Vision came true after 18 years
Vision came true after 18 years
I became a christian at my 17th during a chinese christian teenage camp. That day I accepted Christ. We were worshipping God with the whole camp. Suddenly an image jumped up in my mind. It was a picture that I would worship God with all cultures together. I thought it was my own imagination. Later, I learned this is called a vision.
How is it going to happen?
I thought: how is this going to happen? I'm in a chinese congregation. I don't see myself ever leaving this place? Never did it occur in my mind to leave the chinese congregation I was in. But somehow, due to different reasons I finally left after many years. I thought about the vision again. Is the vision really going to happen? If so, I would like to worship God with all kinds of cultures and with my guitar. Cause I liked to worship God with my guitar, I couldn't imagine to worship God without my guitar :)
Norway trip
Many years went by, I went to a seminar in Norway. That morning I had a dream: It said I would meet someone in Norway, and that person would connect me to a prophetic person near my living place in my hometown. I woke up and thought: What a nonsense! How is that possible? It probably means nothing.
I went to the seminar and met a leader of the church. We talked and he asked me where I'm from. I told him about my hometown. Then he said: I know someone who is originally from our church here, she is now in your hometown and she is very prophetic. I was astonished! I immediately told him about the dream and he gave me her contactinfo.
The meetup at her church
Back in my hometown I contacted the lady and we met at her church. Not so much later she missed Norway so much and decided to go back. 1 year later I was searching for a church and went to the church she brought me to. Which is the church I'm going to now.
The vision came true!
I remember joining the worship team in the church after 2 years. That sunday morning was the first time I joined the team to worship God. I was in the band playing guitar and singing. Suddenly during the worship, the picture I received at my 17th jumped up again: worshipping God with all kinds of cultures. It was happening RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME! I totally forgot about that picture after so many years. 18 years has passed and the vision turned into true. I was in an international church. I'm finally there what the vision was telling about.
( God let me meet this lady, just to bring me to this church. After that, she went back to her hometown. Isn't that amazing?! )
Peace
It gave me so much peace after knowing the vision turned out anyways, without me doing anything for it. I AM AT THAT PLACE of the vision. Because there was always a nagging (condemnation) voice in my mind that told me, that I didn't made the best choice, but made a 2nd best choice (not a bad choice, but just not the best choice) and that's why all pressuring and complicated things happened after that.
That vision coming true told me 1 important thing. It's no matter how much good or poor decisions I've made... No matter how much toss and turns happen in life... I will get to the place that God has for me. And it is a good place, a place of peace and of certainty and full of His love. I realized His gracious love is enough for me, His grace can cover everything of my life and bring me to a place where there is peace. That nagging voice became less and less. Until a point it's completely gone.
A committed God
I hope for you guys, even in this time that everything seems so strange and different than usual, to NOT worry. That at the end, you will find yourselves right where He wants you to be, in His love and in His peace. At the exact place what He has for you, whether it be a church, a job, a dream, a career etc.
Please keep on hoping, believing and praying. Our God is a faithful and a committed God who keeps His word.
Faithful and loving. HE IS.