I recently came across a fascinating story of a lonely 9 year old who loved arcade games and had a dream that one day he would own a business of this nature with many people coming to play. He decided to do something about it. One summer holiday, he spent his time building an elaborate DIY cardboard arcade in his dad’s used auto parts store.
When he had perfected his little entertainment business, his only problem was - there were no customers. People were not only interested in the boy’s arcade but dad’s down town store was hardly reachable by walking customers. This went on for some time but the boy would not be discouraged from asking people to come and play. However, on the last day of summer and by chance, a man came into the store to buy a door handle for his car. When asked to play, the man took interest in the boy’s arcade and decided to play a game. He became the first and only customer at that time.
As it turned out, this man was a filmmaker. Long story short, the man later came to see dad and asked if he could produce a short film of the boy which he put online and “received over 1 million views in the first 24 hours, and trended worldwide on twitter”. The boy suddenly had tens of thousands of people visiting his arcade when the short film went viral! Something even greater happened – a charitable organisation to find, foster and fund creativity in many children around the world was later established and the boy is a sought-after public speaker.
The bible is replete with many stories of people who followed their passion.
For example, Abraham “the spiritual father of those who have faith”, (Romans 4:11), had a problem. He wanted a child – an heir after him, but there was no hope because both Abraham and Sarah his wife were old and “Sarah was barren” (Genesis 11:30).
During one of his conversations with God, (you can call this prayer time), the Lord told Abraham “Don’t worry, …… a son from your body will be your heir.”
The Lord then took him outside and said, “Look at the sky. Count the stars. Can you do it? Count your descendants! You’re going to have a big family, Abram!”
By faith, Abraham believed God’s promise and indeed, Isaac - Abraham and Sarah’s only child was born when both parents were a 100 and 91 years old, respectively (Read Genesis 15 and 21 The Message Bible)
Has God given you a dream which seems impossible? You may be expecting a turn-around in your health and family situation, relationships, finances, etc. Friend, do not give up on your dreams. You never know who God will send your way to help or what He can do with a little mustard seed of faith.
You can read about the boy’s story on http://cainesarcade.com/about/ or watch the short video http://cainesarcade.com/
Farai Mutsambiwa
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