Years ago I heard Houston pastor John Bisango speak. He described a time when his daughter Melodye Jan, age five, asked for a dollhouse. John nodded and promised to build her one, then returned to his book. But glancing out the window, he saw Melodye, arms crammed with dishes and dolls, making trip after trip until she had a great pile in the yard. He asked his wife what she was doing.

“Oh, you promised to build her a dollhouse, and she believes you. She’s just getting ready for it.”

“I tossed aside that book, raced to the lumberyard for supplies, and quickly built that little girl a dollhouse,” John said. Why? It was her simple, childlike faith in his promise.

Robert J. Morgan, The Red Sea Rules. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2001, p. 100.