10/30/2024
GOD GAVE ME A DREAM
By Pastor Kenneth Haggin Jr.
I know the dream God can give you. I know that the enemy can make that dream become so blurry that it’s almost obscured at times from your spiritual sight.
Many years ago, God gave me a dream when I was an 18-year-old student at Southwestern Assembly of God College in Waxahachie, Texas. As I knelt praying one night in my room, I saw myself preaching to huge crowds of all races. I’m now 41, but I never forgot that dream. For a while I took a church and was going to be a pastor. Then one day I realized I laid that dream on the shelf, and I had to get it out, dust it off, and put it back down in my spirit, and begin to do what God wanted me to do.
If I had to stayed at that church (I was then associate pastor), it would have been mine. It was all set. But that was not the will of God. He had to remind me of my dream. I had to get hold of it and go with it again.
God gave me a dream to go around this world and preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. I have been in Africa; I am going to the Philippines. I want to go to England, where churches are closing by the hundreds. I want to go to the uttermost parts of the world to minister. I had a vision too, of building overseas centers to teach native workers. The day of the white missionary’s going in and doing everything is over. He can go in, however, and teach the national workers to do the job.
We do not bring national workers to RHEMA Bible training Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. If they come to North America, they get westernized. They don’t want to return to villages where they don’t have electricity, running water, radio, television, and other modern conveniences. But if we can take the school to them and train them in their homelands, they can go out and train others—and they can begin to believe God to have modern conveniences. They can learn to turn impossible situations into possibilities because of the power of God!
As I told Brother T.L. Osborn the other day, I know I could go to Africa and hold big crusades, but I really do not care about that. I enjoy going into the villages and ministering personally to the 200 or 300 who come out. It is exiting.
I have ridden for hours in a van on little more than a cow path to reach a village on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya. There I was greeted by old, wrinkled, gray haired native. He vowed and said, “Welcome, welcome. Thank you for coming. You are the first white man from any Protestant denomination who ever came to our village to preach about Jesus.”
In one Kenyan Village I preached, “If this faith message only works in America, then it is not the Word of God.” I told the villagers if they would believe God, God would give them crops. I told them if they would believe God, they would get a bicycle. Getting a bicycle to some of them is like our getting a fine car. I told them if they would believe God, they could have tin roofs on their houses instead of thatched roofs.
One year later I returned to that village to a “pastor’s conference. One man said, “Look here! Look here! God gave me a bicycle. I had the biggest sugar cane crop of anybody in the village; everybody else had a crop failure. I sold my crop and was able to buy a bicycle and a tin roof for my house. I was the only man in the village who had any prosperity at all out of his crop this year. “
I have a dream and a vision ko take people from RHEMA Bible Training Center, go around this world, and establish churches where people will preach the truth of the Word of God to these people.
During the past five years, if I had not known what God had hold me to do in building RHEMA Bible Training Center—if I had not had the dream and vision of it—and I had not dared to believe what God told me—it would have been easy to quit. Many, many times the dream faded under the enemy’s attacks.
You are going to have to get out your dream, dust it off, and begin to do what God has told you to do. You are going to have to continue to work harder, because the time is short. But if you believe God and do what God has asked you to do, it shall be accomplished.