Perhaps I should say from the beginning this will be a bit long for a simple prayer request. Yet I feel it is needed in order to make it understandable to all concerned.
My request begins almost 3 years ago, with a set visionary dreams that came to me in 3 parts each on a different but succeeding nights. At the time I was living in Everett WA. My first wife went home to the Lord in Nov of 2008. As time passed and the grieving let off, I began to feel a little empty without my life partner (29 yrs).
The dreams started on a Monday night and went on through Wed. The first dream was;
I was driving north and heading to Lansing MI but with a new wife and she was exceedingly happy. After I woke up I just wondered what this was all about? I haven't been thinking of getting Married again and “What does Lansing MI have to do with it? Since I lived in WA State it would be a little hard to drive North to Lansing. The next night I dreamed my new Wife and I were now driving West to Grand Haven MI. Now a little insight started to come to me “Grand Haven is the home of the Coast Guard Festival, and since I am retired Coast Guard that began to make sense to me.” But I still had no idea of why Lansing? The third night the dream took us to Petosky MI This is where my Grandfather grew up. He is full blooded Chippewa. During the dream I began to feel God wanted me to do something here. That Thursday at the mens bible study I told the other men and Pastor the dream so we prayed about it and each day I continued to pray and ask God what he wanted. I really didn't understand the meaning until a couple of months later when at a Sunday Evening service a friend and missionary spoke on the calling to the mission field. I then understood and really felt God was moving me in that direction and with much prayer I began to feel God was calling me to be a witness to Americas first peoples. But to have the dream be fulfilled I knew that I would soon be remarried. What I came to know was I would be living somewhere in the East.
With in a year I met a wonderful woman online at the CBN Prayer center living in Ohio I can't really explain it but we felt the hand of God moving us together and I soon asked her to be my wife when she gave the positive answer I packed up and moved to Bowling Green Ohio and we got married on Aug 31 of 2012.
Now two parts of the dream is fulfilled and the third is yet to come about. I also only mentioned the dream to Karen once before we were married.
In the past few months we began sharing the same dream. We are being led to the mission field not as missionaries but as witnesses to the Native American peoples. Now to say we really need to rely on the Lord is an understatement because neither of us have funds to do this. We are looking at purchasing a new Motor Home so we may have a place to live while traveling the reservations. Our Prayer request is God provide the funding to make the purchase, we are believing God to provide over $350,000. That is our prayer request!