I had a very vivid dream. I was surveying the building of a new home Jan and I would occupy. The home would sit atop a bluff looking out over a shoreline. As I walked around our construction site, I looked over to the next building site and saw Kris Vallotton from Bethel Church who was also surveying his new building project.

After a few minutes, I decided to walk over to introduce myself to Kris. He showed me around his new home and took me into his large garage where I saw what looked more like a workshop than a garage. After the tour of his new home and his garage, he said, “Do you want to go swimming? I said, sure, so we hiked down the bluff to the shoreline. 

Kris put on a pair of swim goggles as we dove into the water. I followed his lead. We began to swim around shouting with joy as we dove underwater to explore what was below the surface of the water. When I surfaced, I saw one person in a full wetsuit and diving gear swimming back to shore and climbing up the beach. I also saw a small sailboat being expertly steered to run up to the beach and come to rest.

It was getting dark, so we decided to swim back to shore and then we parted ways. I returned to our building site and entered my garage. I saw the same workshop that was being built for Kris. I felt the workshop was even more important than the home we had designed. Then the dream ended.

I asked the Lord what the dream meant. It was about His preparation for the Church for the new season we have entered. The Lord was constructing a place where a new way to engage the Church and culture was being prepared. It was the essence of prophetic ministry that would announce a new way forward in a new era. 

The Lord is creating what looks like spiritual workshops where we will create the kind of faith we will need to represent Him and the Church in the most effective way in the future. In these spiritual workshops, we will work with the Lord to create expressions of our faith that will reveal “the reality of what we hope for—the evidence of things we cannot see” (Hebrews 11:1).

The dream was a challenge to not settle for what we have done in the past. It was an invitation to embrace something new creating living examples that would engage the future with greater impact. 

New alignments and new expressions of our callings will be revealed that will move us from a settled place into something new and unexpected. It will be in that new place of faith where we will see and create “things we cannot see” – things we could not imagine until the Lord joined us in the workshop of our faith and revealed something new.