the encouragement that I needed personally to keep me looking ahead to what God is doing and not get stuck on some of my own limitations that are so easy to get distracted by.

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I was reminded by my brother-in-law, Joe Castañeda of Overboard Ministries that Nehemiah had a dream to rebuild a wall, and by himself this was an impossible task, but when he put his vision out there, help came out of the woodwork.  This happened because God had given him that dream and it honored God for the dream to come to pass.  

That is the way we feel about our dream. We believe it has come as a result of many years of preparation in our lives, but as we put the dream out there, people are literally coming out of the woodwork to help, encourage, and even financially support this dream that He has given us. We are blown away by what is happening, but I guess we should not be surprised because we serve a mighty, unlimited God.

We fully expect God to continue to provide as needed and literally every day things are happening. We went to church today looking forward to what God was going to do in pushing this dream forward. Well, just after the first service I had someone come up to me saying, there's a lady you gotta go talk to...she has real estate experience and bank connections and wants to help you with the property. So, I went and talked to her ASAP and she had several questions for me. My reply was I don't know the answers to your questions, but what I do know is that God has been putting someone into our lives at every time we've needed it, and God's put you here right now. So I sent her information that she requested today, so please pray with us that she finds out that a local bank owns the property that we have felt led to.  She has connections, knows people, and says it is much easier to deal with local banks than with the Big Boy Banks.

God will work that out. Yesterday we found out about a couple very interesting potential sources of funding, but we can't say more on that yet.

We were also able to visit the property with the couple that I wrote about above that are such an encouragement to us—we had just a great time with them. They want to manage the ranch and horse side of Harmony Acres. God has done some amazing things in their lives to bring them to where they are today. As we looked again at this amazing piece of Montana, we discovering things about the property we didn't already know. First, the property is more like 50 acres than the 30 we originally heard, and we were able walk the property and find that it is corralled and fenced already with about 95-100% of what we would need to get started. We would need to add some stalls in the barns for horses, but there are 4 stalls already finished in the main barn. One of the amazing things is that this couple who love working with kids and with horses have not had horses for a long time until recently. While looking for a place to see horses they were considering getting, they went to the wrong farm and asked about the horses. Well this guy "happened" to have horses that he wanted to give away. Now they have some of those horses and God has given them access to more.

God is putting the puzzle together, one piece at a time...