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    The Dream King
    The Dream King
    The Dream King
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    The Dream King

    By Will Ford and Matt Lockett

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    "The Dream King is the astonishing true story of two men whose lives are woven together by history and the hidden hand of God.

    • Learn about the nation's hidden history and the unknown heroes who overcame injustice.
    • Discover how your life is an important part of a much bigger story.
    • Be equipped to be a countercultural dreamer and change the world around you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 28, 2018
    ISBN9781947165922
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      The Dream King - Will Ford

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      Chapter 1

      KETTLE PRAYERS

      Will speaking:

      Before my father, a successful business man, passed away in 2008, he shared memories with me of being a 5-year-old sharecropper’s son, growing up poor in Lake Providence, Louisiana. He chuckled telling me the story of how he washed clothes in a cast iron kettle wash pot. Without washing machines in those days, my father’s feet were the agitators. He laughed as he remembered being a little boy, with the kettle full of clothes, lye soap, and water, marching in place, working out the dirt by tromping the clothes with his feet. Of course, neither was there a machine to dry our clothes like we have today, so, with clothespins in hand, he placed everything on a clothesline to dry in the Louisiana wind. Of all his work on the farm, this chore was the highlight of his day. It was his delight.

      For my father, William Ford Jr., or Ned, as he was nicknamed, washing clothes was story time for him as a young boy. As he washed clothes and placed them on the clothesline, his great-grandmother Harriet Locket sang songs and told him stories. Many times she told him how the slaves used the same black kettle pot he was using, too, not just for cooking and washing clothes, but also for prayer. Harriet and her husband Levi Locket came from a long line of Christian slaves who looked to God for salvation and freedom. Little did either of them know back then, a five-year-old boy and his great-grandmother working on a clothesline, that the God of history was working on His own divine storyline involving our family.

      In the Bible, Ephesians 2:10 states that we are God’s workmanship in Christ, walking out the works He prepared for us before the foundation of the world. The English word workmanship is translated from the Greek word poiema, (pronounced poy-ay´-muh). We recognize the word poem was derived from poiema. Consider the implication of this passage: We are God’s poem. We are His dream. Moreover, poiema was the word used to describe the work of a skillful and masterful fabric maker. Watching an artistic weaver use different threads to design a garment’s tapestry is both fascinating and mysterious. As we watch the artist accomplish the finished product from the backside, the threads appear as tangles, knots, and blotches of colors. It all looks haphazard and chaotic from that point of view, but occasionally the artist turns the poiema around to give us a glimpse of the beautiful tapestry being created. From that perspective, we can see how every stitch and every knot form an integral part of a vast, magnificent

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