Eagle Mountain International Church (EMIC) member Christina Riesco grew up in a house where she was taught childlike faith. She became familiar with applying faith in her life because her mom had cassette tapes by Kenneth Copeland playing constantly in the living room.
Christina would listen to the messages, believing that one day she could think and do what she saw teachers like Kenneth Copeland and Joyce Meyer doing and speaking.
However, as Christina grew up, she forgot about the dreams she once held in her heart. But God didn’t forget.
“God remembers those childlike desires in our hearts, and He wants to pour out His blessing on us. He wants it to be overflowing in our lives,” said Riesco.
As the years passed, Christina got married and eventually moved to Texas with her husband and five children. In their new state, their housing situation looked impossible: Five kids, two bedrooms, one bathroom.
Moving into something bigger seemed out of reach. But their daughter had childlike faith for a bigger house.
God is a generous Father, and He delights in us when we come to Him with our faith in His Word and a desire to put it into practice. (Hebrews 11:6)
Through a series of unexpected events, God helped them supernaturally sell their smaller home and provided a much larger house with five bedrooms and three bathrooms. And all it took was applying faith and believing in prayer.
“Throughout the whole process, it supercharged my faith again,” said Christina. “To have childlike faith like I did as a little girl, and that my daughter showed me all over again.”
This journey to a larger home was a reminder for Christina that God can do everything beyond what she could ever think of, ask for or imagine (Ephesians 3:20).
Increase Without Sorrow
For Christina, it was an encouragement to see God honor her childlike faith and to be reminded of the dreams she had in her heart as a little girl.
“We may forget, but God remembers those things. He hears our dreams that we have inside of our hearts, and He is calling them forward for the believers to arise and receive what God has for them.”
The Riescos learned firsthand that believing in prayer meant they didn’t have to strive to achieve the result, and they didn’t have to stress to make the dream happen.
“When you put God first, everything else follows, and there’s increase for you and your family without sorrow,” said Christina.
What encouragement does Christina give to believers with a dream in their hearts? “Whatever it is that God puts on your heart, whatever you have the childlike faith to believe for, God will bring it about on the other end.”
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